I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don't actually think everyone there is insane. I don't care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It's not going to scare me to take this down

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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have you considered you are just observing this:

Hexbear is for communists to talk to communists. They get plenty of the "default" liberal opinions from waves hands around vaguely and are entitled to their own community, no?.

Obviously if you go into Hexbear and just start posting anti-China stuff they're going to ban you. It's not like the English-speaking world is bereft of anti-China news articles.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This isn't accurate, they were very active in brigandine other federations, hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments drowning out anything that may be a tiny bit critical of china or Russia. Or pro west.

    There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    hitting random threads on .world

    Dang that's pretty impressive for an instance that got blocked by .world before they ever started federating.

    Or did I already miss make stuff up o'clock?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    This isn’t accurate, they were very active in brigandine other federations, hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments drowning out anything that may be a tiny bit critical of china or Russia. Or pro west.

    Have you considered that their users were just browsing the front page and what you're describing is just the nature of lemmy and how federation works?

    There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

    You're likely referring to the_dunk_tank which is a community that encourages bullying homophobia, transphobia, fascists and liberale (pretty based imo)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    hitting random threads on .world for instance with hundreds of reply comments

    .world preemptively defederated from hexbear "as a last resort" can you clarify when the events you're referring to would have happened?

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago

    There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

    Yeah, I do remember that. That's why I'm not signed up there. They weren't changing anyone's minds with their shitstirring and were doing it for their own enjoyment (which is damaging to all communities, even nonpolitical ones, if people avoid your platform due to trolling).

    That said, it was a past problem, and posters on lemmy.world are still out there complaining about Hexbear like they're relevant. I'm speaking about the current situation.

    I'm not advocating for them to re-federate with lemmy.world (I have no dog in the race, anyway, being a part of neither instance) but I do remember watching the Hexbear mods/admins shutting down the actual brigading of threads before lemmy.world de-federated. Not sure it was a solvable problem, anyway, Hexbear is rather antagonistic in ways I don't agree with.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not trying to join their cult. I'm not feeling excluded from their cult. I'm saying their cult should not exist. It is a mixture of crazy people and Chinese propaganda, and it deserves to be stamped out.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah yea, everyone that has an opinion that isn't mine is dangerous and deserves to be silenced. I totally agree. I think lemmy.world should refederate, and then defederate a second time, just to make sure they get the message.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not everyone who disagrees with me. Just extremists and morons. Tankies happen to be both.

    REAL communists are cool. Hexbear is a pile of shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What do you consider a real Communist, if not people who read Communist Theory, advocate for Communism, and defend real movements towards Communism?

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    Why do you, a self-professed liberal that has not read Communist Theory, get to pull the No-True-Scotsman card on Communists?

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    It's been on my mind recently that the global hope of lgbt people is China.

    🤣🤣🤣

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Go on, copy Awoo's full quote.

    It's been on my mind recently that the global hope of lgbt people is China.

    That's gonna sound weird to anyone that thinks China is anti-lgbt, but the reality is that only exists among the old and they're phasing out. China's trajectory for lgbt issues is likely to be positive, because China's trajectory for PEOPLE issues is positive.

    The west is in decline, and with it the marginalised groups are being scapegoated as targets to distract the population from their declining conditions. Lgbt issues are likely to deteriorate across the west as the decline continues, as are other issues such as migrants and race.

    China will represent a population of 1.4 billion people in ascendancy and with a positive trend towards these issues I believe it's going to eventually become the place with the best conditions along similar lines to Cuba. It will represent the largest block of lgbt people in the world, and the lgbt people of China will become the largest advocate of lgbt conditions elsewhere in the world.

    This hasn't happened yet, but the trends are there. It's coming in the longterm.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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    Lol who the fuck said anything about Falun Gong? That's out of left field. You got a bug in your programming?

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    i guess I don't understand your point. Cults are bad, seems like we agree on that.

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    Ah. Well I disagree, I think they're on an equal level of danger and detachment from reality and susceptibility of their members to abuse. Definitely a cult.

    They're not just people with different political views. They're a cult that vigorously polices their orthodoxy. Dissent is not tolerated.

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