Is it the same nebulous fascist nonsense like "gay agenda"?
Yes. It's literally exactly that. Pretty much all the transphobic talking points are just reheated homophobia.
Hexagons
joined 2 years ago
It's because of the person holding up the Trump scale with their head. The point of this stupid comic is that if you say Biden is bad, then you're holding Trump's side of the scale up, or something. Which is fucking stupid and wrong, but here we are
I honestly hope it's that, legitimately. The alternative is too depressing
Ah. My bad, I shouldn't have mentioned "two-party" at all. The issue with our electoral system is that it's a bourgeois electoral system, not that it happens to have two parties.
I'm going to push back on just one thing you've said, which is that you don't think anyone could change any minds here. That's blatantly false. I have my mind changed all the time, and I've seen it happen with other people on here too. We're willing to have our minds changed and we understand that we're fallible and other people know more than we do about various things.
I think maybe what you meant to say is that you understand that hexbears can't be convinced to go back to being libs. And that's true. I'll never again think that the Democrats are anything other than my enemies. I used to think they were my allies, but I've changed my mind and I see now that they never were and never will be. So in that sense I guess you're right, but politics is so much bigger and more complicated than just red vs blue, elephant vs donkey.
Free yourself from the two-party bourgeois democracy you were born into. You're young, you have so much learning to do and so much time in which to do it! Lurk here and actually read the things people post. I've learned so much from my fellow hexbears and I hope you will too.
I get my dissenting opinions simply by existing in the society in which I exist. The hexbear "echo chamber" as you put it is small and powerless. This place is a tiny refuge, a brief respite from all the shitiness I see in my day to day life.
Hexbear isn't an "echo chamber" in the same way the republican media circuit is, because we have to leave it. Republicans never do. They can read articles and watch talking heads and never once be challenged on their beliefs. As a communist, I'm challenged on my beliefs every single day. Most articles I read and most talking heads I watch disagree with me.
We respond to lost libs like you for a few reasons. One is maybe we'll change a mind, not necessarily yours but perhaps a lurker reading the conversation. Another is entertainment. It's really funny when someone wanders in here and is the living embodiment of the memeing we do. Sometimes we want an argument, usually because we're having a shitty day and just want to be an asshole on the Internet. This isn't a good motivation and I wish it didn't happen, but it does. None of us is immune.
You're getting responses not because we're unused to being challenged, but because we want to respond to you for whatever reason. My response here is explaining our inner workings so hopefully you can come away from this thread seeing us as people with ideas that we believe. We haven't been tricked into thinking as we do, most of us go against the grain of our societies to come to our beliefs. I want to change a mind today, ideally yours, and I've chosen a gentle tone full of candor to try to do so. Will it be effective? I have no way of knowing, but I hope so. Please realize we're not bots or russian agents or trapped in a cult or whatever, we're humans with thoughts and experiences that have led us to our beliefs.
Does "customize" not work? As in:
EndeavorOS KDE customization
This is the first time that I've tried to start customizing my system
There is a consensus in this community. Posts that use the racist term get removed when they're noticed by mods. You can check the mod log.
Hey, just so you know, "rice" is a racist term. You should remove it from your title and post body before a mod removes your post
I see you banned Cowbee for calling you out as a racist bigot in the other thread that you then locked, accusing them of racism in the process, for some reason.
Go ahead and ban me too, please, because I agree with them: you're a bigot and your issues with the modern gaming landscape arise from your bigotry
please regale me with your gamergate take (i know you have one)
I'm so sorry! Talks are really hard and can go poorly in so many different ways, I hate giving them so much. It really did probably go better than you felt like it did. Still though, I know that feeling of veering off into an unnecessary explanation. It always feels at the time like I really should have included this background, what was I thinking leaving it out, I'll just explain it real quick, and then oops, I've spent way too long here and now don't have time for the actually important stuff!
Just a terrible feeling, all in all. Still, what's important is that your colleagues vaguely know what you're working on so they can talk to you or read your papers or what have you. It's ok! A terrible talk isn't the end of the world, you're still cool and intelligent and competent!