Tankies= Republicans
That's all you gotta say. They love the orange fucker.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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To build off that, I was going to say it is easier for them to understand authoritarianism than liberalism. They more closely relate to using power to enforce will rather than consensus and damned the consequences.
Eh, I think that only applies to Hexbear. The ml instances seem to hate anything US (or western, for that matter) without picking sides.
They sure love to criticize the "west" but god forbid China or Russia gets called out for their savagery
Not in my experience, but ml seems less obviously pro trump at least.
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I have been calling this out since my first interactions with those instances. They are heavily infested with right wing trolls making "leftist" noises. And the ones who aren't actually trolls are either so blinded by their disdain for liberalism, or just too young to notice.
Yeah. I'm genuinely curious how many of them are right wing trolls, how many are useful idiots, how many are normal trolls, how many are subject to mental illness and will sincerely believe anything and yell it at everyone else because of brain chemicals, how many are some other category, just what are the details of the real demographics there. I wish there was a way to know.
And how many of them are people sitting in offices in third world countries being paid to diseminate pro-russia/china propaganda on social media.
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They're brainwashed and also fascists. They don't stand for communism at all and never had.
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While yes, that is a thing. This is however literally a community meant to discuss this sort of thing.
This is my contribution to any discussion about Hexbear or Hexbear communities.
I'm a reasonable man and I'm willing to talk to anybody. But Hexbear and the communities it harbors are simply unbearable to me. I have no other instances and no other communities blocked.
Something I generally support as well. Though I'm lucky enough to not be Federated with 2/3 of the problem locally. It's just kind of out of place in a community like this is all.
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I'm just fascinated by it though. I'm curious about human behavior, and I think the ways that people get themselves worked into a non-reality view of the world in a big community that all agrees about it is a highly relevant topic for the modern world.
I won't pretend to understand what's going on over there completely, but I'm interested enough in it that I want to be able to observe it. From a distance.
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That's the only instance I have blocked.
Just so much spam all over the all scroll..
It got old really quick.
Fascists gonna fash.
Cmon. If you haven't already blocked hexbear you are just part of the problem. 90% 4chan garbage. You won't miss it.
I tried to block them but they dont show up in the list, so I assume the instance that I belong to already took care of it?
Yeah, Blahaj and Hexbear had a falling out over Hexbear accusing Blahaj users of tolerating 'chasers'.
There will always be people who believe absurd things. I just leave them the fuck alone, and hope they’ll grant me the same courtesy.
Some people are doomed to repeat the same mistake they are brainwashed to make over and over: picking a side in every scenario.
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