• crosswind [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The most aggravating thing about these is that they keep implying hexbear is a straight site that made the decision to let us be here. When they make detached from reality insults like hexchan or israel it’s easy to say ‘lol, no’. But I hate that they’re also trying to smuggle in the idea that of course it’s the straight people that are in charge of this website. Probably without even realizing it.

    Personally I prefer the ones where they just call us fake queers.

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      You wouldn’t believe some of the shit they’re making up about us on the lemmyverse now that we aren’t there to contradict it. According to several posts I’ve seen we’re literal nazis who throw up swastikas for fun and hate trans people. There’s been a telephone game of uncharitable interpretations and now a good percent of users have only heard about us this way and have lumped us in with 4channers such that they think we’re literal nazis.

      I’ve tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle “civil” way and gotten banned for “subverting defederation” I guess I’m not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷

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        On the bright side, it can create a sort of backwards marketing push where people who are morbidly curious come here and then don’t see any of that and are opened up to hearing our side of the story

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          I hope so, but there are posts on the MeanwhileOnGrad sub that are just entirely not what the content of the screenshot says, and it’s left as an exercise for the reader to stretch it to painful lengths to interpret it uncharitably, yet still get overwhelming support.

          https://lemm.ee/post/6746471

          You might just find your own posts on there.

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              My point being that this is just an example of what our representation looks like on the greater lemmysphere. The way these posts are taken uncritically as evidenced by the upvote counts and lack of challenge shows that this is more or less the standard opinion.

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                  You can go do a search for every instance of the word “hexbear” on other sites. It genuinely is standard opinion

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        I’ve tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle “civil” way and gotten banned for “subverting defederation” I guess I’m not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷

        👀

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        I’ve tried to push back against some of it in the most gentle “civil” way and gotten banned for “subverting defederation” I guess I’m not allowed to have two accounts on the lemmyverse 🤷

        👀

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        Anyone realize having individualist “empowering” ‘filter out any user or community you want’ webforum federation might just be hyper-capitalist choicemongering and not a communist way to build a website yet?

  • FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    i was the mod who banned them. i did it because they are Transgendered. I love HAMAS, and Putin’s peanus is actually in my mouth erect right now (i am fellating Vladimir Putin)

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      the question is is it lying or is it just so spectacularly stupid that someone telling it “hey Reddit creep, your username is innappropriate” and assumed it was because it mentions nonbinary people.

      e:prnos

      • That poster used it/its pronouns when it was here. In this case, its username wasn’t the problem. It seemed to believe that referring to people with they/them pronouns against their wishes was fine and it didn’t like that people were calling it out for that.

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          It seemed to believe that referring to people with they/them pronouns against their wishes was fine and it didn’t like that people were calling it out for that.

          Not just that but pretty disgusting enby erasure as well. “If you use they/them…you’ll never gender someone correctly.”

          Glad it finally got banned it was fucking obnoxious.

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    The “pretending to be pro-LGBTQ+ just to get more commies” narrative about y’all will never not be fucking hilarious to me.

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          Ah, but once you get power the hard way you can do the spooky evil things. Like building nuclear plants and making sure everyone has running water. Not because people should have electricity or potable water, but because happy, satisfied people are less likely to overthrow you!!! Muhahaha!!!

  • They’re the Israel of lemmy instances

    im really not even angry, this is fucking beautiful

    like what does that even mean? how did your brain make such a leap that it could have crossed the grand canyon? I really keep trying to respect some liberals but a bunch of their ideology boils down to “I don’t like thing, so it is bad, and this bad thing is also every other bad thing” and then pretend they’ve unlocked the secret to the goddamn universe.

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        It got booted from blahaj first, used that as pretext to get us to shit on that instance, caused trouble here and got booted, used that as pretext to cause trouble on a new instance, rinse and repeat

      • Imma take a look

        Not surprising. Being trans feels a lot like being straight.

        I hope they mean this in like a very very good way

        Grandma doesn’t have a gender and doesn’t realise why people who have genders think they’re important. She’d be equally happy identifying as a man and she doesn’t realise that’s unusual.

        okay please explain to me what this means I legit am just ???ing at this right now

        Hexbear is transphobic. They harassed me the whole time I was there

        I bet my life savings they were saying dumb libshit or discriminatory bullshit and high tailed it because they got rightly dunked for it

        oh god they mainly post on beehaw, Lemmygrad basically created that community after a bunch of lemmy gusanos raged that their terminal liberalism got absolutely torn to shreds by the effortposting gods.

        Okay they seem to be completely genuine too, because they have good takes mixed in with it. Critical support to them dragging CookieJarObserver (some of you remember this “I AM THE OBSERVER” fucking weirdo) through shit on Israel.

        Now that i’ve looked through, you could be right, because they have hexbear takes everywhere besides when they’re hating on hexbear, okay and some libshit about finding ‘unbiased leftist sources’

        my real contention is finding out their posting on hexbear, what were they arguing about. Give it to us you nerd, I dare you!

        I’m going to be on the side of ‘they’re just really libshit’ because its just too authentic

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          I bet my life savings they were saying dumb libshit or discriminatory bullshit and high tailed it because they got rightly dunked for it

          said a lot of racist and transphobic stuff, specifically. iirc about chinese people

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          Hexbear is transphobic. They harassed me the whole time I was there

          From its lemmy.blahaj.zone modlog (where it’s also banned):

          I’m not a troll. You can go look up my new Hexbear account I made after they told me Hexbear wasn’t transphobic, and you can see me talking about my gender consistently for the past week, and you can see transphobes on Hexbear calling me an anti-hexbear troll because they think swarmgenders are a joke.

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          oh god they mainly post on beehaw, Lemmygrad basically created that community after a bunch of lemmy gusanos raged that their terminal liberalism got absolutely torn to shreds by the effortposting gods.

          I am begging you, Each of You, Any of You, who understand what events this references to please fill me in on them or tell me what to search to read this history.

          I have mentioned before that I was confused by the attitude towards Beehaw around here and I mostly get it now, but this is the missing piece of the puzzle. I didn’t know there was a whole Thing that happened, I thought it was just a vibes mismatch.

          Please, Elder Posters: teach me!

          • short version: well it was in the early months of the ukraine war, and some terminal brained liberals who were there started getting really angry in the news articles. Every news post had 50 or so comments at least with Yogthos and the others (I was there yay im so cool im like the best and smartest) basically predicting how the ukraine war would turn out with lots of sources whos predictions were a mirror image of how the war is turning out now (marxist leninists stay winning). This got some folks really, really mad, so they decided to find and hide in a ‘free speech’ instance, beehaw. The biggest immigration to beehaw were people part of the massively pro-ukraine crowd. They had nazis and turbolibs joining hands and frolicking into the sunset. Beehaw and lemmygrad were basically enemies for a bit, vying for political dominance now that lemmy.ml couldn’t ban them for whitewashing nazis and the like, but Lemmygrad has since grown far beyond such losers.

            It was a collection of events over the course of twoish months, with like a one and a halfish month stalemate period.

            @GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml know it better than me prob, i can remember them arguing with the libs

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            Considering Beehaw users were constantly, constantly stirring shit on lemmy and elsewhere about defederating with and opposing “tankies” and, iirc, pre-emptively defederated from us, I think the attitude is self-explanatory. They are shitlibs.

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          Grandma doesn’t have a gender and doesn’t realise why people who have genders think they’re important. She’d be equally happy identifying as a man and she doesn’t realise that’s unusual.

          okay please explain to me what this means I legit am just ???ing at this right now

          if it’s not 100% pure made up trolling, i think that resembles “unselfaware bisexual from generation that didn’t talk about that sort of thing assuming everybody else has hetero- and homo- attractions too” but for gender. She/Him Grandma, if grandma exists, as described would be some kind of NB or on the apathetic end of agender.

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      like what does that even mean?

      It’s my great honor to notify you that you personally have received a reply by DroneRights in its own self-created subcomm over on lemm.ee - Here you go
      I randomly saw it on an alt account and don’t think you got the ping, so

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    Nazis and neoliberals will lie through their teeth if they think it benefits them. And they will back each other up in those lies whenever they think it benefits them.

    Truth is not important. If it hurts their political enemy they will do it.

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      You say that, but I know those Hexbear types. They may say they’re inclusive and run a largely trans instance that actively bans transphobic users and language, sure. Up to and including the day of revolution they’ll probably insist they support LGBTQIA rights, fight for them even. But trust me they’re faking it

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        Getting to triple-dip into xiyuan, putinrubles, and sorosbucks was too tempting. Hexbear only accepts trans communists, so that’s what I became. While taking medical transition steps isn’t necessary to be trans, it helped with getting into character. Some people claim it’s “gender euphoria” but I attribute it to the satisfaction of committing to the bit to mislead the libs. I got along well with another pretend trans poster, and the DMs turned into a full-blow performative t4t relationship. Eventually we moved in together to stretch the botmoney further. We started a family to pass on the communist bit to a new generation. We never stopped posting. 4 kids and 12 grandchildren later, A wrecker I could not defeat came for me. Cancer. In hospice, surrounded by my loved ones, chosen family, and circle of friends, they asked me what final wisdom I wanted to pass on before handing me the morphine button.

        “Haha, you all fell for it you rubes! I was faking it this whole time. I wasn’t actually fighting for the liberation of marginalised people and the working class. I hate you all!”

        I mash the button while holding my partner’s hand, who congratulates me on the historic bit but calls me a lib for ruining kayfabe. I die in shame.

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          xiyuan, putinrubles, and sorosbucks

          I hate when premium currencies have differing exchange rates and the costs of stuff never quite line up so you always have some left over to tempt you to keep working to further the ends of our evil masters. sweat

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        That’s funny

        It’s funny that

        they like it that

        it’s amusing that

        it’s interesting that

        they love it that

        it’s ironic that

        they can’t resist beginning sentences like that to be totally not mad and cool and calm and collected and superior. smuglord

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        Oh no! A controversial gender!? My day is absolutely ruined and now I hate everybody that isn’t white straight and cis.

        I have decided to fuel up my paraglider and join Hamas.

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    The whole “pretending to be LGBTQ-friendly” accusation with such conviction made absolutely no sense to me until I think it kind of clicked for me where they might be coming from. I think the origin of that belief isn’t really actual ignorance but instead a partial understanding of their own liberal politics projected onto us.

    Imagine you’re a lib and you genuinely want queer people to have somewhat better lives in a world that is largely hostile to them. Liberal democracy only allows the continued existence of capitalism and the order that hurts LGBTQ people in the first place. So your only actual option within that system is to put your support behind a political entity that acts like it’s the protector of marginalized people when it’s convenient and reinforces systems and narratives of oppression when it’s not. No matter how much you make LGBTQ rights a personal value of yours or how often you consume media that tells you how important the issue is to your chosen political entity, there will always be a rift between what you think is right and important and what the people you support actually bother doing about it.

    On the other hand, imagine you’re a lib who doesn’t actually care about LGBTQ issues but you’re also not frothing at the mouth thinking about two dudes making out. To you the whole issue has always been nothing but a cultural signifier of other values or if your brainworms are powerful enough it’s a tribal team sports thing. Either way, if you have any self awareness you also at least partially understand that queer people are just the ball in a game of liberal politics.

    For both of those hypothetical libs it’s not a big step at all to see someone opposing their own politics and assume that our support for queer people is fake, because if you take the liberal world view for granted that’s the only thing that DOES make sense. think-about-it In conclusion, this comment was mostly me trying to call people libs twice farquaad-point

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    The Hexbear Defence Force is the most civilised army in the world and takes the utmost care to protect civilians. Those killed in the carpet bombing of the lib server farm had all been warned and knew that anybody still there would be considered terrorists.

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    What the fuck is going on. Pinkwashing? This place has been a bastion of acceptance since day 1. We’ve stumbled a few times but who hasn’t.