I prefer this too. I look at things from kbin.social so I never learn just how many downvotes I’m getting.

I’ve been out of the country and we are lightyears ahead of other countries when it comes to reckoning with our past. No, we’re not perfect, but we’re a hell of a lot more open. You know how I know?

Because I was raised in Trumpland, PA and I joined the military and served in Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma and Europe and I was able to learn about the Native American genocide, slavery, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki at school, and managed to absorb the rest through pop culture. We had a variety of differing assumptions when we talked, but we still talked. Yes, I heard that Lee was a gentleman but a trip to Gettysburg easily discarded that notion. My history teacher was quick to point out the founding fathers were opportunists.

There is stuff, like the bullshit we’ve been pulling in South America, that hasn’t gotten discussed. That’s true. But it’s not just the radical minority that’s aware the country is basically built on rivers of blood. The awareness is all over our pop culture.

You’re not hearing what’s good enough in your liberal state, but I have been knee deep in conservatism since birth and I’ve still managed to pick up on the horrors of our national history.

Now, just for comparison, go ask a Brit or a Frenchman about the Native American genocide and their country’s role in it.

I saw those pictures in school. We know that Truman signed off on dropping the bomb on two civilian cities and it was a horror that had never been seen in the world before or since.

Dude, we talk about our atrocities all the time. The current push to whitewash Native American genocide and slavery is actually getting a huge pushback, because we talk openly about this stuff in the US and it’s only a minority that tries to silence it. We talk openly about the atrocities during the Vietnam War, and about the invasion of Iraq, and about prosecution for war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.

You can say a LOT about the US, and even the amount of denial we have about our standing in the world, but you can’t call us in denial about stuff like that. We’re in conflict within ourselves about it, but it’s a well known and well discussed thing in the US.

And wait… are you from lemmygrad? The tankie server?

Moved my Mastodon account over to Firefish for the features.

Oh yeah.

Ooo, maybe we should start a fandom-wank style community and collect all this. We just need a good name. Fedidrama? Fediwank? Fediwars?

Pterois miles

One of the longest and most immature feuds I’ve ever had online was with a woman who turned out to be 41.

Everyone who called Firefish stupid needs to come see this and reconsider.

And the best part is they all talk to each other so there’s no community splitting.

Unlike with Bluesky, where we can’t talk to them.

Twitterlike but unlike Mastodon it has quote-tweets, themes, and the ability to add cat ears to your avatar.

Try searching for the community like you do a person. @ name @ instance

@Valmond A fediverse blogging platform. https://writefreely.org/

@theinspectorst Yeah, we just need to give it some time.

It would be nice to be able to have a “Favorite communities” feed where we can go to see a set of communities we’re subscribed to but like better than other subscriptions. Favorites leads to threads we’ve upvoted (on Kbin), though, so we’d need another name.

But that way you can be subscribed to the busy community, but still see the less busy communities on a feed.

K’Ehleyr

I thought in Klingon they pronounced those kind of names like Kay-bin

Looking back on previous floods of alt-right hate… If it feels organized, it probably is.

@Semmelstulle Ssh! They’ll notice we’re here.

@mizzyc Yeah, it doesn’t do push notifications.