They would have unironically been better off if they just continued with Mayo Pete. The only reason I can imagine they didn't is because of how new he was to the game, long time loyalists like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden needed to have their turn first. It disturbs me that the Democrats might recognize their mistake and then I'll be stuck hearing this asshole's name for the next several decades

That's what it looks like on Hexbear, but most of the instances we're federated with are also federated with .world, and that tends to dominate all of their front pages.

I don't know if pharmacists are dumb, but they are certainly often fucking assholes and deliberately neglectful to certain patients. Yeah most people have good experiences with pharmacists for most things, but if you need a controlled substance they instantly transform into cops and start treating you like a criminal. They're not quite as bad about this as doctors, but wow can they be real pieces of shit.

You've ever been on the r/pharmacy subreddit? Maybe this is just the intersection of and pharmacists, but they often actively delight in "sticking it to the junkies". They love pretending to just be your run of the mill abused retail employee when patients get upset that they're about to have their ability to live a functional life totally obliterated, often on top of torturous withdrawals.

Just remembered the "get off the internet and celebrate new years with your friends and family" struggle session 11 months ago. Hopefully we'll have that one again in a couple months, it'll be the start of a Hexbear new years tradition

It would be really cool if there existed a vanilla PvP Minecraft server where the landscape isn't littered with swastikas and the chat isn't overflowing with queerphobic and racial slurs. Alas, I suppose the advanced technology required to invent such a thing is still far beyond modern science.

That was really eye opening, I hadn't realized how extensively his mind seems to have changed on this issue in such a relatively short amount time.

they've gotta have some Epstein shit on him.

Fuck, I'd really rather it not be the case that Bernie is a secret pedophile or some shit. I wonder if that's the most likely option or if it's more likely that the CIA just outright threatened to kill him and his family

Restarted? What do you mean? That's the day the universe started for the very first time. The molten Earth cooled to livable temperatures and the very next moment life began, humanity evolved, and Russia invaded Ukraine.

It is seriously fucking breaking my brain how all the same liberals who were just a couple days ago fervently supporting Nazi Ukraine for "bravely resisting genocide by the Russian warmongering orcs by any means possible" are now coming out of the woodwork to denounce the Palestinians as war criminals for fighting back by any means possible against what is obviously an actual, ongoing genocide.

It's white supremacy. There is no other possible conclusion. None. Western liberals, and even most of the self described "western left" are just fucking irredeemable and rotten to the core. This will not change until the west is thoroughly crushed by revolution originating in the third world.

Despite having been around the entire time, to this day I still have no earthly idea what the fuck was with all of the insufferable, terminally online drama that originated on the discord lifeboat.

Does that server still even exist? There was a sizable group of deeply unserious CTH refugees who had somehow grown to prefer the lifeboat discord over chapo.chat's format, so they just decided to just stay there after this site opened. I recall they eventually changed their discord server name and elected new mods to differentiate themselves as a separate community from us, but that's the last I ever heard about them.

Unfortunately yes. Though it was much more common early in the site's history way before most lemmies even existed.

Hexbear is a left unity forum that began as a successor site to r/chapotraphouse after the reddit admins banned it. The short version of why we got banned from reddit is that we outwardly celebrated John Brown's attempted slave uprising at Harpers Ferry in 1859. We adopted the slogan "kill all slave owners" in honor of his memory. Somehow, the ghouls on the reddit admin team took this to mean a serious incitement to violence. I suppose their sense of linear time was just broken or something. Who can understand the mind of a liberal, after all?

To this day, the page for r/chapotraphouse says we were banned for "promoting hate". That's a massive farce considering we were one of the most absolutely inclusive spaces on reddit. We'd make anyone feel welcome there so long as they weren't a small business tyrant, a landleech, a racist, a sex pest, a fascist, or queerphobic.

One of the biggest demographics in the r/chapotraphouse userbase was transgender people, and that has remained the case on Hexbear. So we take transphobia extremely seriously here given how it is currently one of the safest spaces on the entire internet for trans people to hang out without worry of being targeted for harassment.

r/chapotraphouse's ban was a very high profile event on reddit when it happened. Previously the admins had chipped away at the sub in an attempt to stop its massive, rapid growth in user count. They removed our ability to ping users, and they quarantined us. At one point they even sacked our entire mod team and installed hand picked replacements. Despite that, we continued to grow. The admins were clearly afraid of the backlash that would come with an outright ban, so they also banned the empty husk of r/the_donald in order to pretend it was a "both sides are too extreme" type decision. That never held water considering r/the_donald was already dead after its userbase had moved to a reddit clone called thedonald.win. It was clear that the kill all slave owners thing was what ended up being the last straw.

Our subreddit had made a lot of enemies on reddit during the years it was active. So many that once this site started up a couple months after the ban, we experienced nearly daily raids from places like KiwiFarms and the transphobic harassment discords I mentioned. Ultimately we got rid of the downvote button because transphobic users abused it in order to anonymously express disapproval at the existence of trans people. Joke was on them in that they weren't aware that votes are not necessarily anonymous on lemmy.

Once the raiders got bored, and once we banned anyone who used the downvote button that way, things became pretty stable for us up until we finally federated. Now we're just trying to figure out how to balance federation with the maintenance of the same safe space we had built before.

Damn, that's unfortunate. Maybe you could talk to the lemmy.ml admins to find out who is doing this? They're the same people as the lemmygrad admins, right?

What the actual fuck is wrong with you? You are posting in a thread made by a trans comrade of ours who is sharing her experience of receiving vile transphobic harassment in her DMs for the crime of existing as a trans person openly on the internet.

Please walk into the sea.