The drop in services in the past decade is truly shocking. Don’t feel bad about doing what you need to. Don’t let the system discard you and leave you for dead purely out of the idealist perspective that it should simply help if you engage with it politely.
We really had the full arc there didn’t we?
I wish I could say this was the only Ukrainian I’ve encountered with this type of severe cognitive injury.
We don’t need to dehumanize settlers; they already willingly amputated their humanity in their violent quest for racial dominance. Should I treat someone who would treat me the way they have treated Palestinians, purely for material gain, as human? I’m not sure. In order to avoid misanthropy, I must consider them an aberration. Self created monsters who have willingly severed our common humanity. Ultimately, pity doesn’t win wars, and law and non-violence has done nothing to halt the horror they inflicted on the world. To even consider sparing a mote of pity for such monsters between now and their disempowerment is an insult and injury against the victims of the ongoing gazan holotaphe.
Tel Aviv Delenda Est.
Is that the massacre where allegedly some tanks shot and ran over thousands of people in a city square, but then stopped and had a chat with a guy on the way out of the site of the massacre? Just to confirm I’m not misunderstanding, are you denying that doesn’t seem odd to you?
A db0 mod explicitly making a rule saying that anti-bigotry protections do not apply to people that they label “tankies” would suggest our members aren’t safe on their instance.
Honestly I have no idea what you’re on about.
My concern is not what people do with the money, my concern is people disengaging from the comm.
But go off, or whatever.
This
Any antonym for starve will do instead of feast. I apologise. My intention was to contrast degrees of deprivation, not degrees of luxury.
This is the reality.
We’re a small community. Funds are limited. Trust is everything.
People here don’t hold homeless users in contempt. They are limited in what they can provide. Yes, homeless people should not have to live the most spartan existence, but if the limited funds available to us on hexbear can either provide for two people sparsely, or leave one to starve while the other feasts, I think I know what we’d pick.
You made people feel helpless, and they disengaged from donations.
Trying to explain yourself over and over again isn’t helping anything – and I really really don’t mean that in a cruel way.
I don’t see how it’s possible to run a mutual aid comm with anonymous people scattered all over the world. Mutual aid really requires a much closer knit network of people working together in tangible non-monetary ways. I’ve done a little mutual aid offline, and mostly it’s the combination of a plan and people giving the right aid and advice to advance that plan that really changes people’s situation.
What we have is a charity comm. If we’re going to run a charity comm some regulation would help.
Limiting posts to one per week, or month, per account to stop the competition for visibility and subsequent blocking of the comm by people overwhelmed by the number of similar or repeated posts. Hexbear is not a large community, and many people are now blocking the comm because it makes them feel uneasy.
Enforcing the use of an external tracking tool like GoFundMe so people can be confident when targets are or aren’t met for a given post. It also provides a little bit of legitimacy and makes donations easier for many people who would be considering it.
Allowing people to provide suggestions for local support such as specific food banks or shelters: things that may reduce weekly repeats on the charity comm. Allowing people to suggest alternative purchases or actions, such as a more cost efficient alternative could be useful.
Regardless of moral judgements, donators need confidence in the system for the comm to function. Otherwise it’s just a drama generator that fosters contempt and mistrust while also leaving people feeling abandoned. A couple of incidents have really blown peoples trust, and left them fatigued. The situation is not going to change unless adjustments are made. As for discussions about the validity of a users cause - evidently, even when discussion of causes is forbidden, people still seethe and it still seeps into and erupts throughout the whole instance. The amount of recurring drama from one incident alone that is taboo to talk about is enough indication that simply banning discussions isn’t actually helping much, if at all.
Lemmy.world? The instance of misanthropic baby killing terrorists?
Let’s split Germany into quarters this time. Maybe zigzags.
I said a year ago that labour was going to be so dreadful there we’d see a surge in Reform.
Now that that’s come to pass, friends asking me what’s going to happen next and all I can say is I don’t know - I just hope we’ll all be ok.
It must be something like that.
Typically I don’t engage with libs on politics because we’re using entirely different lenses of analysis.
But in the past year people in my life have gone from asking me why I’m not voting for labour in the general election, to asking me to explain why I knew labour would be so bad, to asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré and the Sahel to them because they like his reforms(?!??).
People want something to believe in.
If you want more Andor…
Motorcycle Diaries, then Che part 1/2.
A ship from this company likely made a stop in Israel at some point, flagging the entire company as valid targets for the blockade.