I don’t understand. They are joking about US imperialism, not planning abuse and harassment towards blahaj. The fact that they frame that as the US invading Iraq shows that they don’t approve of that behavior. Or am I missing something?
I suspect what they are doing is both, that is to say, talking about what on Reddit would have been called brigading (at least, I suspect this to be the case based on a number of threads I had encountered recently from the shark instance, wherein the majority of comments were from hexbear users), but in a sarcastic way. In this way, they both entertain themselves joking around, while making their actions attractive to more of their own users to join them by making it look like a meme, making them more effective, while also having the cover of “we’re just joking” when called out on it.
They jokingly do what they criticize on a daily basis? I’ve seen these types of joking from the alt-right but those were always different than this. More hateful. More about “the target”. I highly doubt that’s what’s going on here.
Or rather they jokingly criticize what they do on a daily basis. It’s a really easy way to troll, just mirror your target in bad faith. You’re essentially beyond reproach.
Nothing is stopping you from interacting with them further, what exactly is your issue with this decision?
It came across my feed and I thought it ill advised so I commented on it. Still think it’s ill advised after having interacted with hexbear users regularly now and I just didn’t find any indication that they act in bad faith.
I don’t understand. They are joking about US imperialism, not planning abuse and harassment towards blahaj. The fact that they frame that as the US invading Iraq shows that they don’t approve of that behavior. Or am I missing something?
I suspect what they are doing is both, that is to say, talking about what on Reddit would have been called brigading (at least, I suspect this to be the case based on a number of threads I had encountered recently from the shark instance, wherein the majority of comments were from hexbear users), but in a sarcastic way. In this way, they both entertain themselves joking around, while making their actions attractive to more of their own users to join them by making it look like a meme, making them more effective, while also having the cover of “we’re just joking” when called out on it.
They jokingly do what they criticize on a daily basis? I’ve seen these types of joking from the alt-right but those were always different than this. More hateful. More about “the target”. I highly doubt that’s what’s going on here.
Or rather they jokingly criticize what they do on a daily basis. It’s a really easy way to troll, just mirror your target in bad faith. You’re essentially beyond reproach.
Nothing is stopping you from interacting with them further, what exactly is your issue with this decision?
It came across my feed and I thought it ill advised so I commented on it. Still think it’s ill advised after having interacted with hexbear users regularly now and I just didn’t find any indication that they act in bad faith.