silent_water [she/her]

unfortunately other data is not encouraging , the number of servers is both down since the exodus and in the recent month.

this is normal. we’ll go through a lot of similar waves. people start servers, realize they’re a lot of work, and then abandon them. servers that foster a healthy community will survive. hexbear’s worst cycle involved losing the entire administrative team just weeks after a large percentage of the website left. don’t sweat the growing pains - work together to learn, grow, and change.

kill all slavers. every last one.

it’s hexchan thank you

oh my god the bear spectre is so cute

we want an immediate end to the war. in what way does wanting an end to the death make us comparable with the alt-right?

we’re centrists. we hold the political center between anarchism and Marxism-Leninism.

the US controls the international money supply. the loopholes employed by those companies are very easily closed as is the ability of companies headquartered outside the US to operate within its borders. companies will fall in line. and any support granted by other countries are easily neutered by shocking the money supply.

lol the US doesn’t care about international law

part 2 of this bill:

Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

just so we’re all clear on the purpose of this bill.

we’ve got fewer active users but have an outsized post/comment count

the distinction is because those red states have extensive efforts underway to go after queer people and this bill enables them to do so online.

this doesn’t require them to do anything, it just gives them new powers.

our usernames have @hexbear.net in them from other sites lol.

this law requires positive proof with IDs. it’s also going to be used by red states to go after online queer communities.

yeah, Rs have already been bragging that they’re going to use this to go after queer communities online.

my first response was directed at you. the second was not. I was answering the question you asked.

Genuine question, what’s the goal of such behavior?

to apply adequate pushback to erroneous understandings of the world. the goal isn’t to convince the interlocutor. it’s to encourage the people reading to investigate the topic. on many of the topics in question, the history and ideologies involved take entire books to deconstruct - doing so in an internet comment is extraordinarily difficult. the people we’re talking to don’t even agree with us on the meanings of basic words - there’s not even a basis for debate. because such debate is so unproductive, the aggressive tone encourages many people to stop and ask more serious questions. this undoubtedly works because so many of the posters on hexbear responded in exactly that way here or on reddit at some point in the past. and when they asked those questions, they got detailed answers, including links to sources so they could investigate for themselves. in actual fact, many of the people on hexbear received exactly the kind of aggressive pushback you’re decrying and ended up eventually convinced that our viewpoint had something to offer.

and as point of fact, when someone starts asking questions, we’ll tell each other to stop treating them so harshly cause they’re acting in good faith. that courtesy is not extended to people who continue down a path of antagonism. nor is it offered to someone who devolves into racism, transphobia, or other forms of bigotry. one of the benefits of the aggressive approach is that it encourages so many bigots to immediately out themselves.

lastly, civility is not an unmitigated good unto itself. civility is the false peace – it masks tensions, pretending they don’t exist. real peace is not civility – it’s a state in which tensions are brought to the fore so they can actually be resolved. civility is a white, middle class sensibility – our world is incredibly fucked up and the people affected by it do not owe anyone that masking of the horrors of our world. nor do we owe anyone an education they will neither ask for nor appreciate.

how they respond to detailed replies or lack thereof, snide, use of thought-terminating cliches, and hostility

it’s not directed at you. I’m explaining why we react strongly in general.

being critical without being interested in the response is bad faith.

obviously whether a take is bad or not depends on your politics. it’s so obvious I’m surprised you’d bother pointing it out.

Y’all respond to criticism like kim jong un is standing right behind you lol

this isn’t criticism. it’s just a snide aside.

Also we aren’t in hexbear right now

again, obviously.