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I feel like I've actually encountered some Libs IRL and in other online spaces who at least sounded more intelligent. Every one that wanders in here just insists that their right, cites Wikipedia, and tries to troll people like a 14 year old who stole their moms laptop.

You think we'd occasionally get a somewhat more articulate one there but I've yet yo see it.

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The liberals that come here are specifically redditors, so they're all idiots

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Remember the tide of internet funny money peddlers that claimed that database ledger positions associated with ugly monkey cartoons would revolutionize the world and somehow stick it to the big banks and the current ruling class (that more than anyone else bought into the fucking things)? Good times. all-my-apes-gone

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I totally forgot about that Onion-level shit. Haha.

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[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

I'm somewhat ashamed to say that I own a piece of Morello merch -- some years back, he did a signature guitar wah-wah pedal with Dunlop. Funny thing is, it's just a regular Dunlop Crybaby wah, but with Zapatista graphics. I didn't already have a Crybaby, and the used market on those things dried up pretty badly during COVID lockdown, so I said fuck it, $5 above regular new price and I get EZLN livery on my wah? Count me the fuck in.

Then he went and did this NFT shit. God damn it, Tom.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Posting an RIP Colin Powell tweet is now officially the third most embarrassing thing any member of Public Enemy has ever done.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tangential, but this website was unusable for a second during the whole GME spectacle.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, another vaguely ape-related bazinga cringe phenomenon, that one. yea

You said the site was unusable for a while?

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Just the news area which is where I lurked haha probably made it unusable myself 😅

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, another vaguely ape-related bazinga cringe phenomenon, that one. yea

You said the site was unusable for a while?

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One of the early Bitcoin arguments was that it would help marginalized people in the global south who were cut off from traditional banking.

Fast forward to fairly recently, when some people in Palestine are using crypto to receive aid, Binance cut off access when Israel asked. No court orders necessary. Turns out crypto is easier to freeze than money in traditional banking.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Like pretty much everything else in internet funny money, it's a bunch of bullshit and anything will be said to pump for the next dump.

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember when people here said AI art was proletarianizing art by taking it from the """bourgeois""" artist class and putting it in the hands of the working class?

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I still sometimes see shit vaguely saying that, if it isn't fatalistic "well nothing you can do about it so may as well stan for the treat printers while anticipating unemployment on a planet that is burning down at an accelerated rate because of the treat printers."

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

The treats AI makes aren't even GOOD treats is the stupid thing. At least Marvel movies have some fucking explosions and witty dialog, what's the appeal of a trailer for a fake SciFi movies where a cyborg lady with fucked up hands monologues to you?

[–] RobertAnderson2@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can you show me examples am curious not saying you are wrong

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

It was already in the recent thread on the technology section of the site, and judging by the rest of your venerably 17 hour account, you made this account to concern troll me anyway.

Pound sand.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey! I was a liberal and a redditor who came here and was rehabilitated. Granted I didn't come here to fight

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was a liberal when I went to the subreddit, also not to pick a fight, so don't think I was trying to call out people in your position.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

I didn't genuinely think you were calling people like me out lol :P

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

This is genuinely the answer to OP. The intelligent libs didn't stay libs when they got here