progressive neoliberalism does a terrible job speaking to cis-het male anxieties

Terrible is a bit of an understatement. Men complain about bleak social and economic prospects only to be meet with insults that go right to the metaphorical jugular of every mans ego.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re'im_music_festival_massacre

You are a monster, these where innocent people that were massacred and r*ped by HAMAS.

And the best response is that "It was actually the Jews, not HAMAS, that killed all those people" is pathetic.

Hamas is pretty careful to differentiate Jewish people

Ah, so what happened on October 7th?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel

Or is what happened okay because only 'Zionists' were killed?

I’m myself tired of how tankies deals with criticism.

It's because tankies are just contrarians that use communist ideology as a vehicle to be anti-west / anti-United States (anti-liberal democracy). Tankies will defend any cause or ideology that is against 'the west' even if that means happily ignoring the blatant homophobic, genocidal and repressive authoritarianism.

I know, that is why I said

I’m pretty sure it’s not just the mods/admins.

Blotting shit out.

I'm pretty sure it's not just the mods/admins.

Some kind of void creature was forming earlier and it got whited out by a bot army.

Because they have not experienced the cruelty of what they are supporting. . . yet. The moment they do, they'll cry and whine that it's affecting them.

See Florida stopping permanent alimony and the blow back from Republicans that are shocked it's affecting them.

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While Threads is federated social circles and communities will have time to form. Thread users will by nature of having the support of a corporate juggernaut, be the lions share of users on the 'verse. When threads pull the plug, the Fedverse becomes a ghost town overnight and everyone not on Threads will be forced to migrate if they want to keep their social circles and communities intact.

Here is an example of a corpo dealing a blow to an open source project. The article covers an example of Microsoft and Google killing a competing open source project(s).

Also here is a blog post about how Google killed the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) using extend, embrace, extinguish.

Yep.

The echidna got into a fight with something, no clue what. This was what was on all three pages of the combat log.