[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

No, we left Reddit because of what Spez did to it.

And why did he do that?

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Where am I brigading other instances????

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Can you define direct action for me? What do you think it is?

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago

I’ve participated in dozens of protests. Protests with political organization can lead to change. Protests without political organization are just yelling at a wall.

Protests !== organizing. Organizing achieves political change. Protest does not. Leftists know how to organize, liberals do not.

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What’s the difference between a fascist and an “anarchist” who does everything they can to kneecap the only viable left leaning political party in the US?

Sorry which party is this? Dems are not even a remotely left-leaning party. Joe Biden literally criminalized the rail workers using their legal right to strike.

This is also like a children's picture book-level of understanding of fascism. As if the Dems' policy of 4 more years of the status quo could prevent fascism at all. That has literally never worked as a way to combat fascism.

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Hexbear users: Please avoid commenting on this thread! This sub is for midwest.social users / announcements. Y'all's participation in yesterday's thread, while understandable, made it really really hard for me to see what other users on my instance thought. Thanks!

The other thread got locked before I could jump in and voice my opinion as a midwest.social user lol.

Please don't defederate from Hexbear! I'm a US-based leftist who's sometimes uncomfortable with realllllyyyyy extreme leftists. But after looking through Hexbear's content with an extraordinarily fine-toothed comb I failed to find anything that other user was talking about. It seems like a pretty standard leftist instance and has some great communities I'm enjoying following here. /c/urbanism@hexbear.net, /c/antifascism@hexbear.net, and /c/politics@hexbear.net are just a few of the really great communities I've found over there.

Obviously some of the communities could be uncomfortable for liberals lmao, but they can always block offending users or communities and hide them if they really want to. Scrolling through Hexbear I fail to see any communities that are anywhere near the level of 'extremism' of Lemmygrad, but even Lemmygrad I don't have much of a problem with lol.

However I do think it'd be useful to have a private sub just for discussion with users here. I think what happened yesterday was somehow the thread here ended up trending on Hexbear, and Hexbear users responded as if it was just another post on their platform. It'd be useful if there was a way to restrict discussion on this sub to just users of midwest.social so that I can see what y'all think!

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

I live in Chicago lmao. I take the red line regularly. I go allllllllllllllll around the city and have never once had a problem here. The only reason why you hear about crime or shootings as much as you do in the news is 1) because it's already been sensationalized, and that sets the pattern, and 2) the entire Chicagoland area (including the suburbs, which get news stories blown up too) has a population of about 11.5 million people. Statistically for even a murder rate as low as Chicago's is (and it's not even in the top 20 most violent cities in the country), shit's just going to happen.

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 35 points 1 year ago

Since she was being sarcastic it means that she is trying to say that Obama wasn't bad (because that's how sarcasm works).

I mean… no? Sarcasm works in multiple ways lol. This is like a children’s picture book-level of understanding of sarcasm.

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 26 points 1 year ago

Yeah mine act like I get shot every time I walk out my front door

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[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 35 points 1 year ago

Obama’s biggest controversy was the mustard

That's not what she said lol. Sorry as a neurodivergent person I get that this tweet might be hard to read possibly, but she's being sarcastic here. Maybe in poor taste, but it's a joke. She's well-aware of the shit Obama's done and isn't a fan of him.

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[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 46 points 1 year ago

I didn’t post it because her joke was funny lol

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[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 362 points 1 year ago

In order to be truly independent from platforms like Reddit, communities need to be owned by their members in ways that platforms cannot take away.

Is this a fucking joke

[-] epicspongee@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

Enterprise starts at 20k a year before traffic

My Mastodon server has just under 1.5k MAUs and has raised $4k so far this year. We've only been open for six months. This is not hard money to raise.

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Hi confused about this. Also confused about my gender but that’s not related.

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