[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 40 points 4 months ago

Jack Black coming out as a Zionist was a massive L that makes up for the rarity

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago

Old.reddit still works

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago

We're still doing that and I would argue that we are no more peaceful, we just now have a NIMBY approach to conflict

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago

If you aren't anti-oppression or anti-apartheid you aren't progressive

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

What do you mean war, the west bank is not controlled by hamas.

This is brutalisation by an occupying force on a population living in an Israeli controlled Bantustan.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Palestinian is an ethnicity.

Gaza is a ghetto.

Israel is ethnic cleansing.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

What happens outside of school when boys are faced with a much more relaxed dress code, you still going to victim blame and blame the outfit?

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

The link doesn't work dude, and I've seen images and then an identical image of a dog at the vets that was clearly the image used to generation the propaganda image. If the image isn't verified by multiple large organisations like the UN then it means jack shit on the post ai internet.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

We've had general purpose computers for decades but every year the hardware requirements for general purpose operating systems keep increasing. I personally don't think there has been a massive spike in productivity using a computer between when PCs usually had 256-512mb to now where you need at least 8gb to have a decent experience. What has changed are growing protocol specs that are now a bloated mess, poorly optimised programs and bad design decisions.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The narrative is never as black and white as either US or Russian sources would have you believe.

The Ukraine is publicly against any peace talks and the US arms industry is making bank off the war so the US puts very little pressure on the Ukraine to sue for peace.

Russia claims that the US blocked early peace talks. Not sure if Russia would have gone to them in good faith but I guess we'll never know.

Any articles dehumanising Russians such as calling them orcs(this was everywhere) helps justify the continuation of the war. Any articles not calling for an immediate end to the war on humanitarian grounds should be considered propaganda for either side.

I'd argue MSM is not balanced either in the opposite direction and shits on Russia enough that bexbears don't need to join in. Countering the current narrative on anti war grounds or being anti US/NATO can be easily misunderstood as being pro Russia.

Obviously I'm not saying pro Russia accounts don't exist on hexbear but I don't think its as big a thing as you think.

On the trans thing, yeah it would be nice if they could exist everywhere without issues but I've seen plenty of transphobia coming from different instances including our own. Having a mod team that understands their struggle and protects them is worth a lot.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

The non ideological crown doesn't exist. Being middle of the road centrist is ideological. Political apathy and voter abstention is ideological. I don't want to create an echo chamber here by banning leftist spaces and allow liberal and right wing views to go unchallenged.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago

50% of their mod team is trans and they are one of the few instances with pronouns built in to it. They have a good argument that of the biggest instances they are the most trans friendly. Can't speak for smaller instances or individual communities though.

I've mostly seen anti war takes from them which IMO is much better than all the pro war news and views in the lib instances. Most leftists are anti Russia since its a capitilaist, imerialist, oligarchal shit hole, but they also are anti US and NATO for similar reasons.

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