Kind of makes me wonder what other organisations and things throughout history were originally named after some kind of in joke or meme that has been lost to history.

Yes, because Biden seemed like his government and policies would be less frothing at the mouth racist against Muslims. They were not.

Don’t be! We’d love to have you here! (And be sure to report any transphobic shitheads to the mods as well, they aren’t any more welcome here than they are on Hexbear)

Nah, you didn’t do anything wrong. People are responsible for their own actions, not you.

I always feel bad when I was agreeing with someone initially and then they just kind of dig themselves deeper and deeper and start saying less and less coherent stuff and it makes me realise they were probably masking some really uncool shit and I fell for it. :(

Yeah, seems like they’ll be justifying it by saying they are just “temp bans” so it is ok. But it’s still pretty fucked up for their biggest critics in the thread to be effectively silenced for “going against the (mod) hivemind” or whatever libs say about us.

I feel the same. Ironically the mod’s attempts to make the site more “serious” is probably just going to do the opposite. I’ve spoken at length about this before, but you don’t get people to learn and discuss leftist theory by insisting it is always serious business and you aren’t allowed to joke around or acknowledge how fucked up our capitalist society is.

It’ll just chase people away, which is a shame, though might be a “win” as far as the mods are concerned. There’s plenty of “serious” leftist groups out there with half a dozen members with their own very specific interpretation of theory with 0 fun allowed, but I can’t really think of anywhere else quite like Hexbear. I don’t want to see them become yet another insular “leftist” space that is actively hostile to people who don’t take themselves as seriously as the world’s most dedicated Internet Leftists.

I’m probably overreacting though, as others have said, this isn’t the first time mods on Hexbear have gone full reddit mod and won’t be the last.

Wow, just saw that. That is very worrying. “Random” bans and bans mocking people for being too active on the site? And getting rid of some of the most active coms on the site? Hexbear is fucked if these new mods are going to be power tripping like this.

I guess they couldn’t get Taiwan to destroy themselves for their western masters, so they’ve fished around in the region for a puppet regime that will.

Good to see that while their government is in total collapse they can still focus on the important things.

Remember that the currents north of Hawaii flow eastward, so you’ll probably want to sail south-southwest to avoid getting blown back to yankeeland.

I always assume that at least one downvote comes from lost and angry libs, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

I think it stems from the liberal mentality of everyone else just being a single West Wing style speech away from completely changing their mind and becoming a liberal. To a liberal everyone else is just “ignorant” and they are the enlightened ones. They can’t even imagine that someone who disagrees with them actually has reasons to do so, they’re just “ignorant” according to liberals.

Oh dang, this reminded me I’m out of baking powder and need to get more when I go shopping. Thanks random witch doctor conspiracy theorist!

I think you misunderstand me, I agree with you about the conspiracy theories. It’s absurd nonsense. Once you start getting to that level of “all the planes were faked and all the pilots were made up” or whatever you’re just ignoring reality, which ultimately, is what the US state department wants from people. Ironically, the conspiracy theories play into their hands perfectly.

The conspiracy theories like “controlled demolitions” or “hologram planes” or whatever are all nonsense, but the idea that the US ruling class knew about it beforehand and benefited from it fits into their usual M.O. and isn’t any sort of leap in logic.

He was going to, but by sheer coincidence the Saudis beat him to it.

It died in the Beaker culture

It died in Vietnam

Wasn’t the problem with concord that it traveled too fast to travel on most flightpaths because the sonic boom could damage buildings on the ground below?