we have several salute emotes but i haven't heard if the image size thing has been fixed so let's just pretend i posted one

Hey thanks for the input! I'd like to say that we users on hexbear can get rude or rowdy and that can seem jarring to some people. I understand how that crassness can be off-putting.

To those people I'd encourage that they take a step back and observe what that rudeness comes in response to. To me many of you are just as rude, if not much more. I've yet to see hexbears mistreat anyone that disagrees in good faith. It's a website with a low tolerance for debatebros and smuglords, so if you behave in that way, yes you will be treated with derision.
In other words: What goes around comes around.
To the users that feel offended I ask you this: Do you not think civility is a two-way street? If you initiate discussion with a smug gotcha, why do you feel you deserve to be met with anything but the same attitude? If your response to a well-thought out post is "smh Kremlin propaganda", why do you feel as though you deserve to be treated with respect?
I disagree with plenty of hexbear users on many issues, yet it has never been an issue. To me it is you that have a hostile site culture. It is nigh impossible to just ask a question or dissent. Asking for sources to claims gets me nothing or at the very best a link to Wikipedia after hounding one of you for ANYTHING that can move a discussion forward in good faith.

Supporting authoritative regimes with horrible track records of human rights abuse and an absolute zero tolerance to criticism doesn't make you progressive or edgy.

It makes you a cunt and you are not getting downvoted because you are right.

Tankie culture is a fucking disease.

So, no response to the actual question of the thread, just whining and complaining on your part.

That's because they just put your (our) instance on their whitelist, you'll start seeing their comments and discussion as of Sept 1st around 6pm East.

Fuckin hit the nail on the head with this one. I run in a lot of leftist communities there are always tankies, but honest to God that shit doesn't come up unless you seek it out.

Hexbear is a whole ass community of people not some kind of weird ideological monolith populated with people who spend their whole day harassing others.

On top of that I haven't even seen them do anything that wild?? There is NO WAY that this whole drama could possibly be in good faith. The outrage FAR outweighs any evidence of foul play.

Like it's the internet if you go into a discussion about politics expect it to get fuckin heated and don't run crying about defederating bc someone hurt your feelings.

No one is seeking you out and making you spill your politics publicly so they can bully you for not being a marxist-lenninist-maoist-purist I fuckin promise dude.

The level of pearl clutching I've been seeing about hexbear since I joined Lemmy is ASTOUNDING and mad counter productive if we're trying to make the fediverse work.

simply based

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.

Sure those are only ideological differences, but they are really big ones.

I've seen plenty misbehaving, but I have seen a lot more complaining about them. I'll see a heavily upvoted comment like "wow the hexbear tankies are out in force today" and I'll scour the thread to find one heavily dowmvoted comment of that pig picture emote. The whining has gotten far more irritating.

Absolute chad