I’m guessing y’all don’t federate NSFW comms.

Visible - strange, less than a minute and I see this on Hexbear. Edit synced quickly too. Whatever happened seems to have resolved again.

Whoo!

Abolish DHS

Abolish America

Abolish DHS

Abolish America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoneToss

https://www.transvitae.com/stonetoss-turns-tragedy-into-punchline-and-promo-code/

https://old.reddit.com/r/antifastonetoss/comments/fcck5a/the_definitive_guide_to_why_stonetoss_is_a_nazi/

Always disappointing to see stonetoss comic edits.

You can just choose not to use stonetoss comics.

Labels are, imo, mostly a shorthand that help identify people with common interests, experiences, goals, etc. I don’t think most people solely identify with a label so much as use them as a means to find people who they’re more likely to find interesting (or not).

Identifying as a g*mer certainly lacks nuance - there’s many genres of games and different people are going to be interested in different ones. People who primarily play sports games or board games probably aren’t as likely to choose that label as people who play shooters, sure, so there’s some implicit nuance about the types of games someone plays when they label themselves that way, but it still provides a jumping off point for someone to determine a level of overlap exists with someone else.

I think that people who identify as one thing are actually pretty rare - people don’t really define their entire selves from a single label, they collect the ones that somewhat fit well enough to make sense to most other people, while signaling to the people who share a given one that there are common interests that could be fun to delve into further together and figure out to what extent they truly are or aren’t shared interests.

I do think labels can be harmful and thought-terminating, but I don’t think they’re inherently so. They can be used to other or marginalize a group of people, yes, but IMO that’s not behavior that’s driven by the people who find that label resonates with them.

I’m usually browsing from the hexbear side of things, so yes, but:

• There was an issue a bit back with c/chapotraphouse not federating that I think got fixed after this post
• There’s currently an issue with [email protected] not federating new posts to hexbear

As a result, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some other comms with federation struggles.

I can’t claim to be deeply informed on the topic of Cascadian separatism, and I haven’t dug into the truth behind these claims, but I’ve heard that:

• the area is very white
• there are white nationalist movements that have co-opted or been the source of pushes for secession

If anyone has sources for/against these claims, I’d be interested in reading more.

Communists act like there’s a simple solution here, but corporations are people and money is speech so if you stop the trolley you’re an authoritarian who wants to take away