So I can make up stories about how I understood the nature of the universe while staring at a plant. And by this I mean posting Hegel quotes.
Like dude, the bud disappears when the blossom breaks through man, and we might say that the former is totally refuted by the latter; in the same way when the like fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence man, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. Wild shit right? These stages are not merely differentiated man; they supplant one another as being incompatible with one another. But the ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes them like at the same time moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other man; and this equal necessity of all moments constitutes alone and thereby the life of the whole. But contradiction as between philosophical systems is not wont to be conceived in this way; on the other hand, the mind perceiving the contradiction does not commonly know how to relieve it or keep it free from its one-sidedness, and to recognise in what seems conflicting and inherently antagonistic the presence of mutually necessary moments. Right?
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Jokes aside, a good description of dialectics. Read theory my dudes. It’ll blow your mind!
I’ve asked about opening a general comm for recreational drugs before, but the consensus seemed to be that the mod and admin team weren’t up for the extra workload keeping such a space safe would require. Not to mention the chance of catching law enforcement attention, giving pigs a much loved opportunity to send a bunch of communists, LGBTQ people, racial minorities, and neurodiverse people to prison on bullshit drug charges. I’m not sure how founded that concern is, but the people running this site probably have a better idea than me about how vulnerable it is from that kind of attack.
However, it was very early on in the site’s history last I asked. I think the admin and mod team might be different enough now that it’s worth asking again. You should probably go to the comm request community and make a post about it there.
Are we allowed to make communities here or is left up to mods?
This is a democratic centralist webserver, so the mods (tyrants) make these decisions every 5 years
admins grant/deny requests. open comm creation would cause an absurd amount of strife.
Yeah I can see that, I just have so many niche fandoms I’m a part of that I’d like a community for but unfortunately they do not exist.
However I get the feeling this is not the place for those niche fandoms anyway, perhaps it is best to stay on topic.
it’s also the size of the userbase. there’s something like 2k active users per month - when you’re talking about niche fandoms, you might get 20 users per month, or worse 2 users per month, and people just give up on the comm without active work from the mods to cultivate a userbase. federation helps a little but ultimately, hexbear’s politics makes things harder.
all that said, if you have a plan, make a post in /c/commrequest explaining your plan - admins will want a mod application to go along with it, mainly to make sure they’re not modding a fascist or the like.
I doubt we have the user numbers to support it. /c/psychedelics or /c/drugs might be sustainable.
Centrally planned posting economy is when there are no communities. When will the USA liberate us from these tyrants.
