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I appear to be out of the loop. What's wrong with hexbear? I'm not familiar with the instance.
They're just an annoying bunch of wannabe communists who sound incredibly smug and post a ton of stickers in comments. Having said that I've moved to lemm.ee when lemmy.world defeterated from hexbear.
Lots of tankies from what I'm seeing, they're the "alt-left" if you will, they believe in just as much weird stuff as the alt-right but are on the left side of the spectrum... Heck they end up meeting on many things...
If you're familiar with CTH and the dirtbag left, Hexbear is where they went after being banned by Reddit.
For what it is when lemm.ee considered de-federated from them they flooded the instance turning a 200 comment thread into 1200. And lots of harassment. Edit: In case you wanted to read that clusterbomb of a thread: https://lemm.ee/post/4543536
I had to look them up but yep I do remember CTH. Thanks for the answer, I'll keep an eye out.
What? There's plenty of nonsense in there, for example:
[https://lemm.ee/comment/2394714](also, fuck off landlord. Mao was right.)
From the wiki:
... yikes. That said, it's online bickering, there's always going to be examples of bad behaviour.
As for my own, unasked, opinion on hexbear. I don't really notice them around. Maybe its because I'm blind to them as I am generally left leaning, I did by contrast notice the EH memes before they were defederated. I'm generally an all/new scroller on Lemmy.
No, no, they're right on this one. Killing your landlord is good actually. Like literally everything else Mao did was bad, but he was right on this.
I'm a little more reserved. I would peg my response to their attitude to change.
If they're willing to step aside, or even support shelter becoming a human right, then I've got bigger problems than them.
If they're going to cling tooth and nail to a system that sees people freeze and starve for their own enrichment then yeah, fuck 'em.
I mean, they could do that now. They don't gotta wait until the knives are at their throat--though if that does happen, i expect plenty will say whatever they think will get them off the hook.
I mean, the people who believe that landlords should be killed could do that now. They don't gotta wait either.
The police disagree with you on that.
When you talk about social change via the killing of landlords being a good thing, and having knives to their throats, well the police already disagree with that. I took that as a given that you didn't care. So they could do that now, they don't gotta wait.
But here's the point. We have established someone might not actively pursue social change that they know to be right because it would incur some personal cost, but they wouldn't hinder it either. I've got less issue with them.
I have most issue with people who actively hinder that social change.
Of course i care. Don't be foolish.
Remember this started off with talk about Mao's policies.
If you care about what the police think, the police think Mao's policies are wrong.
I don't care what the police think about Mao's politics. That doesn't matter. I care whether the police think they can shoot me to death and get away with it freely.
My apologies, I was under the impressiom you were listening to what I was saying
Clearly you aren't, and taking to you is pointless.
Sorry for not being willing to get shot by the cops without accomplishing anything that matters, I guess.
You wish for change but are unwilling to affect that change. While being mad at others that might also want that change but are unwilling to affect the change for you. You are mad at them to the point you have suggested their murder being a good idea. Your impotent rage is less interesting but, this is the hypocrisy I have highlighted in you. See it, don't see it, makes no difference to me.
There's a joke in driving that everyone more extreme than you is unwise and everyone less than you is unskilled while forgetting that everyone is still driving in the same direction. I see that same observation in activism and I'm unwilling to kill people driving in the same direction reserving my anger for those actively driving in the wrong direction you do you though.
I get the feeling if you learnt more about Mao you'd find a lot of things you'd want to add to your list.
Anyone who downvoted the above post is free to go back to reddit. You clearly do not understand how the internet works, return to your walled garden.
I had some conversations here. They were saying that north Korea is a lovely democracy, Russia is totally justified in Ukraine, and China isn't doing anything to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Just some examples from yesterday.
Well. I think that thread gave me cancer. What a cesspool.
They're coming here. They've all got their pronouns after their names, (which is actually a great idea) so it's a little easier to tell them apart. I've got a useless thread with a few in [email protected] right now.
It's frustrating, because I have pronouns after my name and I dislike hexbear.... a lot. It is a good idea to have users give pronouns and automatically attach it.
Their behaviour has made me constantly check if people with pronouns after their names are part of hexbear before engaging in any threads, because of the stress of dealing with them :/, sometimes I do engage anyway and immediately regret it /shrug
It is depressing, because normally using pronouns like this indicates trans supportiveness so I feel better about conversing with people with them on their names. Hexbear has ruined this because of their behaviour around all other topics and sometimes trans topics.
Just hope Jerboa gets instance-blocking features soon ;p, then I can block them on both my lemmy accounts ^.^
That community is a disaster anyway.