Comment on Hexbear federation megathread

Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• autismdragon@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  abusive

  I know my instance is blocked and you probably won’t see this, but as a parental abuse survivor I really take issue with this trivialization of abuse.

  arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Conflict-Is-Not-Abuse

  And neither is disagreement.

  I won’t pretend that hexbear comments are not sometimes mean. But calling them “abusive” is just trivialization .

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  • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I clicked show anyways, and was met with someone denying abusive behavior and trying to use their personal history of suffering from abuse to trivialize the actions of brigading, abusive tankies. I’ve received fucking death threats from Marxists, buddy. Don’t tell me I haven’t been mistreated.

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    • autismdragon@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t “brigade” a post thats literally on my front page and which the admin explicitly invited us to participate in.

      Conflict isn’t and will remain not abuse. And looking at your post history, you’ve said plenty of mean things to people on hexbear in their own goddamn instance so don’t try to take the moral highground there buddy.

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      • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lmao I’ve had Hexbear blocked for weeks. And I don’t tend to play nice with bloodthirsty fascists. You’re all the same. I get death threats from the insane right, I get death threats from the insane left, the only difference is the flavor of the authoritarian hellhole they want to institute

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  • ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The books title is correct but the actual content has a lot of abuse apologia

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• MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your dismissal and slandering of one of the single biggest LGBTQ+ communities online as lying about who they are as some sort of elaborate ploy by right wing trolls is really, really fucking disgusting and we’d rightly ban you on Hexbear for it.

  Where were you for three years whilst those users and mods advocated, educated, and unfortunately suffered abuse in the process (from people we thankfully and rightly purged) of building one of the most LGBTQ+ places on the internet? Or the mutual aid our communities have done to help LGBTQ+ members overcome houseless, or not have to skip meals, or when those users have helped trans comrades find get access to healthcare and the medicine they need while living in hostile places?

  I don’t doubt and I hope we continue to improve even further, and I don’t claim these achievements as my own, but your assumption is gross and shouldn’t be accepted - never mind left uncorrected.

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• Awoo@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They use their supposed support of LGBT rights

  This is fucking offensive. You’re telling me that I and thousands of others are faking being trans or gay? You realise how this comes across right? Vile.

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• lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It derails any attempt by anyone else at joining in and is on the list of reasons I’m probably defederation in this case. Sure, I can block the entire instance if I’m on Connect but then they dominate so there’s nothing left that isn’t hexbear.

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  • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And they consistently brigade any post commenting on a political topic with their abuse

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• Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree. I have to find some way to block that instance from all the lemmy apps and the browser version. I didnt even realize they are supposed to be a leftist instance with how much anti liberal posts and pro fascism posts and comments I see from there.

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  • autismdragon@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We criticize liberalism from the left though. I understand that you’re not used to that but liberalism is not actually the leftmost part of the political spectrum. Its also worth noting that when we say “liberalism” we include both what you understand to be “liberals” and “conservatives” because thats what the word originally meant. It just meant “supporter of capitalism”. We have significant issues with the Democratic Party (and the equivalent parties in other first world nations) though and don’t pretend otherwise, but all those criticisms are coming from Marxist perspectives.

    I’m not even going to get into it with the “pro fascism” part because I know this is almost certainly based on a misunderstanding of what fascism. Hexbear is explicitly anti-fascist, as are all communists except those weirdo MAGA communists of which there are like 10.

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    • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hexbear user claiming to be anti fascist in favor of Marxist authoritarianism. To be followed by anger at me calling them out for being an authoritarian or denying that communism is inherently authoritarian. Later, the conversation will devolve into denial that the USSR was authoritarian, that it occupied and oppressed the countries of Eastern Europe and those constituent republics of the Soviet Empire which didn’t authentically want to be there (like Ukraine and the Baltic states) and whataboutism about American cold war actions.

      Yes, we have all seen this conversation before, and all your rationalizations. You want to criticize the Democrats? Sure, fine, whatever, they aren’t perfect. But generally, a conversation with a tankie or chapo devolves into acrimony unless you favor dismantling capitalism in favor of their preferred brand of authoritarianism and support their historical revisionism.

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      • autismdragon@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

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  • MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    pro fascism posts

    This is just an outright lie. We’re an explicitly anti-fascist instance, have the strictest rules against bigotry I’ve seen anywhere on the internet, and the following is one of the core tenants of our culture and code of conduct:

    We do not platform fascists and refuse to engage in any form of debate with them on this platform.

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    • Apollo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The guy is probably confusing authoritarian for facism - the few posts I’ve seen from hexbear members (that stand out anyway) were genocide denial (china/uyghur) or were downplaying the atrocities committed by the USSR because "they weren’t as bad as insert whataboutism here’.

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    • hypelightfly@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We do not platform fascists and refuse to engage in any form of debate with them on this platform.

      This is an outright lie. Hexbear is full of fascists.

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    • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Communists and fascists are two sides of the same coin. The only difference is the flavor of the government that the secret police will work for and run the concentration camps for, which people they will suppress and kill, and whose property they will confiscate for the benefit of the Party.

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      • MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Same old ahistorical buzzword nonsense. Even if anyone took your false equivalence seriously, how do you explain the secret police and concentration camps of all those ‘liberal’ nations? Or do you only scream unsupported accusations of fascism at people you disagree with as a cheap tactic to try and silence them?

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      • Apollo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Communism is a stateless philosophy, facism is explicitly pro state. The two couldn’t be more different.

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