There's a few copies up on youtube apparently. This version has music and this version is completely silent is completely silent. Both have some additional contextual information at the beginning and end about the film and how the version we have today was reconstructed. What we have is thanks to a shorter version of the original film, Gesetze der Liebe, being preserved by the Soviet Gosfilmofond.

My understanding (which may be wrong or out of date) is that no completely whole copy of Anders also die Andern exists. The copies that exist are fragments pieced together. I don't know how much is missing. If I remember correctly, the version I saw was around half an hour or so, and it was on youtube somewhere. It must've been mostly complete because the story was fairly coherent. It's also the only recording I know of of Hirschfeld himself, as he plays himself as an expert witness on queerness in a legal case about one of the characters being blackmailed for being gay, which is something he did in reality quite a lot.

I love Coming Out!!! It's such a great movie especially for what it was and what it was trying to do. I think you could easily argue it is the spiritual successor to Anders also die Andern (trans. Different from the Others which was a silent film released in 1919 and produced my pioneering sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It was an attempt to use film to show that gay people are normal people but struggle immensely because of the persecution they face. Coming Out was essentially the GDR's version of that.

A lot of the austerity from the "One Big Beautiful Bill" was also slated to kick in after the midterms as well.

Extreme content warning, but if you want to know more about these kinds of places, these are some good articles: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-army

https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/i-killed-a-thousand-of-my-men-in

The tl;dr is that theres a lot more places like this around Ukraine. Most who are press ganged get throw into theses places where the "training" is basically torture and they're killed if they try to escape. Often they're handcuffed for transport and sometimes even in barracks. Then units will come in seeking replacements and pick out people like cattle, with the so-called "assault regiments" getting first picks, who then use them in suicidal attacks. If you want some more reading, Peter Korotaev, the author of Events in Ukraine, places a lot of blame at the feet of Western media for creating the incentive for flashy but tactically and strategically worthless, or even outright disadvantageous, "counter-offensives" to create headlines that then encourage Western publics to continue supporting the war: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/the-media-and-the-bloodbath

Yes because they kidnap them, torture them, and then send them to the front lines with a couple weeks of training. That's assuming they don't die from the torture or from trying to escape. There are "training" camps in Ukraine that are surrounded by mines to keep the press ganged people inside.

It's certainly plausible but I doubt they feel the need to do something so risky. The deep state will continue to chug along as normal regardless of the outcome. Despite the DSA wave, it isn't enough (yet) to throw a wrench into the genocide machine. Only if such a scenario was being threatened would I think they'd cross the line into open manipulation of the actual votes themselves, because being caught violating a process the average American deems quite literally sacred would cost the state tremendous amounts of legitimacy, especially at a time when the legitimacy of institutions is eroding across the political spectrum. At least that's my guess, I could be wrong and they're doing it or have done it before, but the propaganda machine is so well oiled to maintain the status quo that I would be shocked if they did something so drastic just to keep out a handful of demsocs and socdems out of a miniscule amount of power.

Editing to add: I think it's a mistake to think the deep state is wedded to the Trump coalition. The MAGA coalition will eventually collapse, whether that's because Trump drives the world economy off a cliff with the West Asia war or he leaves office or dies or whatever, the far right will eventually recoalesce into a more explicit American fascism. In the meantime, the Democrats will take their place governing in an increasingly forceful neoliberal manner by using the oppressive tools crafted by the Trump 2 admin, maybe even diffusing some popular discontent by using AOC as the president in '28 or '32 by lying about doing sixteenth-assed social democratic stuff again.

In what world is he relevant enough to campaign with??

IronFox is basically the mobile equivalent to LibreWolf if you want a replacement and are on Android. Both LibreWolf and IronFox are forks of FF with all the weird shit Mozilla is doing stripped out and with heavy privacy settings.

It's worth noting Lemmy was pretty rough back then and the reason it was forked was because a lot of features we really needed for a forum of this size didn't exist yet, it didn't have anything to do with federation (not saying you suggested that, I just thought that's a misunderstanding which could be read into your comment)

Yeah that's a great point. This history is pretty interesting but I don't know the details too well. I remember the devs made a number of features for our fork that were eventually upstreamed, but I can't remember which ones specifically.

The /r/chapotraphouse subreddit, a subreddit loosely based around a so-called "dirtbag left" podcast but was generally a left-wing shitposting subreddit, got quarantined by the Reddit admins in the late 2010s. At some point in 2020, the community sensed the ban hammer was going to drop and there was a hastily made lifeboat discord that was being posted around the subreddit until an alternative platform could be developed. The ban eventually came and the fraction of the community that made it to the discord waited around for a few months until chapo.chat was born, which was the initial version of this site. That version had been forked far enough away from upstream Lemmy in a way that incidentally made federation impossible, so we were our own site for a couple(?) of years. At some point the community wanted to distance itself from the 'brand' of the Chapo Trap House podcast and decided to rename itself Hexbear, named after a picture that was spammed on the subreddit shortly before the ban, which was just this picture: with the title "Check out this dope ass bear." Eventually after a lot of effort from the dev team, Hexbear was modified to once again be compatible with federation and the community voted on federating with other Lemmy servers on an allowlist basis. That's basically the the tl;dr of the site's history. Nothing major has happened since federation was finally turned on, unless you count the silly fiasco with losing our domain name briefly and we all had to revert to posting on chapo.chat and it looked like we might become Hexbear.chat.

As far as the makeup of the community, I don't think its known how much of the userbase were originally /r/chapotraphouse users and how many have joined since the Reddit ban. I would venture a guess that at least a significant plurality of the people here are probably from the subreddit and either came here directly from the lifeboat discord or were former /r/chapotraphouse posters/lurkers who eventually found Hexbear in the wild.

This kind of post is exactly why I argued for removing those taglines. They're all a niche in-joke that's now quite a few years old (liberals reacting to our presence after initial federation), do not accurately reflect site culture, and, in my opinion at least, convey horrid vibes, especially to new users. The best taglines are ones like the "logging on to hexbear in soviet america" or the muffin pregnancy ones. They're funny and convey the whole "weird communist internet dive bar" vibe infinitely better than random people complaining about us.