Just saying. How’re yall doing, by the way?
Neat!
Thanks! I had assumed that to be the case due to federation, but I suppose that may not always be a reasonable assumption. Doing pretty well. Mostly an average day of fighting with my ADHD so that I can effectively sell my labor. How about you lot?
Mostly an average day of fighting with my ADHD so that I can effectively sell my labor.
ain’t that the truth lmao
an average day of fighting with my ADHD so that I can effectively sell my labor
Posting is both the cause of and solution to so many problems
That is a gorgeous song and video. I think I’m too culturally ignorant of Kurdish to understand the lyrical meaning, if the translation that I read is anywhere near accurate. Also, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard Kurdish, much less Kurdish music. Thank you!
Same ,still the music slaps … (Thought you are comeing from this direction because the “SDF” abbrevation sorry) dont really know how this federation thing works…
As someone who lives in the midwest somewhere good to see.
I’m startled by the specific shout-out to the instance i’m on, since:
- I didn’t think midwest.social was particularly big and,
- having grown up around a lot of liberal and extreme reactionary politics, I would not have expected there to be a lot of overlap between the midwest and an ML community
I am happy to be experiencing a little discomfort by all the “new” ideology, as I am well aware of the limited social and political bubble that is constructed around me. Specific political stances aside, I can say I do feel right at home with the somewhat irreverent tone of the comrades here. Hopefully midwest.social and lemmy/kbin at large can adopt the emoji implementation you have here so I can join the fun.
The Midwest has something of a history of leftists. A bunch of German socialists moved out to Ohio in the mid 19th century. Minnesota is the only state where the Democrats operate as an affiliate, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, who tend to be better than the national level Democrats.
Lots of other stuff too
The emojis are the best part
And the Midwest has a lot of promising (for the U.S.) leftist history, and there are echos of that even today. The MN Democratic Party is actually the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, and their governor just passed a bunch of legitimately good stuff. Pretty sure DSA is very prominent in Chicago politics as well.
I moved to MN from IA a few years ago and I couldn’t be happier with that decision after this last legislative session, both because of what’s been happening in MN and also what shit has been happening in IA.
Hexbears can correct me if I’m incorrect but, my understanding is that the instance is not necessarily M-L but more “leftist and anti-capitalist unity” (M-L, anarchists, etc.).
Hexbear is explicitly left unity, but by tendency it’s mostly Marxist-Leninists. People still cop bans for sectarianism towards anarchists
Glad to hear it. Not that the sectarianism is happening but that it is being stomped out. Keeping othering from happening is vital for both successful social change and preventing repeats of past tragedies.
In addition to the discomfort here, we are a very varied group. We have some set of rules, but the opinions expressed are all over the field, that includes ongoing news events, but also older things.
Those kind of differences are completely good and acceptable in a social space in which we try to create a community in which differences can remain. If we would act differently we would lose quite a bit of diversity and quite a few users that often are representing voices and perspectives that you don’t hear often in the west/imperial core outside of marginalized groups.
Think how various groups come together for anti fascist actions, there you will have a ton of groups with ideological differences, and how sometimes we celebrate afterwards together.
I for one am happy to have you here :)
We have some set of rules, but the opinions expressed are all over the field
No bans for shitposting so far
Only once was a post of mine deleted, because I was horny for Tulsi Gabbert.
I’m glad you feel welcome and all but I do have to say this specific shout out is because your mods said “hexbear.net users don’t post here”
I’m sad to hear that, though I’m not surprised. I still struggle to identify what posts are a part of my local instance and what posts are a part of the larger fediverse.
For what it’s worth: I think the admin of the midwest.social instance is amicable to hexbear, I haven’t seen any indication from him that he has a problem. I’d likely reconsider that instance if he defederates, I think hexbear has nothing but improved my experience.
