Lemmygrad on steroids

Our grad comrades catching way to many strays since we federated.

That was the nudge I needed to make an account over here. I joined midwest.social because it was an explicitly leftist server. I would have been very sad to lose access to the good posts here now that I know about them, and honestly I'm pretty baffled at the number of users native to that instance who are bitching about you all in that thread.

Edit: thank you all so much for the warm welcome ❤️

What's up with Hexbear? They think everything I post is Western Propaganda, why would they ever think that?

repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda.

Now this is dialectics

Honestly defederation is a really awful part of the fediverse. It would be so much easier to just let people block the instances they want instead of leaving it up to the mods to control what information users get, that's one of the main criticisms of reddit too

I don't want to be spoonfed the same rhetoric by the same people over and over, I like reaching out and actually listening to what people have to say and decide for myself - now to do that I have to make an account here instead of just browsing with my regular instance

As I understand it, Hexbear has existed for years before federating with the rest of the network. Someone commented a couple months ago about the closing of the Chapo Traphouse subreddit (2020, same as r/theDonfuck) and users moving there. I believe they already had a strong community before linking up with other instances.

I may be wrong on the details and welcome corrections. Hexbear users: I considered joining your instance when I was still a lurker. Try not to crucify me if I got anything wrong.

I can't believe these willingly federated instances are brigading hexbear!

Don't they know you're supposed to only stick to your local instance and that anyone who comments from another instance is a bot?

It's funny this is the same user whose comment I replied to 10 hours ago telling them about Hexbear being one of the OG instances (which is why it has a lot of users), but they go ahead and make the same thinly veiled "omg they're botting!" accusation 4 hours later in a whole ass post trying to sneak diss y'all in their home instance.

The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

I got in in this one early and have been having a lot of fun

OH THOSE MEDDLING HEXBEARS!

Now that's good slop

The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people

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th they called us racist and neoliberals!

I can't comment on the locked post, but this

Ah yes, the classic wealthy journalist. Everyone knows that reporting is where the big bucks truly lie. I guess it's impossible for literally anyone living anywhere but the like 3 countries that pretend to be communist to report on anything accurately.

Is literally poking at the propaganda model described by Herman and Chomsky. The point isn't that any individual journalist is so loaded that they write to defend their wealth. It's that they're selected for their jobs, and are even considered for them in the first place, because they usefully slot into said jobs for the capitalist owners of the journalism outlets. With a few exceptions most of the journalists at, your choice [NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Time, etc], are there because their pre-existing beliefs. Perfectly exemplified in this Chomsky clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcpcytUnWU

"I don't say you're self-censoring. I'm sure you believe everything you're saying. But what I'm saying is if you believed something different you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."

Can someone please help my emoji game with some good ones to express exasperation?

If there's something that conveys violent eye rolling it would be a bullseye