MBR is their main project so there's much more synth metal, though I think the classical influence is a little less overt over there

Heyyy, Keygen Church fucks. If you haven't checked it out yet, they have another project MASTER BOOT RECORD that's also excellent

edit: just noticed that's their channel name so I guess it's a bit obvious lol

Sure one might change their behaviors when traveling accordingly, but I think people would be generally understanding if an American tried to tip in the UK, and I would hope a waitress in America would understand why someone from the UK might not tip. With federation that cultural overlap is even more understandable because it's not like I'm getting on a plane and traveling across the ocean, I'm just clicking a link that was already on my All on Hexbear. We're also a lot larger/more active of an instance with almost quadruple the active monthly users of lemm.ee, and Hexbear has been around for about 3 years. A lot of the "brigading" people see is just the result of there being many active bears + this stuff showing up on our feeds + it being directly about us. When you consider all of these things, does it make a bit more sense why we might show up like a swarm of locusts throwing around our own inside jokes?

I'm pleasantly surprised by your response, honestly. I understand the temptation to make such arguments, and I'd be lying if I told you that astroturfing and shit like that didn't happen, but hard leftists like us are small in number in American spaces and that level of bullshittery generally requires some alignment with corporate interests to find the resources. We're just a bunch of regular people from many different corners who are really passionate about our opinions for a variety of reasons. Hope I wasn't too aggro with my comment, and hope the rest of your day is a nice one

you and me both, comrade.

For me personally it was just total disgust with my body and identity. Being in my skin felt wrong, being told to man up felt like an impossible task, and every day felt like I was putting on an act to try to conform to this image of what I was supposed to be that I wanted absolutely nothing to do with. I guess you can say I hated being a man, but I also felt an incredibly strong sense of envy towards women/the feminine form and spent many nights as a kid falling asleep hoping that if I wished hard enough I'd wake up and be a girl. I know it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it was an inexplicable, inescapable source of misery and I just desperately hoped for some way out.

When I finally got a bit older and found myself desiring to transition, it was not at all a comfortable prospect. Even though I had already experimented with women's clothing and makeup all throughout my childhood, the idea of actually turning my whole world upside down socially was really intimidating. It was one of the hardest things I've had to do, but it was all so worth it in the end. Sorry if that answer was a bit excessive for your question, I figured it was mostly pertinent

Take your heathen nonsense back immediately, that is an absolutely majestic feathered friend.

Whenever leftists post outside of their home instance it inevitably breaks down into a rehashed version of "This is America, why can't you speak American?"

You know, I've read exactly one comment from you, ReakDuck, and It would be a bit silly if I assumed from this single comment that your entire life to this point has been paranoid whingeing about Russian bots.

"Russia and China love to manipulate and do everything to convince people that what they are doing is great"

If it's a matter of propaganda, I hope you understand that America is perfectly capable of churning out plenty of absolute pig shit on its own. All large nations with their own media ecosystems employ propaganda as a means of placation, diversion, and general control. Do you worry about the people who agree with you being bots, too? Aren't your online peers just as likely to be bots? Do you think your particular party or associates don't employ the same trickery as everyone else? How have they stayed competitive?

Furthermore, what proof would you require to know I'm not a bot? No amount of personal information is beyond manufacturing. I could even send you a social security number and valid identification and you could say I stole it. Do you see where I'm going with this? That rationale of yours is a catch-all justification of complete dismissal. One can protect themselves from any dissenting opinions if they can convince themselves that the other person writing to them is a bot. There's nothing they can say or do to prove such an assertion wrong short of showing up at your house and shitting on your lawn.

I believe you should challenge the rhetoric being presented to you instead of protecting your own through frivolous dismissals, but I don't know why I've wasted all my time writing this response to a lib bot.