∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, null/void, des/pair, none/use name, kitty]

I’m not a bad programmer, nix is just a horrible programming language

That would be counted as “non-voting” (see Ukr, Afg, Ven). Abstain means the rep was there and voted “abstain”

The jpe link is missing a g.

There are transfemme and transmasc specific flags (though they aren’t in Unicode so they can’t be used like I do the trans flag). Do note that transfemme / -masc does not mean transgender woman and man, they describe how one would like to present and/or express themselves.

Browsers will collapse white space, line breaks are converted to spaces.

Jerboa does not collapse white space, and instead rendered the display name with the line breaks. But, one possible reason is that, the area for usernames/display names can only display 1 line, so all of the pronouns got cut off.

There aren’t specific pronouns. One can just use the display name option to add pronouns

I do! And they isn’t one of them…

Besides that, I do accept that OP couldn’t see my pronouns, it isn’t their fault that I deliberately tried to fuck with my display name, and that their app then honours the newlines I put in there but then truncates it to one line.

I use they/them as a default. I’ll catch myself in using them and go “wait, what is this persons pronouns” and check, on platforms like Lemmy that have it, their display name for pronouns, and if there aren’t any, then bio. If neither have any pronouns I’ll use they/them. If there are pronouns I will not use they/them unless listed.

Jerboa is honoring the newlines in my display name (whereas web browsers will just substitute newlines for spaces). I just didn’t think about the fact that it would only display one line.

This is what it should look like:

∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie 
[it/its,
 she/her,
 fae/faer,
 love/loves,
 ze/hir,
 des/pair,
 null/void,
 none/use name,
 kitty]

I wondered what you wrote, unfortunately it seems like it was on a different account as there is zero things in the (hexbear) modlog for this username.

This is the problem with hexbear: they lure you in with things like gaming and then you start agreeing with them that none should go hungry or homeless and once you realize it, you’ve become a trans redfash tankie gobbunist (/s)

Has it not? Has it not caused the death of 1 million people in Indonesia? Has it not caused 7 million excess deaths due to “shock-therapy” in Russia alone? Has it not caused the brutality, violence and oppression of the “dictatorships” that the CIA installed in Latin America? Has it not caused countless famines? Has it not caused the economic ruin of Africa and Latin America?

What happens if you turn this around?

The precise terminology of the US’s political system is unimportant. What is important is that wherever the recipes of [Liberalism] have been tried, the result has been violence, brutality, oppression, famine, economic ruin.

This is all true of course (well, economic ruin can be debated). So what then? Do you also reject Liberalism?

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.

Taken from https://redsails.org/the-two-terrors/

Thanks, I did see you had changed it out.

Also I will be accepting critique on the new dark theme I made for comlib

Really cool!

Maybe you’ll find you disagree with most or all of what you read, that’s fine, you don’t have to agree. I don’t think Litvinov^[1] agreed with the nazis when he “[i]n 1928 […] had read and re-read Mein Kampf until he almost memorized it”^[2]. But reading even the books of our enemies is necessary to learn and grow.

I’m the creator of comlib (see some of the links in Cowbees comment), I’ve been thinking of giving someone that did what you did, to ask and learn, a… “coupon” for an EPUB. So if you use EPUBs and you have some book you’d like made into one, come tell me and I’ll prioritize it.

There was a pretty decent EPUB at https://annas-archive.org/md5/5212d271f108a89b4dbd54b658b4fbda so I modified it very slightly, https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/elementary-principles-of-philosophy/

Trekkie, star trek. Not tankie.

Blowing up stuff inside their own borders… And how are they escalating?

A cool book I like is This Soviet World. It shows the Soviet Union as experienced by the author in the 1930s.