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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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I'm only joking (or am I?), I just feel like being a bit mean. But this weird liberal politician way of speaking is not healthy. You can commit to a point and stick to your guns, it's ok. Though I am wondering why you thought this wouldn't cause a struggle session if you've been here for years. I've only been here for a couple of years, and your post's inflammatory nature is really obvious. It's clearly designed to treat your position on this as the "passive, neutral, correct" version of things, while accusing anyone who disagrees with you of believing in right wing conspiracies (poisoning the well against them). It seems obvious to me that this would cause a lot of discussion and argument, so I'm wondering what result you expected to get from this?
For the record, I do believe them that they are a user who used a different name. I do remember another user who had a very similar name, spoke in a similar manner, and had similar opinions, to the point I actually wondered "Wait, is this just them speaking under an alt" before they even said that.
Or maybe you're just another fed trying to throw me off the trail! Maybe everyone on this site is a fed except me!
I think you're right, their post was suspicious, but they've since clarified their intentions. I don't actually think people are feds. I should probably put this as my tagline on my account or something, but:
While I do joke about feds a lot, I don't think there are any real active fed accounts here, there's probably a couple that exist to keep tabs on the website, but I don't think they would bother to actively infiltrate hexbear, the site doesn't really have any ability to organise direct action, and unlike somewhere like reddit, there's not admins that will take the site down for "inciting violence" or whatever. It would be a waste of resources for them to do so.
I should probably reign in this behaviour, even jokingly fedjacketing people can still lead to a culture of suspicion, and there are other ways to call someone out if I disagree with them than calling them a fed.
Good call. The amount of fedjacketing I see in online leftist spaces is really messed up IMO, gives off deranged conspiracy theorist vibes and it also shows a lot of unwarranted self importance, the feds most likely aren't making up elaborate personas to rile up terminally online visitors of very niche online communities.
That's why I do it, because I think it's funny and absurd to think that some FBI agent is tasked with organising this week's hexbear struggle session, but it may not always come across that I think it is absurd and silly, and ironic paranoia can easily seem like genuine paranoia.
I suspect feds, at most, track when people use this website as maybe suspicious?
But I also think they care more about, say, the PSL or the SRA.
Yeah, it would just be a note on someone's file. Which is why it's important to practice good OPSEC and not openly talk about any works we do IRL that could trace us.
Sure I’m currently high enough I’ll try to explain my thoughts through all of that, although most of it is “I’m kinda dumb”
Why I speak like that, I’m not really sure and it’s not something I love about myself but usually how the posts come out here is how the thoughts are going inside, I mask more in other places, here I tend to write how I think.
Why I thought it wouldn’t cause a struggle session, I think I vastly overestimated the degree to which volcel police was a bit, I thought it was just something we were doing because weirdo right wingers were “incels” and someone someday decided that “volcel” was funny.
I don’t generally think of Hexbear as more puritanical than the rest of the Anglo world I think it’s on the more sexually liberated end of things, which is why when in the past I’ve seen things that go against that I go “Oh wait this exists here too.”
So aside from what I thought was a small minority of users I kinda thought I was gonna be preaching to the choir?
I thought discussion of these ideas as right wingers propaganda by a PhD student researching that topic was something people here might appreciate, and then as I was writing the post I got in a weird mode and let the annoying argumentative side out I guess?
I still stand by most of what I’ve said although I could’ve been less of an asshole about some of it. As far as poisoning the well, the point of the video was that these beliefs come from right wing propaganda, so that’s a problem inherent to talking about this, that’s not just me being an asshole in the comments.
In retrospect should I have known this would’ve caused an argument though? 100%
I think it overall would've been fine if you had phrased the post more as "this is what this phd student says about this topic" rather than the way you phrased it originally, which did come across as more confrontational than you probably intended. That way, it would've just been people arguing about tiktok instead of a full on struggle session.
And fair enough on the "I'm kinda dumb" thing, that's why I only make dumb comments, not posts. I would probably end up causing a struggle session over the dumbest shit possible if I did.
And the volcel thing is overdone, but I would much rather be on a site that actively mocks guys creeping on women and gets them to not do that, rather than a site that tolerates or even encourages that behaviour. Though others have already talked about that at length here.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, good luck with your infiltration of hexbear!
Genuinely I appreciate the advice, as an autistic person (and federal agent of course) it’s not often enough I get to actually have clear feedback on how I could have done an interaction better
Glad I could help! And I'm glad you're taking my jokes with good humour, I wouldn't blame you if you just got mad and hurled insults back at me. I'm very happy we could end up having an actually productive discussion instead of that.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.