What is your favorite obscure old hot take to ever pop up on this site? For @Civility purposes, nothing from active users, please. Also "power dynamics" isn't obscure.

There was a person who was convinced that nobody actually enjoys music or art. They said everyone is just performatively pretending to enjoy these things for some reason. Or maybe everyone is just imagining their emotional responses to music/art, like some sort of mass delusion. I don’t remember all the particulars; this was a while ago.

I still kinda wonder if that person was just a really good troll

I completely do not recall who said this so I can't vouch for activity or not.

But my favourite obscure hot take was during urban planning discussions and someone gave a very spirited description of how there should be absolutely no personal kitchens in apartments, so that communal canteens could be used to socially engineer the people into more virtuous cuisine choices(not primarily in terms of vegan v meat but like regional cuisines.)

Don't recall exactly the following reactions but I do think there was some revisions to the original idea after people pointed out that this would probably end up either killing people with allergies, or result in segregation based on medical conditions.

For sure the dude who kept making accounts with names based on Hanna Barbera cartoons who was really fucking pissed off at women enjoying pumpkin spice things. I think about them every fall now and it's right around the corner. Such a silly thing to get irrationally angry at, especially on hexbear, like you think we're going to tolerate you shitting on women because they won't fuck you?

Careful, mentioning the anti-natalists summons them

the guy who didn't believe that people actually enjoyed music

"Nazi concentration camp guards were just working class Joes who wanted free college" is an all-time banger.

basically nazis were just following orders and marijuana feminizes men were two that were funny to see on this site lol

Comrades, are pinned posts authoritarian?

PPB is ableist because the user has IBS

Remember DroneRights? They seemed to be genuinely mentally ill so I don’t want to make fun of them, but right before they got banned they tried to make some argument about how reality didn’t exist, like it’s just a social construct. Wild stuff.

There was a user, like in the first 12mths of the site, who popped up at least twice (the second time with a new account) to suggest the solution to California's water problems should be a pipeline from the great lakes. And they seemed to really thought it was a good idea beyond simple trolling.

And they kept arguing back when people pointed out how that wasn't possibly legally or politically as there's treaties between the USA and Canada. That it wasn't practical in terms of cost or logistics. That it would damage the ecosystem of the great lakes. That California would be fine if they just stopped water intensive crop farming and recycled water (even before considering solar powered desalinisation).

And they weren't like a lib (or more than any of us). Their answer to things like treaties or costs was often things like "well after a socialist revolution there won't be a Canada and USA with those treaties" or "we could build this pipeline with a centrally planned economy" etc

"It has plugins for Wolfram Alpha, giving it many analytical tools."

you can post about my hot takes I'm ready to hear them

Artists are aristocrats who mainly make furry porn

it's a grad poster and on grad it wouldn't be considered obscure (but this is hexbear so... i say it's ok to post), I still think wisconcom is the funniest person of all time and it's not even close. THERMONUCLEAR

me waiting to see if any of my alts are implicated

Idk what exactly happened with Based_Ball, but I remember their alts posting things like "anyone remember that based ball person? What a jerk right?" constantly and then getting instantly banned.

don't mind me, I'm just here for the ExistentialComics page

Nihilist store robbed a gunpoint, but nothing of value was stolen

I can't

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.

hmm this sounds uncharitable

totally forgot to mention this: if anyone uses twitter, that posting demon volkvulture used to have an account on hexbear. probably the most surprising thing I've ever learned using this site

(for clarity: I am well aware that volkvulture is a dumbass patsoc, but his willingness to post for hours on end and literally never concede an argument is legendary I must admit)

Pls don’t restart any struggle sessions, but what was the “power dynamics” thing about? I think I missed it

there was this goober named blakeus12, they were frickin insane. i mean, they literally said that america and the wholesome 100 western world wasn't better than ebil cina. i cried

That the world needs more leftist landlords to free up their time to write theory. Or something along those lines its been a while

For @Civility purposes, nothing from active users, please

thx Ulysses you know how easy it is for me to go off

still a strange mix of sad and relieved to not see myself in the comments

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.

I mean, is this an uncommon thought? Isn't that what Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is about, for example?