cosecantphi [he/him]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020

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  • I was thinking of accelerationism in the sense of a purposeful worsening of conditions to spur marginalized communities into action. Things were going to get worse under either party, but it’s much worse when the western liberals are also putting their weight on the scale alongside the Democratic establishment.

    Trump is going to have to fight protests and uprisings to enact his domestic agenda, but the Democrats would have enacted nearly the same set of policies while blaming it on obscure senate rules or another one of their rotating villains.


  • Trump is only the accelerationist candidate if you assume that he is personally more competent than the deepstate ghouls Kamala was going to let pick her cabinet. He isn’t, and by clearly being the final decision on who will run his administration, he is almost certainly going to further hurt US foreign policy goals while inspiring actual resistance to the shitty domestic policies the establishment Democrats had no interest in fighting.

    Also, there’s a very good chance that in 3 years time Trump’s own cognitive decline will become as obvious as Biden’s.











  • were probably some of the more active comms on this site besides chat, mutual aid, and chapomainhouse.

    This is a very important point and I don’t see it brought up much. We should not be blanket deciding that low effort posts are not welcome on Hexbear because Hexbear unironically needs low effort post as an indispensable part of the site culture.

    Low effort posts by their nature are a dime a dozen, they help keep the place active and lively. High user activity for the size of our userbase has always been a defining feature of both Hexbear and the subreddit before it. High effort posts come naturally as a consequence of discussion often originating in lower effort threads.


  • On board with most people here saying it shouldn’t be called gossip, and getting rid of the racist pun is cool and good.

    But if we’re still allowing shitreactionariessay to be federated with Hexbear, then I don’t see why we can’t have that content on a local comm now that people can block individual communities.

    People who don’t like that content don’t need to see it, I don’t understand this ongoing trend of insistence that no one else should see it on a local Hexbear comm either. Especially when so many comrades have shared how these communities serve as sanity checks, the one place we can reaffirm to ourselves and to our comrades that the reactionary slog of our everyday lives is neither necessary nor normal.

    And as others have brought up, lemmygrad is a sectarian space, meaning all that’s essentially changed is that we no longer have a left unity space for this type of content on our federation network.