DaringDarek

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Yall see this? More Women Drone Pilots: the song (www.youtube.com)
 

Download before it gets nuked folks

Hey gang, where is the good 2024 election shitpost drama gonna be? in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
[–] DaringDarek@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe. I doubt the sparks will really fly here because the bans are so quick, that's why I'm asking.

From a lack of response I guess the answer is probably "twitter and also nowhere", sad.

Hey gang, where is the good 2024 election shitpost drama gonna be? in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
[–] DaringDarek@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Many upbears and yet no posts!!!

Give them to me!!

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Hey gang, where is the good 2024 election shitpost drama gonna be? (hexbear.net)
 

Like many of you, I came to hexbear from the r/chapotraphouse days. I feel almost like there's some oral history here we stand a risk of losing, maybe it's been retold in some megathread somewhere of how much shitposting went down, or a meme archive somewhere (link me!).

Leans back in rocking chair Oh, those were the glory days!! I fall backwards out of chair and die

For all its flaws, the election shitpost fuckery on r/CTH was some of the most fun I've ever had on the goddamn internet. And I've been around, ye post-dialup whipper-snappers.

I did not know jack or shit about leftist ideology beforehand, found CTH via some insane post that made it to r/all, and had a grand fucking time dunking on the relentless deluge of dumbass hillary-stan types and watching the other dunks. Plus I learned a lot. All the dumbass rhetoric that does not hold up under simple scrutiny would keep showing up & get utterly destroyed. It was so goddamn cathartic.

Is there anywhere that seems likely to happen again in the fall? Even in a lesser form? With reddit stomping on the "main" leftist subreddit I feel like dems & leftists come into direct contact a lot less on the internet. Twitter squabbles just don't cut it the way an extended back-and-forth would. Even over here in the lemmy verse, defederation reduces contact & thus fun garbage fights. Sighs wistfully

We should get on top of the link tracking problem in c/hexbear@hexbear.net
[–] DaringDarek@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am very much in favor of getting as many of these as convenient off Hexbear. I made a smaller thread about I think the twitter ones a long time ago and it didn't go anywhere at the time.

Don't forget the general purpose UTM ones:

utm_content=site-enterprise-button&utm_source=organic&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=null

These are used across the net, various sites document what they are, like this one: https://mailchimp.com/resources/utm-links/

famously gendered sport pool in c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
[–] DaringDarek@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lol, a semi-uncharitable reading of your comment would just be "don't have hobbies, or fun".

Why not devote your life to pool, or any other sport? Seems a lot less of a waste than, like, golf.

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They can and will ruin everything you love (www.welcometohellworld.com)
 

Really excellent write up on what's been happening to Bandcamp recently.

Can you help me explain why Idiocracy is terrible? in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
[–] DaringDarek@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

That second bit is good ammo - "you really just want to laugh at poor people." 👍

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Can you help me explain why Idiocracy is terrible? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by DaringDarek@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I have a friend who is a good person overall but really buys into the "real life is becoming Idiocracy" bit. I was frustrated, because I'm not the best real-time arguer so I don't think I did a good job of expressing why the movie is disgusting trash.

I attempted to talk about how it blames people instead of systems, and how it's an awful eugenics narrative. But we quickly got into a rabbit hole about whether intelligence can be passed on genetically or not and if that matters, and other dumb topics that went nowhere.

What's a concise and offline-compatible way of explaining why Idiocracy is bad & decent people should find it gross?