You should honestly investigate how democracy actually works in China - You’ll find that they have far more votes and actual choices for their officials than you ever have, and the approval rate of the government, even when anonymously/independently surveyed, is almost certainly higher than your country’s.
The classic “I was going to be a caring individual and oppose systemic wrongs but a leftist said things I disliked on the internet” move.
Let’s be clear, in the UK, parents can almost always leave behind over a million pounds worth before any tax starts kicking in. Not to mention the thousands of easy loopholes.
A pact that was a necessity when all the Allies rebuffed the USSR, but also a pact that documents show the USSR never even intended to honour from day one.
I suspect pissing about copying a mass of text into an AI to have a 70% chance of getting an actually correct answer is probably harder than pressing Ctrl+F
We’re mainly waiting for you to say “Yes, I was wrong, Hexbear doesn’t shill for Russia/China/DPRK and call them communist utopias, and I guess tankies is kind of a meaningless term.”. I think that was the point.
“I want to remove our violent oppressors by any means necessary so we can be free and happy” - Bad violent leftist who ruins parties
“I knowingly sent material support for a genocide resulting in the deaths of 300,000+ people literally being gunned down in the street, oopsie doopsy everyone makes mistakes” - “Wholesome” “Nicest fucking dude”
ublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.
Be warned - If you’re not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.
And my personal silly couple ones:
Liberals: Nice try tankie, but all of our leaders and popularised heroes commit genocide, so it can’t be criticism 
In fairness, I kinda get it for any small instances, Hexbear federation typically means a lot of arguments with libs, and that can be a big burden on moderation no matter your politics. All the love to our blind comrades though.
It’s a collaborative effort. The Wine and Vulkan projects have all done a lot and deserved credit for doing massive, amazing things. But for Linux gaming specifically, Proton has absolutely changed the landscape, and if Valve continues down this path, will make Linux an ever better gaming platform. So I don’t think it’s unfair to say thanks to Valve.
Not only have they sunk significant resource into making Linux gaming more viable, they’ve released Proton under BSD and seriously pushed developers to make Linux-compatible binaries. If Linux continues it’s slow upward trend in popularity, Valve will be in large part to thank.
Russia literally requested, many times, to join NATO. Wrong way around - NATO’s whole purpose is to see a country of people reduced to rubble (and also any other countries it feels like along the way).
The whole ‘appeasement doesn’t work’ argument is understandable, but the only alternative is fighting and dying in the tens of millions in the vain hope that a global superpower will lose to a relatively small, fractional country plagued by instability, military incompetence, and corruption. It’s also not really applicable anyway, while Russia is far more interested in security and stability than global domination.
Either way, there is the short-term solution middle ground of “let’s negotiate on terms that help ensure everyone’s future security (including at least some degree of denazification) to prevent further wars”. Which I think is what most Hexbearians would want in terms of peace. Obviously the long-term issue is that nationstates as they exist are inherently warmongering and that cannot be stopped without fundamental change.
Dang, thanks comrade <3 You too 
Yep, fair enough, sorry for not being clear. We do disagree somewhat on that point, but otherwise aye
I don’t really get this response. I literally said
I don’t think federating with them and at least trying was the wrong move
and then you say
You’re arguing against a point that I didn’t make … my point was that it was a waste of time to try
Maybe we’ve just a crossed wire in communication here, but I very much think it was worth trying to get on with the admins, that it paid off in our favour and would have either way.
Defederating with blahaj was the right move, but I don’t think federating with them and at least trying was the wrong move either. Our short federated time meant we got a lot of users make accounts here, and I think a lot of users who stayed are now hyper-aware of their troubling internal politics (one of the top comments in the ‘Hexbear defederated’ thread is ‘I’m concerned about 196’). If we never make efforts to outreach and talk with troubling libs, then we are doing absolutely nothing but preaching to ourselves.
Finding libs on which to directly dunk is the closest posting comes to praxis.
I’ve seen an admin respond to the shitty DM leaking behaviour, but the admins don’t seem interested in confronting the problem mainly.
I suspect I’ve undiagnosed manic-depressive disorder, but either way I get heavy existential dread for 1-4 weeks straight, then reoccurring again in 1-3 months. I also get similar pressure from my industry. So I do feel you :(
I think what I said is still true.
There’s a lot of handwaving in your reply that China’s population are just ignorant and censorship exists therefore its bad, based on little info. All Western countries also have major systems of censorship on social media. The majority of people in China have access to the internet via unfiltered VPNs - they have basically as much free access to information as you do.