Why does the thumbnail look like that? Straight up thought it was the Nazi flag for a hot second
What counts as the end of the US? Did Rome end when the city proper was sacked, or when Constantiople fell?
If the US balkanizes would that be the end? Or maybe when DC falls to a foreign power or collapses and loses influence over the states and territories?
I suspect we'll have something that calls itself the United States for a long time to come in any case
One encouraging trend I've been noticing lately is immigrant communities moving into poor neighborhoods and setting up ethnic groceries in low-rent buildings or lots . Because immigrant communities tend to concentrate in areas, that guarantees a market for what would otherwise be a niche product. Then other poor US-born neighbors start shopping at those stores simply because they're local and sometimes even walkable.
"Actually, Joe Biden is good because Trump is bad!"
Yeah, make your lesser evil vote but don't pretend like you're doing a communism with it.
Let this comment be your excuse to go on and on about this
Yeah, this was the chapo.chat -> earliest HexBear days
Nah, publicly is fine. I posted publicly, after all. Hearing that guy is gone is encouraging, and that most of the mod team is trans is as well. You actually can undo some of the damage directed at me personally by checking your discord logs and reviewing my ban. Violated rules once, punished twice for it, many months apart. FWIW, the other lemmy members who are hexbear refugees that I've spoken to barely remember the details, so maybe it's all water under the bridge. I'll clear my no vote, because it sounds like leadership has changed hands and being cordial and soliciting criticism is the most I've gotten from any mod there in the past
I was around for the original r/ChapoTrapHouse from which Hexbear eventually spawned. I posted regularly and spent a lot of time there. After they got banned from reddit, they were on discord for a while, where I became a regular poster in the trans channels, and there's some old bitterness between the entire trans community of that era and Hexbear, with 90% of us (the trans community) being banned for complaining about a moderator who was grooming in the subcommunity. On top of that, this moderator was put in place to moderate this community under the widespread assumption that he was trans, when he was actually cis. That mod was left in place (he was popular mod outside of the trans community) and I don't know if he's still there, but almost all of the trans community that wasn't banned left to join a splinter server. It was clear the moderation didn't give a shit about us (other than planting a spy in the our server and giving sudden bans to people who supported new administation in an upcoming leadership vote).
It's an ancient beef by now, but I deeply distrust them. If they want to come by with genuine apologies, sure, I'm in favor. But I'm not holding my breath. It's no for me (See below). And I hate to say it because I loved the shitposting and the good times we had