The website has been working pretty hard and can use a nice vacation! Good on Hexbear for having some self-care!

Generally I think it revolves around the normalization of really hateful thinking, both outside and within.

I never got too deep into it, and once /pol/ got overrun with literal Nazis I knew it was over, and it’s when I started distancing myself from it. Reddit was nominally better, and it took me from being this center right a-hole to at least a RadLib.

I always had an interest in Communism, but it was more “Tankie Aesthetic cool!” Than it was about “We must implement communism as it is the only way to save the world.”

Since no one ever was able to convince me that the USSR killed 6942002496 people a second, it and the awesomeness of Chapo Trap House eventually got me to where I am now: The only True Leftist.

It’s Texas.

4chan ruined my mental health and Reddit just helped keep it ruined. Getting banned from Reddit was the best thing that ever happened to me. Then I got rid of Twitter, I was off Facebook the moment they got rid of their original UI after they opened the website to everyone. One day I will permanently log off to become one with the grass, but not today.

Yeah, when I was dumb teen I spent time on…ugh… KotakuInAction.

At least it was a step up from hanging out on 4chan’s /b/ in its hey day.

I came back after touching grass for about two years.

Also trans’d my gender

Google Realism.

The political equivalent of “I don’t care as long as both teams have fun!” During the Super Bowl.

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Just so you know, I used to be an Admin/Overmod of this website. I was part of the initial vanguard that fought the bots. Downvotes were actually ruining the site. You couldn’t use hot or most upvoted to organize because of wrecker bots downvoting all the good stuff while up voting terrible things.

Now if you really dislike something instead of passively downvoting things now you have to communicate. This is bad for wreckers, CHUDs and Fascist cause it means the community can clean out the scum we don’t want here, especially if they are the usual kind who aren’t here to listen.

Gotta educate these youngsters on the history of this site lol.

It’s literally why we ditched the Down vote here on Hexbear. Because bots were down voting everything regardless of content and only up voting the things the bot was programmed to upvote. As such it became impossible to know what real users thought about stuff. By making it upvote only, we thoroughly decreased the amount of rigging outsiders can do to our Hexbear system™.

Soon they’ll get rid of likes all together because “People don’t like edgy comments, which makes it appear like people hate edgy comments, so to encourage edgy comments we are removing usernames, likes, and retweets.”

Basically just a chan board with a better DM system.

Unfortunately for this awesome bait, the problem is that the Capitalist boot licker is okay with the person who doesn’t work getting all the money. Why? Because that person put like, $1000 into the company back in 1976! They risked losing that $1000, but their bet paid off and now they get to take all the profits forever. they don’t care that the money is going to that person’s kid instead of the actual investor, either.

Why? Because every capitalist bootlicker wants to believe that they, too, could win such a longshot bet.

Very true, I mostly like it here because Medicaid is easy to get on and it covers a lot of trans healthcare, and other than some randos who look like they walked from Alabama, I don’t feel much transphobia around here.

Ever since the Democrats legalized weed, murder has now become legal too.

Yes.

But the joke in Colorado is that the Colorado River ends at the Bellagio Hotel.

Cool. I did not know this. Thanks for educating.

Like there is some history of what can be called colonization in Finland and Japan, with the Ainu in Japan and Sami people in Finland. But like these places resemble ethnostates based more off of geographic and language isolation.

If Japan spoke English as a second language the same way you see in former British colony states, you can bet your ass that island would be full of immigrants and non-japanese people.

But it’s an island with a language that is really hard for Westerners to learn.

Finland is a snowy wasteland most the year, so yeah not a lot of people want to live there, so only the people who have always lived there live there. Finnish is also a hard language for not Scandinavians to learn.

The other countries are just absolutely pulled out his ass, I think, but again are probably more ethnostate like due to geographic issues and not because some people started colonizing it in the last century and kicked out the modern native population that was living there forever

This is basically the Microsoft Strategy™.

They buy out smaller tech companies, squeeze them dry and then close them down.

This is like what the 15th game studio they’ve done this to since Rareware in the mid 2000s?