Fracturing the space is way more destructive than whatever you mean by destructive moderating, since the moderating will only affect some communities and even within that, some users while defederating will split the user base.

Ah yes the choice between democracy (fascism lite) and fascism.

It'd be nice if Americans finally overthrew their system or just voted for other parties/independents.

Also not everyone here is from the US btw.

There is no such thing as passive surveillance if all surveillance data can be automatically flagged or you have an army of agents trawling through it all. Both things America is doing.

Saying fuck the US government online probably puts US citizens as well as global citizens on lists.

America is notorious for embedding into and destroying movements. This happens to this day.

Also hate to break it to you, if you're in the US you're physical movements are also most likely tracked.

It's pure cope to say you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide as you just did.

I never said the action was justified just that resistance was, way to show you can't comprehend this simple idea.

Resistance to oppression is always justified just as it's not for those who are privileged enough not to understand what that oppression feels like to judge how the oppressed resist.

You coming to this instance and trying to influence our opinion is no different than what you are complaining about.

Everyone has their biases and agendas when writing posts or comments and to be expected to be protected from views that don't match you own is not really compatible with the federated model.

(edit) downviting if you disagree is a terrible reddit holdover, be more like hexbearians and start a discussion

Bit weird you commenting on this post and accusing others of brigading.

Brigading doesn't exist on Lemmy unless there is a centralised effort to harass a community or individual.

• viewing a post in your feed from a different instance is not brigading
• commenting on a post from another instance is not brigading
• linking to a post from another instances is not brigading

As you found this post in your feed so to will others. To expect one of the biggest instances to not contribute more is silly especially when they have a culture of commenting over votes.

Also don't conflate hexbears as a whole with fashists and Tankies, hexbear is a broad left instance and that includes including anarchists, libertarians, socialists, and communists.

On the propaganda point, countering the lack of honest reporting and information on a lot of topics that benefits those in power and the status-quo is perfectly fine. A lot of MSM can be considered pro-capatilist propaganda.