nothing to do with that persons race

Oh, really? Comparing an Chinese man to a yellow skinned character has nothing to do with race?

Have you considered that the meme might have different impact coming from a Chinese person ribbing their leader than a white westerner echoing it? The former might be “light ribbing” but the later is racist. Who says a thing matters significantly on whether its ok to say. You know this very well because I’d hope you’d know that its not ok for white people to use the soft r n word even though many black people use it.

See also the most common opinion on Gonzalo (yes I know there are Gonzalites, haven’t seen them around here though).

Yeah the only things that changed for me much for the pandemic was masking when I grocery shopped, extra SNAP, and the stimulus payments.

The secret is to barely go outside.

I mean I have grocery shopped one a week the whole time but I’ve literally not been sick, not even with a cold, this whole time (and I used to get colds all the time). I didnt even mask for awhile there though I decided to start again because of the surge and the fear of long covid.

kim jon um

lol

ETA: Also gotta love the “they’re looking to NORTH KOREA for help” as if this is an obviously and on its face evil bad terrible thing to do.

I don’t think assholishness is necessarily a bad thing, it’s value-neutral.

Really depends on the context ie who you’re being a dick to and for what reason.

Like we had a “dont be a dick to your comrades” rule for a reason, for example.

I’ve seen the backlash to “let people enjoy things” lead to some behavior I’d consider fairly toxic in its own right. I bring up the minors thing because they tend to be the most passionate about fandom stuff, and I see grown ass adult grumpy shitheads harassing them for liking inoffensive things. Which I think is kind of the source of that attitude.

“Let people enjoy things” for me isn’t about “don’t criticize things people like”. Its about “dont go out of your way to do targeted harassment towards people over things they like”. I mean there are obvious exceptions like streamers who streamed wizard game, but even things like that can cross into harassment.

Like, if you check my post history i’m literally currently dealing with a mod of a wrestling forum who’s so obsessed with bunny cop that he has alerted both his politics and how he moderates around that fact, and claims its because Judy is his comfort character. So OBVIOUSLY I think people can become to obsessed with their things and make it part of their identity in a self-warping way. And that those people can use “let people enjoy things” as a shield for that behavior.

But I think there’s a middle ground here because if you think “I’m allowed to criticize things” cant be used as a shield for toxic behavior as well, you’re wrong.

I wasn’t accusing you of it. We aren’t in DMs right now. It was a general statement about something I think is true, that people can use "criticizing things’ as a guise for assholishness and even bigotry. Not saying you’re doing that.

You should probably care about things like misogyny and harassing minors lol. Which is what my post was about.

Eh that depends. The reactionary ragebait Youtubers who do this should all be thrown into a pit together and I’m suspicious of anyone echoing certain talking points about certain media because of them.

Criticizing things is fine but there is in fact a line where you become the asshole for doing it too hard or in a bad faith way. Or targeting individual people (particularly minors). The PSL thing is a good example because while we can criticize the comedication of it, some of the discourse around it is really misogynistic.

Lmao nice ableism asshole.

Don’t treat a fellow hexbear like the lemmy liberals please. We literally have rules about that.

You understand that there’s a difference in like, motive right?

Like however you feel about the IRA’s methods, their motives is still something worth fighting for. And honestly like when you REALLY fight for something like that, like actually do what’s necessary, its a messy process and you’re going to do things that moderate liberals look down on as going too far. We can argue about if all of their actions actually serve the cause, but what they wanted to do is something I agree with.

Versus ISIS? Really? What noble and positive goals does ISIS have?

Comparing the IRA to ISIS is legit disgusting.

OK I’m sorry maybe I’m letting the autism overflow my brain but seeing you just say “wrong” to technically correct statements that answer the question presented here is just so fucking annoying. Ooooo you got so many upbears from fellow Hexbears who dont want to think but just dunk. Getting very frusterated with this community right now.

How is what they said wrong lmao. They literally acknowledge that doing individual good things doesn’t justify the wealth disparity. Every word of what they said is 100% accurate. The worst humans do individually good things sometimes and the title of the thread is NOT about the net good or bad the person did. I don’t think you read the title of the thread. I think you’re just dunk/upbear thirsty. I hate this element of hexbear sometimes.

As a wrestling fan, what giddy described is pretty much true. For a billionaire, Tony is “nice” (too nice, because his niceness has lead to a toxic backstage environment, though he did finally fire CM Punk so thats nice). Like sure it doesn’t outweight the exploitation inherent in being a billionaire, but Tony is indeed a “nice guy” and does go out of his way to do nice things for his employees. Also gives them health insurance in an industry where thats not the standard and such.

And the question was “a billionaire who done anything good” not “a billionaire who’s overally contribution to the world is good”. Giddy answered the question correctly. Sorry to autism you with pedantry but like, I have to insist on some technically accurateness here.

Like honestly, did you even know who Tony was before this post or did you just respond wrong because you were going to do that to anyone who said any billionaire did something good? Are you actually knowledgeable about this subject?

I’m not saying he doesnt get the wall in a revolution or anything. But the post asked “Did anything good”, and he did. he did good things for his employees.

It wasn’t caused by collectivization and I said “the long run”.

That famine was the last one in the region. There had been famines in the region during the czar’s time frequently.