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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • The reactions on hex vs the reactions off hex have been hilariously different.

    On hex, the shit posting continues, like the band on the Titanic, except the Titanic has always been sinking so it’s not even any different.

    Off hex there are some who laugh with mirth thinking “haha they must be so sad at the end of their site!” Not realizing that it’s never the end, it can’t actually end, and that even if it were the shit posting would continue.





  • I started on kbin, and I’m Midwestern, so after leaving kbin, I decided on this one because it appealed to my sensibilities.

    Our admin has been vehemently antifascist, to the point it really rustles some jimmies on world etc.

    I asked about grad defed because that happened before I joined, apparently it was issues with brigading, not anything else. If we were to defed from hex and ml for some ideological reason it would be extremely surprising to me. I would also probably move over then.

    There’s a lot of insane brain worms on these larger instances. I feel like being able to say “if you’re an actual leftist, you will find friends on hexbear” is a valuable counter to some of these obsessive weirdos.


  • I’m gonna be pedantic for just a sec cause I want to share my visualization with you:

    Isle - small island

    Aisle - row of shelves typically housing objects like groceries or books, etc.

    That caused me to think about a small archipelago that could fit in a neighborhood that consisted of different ethnic or national peoples hawking foods. Like large swimming pools with floating stands manned by someone yelling “get your Twinkies here! Twinkies!”

    I’m crying.




  • Or kent state.

    Or what the civil war was actually about.

    Or when all those statues of traitors showed up.

    Or why all those statues of traitors showed up.

    Or how mlk jr felt about communism.

    Or how the government actively targeted and killed domestic political opponents for years.

    Or how the government performed experiments on unwilling citizens again, for years.

    Or…

    Eta: at this point I assume there’s a lot more to it than what I’ve been taught. I also assume that the simplistic understanding that was conveyed to me was done intentionally to color my opinion of China because “scary communists.”