You’re so brave for this, queen

Because it leads to voluntary tiktokifcation of vocabulary.

A lot of people online these days use silly workaround phrases to get around hidden word filters, from “sewerslide” to “sesbian lex” (a trend that really got off the ground years ago on tik tok). Social media sites suppress or remove content containing these words to keep things advertiser-friendly. One nice thing about non-corpo social media such as the lemmyverse is that we don’t need to speak in such strange, convoluted, and infantalizing ways. My brother didn’t have a sewerslide, he comitted suicide. I don’t have sesbian lex, I fuck dykes.

More to the point, I find it incredibly offputting that we’re allowed to discuss unpleasant concepts but not name them. With the appropriate trigger warnings, anyone here can discuss the sexual violence that came with the Nakba (or the recent Israeli riots calling for the ",right to **** Palestinian prisoners). Or we could talk about the historiocity of claims that the Red Army ****ed its way through Germany at the end of WWII.

Everyone knows what I mean with the censored words. We’re all intelligent adults discussing history and horrific world events. Why can we discuss a concept but not name it?

This filter is the stupidest fucking shit. Hexbear isn’t some huge social media site like reddit and it’s not a brine pool of reactionaries like 4chan. I trust that most people around here know how to use words responsibly and appropriately (for example, when directly quoting a historical figure). Mods can sort out edge case edgelords. Why is it necessary to outright prohibit this?

Long or short, you will eat the pork

…part of the function of the “where is your child now?” stuff that really curtailed kids’ freedom in America in the second half of the twentieth century was a reaction to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements.

God dammit I think you’re on to something

lower everyone nearby’s home value (they also made the equally-bad argument that teens would hang out at the child’s playground to smoke).

God damn mother FUCKING hoa bullshit. I hate them I hate them I hate them so fucking much little elected clans of dukes ruining everything even for those of us who do manage to buy a home

Your parents sound unironically amazing

It’s really annoying that they fixate on this, but there’s a legitimate and huge grievance there. Infant genital mutilation belongs in the distant past along with child brides and child soldiers.

Also I had a whole rant about how circumcision is a barbaric practice that’s just laughed off if anyone brings it up, but my leaky memory kinda voided it already

I think I’ve seen that name in passing, but skimmed over it because at first glance it sounds like abolishing children in an anti-natalist sense. I should read up on it.

More worm than brain

:amerikkka-clap:

“The traditions of the dead weigh like nightmares on the brains of the living.”

Thank you for sharing his story. The material abundance and relative prosperity of the age sounds wonderful, but the society and culture was so incredibly stifling. All of that anti-communist propaganda yelling about how the Reds want to turn everyone into identical machines really was just projection, wasn’t it? Men were forced to work and forbidden to truly enjoy things, and women were forced to “tend the home”. Those were your roles. It seems like being a counterculture type was so much harder, and no one was taught how to handle their emotions at all.

The future sucks, but I honestly think I’m happier to live in the present. Maybe I would have been strong enough to handle the era by escaping to a big coastal city and hiding in an enclave somewhere. Or maybe I wouldn’t have made it at all.