Where I'm coming from is: he's not the first, he won't be the last, where's the outage for the people who aren't shitheel billionaires? Yes, I want to live in a country where people don't get deported for political reasons, but we already don't live in one of those, so it's funny that it might affect musk, one of the few people who I actually, truly wish suffering on.

Hey, I think you posted this in the wrong thread! You'd probably get more responses if you posted it where you meant to instead of here!

I heard so fucking often that it's "dehumanizing" to call someone a "pregnant person", and I'm like,

I specifically time my pedestrian trips so as to avoid rush hour if possible. Why? Because of the number of times I've been almost flattened by a car trying to turn right at a busy intersection and literally not checking for pedestrians before hand. And then they look at me like I'm the asshole for trying to cross the road when I very clearly have the right of way. It's bleak out here for those of us who use walking as a method of transportation!

So the first time I heard about this story was from a Radio Free Asia article. As such, I'm not inclined to believe it, and reading this article hasn't really changed that. This one, like the RFA one I read a couple weeks ago, is heavy on "social media users said" and light on actual evidence. I'm curious about what the truth is and why these people are being arrested. My guess is that it's less to do with the subject of their writing and more to do with the particular path towards monetization they've chosen. Especially given the number of photos in this NYT article that are labeled as photos of Boys' Love merch. You'd think if this kind of thing were banned in China it would be difficult to find so many photos of it.

This shit makes me sad. You want to be politically engaged, you want to understand the world around you, but you've been taught lies your whole life, and you refuse to try and break out of the political ideology you've been taught and accepted. So you sit here and say trump is an aberration. You call him names because that's all you can think to do. You don't see that trump is a symptom, not a cause. You think if you just vote correctly that somehow, the world will improve around you. But it won't.

You remind me of my dad and it just makes me sad. I don't have some glib, clever way to end this. You'll believe what you believe, and nothing we can say will change your mind, unless you let it. Which I encourage you to try and do. Consider that maybe "communism" isn't the dirty word you've been taught it is. Consider that perhaps there is a way towards a brighter future, it's just that it won't come from the democratic party.

I hope you come to a fuller understanding of the world as it actually is rather than as you wish it were, I really, truly do.

This comment section is just making me sad now, fuck

Please enjoy this rare non-bigoted YouTube comment, out of context:

Watching this video while eating handfuls of leftover shredded lettuce like a turtle. So far so good

Congrats! We're all so happy for you! Extremely well done!

I found this page on their website, it's real.

Which leads me to an important question: who the fuck are these assholes?

I've looked at their "Experts" page, I don't recognize anyone, I've looked at their "About" page, it's surprisingly low on info. Oh, their building in DC is "an iconic building that faces the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and that symbolizes our nation’s commitment to peace." Ok, but like, why is that on your "About" page, you fucking weirdos?!

So I'm at a loss. I'm sure (absolutely positive) there's info to be found here about this deeply shitty organization, but I think I'd have to spend hours and hours looking for weird connections, because they seem oddly reticent to tell casual visitors to their website anything about anything. And that weirds me the hell out. Who are these fucks?! Who is reading these (deeply shitty) articles they're writing?! Who funds them?! Why don't they have any board members listed where I can find them?!

I've suspected for awhile that "it was unmoderated" is kind of a catchall for when reddit wants to ban a sub but doesn't have a real reason. Here's some more evidence to toss on that pile, I guess. Sucks that they took down this very helpful resource, fucking reddit

You can block them [hexbears], but there are tons of them that have lemmy.world accounts- and post regularly in the political communities.

You’ll know them when you see them.

I don't think it's that wild. In middle school I was taught that Malcolm X was evil and making things worse for black people because he wasn't peaceful and civil like MLK. That's total and complete bullshit, as I've come to learn, but that's the amerikkkan education system for you