Using the ACAB terminology is a gaurenteed way to ensure racism and bad treatment are fixed at a way slower pace.

So you acknowledge police are racist and abusers and aren’t doing anything to fix it internally?

Ok, good. They’re more than welcome to continue not being cops.

But that would hurt oil industry profits, and you know they can’t have that.

Finally, a city with good police.

You can be sure that the day someone invents ads that get piped directly into your brain is the day before someone invents an adblocker for them.

Obviously communism is when blatant red scare propaganda.

Why is that my job? You have access to the internet, fucking do it yourself.

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Okay cool, so let’s raise wages so everyone can afford to buy their own food.

Every time you complain, we add 5 more.

Is the CCP in the room with us right now?

And we also have shitheads threatening people’s over pride themed merchandise. We still have legislators enacting laws that attack trans people.

The fact that losers like you can’t stop crying about the existence of queer people is why pride is necessary.

And I’m saying you’re full of shit.

Are you really trying to pretend like conservatives aren’t constantly calling LGBTQ+ people groomers and pedophiles? Seriously?

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.

That makes sense, but at that point the price per bulb is probably going to be higher than LED bulbs, so they’d just be paying more money just to be a contrarian. The ban is fine in this case, since a better alternative is readily available, even if it is a little bit more expensive.

Go around them how? It’s not like people can grow incandescent light bulbs in their back yard.

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.