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Volcel Police is funny but do remember, there is no “Gooner Epidemic” (www.tiktok.com)

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I hope we all know this and are just doing it as a bit, but sometimes I do see shit on this website that makes me go “Oh y’all are genuinely just weird prudes”

The “gooner epidemic” is not real, gooning is an incredibly niche kink that very few people engage in.

“Porn addiction” is basically non existent and affects such a small portion of the population as to not be relevant. The idea that most people have in their heads about porn addiction is propaganda made up by evangelicals.

We do not live in an overly-sexually-liberated time. There is not an excess of sexual content or exposure to it.

Most of the time when people talk about “the gooner problem” what they’re actually talking about is a mix of two unrelated things, people living normal sexually liberated lives, and undersocialized young men that don’t know how to interact with people.

Sex is good. We should be having more of it. We should encourage healthy, safe sex featuring whatever kinks you and your partner(s) consent to. Don’t fall for puritan propaganda comrades.

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[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Or maybe you're just another fed trying to throw me off the trail! Maybe everyone on this site is a fed except me! scared

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.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago

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.