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[Female vocals] Ymir forest (am.pirateradio.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/funkwhalediscovery
 

What's up chat?

Like we all are on Lemmy so we're all Lemmings. But I want to go further beyond.

We could be: Bee keepers? Something to do with honey?

We can even have a catch phrase. If we were on a combative instance I'd say like: "bzz off!" Or "mess with the Bee and you get the stinger!" or "hey sugar, you want some honey?"

If you're not on a beehaw you can still be an honorary [fandom name here].

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Lemmygrad seems to be a bit of a target of defederation by many instances, and there’s probably some history there that I’m not aware

a number of Lemmygrad users conducted a "special military operation to denazify" lemmyml, beehaw, sopuli and the Lemmyverse. Some of the history is here https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverselore. They are credited with putting down wolfballs, an actual alt-right instance to their credit. Some of the conflict very loosely spread to github.

Some senior lemmygrad members have a long history of hostility with PrivacyGuides, see the post here and iirc some on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the mods of r/privacy would be interested in setting up shop

I thought PG staff are the mods/mod of r/privacy?

however I do not have the moderation capacity

Is PG staff/affiliates not running multiple privacy matrix rooms anymore?

 

I should have bought zip off, cargo pants with ankle drawstrings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've never personally used spoilers here and have only seen them used like once

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

it is a good idea to ask, readers from other instances will hopefully make some of these subs! :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Sublemmies.

redditors are on reddit, lemmings are on lemmy

Tales series.

Go ahead and create the subs of your dreams ppl! If your instance doesn't allow sub creation (ex beehaw) then make a new acct on midwest.social or lemmy.perthchat.org or whatnot and make the sub there, then mod your beehaw acct.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

this is sexypink / alice / pinklacey / CharlesMcFuck's acct if anyone is wondering

 

An introduction for those you who may not have heard much about the concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

Like with most things, it's complicated but I do think there are certain core inclinations, tendencies, and a general uniting ethos between the far left and far right that does suggest taking horseshoe theory seriously. I've laid them out below.

  1. A bone deep rejection of 'the system' with the system being liberal democratic capitalism of one type or another. The far left/lemmygrad and far Right both feel that the liberal democratic market capitalist societies are empty. People are happy with their Netflix and playing games on their phones and taking pictures of their food and posting it on Instagram. In contrast, the far left and the far Right hunger for revolutionary drama. Accordingly, they abhor legislative incrementalism and love mass street protests which destabilize 'the system.'
  2. They both hate the center-left and center-right more than each other. Listen to the way the far left talks about Biden or the way the far Right talks about Romney.
  3. They both regularly apologize for anti-Western dictators. The far Left prefers to defend Maduro, the far Right Putin. But they converge on Assad.
  4. Vaccine 'skepticism' and a general distrust of science as hopelessly tainted by 'big pharma' Right-wing examples of this are endless but see Russell Brand showing the far Left in 'now we can't even question it' mode here. He also declares mandatory vaccination constitutes 'apartheid' So does Madison Crawthorne (or however you spell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfxnKgCN3OY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfxnKgCN3OY)
  5. Unhinged hostility towards Israel and anti-Semitic language (as distinct from rejecting the toxic authoritarianism of Netanyahu and supporting a humane two-state solution)
  6. Anti-globalization. Both far Left and far Right claim globalization has impoverished us and made the world shittier for everyone but the very Rich. If you take a Trump or Sanders speech on trade, you'd struggle to tell them apart (well the strange capitalization would give Trump away but yeah). While center-right and center-left see the world becoming more like America as a generally good thing, the far Left and far Right have nothing but contempt for 'Americanization.'

There's probably many, many more. Curious to hear your thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I like this option.

Also have folks switch to Imgur or alt as the image host instead of beehaw?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chat. I'm being seriously lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah that's right, imo, this community is perfect for you. You don't have to make a new thread for every topic, just reply to someone and ask your question

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