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  • NSFW

    Texas hemp regulations tighten, banning most THC products and raising fees | Penalties to individuals include life in prison, businesses can survive with just a fine however.

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  • This is happening because in 2025 Mitch McConnell added a section to the government funding bill of 2026 which closed the 2018 Farm Bill loophole.

    https://hexbear.net/post/6728136

  • Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread

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  • Today is day 9 of Path of Exile 3.29. The 3.29 expansion introduce a new character type (Luminary) that can hire mercenary NPCs to fight alongside you, like in diablo 2. There's a lot of new build possibilities and it's fun. Many players are making a character that provides buffs to the mercenary and then it kills everything instead of you.

  • WE KNOW...

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  • POV: Mom says she's taking away the playstation until your grades improve

  • Mods are sending me screenshots of their mouse cursor hovering over the ban button next to my username in their MOD UIs. This is a PSYOP and it's working. Please stop.

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  • Assigned Moderator At Birth

  • Poll to decide the Official podcast of Hexbear

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  • "Norm thats antisemitic" - chatter whizzing by at 100kmph (UPDATE: chatter in question is literally USMC personnel)

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  • Most people don't post into the slop comm thinking it's a containment. They think "I dislike this thing and I want to humiliate it by labeling it slop".

    It does not feel like "slop" is a containment comm when it's the 3rd largest comm and growing. It feels like slop is trying to steal the character of chapotraphouse.

    The characteristics of Chapo Trap House is a combination of comedy, pop culture, US politics, and US foreign policy. Chapo also had a weekly segment where they would read liberal newspaper opeds and criticize the liberalism.

    Marx and Lenin have a considerable amount of writing where they criticize their liberal opponents. When Lenin criticized Kautsky or Bernstein, was it considered slop? No, of course not. In a certain sense, the purpose of left theory is to criticize contradictions and ultimately resolve the contradictions.

    I do not mean that more content on hexbear is becoming "slop". I mean that posts which could better fit into other comms are being placed into slop.

    We live in a world of contradictions, there are many opposing forces in conflict. The contradictions make people feel uncomfortable and people label those contradictions as slop, but not every contradiction needs to discussed in a containment space.

    I agree with your principle of having this comm being a "containment". Then we have to ask, what is being contained? Is the purpose of the slop comm to contain every contradiction? Certainly not, because most of the real world is made up of contradictions.

    I would propose that what is contained in a containment comm is the most fringe and socially unacceptable subjects. Things that one would be ashamed to say in public. For example, unhinged social media comments.

    The purpose of a containment is to shrink, not grow, and yet slop continues to grow.

    Norm Finkelstein is one of the most influential academics of our time. I DO think that Norm should be criticized for his problematic takes. However, I don't think Finkelstein is considered to be slop. I would not be ashamed to speak about Norm Finkelstein in a public space.

    What I am saying is that the parameters of slop is too broad.

  • "Norm thats antisemitic" - chatter whizzing by at 100kmph (UPDATE: chatter in question is literally USMC personnel)

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  • Here's the history of this comm.

    ~14 years ago - There's a subreddit called "r/shitliberalssay". It's a communist subreddit to criticize things that liberals say on social media. It still exists today and it mostly has social media screenshots.

    ~10 years ago - Chapo Trap House podcast was formed

    ~6 years ago - r/chapotraphouse was banned and hexbear was formed. A user asked for a comm called "ShitReactionariesSay" and the mod created a comm called the_dunk_tank. I think this means the comm was intended to replicated the functionality of r/shitliberalssays. I believe the word dunk was chosen because many hexbears came from twitter where dunk mean to humiliate, in reference to basketball dunking

    ~2 years ago - There was an argument about whether screenshots of lemmy users from other instances were allowed to be posted in the_dunk_tank. It was called "Rule 8", you'll notice that slop only has 7 rules. Then "the_dredge_tank" was created to allow users to continue mocking screenshots of other lemmy instances.

    <2 years ago - The Dunk Tank and The Dredge Tank were closed because the concept of the a "dunk tank" originates from racist Jim Crow era. Though I think many people interpreted the name as the basketball term "dunk". In place of these comms, two new comms formed: "gossip" and "slop".

    9 months ago - The gossip comm is shut down and considered to be merged into the slop comm.

    With that history in mind, I think this comm should resemble the content of /r/shitliberalssay, that is criticizing screenshots of people saying anti-communist things on social media. I don't that subreddit even allows posts that aren't images.

  • IRGC says 2 trespassing oil tankers were struck in Strait of Hormuz and 4 others turned back

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  • US did say that the strait is still open after the 2 ships were hit. lmao

    🚫 CLAIM: Once again, the Iranian government claims it has closed the Strait of Hormuz. This is FALSE.

    ✅ FACT: The Strait of Hormuz remains open for commercial vessel transit. Iran does not control it. Thousands of ships have sailed through the international waterway over the past four months.

    https://nitter.net/CENTCOM/status/2083221914361692384#m

  • "Norm thats antisemitic" - chatter whizzing by at 100kmph (UPDATE: chatter in question is literally USMC personnel)

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  • I wasn't joking when I said I don't read any of the rules or guidelines on these sites but this is definitely slop since it's twitch right?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXiTR9tSvUk

    The name slop was a bad choice because slop is an ambiguous term and people have started using the word slop to describe every thing in existence. When the_dunk_tank was being renamed, I remember some of the suggestions were variations of "the_hog_trough". I liked this name because "hog" is a meme term for like maga chuds going wild. Also, ironically, Hasan had a segment called "hog watch" where he would react to right wing media.

    For some reason, hexbear decided to choose the name slop right at the same time that the "slop" meme was coming into vogue. So then suddenly the word "slop" just means "everything I don't like", rather than "reactionaries being wild". The concept of "slop" is ever expanding. Every day, I see new categories of things being posted into the slop comm, from news articles to pictures of food.

    On a tangent, right wingers have been using the term "goyslop" for like 10 years, while "slop" has been in vogue for like 2 years. "Goyslop" is a antisemitic conspiracy theory that jewish people are tricking non-jewish people into eating low quality food, or low quality other consumable. It's hard to say that this is definitively the reason that "slop" became popular now, but other far right terms have entered mainstream such as "alpha male" and "chad".

    The slop side bar says "For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else." What is chapotraphouse comm? Chapo Trap House is a podcast about discussing US politics and geopolitics from a left wing perspective. Hasan is friends in real life with the people who make Chapo Trap House. Both Norm and Hasan have on Chapo Trap House. The place to post a video where previous Chapo Trap House guests discuss politics pertaining to anti-Zionism would be the Chapo Trap House comm.

    However, I don't think certain posts need to be confined to a certain comm but the slop comm is expanding everyday because some people think "slop" means "every bad thing" and production rate of bad things is accelerating every day. Before long, slop could become hexbear's largest comm.

  • IRGC says 2 trespassing oil tankers were struck in Strait of Hormuz and 4 others turned back

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  • 2h ago

    Oil prices rise after Iran stops ships in the Strait of Hormuz

    Oil prices have risen after Iran said it had stopped two vessels seeking to exit the Strait of Hormuz.

    Brent crude was up $1.14, or 1.3 percent, at $90.17 a barrel as of 11:17am in New York (15:17 GMT).

    Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stopped two tankers from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while four others changed course, the country’s Fars News Agency reported.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/7/31/iran-war-live-irgc-claims-retaliatory-attack-on-kuwait?update=4819693

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    IRGC says 2 trespassing oil tankers were struck in Strait of Hormuz and 4 others turned back

    www.presstv.co.uk /Detail/2026/07/31/773444/IRGC--Violating-oil-tankers-struck-in-Strait-of-Hormuz,-others-turned-back

  • CNN put a cartoon asshole on my YouTube feed for... Reasons?

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  • That's the logo of Claude AI, which is owned by Anthropic.

  • Zionist adult-son Senator John Fetterman says to Drop Site News, "why does Drop Site love Hamas and Iran and Hezbollah so much?"

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  • I imagine that if a confrontation occurred, then the police would side with the Zionist Senator. Last month, Medea Benjamin (who is a very gentle old lady) tried to ask questions to Zionist congressmember Anna Paulina Luna and accidentally touched her arm. Luna called the police and said it was assault and then made the same accusation on social media. Zionists are crybullies.

    Fetterman ran as a progressive and after winning, became one of the most right wing Democrats. He regularly goes on Fox News to say that he wants to switch to the Republican party. Fetterman is someone who celebrated the terrorist Israeli pager attack on Lebanon. Netanyahu gifted Fetterman a silver pager trophy.

    Drop Site News has interviewed leadership of Hamas, members of Hezbollah, and officials of the Iran government. I like Drop Site for that reason. It shows what main stream media isn't reporting. They have exposed when the US government was lying about negotiations.

  • WNBA suspends Seattle Storm co-owner for confronting supporters of transphobic comments made by Sophie Cunningham

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    WNBA suspends Seattle Storm co-owner for confronting supporters of transphobic comments made by Sophie Cunningham

    www.rollingstone.com /culture/culture-news/storm-owner-suspended-sophie-cunningham-trans-athletes-1235601245/
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    (cw graphic description of Israel war crimes) Hasan Piker interviews Professor Norman Finkelstein

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    Iran parliament speaker MB Ghalibaf says that United States will pay for its attacks on Iranian civilians, in response to yesterday's attacks on homes in Qeshm Island

  • Free Speech Crackdown: Germany Deports Bob Vylan Frontman for Anti-Israel Chants

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  • The band is called Bob Vylan and it has 2 members who use the aliases: Bobby Vylan and Bobby Vylan. So they're both named Bob Vylan and the band is also named Bob Vylan.

  • IRGC says it destroyed three F-35 jets during attack on US base in Jordan

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  • Iran knows that US cares more about property than people. There's not US "boots on the ground" in Iran. The US has a base in Jordan. Jordan is some kind of monarchy government which bows to the US.

    Also I think Iran wants to disable the base in Jordan because Jordan is between Iran and Israel. My speculation is that destroying the US base in Jordan makes it easier for Iran to attack Israel.

  • Something i want to run and see is a music discussion. I love music more than anything its my center and the music comm is barely used or seen

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  • What is even the point of people developing lemmy just to have 1 megathread for every comm? That negates entire functionality of lemmy.

    A problem that I've seen with the music comm is that the sidebar indicates that all posts should link to songs. The movies comm sidebar indicates that movies and television should be discussed. The music sidebar says only post songs. It's like whoever made the comm didn't consider that there should be music news or other music-related discussion posted within the comm.

    Most music nerds don't even listen to individual songs. They listen to full albums. Listening to individual songs is for people who play pop radio promo singles.

  • IRGC says it destroyed three F-35 jets during attack on US base in Jordan

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  • https://nitter.net/DropSiteNews/status/2082848070388097500#m

    IRGC Claims It Destroyed Three US F-35 Jets in Jordan Strike

    The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims a missile strike on the Al-Azraq air base in Jordan “completely destroyed” three US F-35 fighter jets and badly damaged three others, according to a statement carried by Iranian state media. The claim has not been confirmed by US or Jordanian officials or by independent sources.

    The IRGC said the attack was retaliation for US airstrikes on two residential buildings on Iran’s Qeshm Island, which killed three members of a family, including a 2-year-old child, and wounded two other children. It also claimed, without figures, that US officers and technical staff were killed at the base.

    Jordan’s military, however, said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed five missiles fired from Iran and that the attack caused no casualties. The US has issued no report of any F-35 losses or casualties.

    https://nitter.net/DropSiteNews/status/2082863605729386844#m

    CENTCOM says Iranian strikes caused no damage at Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base, but OSINT account @EGYOSINT says new Sentinel-2 satellite imagery shows a distinct burn scar in a storage area used by U.S. forces, consistent with a direct impact.

    Sentinel-2 low-res satellite imagery reveals new damage at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait following recent Iranian ballistic missile strikes. A storage area used by U.S. forces shows a distinct burn scar consistent with a direct impact at coordinates 29.34900, 47.54925.

    https://nitter.net/CENTCOM/status/2082850478572900753#m

    🚫 SECOND CLAIM: The IRGC claims Three U.S. F-35 stealth fighters and three other aircraft were destroyed during a recent Iranian attack on an American air base.✅ FACT: No U.S. aircraft were destroyed or damaged in recent attempted Iranian attacks. All missiles and drones were intercepted or failed to reach targeted areas.

    CentCom denying the claims, but some images show damage to aircraft hangars.

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    IRGC says it destroyed three F-35 jets during attack on US base in Jordan

    www.presstv.co.uk /Detail/2026/07/30/773376/IRGC-operation-nasr-2-US-run-Jordan-air-base-F35

  • US attack on residential building in Qeshm Island Southern Iran kills family of 3 including two-year-old child

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    IRGC says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed for as long as US threats and interference in the region persist

    www.presstv.co.uk /Detail/2026/07/30/773358/IRGC-Hormuz-US-interference-threats
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    US attack on residential building in Qeshm Island Southern Iran kills family of 3 including two-year-old child

    www.presstv.co.uk /Detail/2026/07/30/773359/Iran-US-Qeshm-strike

  • US striking Iran after 5-day pause since Friday; US previously attacked Iran for 13 consecutive nights

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  • US says strikes have ended

    U.S. Strikes IRGC Targets After Attempted Iranian Attacks

    TAMPA, Fla. — At 10 p.m. ET on July 29, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully completed a heavy wave of strikes against Iran in response to yesterday's attempted missile attacks on U.S. forces.

    CENTCOM assets struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran, including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities. The strikes aimed to further diminish threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercial shipping, and neighboring Gulf countries.

    On July 28, IRGC forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted.

    More than 50,000 U.S. service members are currently deployed to the Middle East and remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready.

    https://nitter.net/CENTCOM/status/2082651747869147214#m

  • Pop Culture @hexbear.net
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    (cw sexual assault) Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cd7lg2nz2x2o
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    US striking Iran after 5-day pause since Friday; US previously attacked Iran for 13 consecutive nights

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    Zionist adult-son Senator John Fetterman says to Drop Site News, "why does Drop Site love Hamas and Iran and Hezbollah so much?"

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    Trump tells Fox News about Iran, reacting to IRGC attack on US base in Jordan last night, "We are going to beat the fucking shit out of them"

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    Kentucky governor tells Mitch McConnell: Prove you can serve or ‘resign’

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/congress/kentucky-governor-tells-mitch-mcconnell-prove-can-serve-resign-senate-rcna589647
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    IRGC hits US airbase in Jordan with ballistic missiles, halts trespassing ships in Strait of Hormuz

    www.presstv.co.uk /Detail/2026/07/29/773275/Iran-IRGC-ballistic-missile-strike-United-States-airbase-Jordan-Strait-of-Hormuz
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    Last night US and Saudi Arabia launched joint aggression against Iraqi resistance, at least 20 killed by attacks

    www.presstv.co.uk /Detail/2026/07/29/773276/United-States-Saudi-Arabia-attack-Iraq-PMU
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    US says that Iran attacked US military base in Jordan today for the first time since Friday; US and Saudi conduct strikes in Iraq

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    Iran Foreign Minister Araghchi says that Ukraine's attack on Iranian ship was unintentional and calls for restitution rather than retaliation

  • Pop Culture @hexbear.net
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    Moderators of pop culture subreddit /r/FauxMoi say that Reddit has been suppressing the community since May 2026 due to posts criticizing Israel and Trump

    archive.is /cb5lK
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    Netanyahu, Zelensky, and Trump will attend Lindsey Graham's funeral in DC today

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/jul/27/netanyahu-zelenskyy-trump-lindsey-graham-funeral
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    cw Zionism

    80s pop group 'Culture Club' singer Boy George released a pro-Israel song which denies the genocide in Gaza

    www.theguardian.com /music/2026/jul/27/you-say-genocide-i-say-war-boy-george-releases-pro-israel-song-we-will-dance-again