Fun fact: the opposite of estrogenize is in fact to androgenize. No relation to androgynize with a Y, they're just one letter apart and for many speakers 100% homophonic, but they're very different in meaning, if we're talking about men's sex hormone intake.

Honestly sometimes I think every country should have its own Sinn Féin of sorts. Just a party that never takes its seats. Yeah, try calling it the "same thing" when you can't pass any legislation or form coalitions or get anything done because a third of the seats in the national legislature are literally left empty on purpose. Don't like it? Well, it's your problem that your party is literally less electable than No Representation!

If we want to be even more proper, they're Avars, Lezgians, Nogais, Tabasarans, and so forth. Dagestan is a very culturally and linguistically diverse region. Its name means "land of mountains", which is just about the only trait that all the peoples in the region share.

(also, Cauc-as-us, or Caucasia or even Kavkaz if you prefer. No relation to "caucus". Sorry if that's pedantic.)

Jewry in Dagestan has existed for many centuries as well, though post-USSR a majority of Juhuro — the Jews of Azerbaijan and the North Caucasus — have now immigrated to the United States and Israel. We can only assume specifically to escape the economic woes and growing ethno-religious strife that came with the last lowering of the red flag.

Insert that manga frame that says something like "male crossdressing is by definition something only men can do, and therefore it is the most masculine act there is"

I'm just saying that if one wishes to be defederated from Hexbear, then one should migrate off of lemmy.ml first. The admins of that instance are not going to be open to defederating Hexbear.

This post and its comments go more in-depth about the Hexbears' grievances: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1989401

The announcement from a Hexbear admin: https://hexbear.net/post/369410

The casus defoederationis that's got me most concerned is that the 196 mod appears to endorse usage of the -tard suffix. When the Hexbears mention ableism, this is the specific objection they have.

Really bad form of OP to not include any links, and honestly it should be a Hexbear admin making this announcement, anyways.

The top-level comments I see in order are,

• The aforementioned comment
• Asking for an update to the UI to clarify when a post is federated and what that means for user behavior
• Shitpost
• A post in favor
• Saying that Lemmy needs to allow local-only communities
• "[...] I still think that federating with so many communities at all the same time was a bad idea [...] I hope we take a more measured approach moving forward."
• Shitpost
• Shitpost
• Disappointment at one aspect of the rule change but understanding its necessity
• "okie"
• "[...] wasn't dunking 99% of the reason we federated in the first place? [...]"
• Asking about if users should censor names when "dunking"
• Shitpost
• Asking for clarification about one of the new rules

A lot of shitposting, sure, but I don't see how you can really call any of that "deflection".

If you say so, but I just feel like this reflects on a broader issue I've noticed of the admins here being overly concerned with civility or respectability, and it just felt very avoidable.

Edit: And besides, my life is nothing if not a series of weird hills to die on. I think I've always had a problem with refusing to let things go, which can be both a strength and a weakness.

Don't forget Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), that one's a classic

I'm getting flashbacks to "is consensual cannibalism vegan" discourse

Stage 1: "Climate change is my responsibility to fix as an average citizen!"

Stage 2: "Actually, fixing climate change is the responsibility of the megacorporations causing it."

Stage 3: "Climate change is my responsibility to fix as an average citizen!" (said while researching sabotage and mutual aid)

Now I am become enby, destroyer of gender