That’s what I was thinking, though you can’t rely on assumptions like that. It feels like they’re intentionally making stuff up for leverage.
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gk99@beehaw.org 9 months ago
Hexbear kinda just seem like trolls? Like no normal person seriously thinks making fun of a single dictator is equivalent to racism, it reads more like they’re genocide apologists who don’t want China’s government questioned.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 8 months ago
natebluehooves@pawb.social 9 months ago
This tracks with what I found when looking into defederation. Calling them leftists is kinda falling for their deception.
They are authoritarians and use the cloak of leftism to defend authoritarian governments. They do not argue honestly and they brigade, coordinating on hexbear in plain sight. I defederated my two instances a while back for these reasons.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Being left and auth aren’t mutually exclusive. Look at Stalin for example.
natebluehooves@pawb.social 9 months ago
Fair! These folks do not actually believe in any of the leftist policies they claim to like, however.
If you claim the PRC is anything but an authoritarian capitalist hellscape, you have nothing of value to contribute. The world is filled with authoritarians who use the popularity of leftist policies to get into power, then put those people in camps.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 8 months ago
If they’re going to do nothing but troll and be toxic, then unfortunately it’s necessary. I also feel strongly that excessively defederating or banning visitors from the entire instance harms the fediverse. Instance bans and defederation should be used when instances have shown that they can’t be relied on to communicate meaningfully outside their instance.