Nah, Little Saint James was the vacation. OP is thinking of Davos

What the fuck

Leningrad is a nice touch

Hard disagree. I want to watch each and every one

I can easily imagine some bootlicking, ethnically Arab / Palestinian individual taking the job. But Israeli society would crumble. If we thought the tea party response to Obama was unhinged, this would be actual insanity.

Maybe you don’t

I believe that was the joke, yes. Such homophobic imagery is common in western discussions opposed to Trump. But the NY Post chose to call the Iranian display “sickening” instead.

Let a thousand 9/11s bloom

I’m about to block any user who writes “checks notes, smugly sarcastic moral high ground” to improve my user experience

Skill issue tbh

I eat sufficient quantities of daily fruit and veg that I don’t need a pressure washer to clean my ass

Angela did a good breakdown of the whole story here if anyone wants to watch it

IMO you can really see this on full display with the Iran war. As a culture, we really can’t seem to understand that we’re being beaten. No adversary, and certainly not some [$Muslim_Slur] is conceptualized as being able to actual fight us off. The national conception of the entire MENA region is “goatherders with AK 47s and sandals”. The idea that Iran is a large, ancient, well-educated, ideologically motivated, industrially advanced civilization with no desire to assimilate into the American way of life is as inconceivable to the American body politic as plate tectonics would be to an Iron Age peasant.

Why do you all talk like this? Universally, your ability to argue or reason out a point breaks down after about two replies so you resort to a kind of default, smug, profoundly irritating template. 1st generation chatgpt had a larger context window than you.

You’re so brave for this, queen

Because it leads to voluntary tiktokifcation of vocabulary.

A lot of people online these days use silly workaround phrases to get around hidden word filters, from “sewerslide” to “sesbian lex” (a trend that really got off the ground years ago on tik tok). Social media sites suppress or remove content containing these words to keep things advertiser-friendly. One nice thing about non-corpo social media such as the lemmyverse is that we don’t need to speak in such strange, convoluted, and infantalizing ways. My brother didn’t have a sewerslide, he comitted suicide. I don’t have sesbian lex, I fuck dykes.

More to the point, I find it incredibly offputting that we’re allowed to discuss unpleasant concepts but not name them. With the appropriate trigger warnings, anyone here can discuss the sexual violence that came with the Nakba (or the recent Israeli riots calling for the ",right to **** Palestinian prisoners). Or we could talk about the historiocity of claims that the Red Army ****ed its way through Germany at the end of WWII.

Everyone knows what I mean with the censored words. We’re all intelligent adults discussing history and horrific world events. Why can we discuss a concept but not name it?

This filter is the stupidest fucking shit. Hexbear isn’t some huge social media site like reddit and it’s not a brine pool of reactionaries like 4chan. I trust that most people around here know how to use words responsibly and appropriately (for example, when directly quoting a historical figure). Mods can sort out edge case edgelords. Why is it necessary to outright prohibit this?

You absolutely cannot

…part of the function of the “where is your child now?” stuff that really curtailed kids’ freedom in America in the second half of the twentieth century was a reaction to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements.

God dammit I think you’re on to something

lower everyone nearby’s home value (they also made the equally-bad argument that teens would hang out at the child’s playground to smoke).

God damn mother FUCKING hoa bullshit. I hate them I hate them I hate them so fucking much little elected clans of dukes ruining everything even for those of us who do manage to buy a home