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- The East coast is Red
Whats up from Chinatown! Anyone got recommendations for things to snap pictures of or snack on?
- I'M WALKIN' OVAH HERE!
What's up from Brooklyn side, Hexbear!
I was just down in domino Park before exploring more of of the scene on this side of the waterway, feels a lot more homey over here than Manhattan does because I guess vampires and ghouls have a hard time crossing over water.
- What's a good painkiller that I can use long-term?
Idk if there's a better comm for this, but.
Let's say, purely for the sake of argument !debate-me-debate-me that I am currently on a super-cool prescription painkiller that works great. Let's also say for the sake of argument that the bone/sinew structure that's supposed to hold my ribs together is trying to kill me constantly by conspiring with the base of my skull to cause me unbearable chronic pain. If I skip more than like one day of the cool prescription painkillers, then even just walking around becomes challenging. But also, if I just keep taking the cool prescription painkillers, I'll build up a tolerance. I'm on like 75mg a day right now and even that could be playing with fire.
I need something cool that's gonna dummy out my pain receptors long term. What's a good painkilling solution? I've tried cymbalta, taking way too much paracetamol and ibuprofen, and this cool highly addictive prescription thing. I'm game for any suggestions.
- Possible future scenario
The world has "fallen" to communism. The last liberals and fascists on Earth flee to Puerto Rico (sorry) and basically turn it into another Taiwan for a few months or years. The ruling class there maintains that it has suffered only temporary setbacks at worst and that victory is at hand. And besides, if you like communism so much, why don't you move to [the rest of the world]? And they aren't even real communists there anyway because they have not instantaneously transformed the planet into paradise. They're just befogging the masses, who are too stupid to understand that the best days of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and patriarchy lie ahead!
I'm just thinking about this because of the Yankee cope I'm seeing all over the place. Ukraine just needs more weapons and European soldiers, then it's bound to prevail against Russia, which is collapsing anyway. China is a heartbeat from balkanizing. Haiti is just run by a bunch of cannibal criminal gangs. Palestine can't possibly win. Etc.
- Monster Fash
Take that tankies! If America was a communist country we wouldn't have had a number one hit in 1962 called "The Monster Mash".
- counter-revolutionary thought in hexbear banner
that amogus is spelled entirely out of
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etc emojis. That's too mainy borders. We should seek to abolish all borders. In this essay I will - We Blocked Biden’s Motorcade to Say: No More Support for Genocideinthesetimes.com We Blocked Biden’s Motorcade to Say: No More Support for Genocide
We can’t abide our government abetting the mass slaughter of children in Gaza.
Damn this made me feel things. Everyone who is enabling this genocide is just living every day like it's normal. We have to keep disrupting that.
- T(h)ank you Hexbear for being one of the only places online that's normal about trans people
You've no idea how much this mains to me. !trans-heart !hexbear-trans !hexbear-static
- We should encourage good faith liberals to talk with us
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4033644
> The vast majority of liberals who ever comment posts on lemmygrad and hexbear are of the insufferable variety while the ones who are willing to have actual conversations are a very silent faction that we see verry rarely. I think we should find a way to encourage the latter to engage more with us while keeping out the smuglords. > > Of course, keeping out smuglords all the while making sure that as much good faith peoples see us could prove difficult and would demand to have a strict management to make it possible given the current conditions off the lemmyverse but I think it would be worth it. > > One way I think we could go about it could be to make a pined megathread every week/month depending on what is the most convenient that would be meant specifically for curious liberals to come talk to us. It should have strict healthy debate rules to keep smuglords out and curb excesses from those of us who tend to be too harsh toward even good faith lib, the subjects doesn't need to be strictly political, in fact I believe that more casual conversation and memes should be encouraged to break with the more serious talk from time to time, we should also encourage varying conversation topics with more economics and political theory as our conversation with liberals tend to center around history and actuality and barely touch on other topics, which I think is kind of a shame. > > Of course that's just an idea I'm throwing out there and I would like everyone to give opinions and ideas below. > >Edit: By "good faith peoples" I was mostly thinking of the apolitical peoples, the ones who aren't really invested in politics, I worded that a bit badly.
- Couple pushing duck in stroller around lake that's full of ducks
I took this picture (and a video) the other day and feel the need to share it.
Video: https://streamable.com/5wa640
- Folks, come and tell me about your kitties
Try discribe your buddy in bullet points like the picture above, bonus points if you're willing to share pictures