Ah, I see you said something controversial, like "Theocracy bad" or "Imperialist capitalist state bad". The tankies don't like those positions for some reason.
Bruh I poked the hexbear once when a dude was arguing over exactly how to classify the Uyiger genocide. Something about how "it's not a genocide, but just an ethnic cleansing" they really didn't like when I pointed out just how weird of an argument that is. Fascists usually short circuit pretty fast under redicule
I had one argue "the Soviet space program did amazing things without the benefits of imperialism", which is a statement I can only ridicule. Then, to prove how not imperialist the Soviet Union was, he proceeded to explain how much imperialism the United States did. Yes, I'm quite aware of how much imperialism the United States did. That's not the issue here.
I originally joined Lemmy with a lemmy.ml account by mistake. I was arguing with a brainlet who told me the Soviets could not possibly have been bad because they fought the Nazis. When I asked what that meant regarding apartheid USA I got banned from .ml.
You see what makes a Nazi isn't actually killing millions of people. It's only killing millions of Russians. The reason why the Nazis are evil is not actually because they are evil but because they went against the Russians.
That's how many of the Russians see it anyway, and by extension many tankies. The only difference is tankies have to try and sound reasonable to a Western leftist audience.
it's not a genocide, but just an ethnic cleansing
Those are synonyms, FFS. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Dude needs to crack open a dictionary or a thesaurus.
It's only a genocide if it comes from the state of Germany. Everything else is just sparkling ethnic cleansing. /S
.ml is the same way. People were getting deleted left and right for posting about Maduro fixing the election in Venezuela. Not realizing it's freaking .ml. Even when told, "the mods are just enforcing the instance rules" they didn't get it.
I've never been able to figure out the basic ideas behind their opinions. It's something like US conservatives, where it's something stupider than you can even guess at, but less predictable.
Understand that some or most of the key posters there are literally pawns of Russian or Chinese intelligence. Troll farms, wumao, what have you. Whether they are literally government employees or contracted through a third party, their purpose is to astroturf positive optics of their employer and negative optics of the US/the West as a whole. A more sinister interpretation, they are trying to destabilize the West by doing things like trashing Biden, now Harris, hoping to secure a chaotic and inwardly destructive Trump presidency.
Anything they say is to service these goals, anything they believe is mutable to these goals, and nothing they argue is in good faith.
But doesnt china block hexbear?
For others but their info opsec is uninhibited. The crux of authoritarians is "rules for the but not for me".
Go on Hexbear
Post a non-hexbear thing
Get a comment in my inbox
Be incredibly mad
Post another thing on hexbear
:-/
I've been there, but I mostly just do it anyway. Fuck it, I said what I said. Half the time you don't even get anything all that cutting, it's just png salad. Every now and then, you'll get a coherent response that isn't a death threat, and those end up being good reads more often than not.
Yeah I don't think much of it either.. They just take offense to something doesn't even apply to them lol
Very happy to be on an instance that blocks them entirely. The couple of weeks we were federated was a couple of weeks too long honestly.
I forgot to block the instructions, left an unpopular opinion on a post. I wish I blocked it like I thought I didn't.
Everyone just goes straight to being an asshole there, no middle ground.
I got banned from hexbear and lemmygrad like a year ago without ever even posting in either community, just for arguing with some of their users under a post on lemmy.ml
The only surprise there is that you weren't banned from lemmy.ml also.
Oh I have been banned from lemmy.ml like 6 times but only temporarily. Lemmygrad and hexbear just went for a permaban for just arguing with their users on a separate instance.
My experience on lemmy is vastly improved after blocking lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, hexbear, beehaw, and pawb. Wiped out vast swathes of degenerates from my feed.
Sure, occasionally poking them with a stick can be funny, but if you don't like your scrolling punctuated with muttering "oh fuck off" under your breath every few minutes -- it's nice.
Beehaw? Iโve had nothing but good interactions with them, personally.
I can't remember why I blocked them exactly, to be honest, but I remember thinking they were almost as annoying as hexbear users, and I can't be bothered to go have a second look now to see exactly why. Clearly, I was annoyed with them enough to block them, as the ones I listed above are the only instances I have blocked save for lemmynsfw (which is just because I don't care for porn in my feed).
Beehaw's primary identity as an instance is "to be nice to people" which you know what, that's fine, but personally I think it's super annoying lol. Also there are some users from that instance who were also outspoken and especially annoying but I don't see them commenting as much these days.
Beehaw has been... difficult. If you disagree that something is *phobia or *phobic then it's a quick way to get them mad at you.
I remember somebody ( person A) getting especially angry because another person (person B) used the pronoun "them" to refer to person A. It was pointed out that not every client shows the pronouns beside the username and still it was considered *phobic.
Beehaw? The most adorable place in the lemmy space IMO!
If you don't like them fine, but please reconsider lumpung them together with the crazy fascist ones please ๐
??? (Mostly) Nothing wrong with Beehaw or pawb.social, most are good people around those parts
now I might not remember why I blocked beehaw but I know damn well the animal fetishists are not "good people", thank you
and just from your instance name... yeah that's another one for the list
Animal fetishists?! You mean... furries?
I think we have a relict from the mid-2000s in our midst, back when half the internet was in open war with furries.
I know, it must be hard for kids to understand a time before they were born, but don't worry, someday you'll be explaining the facts of life to youngsters yourself.
Man, I was in the trenches of online forums at the time. I was PART of those times. I just eventually grew up past being an edgy preteen.
so just to recap, you gained a newfound appreciation for animal fetishists, and you... think that's a sign of maturity and growth?
okay then. I'll just leave you to it then, champ, you have fun with that <3
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