[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did msnbc really broadcast that?

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

. If you want to discuss how the ~~Palestinians~~ Banderites have accomplished nothing but their own suffering, while having nothing to show for it, then I'm all ears.

Ftfy

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Some people literally already say this, and they say "WWII was Stalin's war" and so on.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

I think a better line is that they have school on Fridays but not on Sundays

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Is OP implying that East Germany was a good socialist country? Wtf are they on? Did the USSR have queer rights?

East Germany was literally the most progressive country in human history in terms of queer rights. Cuba is now.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I think the matter at hand is antizionism, not antisemitism

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Thankfully I haven't seen the takes accusing HB of the recent attacks, though being accused of the attacks on .world was a little annoying. I appreciate the solidarity.

I genuinely have no idea where this recent attack is coming from. The most fried part of my brain says "One of the big companies trying to absorb the fediverse is doing this to undermine their competition," but I have zero evidence, it's just the only motive I can even think of beyond it being a rogue crank.

It's totally conceivable that HB people would spam an instance they don't like -- though this would be against the wishes of the mods and admins -- but our site culture is completely antithetical to spamming CSAM and things like that, so I don't think even a rogue group of users would do it "on our behalf".

Oh, I just realized it could be one of those fash instances like exploding heads. If any were defeded relatively recently, that would make sense.

Instead people are jumping to "OhH it's ThE HexBeArS" when they have not been able to freely browse you guys' discussions or even talk with you, they're just shown the worst take from a minority (although tbf you guys do the same on c/cth, so it's kinda funny seeing both sides with one not realising the other is also just a human too, just with differing culture and political stance)

I don't think I have much to contribute to the "both sides" thing that is useful, but I'm going to talk anyway because I'm thinking about it now.

off-topicI think if you asked a hexbear user to seriously answer how representative those screenshots are of lemm.ee, they'd probably say that lemm.ee is much more ideologically disjointed on a handful of issues, especially regarding history and geopolitics, and the screenshots are only representative of some of the more annoying tendencies among the neoliberals and poorly-educated "anarchists" (like that dude who decried "tankies" and used Sankara as a counterexample, when we all like Sankara). I also think they would be correct in saying this. I don't know what the anti-HB people who don't comment on our instance think, I hardly ever see it, but I can at least tell you that we know much more about neoliberal ideology than they do ML, because we almost all started out as de facto neoliberals and nearly none of them have even a basic understanding of ML theory (which is not really their fault, to be clear).

Anyone on any instance federated with hexbear is welcome to post questions to c/askchapo. If they are relatively polite and not presumptuous, we'll be happy to answer. If people are still mean, report it. You can let me know and I will personally nag the mods to address the matter properly. Just recently we had a thread from a .ml user who wanted us to state our opinion on Trump for the record for the hundredth time, so about a hundred users chimed in that they all hate his guts (I also made a comment to that effect). We're happy to discuss things openly and it would be good for us to improve community relations to avoid things like one group accusing the other of doing something as heinous as what the OP describes.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Can you show in what way is Ukraine more right-wing than Russia?

I hate the Russian government for being cynical liberal mafiosos who use reactionary rhetoric similar to if Republicans were transposed there ("our enemies are exporting homosexuality to us to weaken us" etc). That is still substantially different from making your #1 national hero a Holocaust perpetrator, which Ukraine has done.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

A bad deal that didn't get close to meeting the unions demands is not "addressing their concerns"

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Do you just assume no human can disagree with you?

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I think the lemmee user was making a joke about how such a kidnapper could be called "fuckass" or some other derisive name.

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