MaeBorowski

If they're not already on hexbear/lemmygrad, they should be. (Also, for those of you who like arguing with libs and don't take much mental damage from it, your comrades in the trenches appreciate it when you join in and back them up. Be that on or even in the lemmyverse with an .ml account against .world... just sayin')

Does sundowning coincide that tightly with the actual sun?

It does, yes.

The term is pretty much entirely about the time of day and how almost universal it is for dementia and Alzheimer's patients to have worsening symptoms (and some symptoms that only occur) from late afternoon to early evening. Although it can be fitting and sometimes get used with a bit of that double-meaning in there that has to do with a person being in the later stages of their lifespan, a "sundown" of their life, that's not where the term comes from or what it means. There are plenty of relatively younger patients (like with very early onset Alzheimer's) that have all the usual symptoms of sundowning, like being more easily upset, agitated, even getting uncharacteristically belligerent only around that time of the day/night cycle. Source: used to do volunteer work with Alzheimer's/dementia patients and their families.

The momentous weeks that come out of nowhere, changing everything, and their seemingly innocuous build-up over the decades prior?

We're still in the build up phase for sure, but I don't think it's necessarily an on/off switch. There has to be a ramping up of the seemingly innocuous things in the weeks before the weeks where things happen.

This kind of shit does have a striking resemblance to those weeks that happen before weeks where things happen, so they could be the immediate precursor of things happening. But it's also entirely possible that these past few weeks are not the weeks building up to weeks of happening things and things will ramp back down to a simmer for another who knows how many more before things actually happen. Regardless, I feel like it is clear that we no longer have entire decades where nothing happens. Shit goin be happening one way or another before another decade is out.

I am vegan. These threads always genuinely upset me because I see so many supposed comrades making the exact same arguments justifying carnism that we constantly lampoon liberals for making to justify capitalism and even genocide.

At this point, I am no longer surprised by the kind of arguments liberals make that are so openly and obviously self-serving but at the same time totally lacking self-awareness. But it is still shocking to me when communists who have seen through so many other lies do the exact same shit. I know we can't expect "purity" and everyone is going to disagree with anyone else on something, but to me, this is akin to finding a group of people who are righteously anti-racist, anti-capitalist, stand up for the rights of BIPOC, and organize to feed homeless people but then turn out to be massive TERFs who would be happy if I were murdered. I just can't. It absolutely wrecks any sense of solidarity I had.

Not to defend the pathetic little shitstain or anything, but more just an fyi, it is possible to block an instance now.

Agreed. Pelosi is despised even by large swathes of blue maga libs.

all throughout Obama's 8 years, anytime someone brought up a failed promise, the eternal wars, or the deportations or anything, what we were told was, "Bush would have made it worse."

We were? I mean, that's not what I remember being told. Not because libs were above that (obviously), but rather it doesn't make any sense. Bush got his 2 terms. Bush already succeeded in being the greater evil and was out of the picture regardless of who took the reins in the white house in 2008. I know what you're saying doesn't necessarily mean this, but a few times now I've seen hexbears talk as though Bush was voted out in favor of Obama. This is not what happened. Bush was never voted out, and Obama never ran against Bush. John McCain was the Republican nominee (and a big argument of the libs at the time was that he was unfit for office because he was too old and frail, lmao, the irony right?). And after McCain lost to Obama, the liberal response still wasn't even that McCain would have been worse. You really only see that kind of talk (at least in my experience) directed at potential future threats, which obviously Bush no longer was after he won his 2nd term in 2004. It was simply taken as a given that Bush had been worse because it was his fault that poor Obama had to clean up his mess.

No, the way the liberals, especially Democrats defended against people pointing out the reality that Obama's increased drone strikes, continued use of torture, and especially the neverending wars, was not to say Bush would have been worse but simply to say "Well Bush started it, which was unjust, but now that we're in it, we have to win it." There wasn't even a pretense at "Bush would have been worse" because all they had to do was blame it all on Bush to begin with. "Obama inherited a terrible situation, a quagmire we're in thanks to Bush. But what are we supposed to do now, just give Afghanistan to the Taliban? What, do you side with the terrorists?"

And about drone strikes, the defense I remember seeing all the time, was that they were more humane than what Bush did. "Drone strikes don't risk American troops the way Bush did, and really they're so much more effective at getting the baddies who never even see them coming! It's 'unfortunate' that there has been innocent children hit, but that's just 'collateral damage.'" It was shocking (to me, being more naive at the time) how freely and without reflection the Democrats took up the exact same rhetoric that they had correctly railed against when the Republicans used it. The Republican neocons having practically invented "collateral damage" as a popular euphemism was embraced by the Democrats immediately after they came to power.

a lib president could admit to dropping a biological weapon on china that specifically targets children and every paper would declare him the greatest and most loving humanitarian since Jesus.

Totally. Remember that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize after ramping up so many of Bush's warcrimes.

lol you're right. It's all cope and deflection. They're not even on par with fucking CNN in recognizing that their beloved savior just crashed and burned.

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Ok, nevermind. If we look in the discussion threads, they actually are seeing it for what it is. It's funny either way, and a crack up that it looks like they're still trying to spin it as a win for Biden if you just go by the post topics.

Y'know how we used to get accused of brigading but it was all lies? Yeah, we need to do that but for reals.

Yes, that's an important thing to remember. Instances like .world and justshit are largely responsible for dragging down .ml and other (relatively speaking) decent instances. On hexbear, we're used mostly seeing ourselves (obviously), lemmygrad, .ml, a little bit of db0, and a smattering of other little instances. The second you go on .ml, you're inundated with loads of the same shit we all thought had been left concentrated on reddit. It's not that .ml is that terrible, it's that it's too small to push back against the hordes of .worlders. And so the culture of .ml and other smaller instances slowly but surely gets degraded. Defederating from hexbear and lemmygrad preemptively by .world wasn't done just because they wanted to be "safe" from having to see opinions and takes based in a reality they like to deny (it was that too), but also so they could hold sway and more easily influence and dominate the fediverse.

For everyone on hexbear that was gung-ho about federation because it would mean actively dunking on libs, if you were one of the ones (like me) who liked the idea of arguing with liberals and putting them in their place for all the lurkers to see how inept their worldview is, I very much encourage you to make accounts on other instances and help push back against .world's insidious shit. If you're a hexbear that has had enough of that shit and just want to chill in a leftist space, I completely respect that and would suggest that you not make accounts on other instances.

Hexbear has almost fallen back to a state of existence similar to how it was before federation happened, with the biggest difference being more cross pollination with lemmygrad. Which is good for those I just mentioned who like to not have to see liberal and chuddy garbage outside of the dunk tank. But it's not good for .ml that they get so swamped by .world. I've said it before but I really do encourage hexbears who like the posting trenches to make accounts on .ml and check the same threads you read as a hexbear and take note of how drastically different the experience is.

ah, I've never watched a CinemaSins video. it sounds like something I can safely avoid

It is not just something that can be safely avoided, it is something that you should avoid if you value having braincells. That said, you would definitely be missing out if you didn't sample some of Shaun's (leftist skull boy) videos exhibiting just how bad CinemaSins really is.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8NXe_on1cV3bJvw_FA1FX-FI7PGZnV_ Same playlist and videos, but invidious frontend: https://invidious.fdn.fr/playlist?list=PLB8NXe_on1cV3bJvw_FA1FX-FI7PGZnV_

For those who don't already know Shaun, I'd also recommend his more serious work on topics like the US dropping of nuclear weapons on civilians in Japan, The racist and ableist origins and continued racist/ableist use of The Bell Curve, his series on BBC's Transphobia, etc.