Not in every state, just majority Republican like Texas, but there are people pushing for it federally.

They are just pointing out that these phrases are used for that, which is why they are recognized as "thought-terminating cliches", it doesn't mean they are always used in such a way. You can be aware of manipulative language without being an anarchist or commie.

Same for me with LOTR really haha, Legolas specifically inspired me, he was a fierce warrior but wasn't the typical manly strongman, and had great hair too hah

I didn't know what trans was when I was 4 or 5, but I heard about reincarnation, and I thought "that explains it! I must have been a woman in a past life!" I couldn't specifically say what it was, but I just never felt like a typical man, and fantasised about being a woman as early as I could remember. I later learned I could be a feminine man, I consider myself non-binary and present mostly male, I'm not big on labels.

I have such sadness for people who had to suffer through horrible music from their parents. They don't know what kind of damage they are doing. I really think my life has been better because of the good fortune of hearing good music growing up.

You're telling me he actually put it in a shredder? I just assumed from the title he ripped it up, my god..

Edit: yeah I'm on a phone here I couldn't see the lil shredder in his hand on the icon and who can be bothered to click a link these days. These villains can't even be cool like action movie villains or something, total cringe on top of other massive atrocities

Well yes I think all of us should be the better person, obviously easier said than done! I'm not a fan of ridicule or bullying of course (except against actual nazis maybe) and I feel bad if you or anyone has been hurt by harassment. I am mostly just trying to say this sort of infighting is all just taken too seriously, and arguing about 'tankies', which can mean any number of things to different people, doesn't seem helpful to anyone in my view.

For what it's worth, like another comment said I do really appreciate the work you and others have done to make this instance possible! I don't have any resentment for anyone in this situation and I hope hexers and us here can all come together better in the future, we have more alike than in difference.

Have you read the comments? Plenty of people think this is silly evidently, it's not brigading when a lot of dbz users are hexbear users also

Upvoted comment here:

I don’t care for the drama on Hexbear. And I don’t care for it here either. This post is drama baiting.

That's a reasonable sentiment to me

I wasn't saying you were immature, I said the whole situation was. The impetus for the whole thing, deleting of the post, also seemed to make no sense to me at all. But to elevate the situation after that was what I meant was immature really. And from there it just seemed like a schoolyard fight or something, all of it just being a waste of time distracting and taking energy away from everyone involved.

I don't know all the details of the drama but I'm sorry you haven't had better interactions with hexbear. Some users can be problematic like any place, but I have been inspired by the effort, genuine good faith debate and historical analysis that is common in hexbear discussions. I'm anarchist, I first came to the fediverse through this instance and haven't had any issue with hexbear, and personally would defed from .world before hexbear lol.

Can you clarify how hexbear facilities harassment? I'm not saying you're wrong but I just don't know what you mean. They have the_dunk_tank which you could argue does but they changed the rules to discourage dunking on anyone that isn't a prominent voice, if there is harassment from users I haven't seen the mods do anything to encourage it.

For me it's almost like nervousness or butterflies in the stomach. It can be a subtle feeling and might not be recognized physically, you can start with focusing on the emotion and scanning the body and seeing what's there. I apologize I'm not a great teacher though. Or did you mean the emotion itself?

It can be especially tough if you have painful emotions going on also, it's been probably ten years since I first heard of the technique and it doesn't always work especially if I'm feeling anxious or restless.

What hate comments are you talking about? I legit don't know what you are talking about and I post there almost exclusively. You say 'not us' but what is this post full of attempted shame on hexbear then? Have you seen the hex thread about defederating? The hex users share kindness for dbzer0 users, the reasons for the banning seemed pretty reasonable and consistent with their policies, and they voted against defederating. From my perspective this whole situation seems a bit immature.

I swear 90% of the people deriding hexbear were offended by one post and never went back or saw a post that was entirely full of sarcastic comments and thought it was unironic. I'm not even ML, I call myself an anarchist and argue about all kinds of shit on hexbear and I have found it to be a very caring community, and actually doesn't tolerate transphobia or imperialist apologia unlike most online spaces.

Funny, in this 'drama' hex voted against defederation and voiced support for dbzer0 users. The bans from hex admins seemed reasonable if you look at the event history.

Which is why hex voted against defederation ahah, hex and dbzer0 users are largely allies from what I've seen so it's kind of funny the admin is banned.

I haven't read the book The Body Keeps the Score but I've heard good things about it, discussing how trauma can effect us physically.

In Buddhist teaching it's said every emotional state has a physical counterpart, but meditating you can improve awareness of the body to more easily analyse mental states, but meditation can cause distress for some if not applied properly.

I use this in a positive way, you can practice generating the feeling in your stomach associated with wholesome love, like imagining hugging a dog you love or another and focusing on the physical feeling that arises. (The general practice is called metta meditation, or loving-kindness) It can help alleviate anxiety.

This is a good post, also it makes me think of how often food becomes some sort of cultural talking point too. Conservatives talk about being shamed for eating burgers, the youth is poor because of avocado toast.

I think one of the biggest things to encourage better treatment for immigrants in the US is just a reminder that the US agricultural system would collapse if we suddenly deported all undocumented immigrants. Even the most rabid conservative has to admit he would pay more for food if he kicked out the people who bring it to him.

That's why I liked a common chant at some protests in 2020, "Fuck Trump, Fuck Biden too, they don't give a fuck about you". Some conservative observers might have been like "what? I thought all commies were loyal troops of the Biden new world order?"

Who knew music fans were rabid antisemites! The world is in the shitter you mean /s

I haven't listened to it, I got a bad vibe from him in 2020 when he was silent for months and then came out with an underwhelming track saying something like silence is complicity, like he hadn't been silent and unseen anywhere. But maybe he isn't so bad, it was a vibes based analysis.