• poor leftists talk about poverty, labor aristocrats get uncomfortable and insist that sociological classes aren’t materialist. “all that matters is that we’re working class - we’re all in this together”

  • black leftists talk about racism, whites get uncomfortable and insist that they’re not personally part of the problem. “we mustn’t allow the bourgeois to divide the proletariat along racial lines - we’re all in this together”

  • female leftists talk about patriarchy, men get uncomfortable and insist that it hurts them too. “this men vs women stuff is reductive anyway - we’re all in this together”

  • third world leftists talk about imperialism, americoids get uncomfortable and insist that red white and blue lives matter too. “what happened to the international working class - we’re all in this together”

you don’t have to invite yourself to every form and experience of oppression. anyone with a baby’s consciousness of intersectionality ought to be capable of admitting when they have privilege

  • kristina [she/her]English
    46•2 years ago

    i know, im kinda wilding

    earnestly waiting, i need to know what brainworms i have that will end with me being banned now

        • UlyssesT [he/him]English
          15•2 years ago

          I love that song. I can’t help it. Even with its contextual political baggage. agony-wholesome

            • UlyssesT [he/him]English
              18•2 years ago

              To summarize, it was at the ideological front of the idea of the public mental hospital system being a bad thing (and yes in many ways it was) but that lead to the Reagan-era abolishment of pretty much the entire thing which drove so many people out of that system that many of them became permanently homeless and untreated of numerous mental illnesses… lingering on the streets for decades, some to the present day if they haven’t died already.

              • axont [she/her, comrade/them]English
                12•2 years ago

                I had always taken the lyrics to be about a loss of innocence that comes with working in the California entertainment industry. It’s all glamorous from the outside but within the residents have become deranged and exploitative.

              • kristina [she/her]English
                8•2 years ago

                Wtf I didn’t interpret it that way at all lmao, I thought it was a funny joke about California having nice weather or something which made you not want to leave

                I’m too innocent

                • UlyssesT [he/him]English
                  10•2 years ago

                  I still love the song but the lyrics were directly about being “tricked” into a public mental health institution, the kind that ceased to exist for the most part after Reagan’s “reforms.”

                  • ped_xing [he/him]English
                    5•2 years ago

                    That seems like a stretch. I highly doubt public mental health facilities have ever been synonymous with intoxicating opulence.

                • UlyssesT [he/him]English
                  14•2 years ago

                  “You can check out any time you like but you can never leave… until you can, then you can never check back in. Tough shit. Have fun being homeless.” freedom-and-democracy

    • arabiclearner [none/use name]English
      26•2 years ago

      earnestly waiting, i need to know what brainworms i have that will end with me being banned now

      If I had to guess (not for you specifically, but hexbear in general), it would be tone indicators. The last big struggle session that I can think of was whether we should use tone indicators to accomodate neurodivergent people. It actually makes sense to use them in an online forum like this, even for neurotypical people because nuance is lost when one is just reading text straight up. However, I saw a lot of pushback on this sort of thing from users that would normally be all about the “hexbear party line” (so to speak) of things like vegan solidarity, trans solidarity and respecting pronouns, etc. And it’s the same line of argumentation that people who were against meat content warnings were using (“what’s the big deal?” etc.). So yeah perhaps that’s the next frontier.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]English
        20•2 years ago

        I think it boiled down to some people being mildly inconvenienced and being asked to modify their behavior for the sake of other people.

        Fair-weather comrades until that moment.

      • kristina [she/her]English
        35•2 years ago

        i already have to badger people to do spoiler tags and nsfw tags properly for trauma related content, that is gonna take ages to catch on

        i do usually use emojis as a tone indicator a lot of times though 🤔 thats probably not very reliable for a lot of neurodivergent people but maybe some emojis could be made to ease adoption, would have to inform people on hover texts

        • UlyssesT [he/him]English
          27•2 years ago

          i already have to badger people to do spoiler tags and nsfw tags properly for trauma related content, that is gonna take ages to catch on

          You’ve (correctly) told me to add spoiler tags and NSFW tags on my own posts, and while inconvenient at first, I would not want it any other way because that’s better for other people.