How many times does satire and irony posting have to backfire on us before we realize that shit only works if the person is smart enough to be in on the joke; otherwise we're just propagandizing against ourselves.

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[–] dead@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is "free speech" brain worms to think that the things you say don't in some ways impact the world around you. Speech is a material action. The things that you say have an impact on the people around you.

I don't believe in free speech. I don't think it exists or should exist. Is posting praxis? No. It's still bad to have anti-union comm even as a joke. I've seen way too many internet communities start out as ironic and then become unironic. Also I have zero trust in Melina.

[–] regularassbitch@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

we have an incredibly tightly-moderated community. i don't think melina is gonna turn this place into 4chan by saying a union killed their family. the fakenews and anti-union joke comms were made basically as containment comms for one user who you admittedly do not, and have not liked for a while and there are built-in tools for you not to see posts from people you don't like

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why do we need containment comms for liberals or reactionaries? that's what the ban-hammer is for.

[–] regularassbitch@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i don't think we need them, they're just useful for situations like this where people take melinaposts entirely too seriously. also, i guarantee banning doesn't work as well as you think it does

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not much of a "containment" if the containment comms are growing in number.

[–] regularassbitch@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

it went from 1 to 2. i don't think it's gonna become an epidemic