We will convince them to like us by spamming emojis knowing that they will take up the screens of our opponents! That’ll show ‘em
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julianh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hexbear: why do so many people want to degenerate with us
Also hexbear: Spams every complaint in other instances with unrelated images
Furball@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 months ago
We don’t want you to like us, and we know from experience you’re going to whine and complain no matter how polite we are, so enjoy the pig poop lib
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 11 months ago
new solution is to block you people on sight
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Why not just go back to reddit? It would be faster.
yukichigai@kbin.social 11 months ago
Don't forget the 5-10% of them who aggressively insult OP and anyone else commenting in the thread.
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Hexbear: why do so many people want to removed with us
Where did you get this idea from? We know damn well why: you’re a bunch of coddled libs who are used to the reddit admins protecting you from seeing any views outside the USA overton windows, and you’re now freaking out at seeing real difference of opinion.
julianh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m well aware how fucked up the US is. It created al-qaeda. Hell, this is some crazy secret knowledge you can’t learn anywhere, it’s on Wikipedia.
Also a hot take, I don’t like the war in Ukraine. I don’t think it should be happening and I wish it would end because I think war fucking sucks.
Believe it or not, the world is a complex place filled with a lot of countries that do lots of things, both good and bad, and it’s not cool or edgy to just say the US is bad and [insert other country here] is good. Hell, you realize one of the most influential forces in the Chinese government (and a huge influence in the west) is Tencent, a massive profit-focused cooperation. That ain’t communist.
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Looks like you replied to the wrong post.
lutillian@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
So, the primary reason that happens, and the primary reason I’d vote defederation on them every time, is because their instance has down votes disabled for some forsaken reason. It’s not 100% the users fault, it’s because a comment is the only mode of response they have available for something they don’t agree with. So a negative image macro is their downvote. Due to this, they end up flooding other instances threads and only see a bunch of people who agree with the op of a thread or a post, which of course makes them feel like they need to show their displeasure way what’s been posted. Meanwhile we can see the 500 to 9.2k ratio on the racist hot take.
yata@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They are so eager to prove themselves the assholes that people accuse them of being, and then they whine and cry about instances defederating from them.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m pretty sure the whole thing is a false flag/astroturf to discredit sincere leftist discourse. It seems a lot like a blend of bad leftist parody, and edgy 14-year-olds who fell for it
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sounds like r/chapotraphouse in a nutshell.
Also, I think TheDude was underselling why they were originally banned on Reddit. They were the left-wing version of r/TheDonald. The reason he listed was just the excuse Reddit used to justify kicking them off the platform
iie@hexbear.net 11 months ago
what the fuck does that even mean, “left wing version of /r/TheDonald”
like the donald but believing the exact opposite things?
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 months ago
This comment is the most “reddit liberal seeing real difference of opinion for the first time” thing I have ever seen.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m a leftist (not a liberal, actually leftist). It’s not a difference in opinion, it’s a presentation so outrageously bad it can’t be in good faith. It’s a middle-school mockery of communists, it just makes us look ridiculous to the people we should be engaging with sincerely.
Pandemanium@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why is it hard to believe or understand that this, right here and now on lemmy, really is most westerners’ first time interacting with actual communists? A lot of us dems are pretty open minded and a lot of us want the US to move toward socialism. But most of our exposure to communism has just been “communism bad.” So of course we don’t understand the fuller spectrum of leftism, because our fascist conservative party has forced everything so far to the right, and our education system is abysmal.
Then we come here and see a bunch of “stupid libs” memes, which from the outside we can’t understand because we identify as liberals (leftists). You folks give off the same vibe of how our fascist conservatives treat us (own the libs, kill a dem to save America, etc), and I think thats why people assume or equate you with Nazis. We’ve never met real communists, and a lot of stuff on the internet is fake. It’s entirely understandable.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This is the most “American that doesn’t understand the liberal is only considered left in the US” comment I have ever seen
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This exactly. I swear the entire point is to discredit and divide. The FBI couldn’t do a better job if they tried
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I mistakenly assumed that they would be more similar to chapotraphouse, but now I see that the 3 year exile has stripped away many of the reasonable people. I still hope that some of these users will snap out of it and realize they are acting obnoxiously and unproductively, but the chances of that happening seem slim at this point.
CTH was aggressively leftist but it was actually funny and self aware. Hexbear seems to have forgotten how to interact with ordinary people.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Show me
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I don’t know, I’ve actually met people in real life who were sort of like that. It was really toned down compared to what you would read online but it was still there.
somename@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Thinking people who disagree with you politically are bots or paid posters isn’t a healthy mindset to have.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think they’re boots because I nearly exactly agree with them politically. They’re almost exactly my beliefs, but with the most annoying, self-righteous, groupthink presentation possible. That’s why I think they’re a false flag smear campaign to discredit actual leftists.
sharedburdens@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I’m literally in an org irl
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Then don’t come here? You don’t have to browse by ‘All’ you know
1nt3rd1m3nt10n4l@hexbear.net 11 months ago
No. I had an account when the instance was first set up, but I got banned for getting into an argument with a power-user. I wouldn’t say it’s always been like this, but this is definitely what it’s like normally.
We mutated out of a band of subreddit refugees from r/ChapoTrapHouse, but I feel like the current community doesn’t fully live up to what it used to be.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think it was, by its nature, susceptible to compromise as described above, witch has been capitalized upon. Whatever it was, or pretends to be, has pretty clearly been manipulated into a deliberately obnoxious parody that, functionally, obstructs left unity and overwhelmingly benefits neolibs.
TawnyFroggy@hexbear.net 11 months ago
lol.
liquidparasyte@pawb.social 11 months ago
Oh, I literally just had a comment on my thoughts on it. Here is it pasted, since I don’t want direct linking to it. TLDR it’s probably majority those 14 year olds, not a false flag.
The only issue is that they come from a specific strain of western leftist that got into the “uwu dank Soviet club” meme of the mid-10s and never evolved past that understanding of the people, projects, policies and states they stan like a fandom. They could take some lessons from the anarchists tbqh, but they’d rather post PPB and “liberals get the wall”. Very annoying.
iie@hexbear.net 11 months ago
hexbears are abrasive because experience has taught us to expect 90% of liberals to respond in bad faith, to not listen to us and to dismiss us as bots or paid propagandists or stupid, evil sycophants with no moral compass or justifications for anything we believe and no sincere interest in improving the world, and to tune out when we attempt to argue otherwise.
MrMonkey@lemm.ee 11 months ago
go the fuck back to hexbear. Your instance sucks so hard you went and created another account on another instance to get around defederation. Fuck you.