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[–] 107 points 2 years ago (13 children)

There's a person from the solar punk lemmy posting in there about how the american flag stands for freedom and equality for all and I can't help but cringe at how much they're not living up to the "punk" part with their bullshit nationalism lmao

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Punk is an aesthetic

    That's all

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    An aesthetic that developed from rebellion against unjust hierarchies in society. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    No but like, using "-punk" as a suffix denotes an aesthetic that is based on imagining a society built around a core aspect, generally an energy source. Like, steampunk is all cooper and big buttons, dieselpunk is all dark steel and plastics, and solarpunk is contemporary utopian urban design with a lot of green space

    The relationship to the anarchist punk movement is almost nonexistent remote

    If I'm not mistaken btw

    Edit : it comes from "cyberpunk" which definitely has punk vibes

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    dieselpunk is all dark steel and plastics,

    I had never heard of this and now all I can think is who the hell conceived of a world even more dependent on petrol. Why bother, just go outside and take pictures.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago

    There's a person from the solar punk lemmy posting in there about how the american flag stands for freedom and equality for all

    picard

    and I can't help but cringe at how much they're not living up to the "punk" part with their bullshit nationalism lmao

    picard-annoyed

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    [–] 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ron Paul was a mistake, leading to the creation of Ron Swanson introducing libertarianism to millennials.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I briefly lived in a student co-op, and the best house meeting we had was when we got to kick out this guy who disappeared and left everyone else to cover his shifts. He turned back up after two months and it turned out he had been in another city campaigning for Ron Paul. He somehow felt like this was a good reason to not get kicked out

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

    I thought they wanted to keep politics out of there

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

    Thirty minutes from now: "why do all these freedom-loving libertarians want me dead?"

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

    But if you do moderation and curation on a web forum, that’s a violation of free speech. And people who infringe on free speech clearly cannot be truly trans. Freedom is what the Burgerland ruling class deems it to be. This is how we defeat cisheteropatriarchy.

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Wait so did this person ever say that they were trans, they were asked and dodged the question

    I actually am very interested to know because ideology can inhibit LGBT community outreach (re: make people shut-ins because they don't like other trans people because of what they've been told) and it's useful to me to understand how these kinds of trans people think so I can make ones nearby touch grass

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Trawled their(her? Not listed) profile: seems like a pretransition egg that browses /TTTT/. usually when these people transition and are discriminated against, they come to the irl trans community for solutions (doctors lists, survival tips, free therapy) and slowly build class consciousness as bad experiences accumulate and information is shared (along with hugs) face to face.

    They will eventually realize at this stage the only people that tangibly helped them were socialists and become more amicable towards socialist ideas. I've seen it happen a lot, it's not guaranteed obviously and the archetype varies country to country and by ethnicity but that's the vibe I'm getting.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    Most normal day on the Blahaj instance.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago

    holy shit, the comments on that post cringe

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    [–] [S] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The mods deleted the post

    So now I've got this guy in my DMs instead

    yes-comm

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What is bahaj? I think I've seen some of them post in here before but don't know what their instance is about.

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Anti-communist Vaushite chaser instance spun off from r/196. We were federated with them for a minute until we realized how intolerable they were.

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  • [–] [S] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Well, it started as a small kind of libby trans friendly space on Lemmy for just a handful of users that was a spin off of the blahaj.zone misskey instance on fedi (mastodon basically) but because of the Reddit stuff it swelled in size and then r/196 asked if they could migrate to it and suddenly the entire culture of the instance was up ended by chaser vaushites.

    also it's become the 1 token trans friend for all the Lemmitors that agrees with their shitty opinions because they can't bear to acknowledge that the instance with the most trans users on is hexbear

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

    they can’t bear to acknowledge that the instance with the most trans users on is hexbear

    They cope and seath sooo fucking much about it, the number of these losers I have seen implying that the trans on hexbear and lemmigrad were fake in some way, troll or bots.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Just for a little clarification.. Blahaj is also the name of the shark plushie at IKEA that has become sort of a symbol of trans support. That predates the cringe lemmy instance you're talking about (which I had never even heard of until today, but the shark thing has been a phenomenon for years)

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

    Yikes. This is literally no different than a rainbow swastika or something equally tone deaf.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    What the fuck

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    deeply deeply cringe

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago*

    Liberation for me but not for thee, apparentlee?

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

    I can get behind the libertarian sentiment of “I want gay couples to own machines guns and grow weed,” but unless they always vote for libertarian parties, their default course of action is to almost always support the Republican Party because guns and money and “free speech” will always be more important than the lives of marginalized people.

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    e: why are you all calling me slurs

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    I only make communist are in GIMP, sorry sweaty

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

    Gunning for the Kapo position I see

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    The symbolism of portraying oneself as a snake within the trans community amuses me. Nevermind the rest on this heaping pile of shit.

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