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Some people there post burning flags of other countries and want the total destruction of them... "Death to country XY" being upvoted is as normal there as using toothpaste... Mods seem to support that and ban people who criticize it.
If we had only those people on the planet, there would be nothing but war.
Hexbear is a septic tank of degenerates.
yeah duh, thats why we block the redfash triad
Yeah I think Hexbear is the only big server sh.itjust.works defederated with, probably for the best. ML is bad but there's enough other people to water it down I suppose
This shit is much wider than just hexbear. The lemmy creator himself is leftist and has pro communist essays on his github
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/dessalines_marxism_study_plan.md
This is atrocious.
It’s more their support of authoritarian states and policies than the communist thought that I take issue with, personally.
Yah, that’s why people call them tankies. Any criticism of the USSR, or even acknowledging why people criticize it, is a banable offense.
The term tankie get’s thrown around a lot, to the point of dilution, but the origin of it comes from western communist who defended the Soviet Union putting down the 1956 Hungarian revolution, notably using T-54/55 tanks. It later came to mean western communist that would ignore or downplay any criticism of the USSR, as “propaganda”. These days it could even be applied more broadly to “People who call them selves left wing or communists but who will defend the actions of any authoritarian regime so long as it is notionally in opposition to the US and it’s allies” IE people who defended Assad and Putin.
I think hexbear fits even a fairly narrow older definition. Which is why most major instances are defederated from them.
long as it is notionally in opposition to the US and it’s allies
Man, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but Russia isn't even opposed to the US, as long as the Christian white supremacist fascists are ruling things.
The sheer irony of people playing defense for a white supremacist fascist state and then accusing someone else of being a "fascist sympathizer". Like dawg the call is coming from inside the house.
“People who call them selves left wing or communists but who will defend the actions of any authoritarian regime so long as it is notionally in opposition to the US and it’s allies”
I could never understand that. I mean I understand that for someone completely dissatisfied with the government in a Western country, it's a lot easier to just switch sides and join a community of like-minded people with a large state-funded network of information behind it, but the morality of that is just beneath me. Besides, you won't be completely alone even if you oppose or harshly criticize both the West and the likes of Russia or China.
I mean, I think a big part of it is foreign influence efforts landing very strongly with dissenting groups in the US. Then forging influence networks using the extant distrust for the US’s government to dismiss nuance that would paint their patrons in a bad light.
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Never heard of that, but I'll crosspost. Thanks! 😄
There's a reason most instances are de-fed from them. Play with fire and get burned I don't know what you expected. This post makes you seem either oblivious or knowing but still complaining.
It's not the only gaming community I'm subscribed to. It didn't stand out as being particularly problematic. If you look at its front page today, it's all about games and you won't be able to say it's done from a politicized perspective that would invite comments to the effect of "Russia good", let alone that Holodomor is a Nazi construct. Personally, I'm very open-minded and I try not to judge a book by its cover. In the thread, someone dismissed a source just because of their vibes rather than its content. I wouldn't do that.
Personally, I'm very open-minded and I try not to judge a book by its cover.
It's not just the cover, and now you know that. In fact, it's the cover that misled you.
And now you know why most instances have defeated from hexbear. It’s extremely toxic.
Agreed, though I'm still not sure I'd defederate even after this incident. It may be best that we inform people of what Hexbear stands for and let them decide.
If they want to guzzle auth propaganda they can get it from the tap and make a hexbear grad or ml account. The fact that you genuinely though a mod would do something about holodomor denial on hexbear shows you don't fully understand what they're about and why numerous instances already defederated ages ago.
What do you expect, it’s HexBear. They make ML look like neoliberals.
I align more closely with hexbear politics than almost all non-hexbear users. IMO, their politics is not the problem -- they're just an astoundingly toxic community.