No different than a crazy person handling you a letter about how the government abducted them to give to aliens for chemtrail research. You start by not trying to have a rational discussion with the irrational. You cannot reason someone out of a position they had to reject reason multiple times to get themselves to.

Credibly accused of being a rapist, iirc.

The cruelty is the point. Some people just enjoy making others suffer. That IS the source of the pleasure for those types. How the suffering us achieved isn’t really all that relevant.

Probably pivot my time and effort into general promotion of the Lemmy-verse. Kinda hard these days when, inevitably, someone is going to come in and ask “Isn’t that the place that’s full of tankies?”

An anecdote I’ve shared before a time or two on my lemm.ee account was that I almost quit Lemmy specifically because of how insufferable the Hexbears were.

I can’t speak to whether keeping me around was good, but I genuinely only remained because I learned how to block the instance.

Kinda reminds me of a thought I had in Factorio. I was flame throwering trees to get then the hell out of my way, and I thought that this was a little on the nose about how manufacturing might actually work - fuck the environment it’s keeping me from growing my factory!

And he would probably unironically love that comparison. Dude is shockingly odious.

Doesn’t matter. Hell just lie and say 800 million people attended.

The unsubscribe button just validates the email address is live and has someone paying attention to it.

What would you suggest we do? Take precious profits away from stakeholders and repair shit? Sounds like communism to me buddy. Up against the wall.

The cynic in me thinks they are just trying to steer attention away from the protests. People weren’t taking to the streets to protest shit wages. Would have been reasonable if they did, but attention there is attention somewhere protests weren’t occurring.

So literally no downside.

Sounds like someone is having the day they voted for.

But also fuck him for making me have the day he voted for, more broadly speaking.

Oh no! Anyway.

I don’t know what most of the instances are about, but this one had a clever name and I don’t believe is federated with Hexbear. So here I am.

100%. I believed he thought he could get away with that. I just foolishly thought he was wrong.

I used to think it was hyperbole, even from him, that he could shoot someone in broad daylight and get away with it.

He was right. There’s apparently nothing he cannot do.

I expect it to go much the same way.

Which effectively means the messages aren’t encrypted. Cool.

Oh fuck all the way outta here with that weak ass bullshit.

Neat! That makes sense. Appreciate the learning moment!