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I’m not sure how salient the Dark Crystal franchise is to the public consciousness, though Netflix did a series five years ago.

Skeksis are like capitalists in that, while they may fight amongst themselves & backstab each other, their primary & common cause is Gelfling subjugation, through deceit if possible or naked violence if necessary.

I’m probably going to the_dunk_tank for this, but…

Requirements: Violentmonkey browser extension. Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey might work as well, but I haven’t & won’t test them. Note also that I haven’t & won’t test Chrome or Edge, either.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        lemmy-delete-tagline
// @match       https://hexbear.net/
// @require https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@violentmonkey/dom@2
// ==/UserScript==
VM.observe(document.body, () => {
  const node = document.querySelector('#tagline');
  if (node) {
    node.remove();
    return true;
  }
});

Edit to add: Maybe it needs some work: when I click on the homepage icon from another page, it fails to remove the tagline. I’m an old who doesn’t understand how progressive web applications work. Maybe I need to remove the return true and also tune how often the observer observes. Or maybe there’s some trigger I should hook it up to. Simply removing return true does seem to work, but I have no idea if it’s at the cost of any appreciable performance.

Edit to add more: [email protected] suggested that I just use a uBlock Origin filter. I tried it and it works. It’s as simple as:

hexbear.net###tagline

An excellent Critical Theory Workshop lecture and Q&A on fascisms and liberalisms—contemporary but also historical—through a dialiectical materialist lens.

Make Titanic Great Again

Effort posts are messages in bottles.

My response to this weapons-grade gish gallop:

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Tiananmen square massacre

• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• 1989 Tian'anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• ‘Tank Man’: the full footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989

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their genocide of the Uighur people

This bullshit never ends, does it?

• https://lemmy.ml/comment/8588979
• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

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their oppression of Hong Kong

Hong Kong was the product of the UK’s century of Chinese oppression, and their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997.

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steal Taiwan’s sovereignty

Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan

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was a bigger crime

• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• Are We The Baddies?

How to effectively counter imperialist lies on Xinjiang on the internet: A Guide

Any tactical changes or improvements to be made?

“Unlisted” video: Our Task for 2024 (w/ Nathan J. Robinson) - FULL VIDEO

Current Affairs Magazine founder, author, and famously accurate predictor of the 2016 election Nathan Robinson returns to Bad Faith Podcast to weigh in on 2024, how he predicted John Fetterman's fall, & what he predicts for 2024. Brie and Nathan spar on the issue of political litmus tests, and whether Brie should take the W on Gaza becoming a redline for voters rather than interrogating why it was that witholding votes from Biden was a much more radical proposition back in 2016 or 2020. Bad Faith famously debated Noam Chomsky on the subject of whether the threat of Trump compelled leftists to vote blue no matter who in 2020. Would he change his mind in 2024 in light of the genocide in Gaza?

A refutation of Cantor’s idealist diagonal argument using Turing’s materialist theory of computation.