TillieNeuen [she/her]

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I like this idea

I don’ t know if I’ve told you this before, but I love this bit. Your commitment is unparalleled.

Awww, the memories. It also led to some fun times with terfs coming here to try to turn the tables. Would you be shocked to learn that no terfs were deradicalized by my effort post about learning about trans people and not being a terf?

That’s terrifying. My family went to the Grand Canyon when I was a young teen and my brothers were even younger. They were romping around and I was sure one of them was going to die. That poor kid, and his poor family. I can’t imagine the absolute terror of watching your kid go over the edge.

Welcome!

I thought so, but I joined July 29, 2020, and that was just a couple days after the site launched, as I recall. I got lucky and saw a post about it on I couldn’t remember when CTH got banned, but I looked it up and it was June 29, 2020. So just under a month, I guess. I’m glad I missed the invitation to the discord though–every time I try to use that thing it just makes me sad and angry. It isn’t just not user-friendly, it’s designed to be actively hostile to people trying to use it, I swear.

Even our animal friends are tankies

Nice! I hope you’ll feel at home.

Internally, hexbear mostly consists of trans positivity and pictures of owls

I keep thinking the mismatch between perception and reality will stop being funny, but not so far!

I hope you’ll come hang out with us

We’re trained not to see the violence all around us, because we’re swimming in it all the time. Here’s a quote about the topic from Mark Twain that got me thinking years ago when I was starting to move left. Maybe it’ll speak to you too:

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

I love Monty Python, but I’ll never forgive them for turning “Come and see the violence inherent in the system” into a joke. Dennis was spitting FACTS.

It’s a classic for a reason, baby! As a Midwesterner, I have no choice but to upbear the tater tot casserole

I hope you’ll come visit some of our less political comms and stick around. Honestly it’s the friendliest spot on the internet I’ve found.

ngl, burning bridges like this stresses me out. I’m not cool :deeper-sadness: