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.
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yata@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoThey 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.
iie@hexbear.net 11 months ago
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.
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?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes. I don’t get how you’re confused by that
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.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I mean, I like aggressively leftist and most of lemmy that I’ve experienced feels that way. This hexbear shit feels like anti-leftist agitation though. It fucking stinks of feds. If not at the beginning, they’re certainly there now
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Show me
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This is the exact type of thing I’m talking about. If you’re not a fed you’re doing terrific for them for free
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.
somename@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I don’t think you’re actually a communist. Not a real one at least.
Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Hexbears should be sent to the gulag for being cringe
Annakah69@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I doubt we agree of much. You reek of anarcho-natoism.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Consider the self-flattery of assuming a community that existed in isolation for three years just to eventually make you look bad when they became federated again.
Maybe there is a real disagreement instead?
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
sharedburdens@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I like to also be able to see lemmygrad
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.
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Or, maybe, people just hold different beliefs to you.
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.