I asked on my group chat if people were thinking of switching over to xiaohongshu and received a response “why, so a Chinese steals my social security number?”

I think we still have a long way to go with this whole racism thing.

The dialectic really is ever in motion

Only the libs are fine with plugging in their ears and thinking that things are mostly fine right now. Chuds hate their bosses and landlords, they usually can admit that things are fundamentally in the world right now. The essence of reactionary ideology is recognizing that yet mistakenly attributing it to the social progress of the last x years. The world really sucks, but it’s because we let women vote; it’s because we let the coloreds into our kids’ schools; it’s because we let the gays marry; it’s because we let the etc. etc. They find a general problem, a systemic problem, but blame it on something in particular, and fetishize a mythologized past that they seek to return to when they imagine that the problem wasn’t present.

That is a BANGER

Someone got banned from badposting for beanis spam. That’s all.

TBH I think he actually is more of a lib than he lets on but just happens to have a community that’s way to his left so he placates them. Maybe I’m psychoanalyzing too much.

The biggest lore event in site history

Bonus, Hexbear got a mention in the chat of popular streamer Northernlion after someone made a joke about treatlerites.

If this is enough to make the recap I’ll be mentioning us in chat every day until something funny happens.

Yeah it’s not bad at all, but I’d probably want it to be a little cheaper because I imagine there’s gotta be a pretty big number of people for whom a $100USD emergency might ruin their month.

Beatnik stepped down and went away after being accused by an user of grooming and harassment. FWIW the user only ever provided information that was already publicly available, and didn’t produce more evidence when asked by other admins (after Beatnik had stepped down).

Since then, we’ve had struggle sessions over:

• Is it ok to let cats outdoors?
• Is it ok to stack rocks in rivers?
• Is it ok to let vegans chill here?
• Is it ok to let incels chill here?
• Is it ok to dunk?
• Is it ok to complain about he/hims?
• Is it ok to say beanis?

among others.

I think you would’ve been around for the transphobe purge and TC69 thought. The site culture has honestly not changed that much since then, it definitely was changing a lot in its early stages. We have a news mega where a lot of high quality discussion happens, as well as book clubs, the rest of the site is mostly for taking the piss.