Under no circumstances should you use for this!

She must be realizing that if Biden loses, she will never be president. It's really now or never. I'll take back everything I've ever said about this woman if she blatantly murders Biden then pardons herself.

The debate is gonna be rigged, but not to give either candidate a tangible advantage. It's gonna be rigged to make both candidates look and sound like normal people with normal opinions who aren't currently decomposing alive. They can't do this for just Biden because whatever conditions he needs to appear normal in public are probably the exact same conditions Trump needs to do his thing.

If there's any company that would kill a bunch of astronauts through sheer incompetence during an election year and at a time when the US is looking weak on the national stage, I'd definitely put money on Boeing.

Yeah in the context of the rest of the thread that line made more sense. What happened was they (not the person in the screenshot, it was another user) originally called me edgy and compared me to a 4channer for saying my boss belongs in a gulag. The word edgy is necessarily a comparison, right? Something can't be edgy in a vacuum, it's a word that implies judgement against some sort of normal baseline.

So I brought up how no one is ever called edgy for saying someone belongs in an American prison. I didn't actually initially accuse them of being American, for some reason they thought not being American would somehow refute my point. When they got defensive about that, I poked fun at them by saying they're acting like an American anyway

Don't worry, you may not live in the US, but you're definitely an American in spirit.

And you clearly don't seem to have problem with US prison system, only that wrong people are sent there. You're as full of shit as the people you think you're criticizing

Soviet Union: Sequesters fascists and counter-revolutionaries for reeducation after Nazi Germany murdered millions of people while invading the USSR with the express purpose of genocide.

The US: Uses drug prohibition as a bullshit excuse to systematically arrests racial minorities in their millions in order to continue enslavement after the abolition of chattel slavery. The conditions are so brutal that the death rate for modern US prison inmates exceeds that of the Soviet gulag system just a decade into recovering from the devastation wrought by WW2.

Lemmitor turbolib: Wow, these are morally equivalent. If you replace the words "fascist comprador looking to resume the brutalization of the working class" with the words "black people" then you tankies are starting to look an awful lot like 4channers!

Fuck, the natsec ghouls really are getting totally fucking blitzed and shitfaced on their own supply, aren't they?

Unfathomable to me that someone could come to this conclusion after witnessing how 9/11 brought Bush's abysmal approval rating to over 90% while transforming the US population into a horde of bloodthirsty demons.

What happened with Stranger Things still pisses me the hell off. Season one starts off with an obviously evil, child torturing American government agency as the villain. But then a bunch of those agents die at the end of the season, they are replaced, and suddenly in season two this exact same organization is benevolent, really cares about the protagonists' well being, and is just super duper sorry about all the atrocities they committed.

Real lib-brained thinking that the problem with the US and its institutions is that a bunch of mean bad people have accidentally fallen into positions of power and we just need to replace them with good nice people to make everything all better.

So they'd fully rehabilitated the show's first villain, and now they're in need of a new one. Of fucking course the idea the writers land on is to just totally recreate the evil government agency from season one, but now it's the evil commie USSR doing it.

I don't know who any of the people involved in this screenshot are, but is this twitter post not just a joke? Like the therapist wants her to take her mask off as in be her true self, and she misinterpreted the therapist as saying to literally take off her covid mask?

but it’s great for ants and bees.

socialism is when you're born sterile and instinctively forced to dedicate your entire life to the survival of your queen and her offspring

And yet the United States continues to slide into fascism despite having elected Biden. What horrific Trump era policies did the Democrats even bother to repeal after they won in 2020 and held both the senate and the house?

They are still funding the construction of border wall segments. They never repealed the Republican tax cuts. They have done nothing about the concentration camps on the southern border for fuck's sake. They never codified Roe v. Wade, we literally lost the right to abortions while Biden was in office. They could have stacked the supreme court but they didn't.

The Democrats and the Republicans form an obfuscated one party system in the US. Republican leadership aggressively ramps up the oppression of marginalized people, then Democratic leadership does nothing to restore our rights nor proactively prevent the same thing from happening again. Instead they just use their time in office to suck all of the energy out of people's movements that could actually effect change.

And much more importantly than all of that, Republicans and Democrats are virtually identically evil when it comes to foreign policy. When the US is dropping bombs on you and destroying your country, you'll tend not to care whether it was a Red MAGA or Blue MAGA administration pulling the trigger.

In some specific cases it might be worthwhile to vote for Democrats in local elections where there exists much more leeway for politicians to stray from the party line, but voting for them in national elections is just lending your voice to legitimizing their bullshit good cop/bad cop routine they play with the Republicans.

Reopening the pipeline is great, and there are many new comrades who've found their way home to Hexbear thanks to federation. We're also probably making the rest of lemmy better by relentlessly mocking libs and chuds to the point they decide to keep their reprehensible takes to themselves. That doesn't work on all of them, but I do imagine it works more often than we'd think.

But all of this is not worth our trans and other marginalized comrades losing a space that was once almost entirely free of this bullshit. Plausibly the only such space on English speaking internet.

However, I do wonder if there are any other effective measures we can take to protect our trans comrades other than outright defederation. It would be a shame to lose the pipeline if it were possible to do something else about this. Perhaps taking away features from users on non Hexbear/Lemmygrad instances? Maybe it's feasible to remove their ability to DM Hexbear users.

Admins could also work on expanding the mod team to loosen the workload and reduce how much of this disgusting crap any one mod sees, thereby reducing mod burnout and also cleaning out the reactionary filth faster. I'm sure there are many known trustworthy Hexbear users who would be happy to join the mod team to accomplish this. Not only that, maybe we could give all users who have been active on this site for years mod-lite powers to temporarily hide potentially reactionary posts and comments made by users of other instances until an actual moderator can review it.

SJW is probably a lost cause and should be defederated anyway, but I've seen a lot of nice lemm.ee users who I would be sad to see go rather than attempting the above measures.