Juniper (she/her) 🫐

I know about Hexbear and wanted to mention that it was a Hexbear user but this ironically happened just a moment after I made my own Hexbear account. I know some of the users there are extreme, particularly that user, but the community overall I find worth it.

That said I have to wonder what you mean when you say to avoid getting in trouble and to stay safe. Is there a history of people being harassed or harmed by those groups?

Yep, and it wouldn’t be very far back in my history if you want to see it. My last comment in that convo started with “ugh”. I was talking about transgender issues with someone who was extremely argumentative and kept strawmanning my beliefs so I told them in no uncertain terms that I was done with the conversation and blocked them. Later I decided to unblock them and discovered that they had replied not only to that final comment continuing to tell me I’m a bad person for their strawman interpretation of what I said, but to another comment I made in a different thread.

So this person who is actively insulting me also has the ability to follow me around and continue insulting me, and blocking them just makes me unable to defend myself.

Actual functional user blocking. I don’t want users being able to see my comments and reply to them when I have blocked them and I was totally surprised when they did.

…feeling very justified in my decision to pay $700 for the name brand automated litter machine

Why? If it’s American Propaganda, know that that is mainly financed by US social media because TikTok is doing so well. It isn’t a Chinese propaganda machine despite what uninformed fools will tell you.

Am I the only one that uses TikTok? It’s that and Lemmy for me, nothing else. Oh, and infrequently reddit for the subreddit created for the city I live in

That’s fair. In the US we use those initialisms almost exclusively to refer to those people in casual conversation. They are Martin Luther King (Jr; civil rights advocate I perhaps arrogantly assume most people know of), Lindon B. Johnson (president), John F. Kennedy (president), Robert F. Kennedy (current presidential candidate/Democrat spoiler), and AOC is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

You just nailed the disdain - it’s that she’s a woman. And a minority, at that. We can never win those people over.

What about MLK, LBJ, JFK, RFK, etc? Lots of people get “initialized”

Hopefully with the advent of excellent teen-adult focused animation from the west (especially on Netflix) people will accept that “anime” doesn’t mean “cool animation” but “Japanese animation” and the categories can remain clear. Regardless of that opinion, I think this meme belongs here just fine because there is a huge overlap between Anime fans and western adult animation fans, and we don’t tend to have western adult animation communities.

That’s my take on the issue at least.

Consider changing the voice, maybe that will help relax your dog