Also relatable

In fairness it punched both ways. For every complaint Al made about his nagging money-spending wife, Peggy dunked on his poor performance in bed or inability to aim at the toilet.

imo that doesn’t justify pricing people out of a drug that they will literally die without. It’s absolutely vile that the price of something essential for people to stay alive isn’t price controlled and is subject to the whims of the manufacturer.

I don’t think anything can possibly balance the massive, irreparable destruction that’s been done to this planet, but I guess that’s just me.

Are those things supposed to make up for the mass extinction event they caused?

Why would they even ask that lmao. “Eat my entire ass” that’s why, fuck you.

The users at Hexbear made it perfectly clear in the discussions about federation that they weren’t going to respect that request and were openly encouraging each other to brigade other instances.

Source: trust me bro.

and a quick scan showed several comments about sending offensive DMs to users of other instances

I’ve looked through several Hexbear threads and I haven’t seen a single indication of this. The most common sentiment I’m seeing is “fuck 'em, we’re better off without them.” Link me these alleged comments, please.

The idea that BH users would have been well behaved is wishful thinking as they’ve already shown the Fediverse how they behave.

Frankly lemmy.world users have shown themselves to be considerably worse, straight up making shit up and calling Hexbear users “Russian bot farms” and “a cesspool for genocidal lunatics." All the incivility is coming from the frothing-at-the-mouth libs who can’t stand that other people might have genuine anti-imperialist views.

ideologically motivated extremists

“Extremists” lmao. The nerve of you calling HB a “troll army” after posting all these completely unsubstantiated lies.

Heartbreaking:

At first glace, sure, but when you look into it deeper it’s a cowardly move. For one, Hexbear made it perfectly clear they expect their users to abide by the rules of the instances they visit and not cause trouble. Also,

“Defederation should only be considered as a last resort . . . We made the decision to preemptively defederate”

Along with their stated goal to (emphasis mine)

Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all members; regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic. Human comes first.

Not to mention how long they dragged their heels defederating from the fascists at exploding heads yet are preemptively defederating from hexbear. And to top it all off there’s loads of comments calling hexbear users “Russian bot farms” and “a cesspool for genocidal lunatics.” The whole thing is ignorant as hell.

On the other hand it was enough to convince me to switch away from lemmy.world, so there’s that.