As someone who has gotten many, many, many rude comments (some of them were polite though) from hexbears, I felt the need to chip in. These comments had me brooding over them all day long for a couple of days. (I have since then moved on.) I listed the links to the rude comments below, but I think I should make it clear that while I used to support the idea of defederating from them, I have changed my stance since I heard about the upcoming changes to Lemmy allowing users to block instances. People should be able to decide this for themselves, but it is too much effort to switch instances to decide which instances you don’t want to see.

Please do also note that I chose to leave out the polite comments in the list below. If you don’t want to click on every link, just check out the first one and the last one.

(roughly in chronological order)

:::spoiler (very long list, click to expand)

• The majority of the comments below are from this post. Observe the amount of self-important emojis from hexbears.
• lemm.ee/comment/2051913 (single emoji saying “NO”)
• lemm.ee/comment/2053280
• lemm.ee/comment/2072476 (said something about my "paranoid conspiracy theories in response to my comment “I know right! How come there are so, so many people defending China here? I thought they were the minority. Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.” (a few layers up the thread) I do admit that my comment was a bit arrogant though.)
• lemm.ee/comment/2072476 (saying that I brought the stormfront (reddit) with me when I expressed my concerns about the number of pro-china comments)
• lemm.ee/comment/2071603 (horrible, horrible spelling mistakes, randomly capitalized words, and misuse of punctuation marks. the comment did not make much sense as a whole either.)
• lemm.ee/comment/2072444 (mocked me for calling another hexbear out for calling someone a “paranoid weirdo.” I just commented that this behavior is “plain rude and disrespectful.”)
• lemm.ee/comment/2075618 (wtf?)
• lemm.ee/comment/2075539 (apparently the words “plain rude and disrespectful” are dumb.)
• lemm.ee/comment/2077167 (I f*king hate the “COPE” emoji. So condescending.)
• lemm.ee/comment/2077167 (blah blah blah taiwan is actually chinese taipei)
• lemm.ee/comment/2078091 (blah blah chinese taipei)
• lemm.ee/comment/2078095 (gosh the emojis really are annoying)
• lemm.ee/comment/2078095 (emoji)
• lemm.ee/comment/2071603 (emoji >:()
• lemm.ee/comment/2078254
• lemm.ee/comment/2071603, lemm.ee/comment/2093706, lemm.ee/comment/2097415, lemm.ee/comment/2100026, lemm.ee/comment/2100026 (baselessly calling me a fox news fan)
• lemm.ee/comment/2094005
• lemm.ee/comment/2073382
• lemm.ee/comment/2097415 (if you decide to click this link, please don’t actually wait for the countdown. It is just the same old disturbing pig emoji. honestly, f*ck this pig emoji.)
• lemm.ee/comment/2093904 (extremely pompous comment thinking that the opinion hexbears hold is “better”)
• lemm.ee/comment/2107530 (i am kinda tired of writing these descriptions for the links)
• lemm.ee/comment/2107858 (I guess now I’m a “dopey politically uneducated liberals who think that viewing MSNBC+breadtube a few times makes them experts on a particular subject”)
• lemm.ee/comment/2107858
• lemm.ee/comment/2121519
• lemm.ee/comment/2122148 (gee some people just can’t live without claiming taiwan to be a part of china at least once a day)
• lemm.ee/comment/2122634
• lemm.ee/comment/2122148
• lemm.ee/comment/2108349
• lemm.ee/comment/2122584 and lemm.ee/comment/2172415 (thinks that China is more democratic than Saudi Arabia)
• lemm.ee/post/3837993 (Seriously? A post of a screenshot of my comment with the second most upvoted comment outright admitting that what they are doing is “communists bullying liberals”? BTW I now believe that the more than 10 upvotes each of their comments get are actually legitimate. I should not have called their upvote counts “sketchy.” Sorry.)

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There are so many people who believe that the ideology suppressed by the government is always bad. While this is sometimes the case, this is definitely not the case for authoritarianism.