Sadly I can't rotate a cow in my mind because it always just wants to dance to that Polish song instead

Quite authoritarian of them to exist without permission I must say

By being 'slightly critical' you do mean complaining about homeless people, right?

I'm going to pretend this is being asked in good faith because even if it's not, there are people who probably are asking it in good faith.

Anyway, Hexbear has become visible recently because we began federating recently. The instance is not less than a month old, it's more than three years old, although it wasn't tracked by Fediverse Observer due to running on a forked version which had split from mainline Lemmy when the instance was created, which is why my account and many others have creation dates stretching back a relatively long way. Three years of posting on an instance made to replace a banned subreddit which had a lot of users is a recipe for having a lot of posts (shocking I know). If it looks to you like many of us have no comment history (or at least no comment history before a week or two ago), that's the result of some quirk of federation. When viewing the same profiles on Hexbear, their full often multi-year long history is visible.

Brigading is when a post shows up in your all tab and you comment on it

You did though

Maybe the US should start "bribing" with infrastructure projects then, I thought they were all about their soft power or whatever

How is saying this 'China's going to collapse any second now I promise bro' is dumb being MAGAt

No the message to other dictators is ‘be useful to us, or else’

Hexbear has never felt so united

Hilarious that some of the assets up for privatisation are in Russian-controlled territory. Truly another level of grift

Virtue signalling is when you think people starving is bad and the more you think people starving is bad the more virtue signallinger it is