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liberalism and covid denialism (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/covid@hexbear.net
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Is covid-liberalism a bannable offense in c/covid?

I'm getting really fucking weary of seeing sentiments like, "being upset about someone scheduling a non-emergency dental appointment in the middle of the second largest covid wave is deranged" or "you're a selfish asshole for expecting your loved ones to do the bare fucking minimum to protect you" in discussions on masking or vaccine uptake

I know I'm not the only one disappointed in the growing anomie. Maybe we should operate more like c/vegan where everything from omnivore apologia to overt antiveganism (analogous to the above anti-precaution/anti-max/anti-vax-apologia) is forbidden, and posting/commenting as much gets you a ban?

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[+] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Hexbear has grown a lot in recent months, we have over 900 daily users now

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    it feels less active than a few months ago for me, aside from the undying threads that stay at the top of main for ages, maybe my account is fucked up somehow

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Nah you're right, I clear through the site in like half the time I used to (I use it to kill time at work so it has been obviously noticeable).

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do y'all stay local? I have nothing to back it up, but think more and more of our activity is happening over on federated comms.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    I sort by all but it's mostly local (with some lemmygrad thrown in). Checking the front page right now, 16/17 top posts in the last day are local (1 from lemmygrad), and 15/16 active posts are local (1 from lemmy.ml); 12/15 hot are local but I don't use hot sort much. I've blocked a lot of the low effort (federated) meme comms but those were mostly low activity with lots of votes IIRC.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    The signs were already there with Barbenheimer discourse^TM^. How do you have strong opinions about those two films without seeing the two films and how do you see the two films if they weren't released on Netflix? Yep, you would totally have strong opinions of those two films after watching shitty pirated torrents and not, you know, jumping into the Covid death traps called movie theaters.

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