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Do not fucking dare to speak for us with your ahistoric ideas about gay rights. No communist government during the 20th century was worse than western countries on "equal rights" for LGBTQIA+ people. Because we didn't have equal rights anywhere in the world in the last century. Are you a literal fucking child that you're unaware of that or are you just the typical liberal that completely lacks object permanence and immediately forgets how he has actively supported the oppression of marginalized people once the mainstream consensus has moved on? That doesn't mean the USSR's treatment of gay people wasn't atrocious, it means that we were legally persecuted everywhere. The USSR threw gay people in jail, so did the USA and West Germany and the UK. Gay men were actively hunted by the law in the bourgeoise democracies you love so much. Germany had forced sterilization of trans people seeking a name change until 2011 (btw the DDR didn't have a law like that on the books). Fuck you for thinking us having at least some basic human rights has always been the status quo of the enlightened west since forever, i still have to struggle against my goverment and my healthcare system all the damn time while my people are being actively singled out and villified through multimillion euro harassment campaigns backed by our conservative party. How do you fucking dare to explain to me how free i am under this joke of a system? Democracy is a fucking nightmare when you're a minority of less than 1% of the population. Majority rule means minorities are treated like dirt. Free speech means that the majority is free to shout us down while we are being silenced.

Regarding your idiot takes on the DDR, backed by wikiepdia links (lol) that you, in typical liberal fashion, didn't even read, the "equal rights" situation was actually better in the DDR, were gay sex was legalized in 1968 instead of 1994 like in the West, which only had a partial legalization a year after the DDR and retained a significantly higher age of consent for gay relationships, as judges and lawmakers back then were firmly convinced the being gay spread by social contagion and that vulnerable young men had to be protected from predatory queers trying to turn them gay. That was the actual legal consensus about gay sex throughout the mid 20th century in Germany. If you knew ANYTHING about gay rights in Germany, you'd be aware of this, it's a key part of queer German history how the West perpetuated fascist views about queerness. West German conservatives were thinking out loud about throwing gay people in camps in the 1980s. But you aren't, because you're a clueless het shit trying to straightsplain queer rights to queer people.

Are people using the "All" selector or something? 90% of my experience of other sites is posts like this. Or is it more about users of other instances coming here?

Setting the selector to Local does a lot to de-reddify hexbear, but we still have a bunch of reactionaries barging in here and making the place unsafe for our marginalized comrades. Being one of these, i'm super fucking pissed at all the marketplace of ideas libs who for federation with instances that have a glaringly obvious reactionary presence. I do not think the situation we have rn is in any way tolerable. I known the admins are considerate of these concerns and try to find a solution, and i appreciate that a lot, but this whole fiasco has fucking hurt.

Federation doesn't mean you have to interact with other instances (unless someone is harassing you in which case they should be reported). It's more to "allow" interaction with other instances.

Yeah and i hands down do not want any interaction with instances that follow some shitty free speech paradigm and allow racism and transphobia. I do not want these people to get banned after ruining my mood, i want them to not be here at all, it's a hazard to my well-being. I do not come here to feel worse afterwards, i do not come here to receive microtrauma, i do not come here to lecture white cis dudes about trans women in sports, i do not want to have to worry who'll see and reply to my posts and if i will get to see the reply before the mods delete it, but this is what i'm faced with now.

Instant defederation of these instances is the only way forward. And that's already a compromise, if it were up to me we wouldn't even be federated with lemmygrad.

show your support for losing a war that Amerika literally tried to win by genociding their way to a better KDR and tell everybody you're a nepo baby who got to hang out at the National Guard while all the boys you graduated HS with got owned at Dien Bien Phu

that literally takes two seconds

I'm used to guys not being able to handle when women speak up, it's one of the things you have to learn how to deal with when you come out as transfem and suddenly get relegated into the "i don't have to take this person seriously" camp. But yeah, that thread was gross, and i've only red half of it because there was just too much stuff that made me want to take a shower and wash the grease off.

So thanks for the kind words, i appreciate them a lot, especially from somebody who actively does something to make this place less of a crackerfest.

Misgendering cissies doesn't really work, you never have the full force of an entire societal megastructure wanting to erase their existence to back up your claim, yet they do.

If you want to get them mad, call them cis shits or something like that, people who violently reinforce the status quo hate being reminded that they could exist as anything but the default.

honestly i want to see that cesspool defederated yesterday, can't believe how bad people's vibe check skills are that they voted yes on federating the chud instance

but they are also fine with letting the wehraboos from lemm.pee in because it's so funny to dunk of all the nazis coming in here so i'm not surprised

Seriously fuck everybody who supported this.

Can't say i agree with you after being called out for hurting the feelings of monogamous cishet dudes in that dumb "friendzone" thread just yesterday. Admittedly, that was by a four day old account and by one of the mysogynist sex worker haters from lemmygrad that everybody here somehow loves so much, but that just shows it's kinda naive to assume that struggle are less of a problem after opening the floodgates to the septic tank that is the internet at large.

Also people have largely forgotten how to use CWs when posting dunk threads, shit's grating.

Going by who German nazi orgs support, my guess is that the pro-Ukraine ones are wholly operated by feds whereas the pro-Russian ones are full of fed informants and cops who've joined the org not as part of their job, but in their free time and out of ideological conviction.

i think it's some 4chan shit originally, they've been obsessed with the term goy for well over a decade

If we defed sh.it.my.pants and lemm.pee, we can actually brigade them. That's not my main reason to defed them, but still.