• Facebones@reddthat.com
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    All I’ve seen from Hexbear is class consciousness shit, but everybody else has made it the key point of their online existence to rage on them and do all the garbage they accuse hexbear of. 🤷

    Sorry y’all can’t adequately explain why giving every cent of the economy to three people is a good thing.

    EDIT: I hear what people are saying but it sounds like, from my limited experience of looking at posts pushed to me from there, that people are using the actions of a few to discredit the beliefs and opinions of everyone they disagree with.

    EDIT2: LOL @ the people calling me names then blocking me for disagreeing with them. Thought that was Hexbear did, not you EnLigHtEnEd TyPeS JFC 😂

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      Just try to engage in a good-faith conversation with them. They love to shut that shit down with their weird image spams. And the poop. Like literal images of poop, to scare people off, or something. I really don’t get it.

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        The poop thing has sort of turned into a weird inside joke or virtue signal or something. Sort of like how in the dark ages of the pre-internet Era, nerds would quote LotR and Hitchhiker’s Guide at each other to signal that they are nerds and are therefore of one heart and mind

        I think what you are supposed to do is take their shit posts in stride and then shit post back at them. Which I’m not fucking doing.

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          Sort of like how in the dark ages of the pre-internet Era, nerds would quote LotR and Hitchhiker’s Guide at each other to signal that they are nerds and are therefore of one heart and mind

          You really weren’t there or had a very different experience than me. I mean, I guess by “very different,” I mostly mean we actually quoted Monty Python and Star Wars.

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            I wasn’t there, I just listen when people talk. But the point is the virtue signaling. Most social groups have a shibboleth to signal that they are part of the in-group. It’s sort of the inverse of how cult-like spaces will shun a specific thing that The Evil Outsiders have a casual relationship with, like strict veganism or strictly not using anything which functions similar to profanity

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              For sure. I agree with you completely and see the connection to hexbear. I was mostly just making a joke that my particular circle had different but still very specific inside jokes.

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      It was the calls to murder anyone who supports a democratic candidate, with the justification that cops have killed homeless people that turned me off.

      that and the stupid image emojis

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      The issue with Hexbear is that their users tend to talk in a very demeaning and insulting manner. About half of the popular posts on Hexbear are about making fun of people or communities. Their political views are less of an issue; it’s more about their toxic behaviour.

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        I mean, that’s most people inside the more mainstream American Overton window of mid right to far right, but nobody bats an eye at that because they’re upholding the status quo. 🤷

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          Do you see instances who’s main purpose is to represent “people inside the more mainstream American Overton window of mid right to far right” that are even nearly as popular as Hexbear?

          If you’re browsing all you frequently see posts from Hexbear users. I’m yet to come across a noticable amount of posts from users from an instance which represent the group you mentioned.

          (I couldn’t even name a single instance that fits that description, because if they exist, they’re not nearly as active as Hexbear.)

          Toxic people exist on all public instances. But on some they’re more common than on others.

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            Yeah, it’s called most of the internet. 🤷

            What you’re saying then is it’s OK to stereotype users and bully them for their beliefs and opinions, then use any response other than quiet submission as proof that they’re bad.

            Cause all the posts I’ve seen from it is mundane, and the only times I’ve ever seen it’s users act a fool is in response to everyone screeching at them for not adhering to popular opinion (usually with no coherent point other than “tankie bad durr” whatever a tankie is, I’m assuming a slur for leftists.)

            Can I punch you then run around telling everyone what a violent cunt you are when you punch me back? Cause that’s what it looks like to me, I’ve been getting alot of wild claims about hexbear but nobody has any point of reference to back it up though.

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            Yeah, it’s called most of the internet. 🤷

            What you’re saying then is it’s OK to stereotype users and bully them for their beliefs and opinions, then use any response other than quiet submission as proof that they’re bad.

            Cause all the posts I’ve seen from it is mundane, and the only times I’ve ever seen it’s users act a fool is in response to everyone screeching at them for not adhering to popular opinion (usually with no coherent point other than “tankie bad durr” whatever a tankie is, I’m assuming a slur for leftists.)

            Can I punch you then run around telling everyone what a violent cunt you are when you punch me back? Cause that’s what it looks like to me, I’ve been getting alot of wild claims about hexbear but nobody has any point of reference to back it up though.

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        And who exactly do we talk in a demeaning and insulting manner to? What is that the people we respond to that way say?

        No one who posts this kind of civilty or optics concerns about our behaviour ever mentions that.

        If you’re more offended by our responses than the things we push back against you deserve to be offended

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          Thanks for proving their point.

          Nobody deserves to be offended, and the things you push back against isn’t as much of a problem as the way you go about it.

          Civility isn’t in Hexbears vocabulary.

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            I agree! If only slaves thought to ask nicely for their freedom, they would have just been granted it! Civility is indeed the way!

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        their users tend to talk in a very demeaning and insulting manner.

        About half of the popular posts on Hexbear are about making fun of people or communities

        it’s more about their toxic behaviour

        This can be interpreted as bad faith if you don’t mention towards whom this behavior is directed at.

        Their political views are less of an issue

        Thank you for admitting it’s about the optics (which is not a concern for us)

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          This can be interpreted as bad faith if you don’t mention towards whom this behavior is directed at.

          It’s easy, you guys direct it at anyone that doesn’t instantly adopt your worldview.

          I literally had your people calling me a bigot for saying that being transgender is, ideally, a temporary state.

          The implication being they finish transitioning and end up whatever.

          I was literally called a bigot for accepting trans people in my own way. Some of ya’ll are fucking rabid, and you absolutely will turn people against you. People that would normally not really care whether or not someone is trans.

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            Some of yall are fucking rabid

            So are 90% of capitalists but y’all don’t bat an eye at that 🤷

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                  Also, yes I call out billionaire worshipping shitlords. I’m just sound enough of mind to understand that communism is far too idealistic to ever actually be accomplished.

                  There isn’t a single revolution that hasn’t ended with a new upper class taking over from the old one, therefore perpetuating the cycle of inequality. Hexbearians happily ignore this about revolution, effectively behaving as if the human element of greed will just magically evaporate with a new world order. Any system of governance that doesn’t take into account human weakness is a worthless system of governance.

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                    So you gleefully attack anybody trying to do anything about to protect billionaires are their status. 🤷

                    Just another 2023 “Centrist” who doesn’t want the stigma of the right wing but only ever spends time going after one side because “only the right wing works”

                    I didn’t think anything bad of you until you HAD to make the clarification. If you have a compelling need to go out of your way and loudly pronounce that you do something - you don’t do it. Nobody’s buying it buddy, you’re just another right winger and nobody cares.

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        We get that they’re toxic, but most people are. Their genocide denial is far more problematic imo.

        Though I have seen them myself and their trolling, vote brigading and harassment is really awful.

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        I do hate these, are they supposed to take up a whole screens worth of blank space each or is that my Connect app being weird about it.

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          It’s unintended and it’s why I’ve been hesitant to post emojis on other instances. It’s why I used spoiler tags.

          They’re not supposed to be so big. They look more normal sized on Hexbear. I’m told some Lemmy devs are working on a fix for it soon.

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            Fair enough then, alas it doesn’t seem Connect app reads markdown.

            out of curiosity does this do the quote thing to you? Cause it won’t for me, wasn’t sure if lemmy, my instance, or Connect. I just know MD is supposed to work.

            EDIT: oh sure it works when I talk shit about it. Still though, your spoiler didn’t so maybe only some comes through. Idk.