A not-so-friendly reminder

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christ almighty what happened to the comments
- Basically a single transphobe came in, a load of trans hexbear users started bullying them and mocking them and that boosted the visibility of the post so that more transphobes came into the comments, but because you're not federated with hexbear all you're seeing is the transphobes and some people doing pushback on them
  
  Do you know why Lemmy.world is not federated with hexbear?
  
  Lemmy.world pre emptively defederated them before hexbear federated with wider lemmy because hexbear's a very active community of communists who've been on an undefederated fork of Lemmy for three years or so.
  Hexbear users are very active in calling out anything they perceive as reactionary thought (transphobia, racism, ableism, homophobia, support for imperialism, colonialist apologia, etcetera) and pretty frequently get hostile about it, one of the stated intentions of them federating was to bully bigots into silence in order to make all of lemmy a more left wing space. Hexbear has a broader definition of what constitutes as reactionary thought than most people do though so they'll frequently attack liberals too.
  Basically they felt hexbear's community wouldn't mesh well with lemmy.world
  
  They're an instance that claims to be far left, but are mostly authoritarian CCP/USSR fans. Its also impossible to talk to them because they brigade and troll anyone they dislike.
  
  So this is like the one time when tankies are right about something. 🤔 Interesting
  
  I got sick of them under every second political post, many of their users act basically like 4chan without the racism, sexism, anti semitsm, transphobia and all of that, not quite as stupid but annoying little fucks with annoying little troll posts that often go in a very facist, authoritarian and just plain disgusting direction which is sad because there are nice and smart people in the mix too but they usually go under! :/
  
  At this point they've basically turned themselves into a public nuisance. It's the same bullshit every time; all noise and no signal which in turn means that they are very boring and predictable.
  
  Hexbear is very very far left and stuff
  
  Left is a term that comes from France and is anti authoritarian in it's core so that's not very fitting for many of them!
  
  There are many different binaries in play. The one you refer to is liberal (now anarchism) on one pole and authoritarianism on the other.
  The modern European binary that many use (and frustratingly think represents "the world") divides along economic ideologies where capitalism would be the beginning of the right and more progressive ideologies on the left. Hexbear is far left by this definition.
  
  What people need to understand is that the political spectrum is a lie, and all discussions based on the concept are inherently flawed, promoting reductionist thought if not outright falsehood.
  It doesn't even matter how many axes you add, wanting to seize the means and genocide brown people or whatever doesn't make you a centrist anything and wanting to seize the means, punch Nazis, and jerk off to Papa Stalin's mustache doesn't make you more left than otherwise either.
  
  You are kind of right in that the devision (at least in the traditional meaning from France) has two pillars, you have the authoritarian one siding with kings and nobels vs elected officials, freedome of speech and equality in a social (none economic) sense and you have the economic devision aka little state intervention to the market and redistribution vs the state as protective force for those who need it with stuff like strong worker rights and wealth redistribution. In short the traditional meaning of "left" is socially liberal but not market liberal which is a majore reason why I dislike the American attempt to split between left and liberal so much, if you are left you have liberal ideas and that's the part where Hexbear wants to frame me as somehow market/neo liberal wich is plain wrong!
  
  That's because most of Hexbear is using the modern European binary which DOES split along economic lines. This is only a problem when someone asserts their binary is the universal one or fails to clarify which one they use.
  
  I don't know if "modern european" is a good way to put it, I kind of think it's a result of the cold war, never made a lot of sense and was enforced by the arrival of neo liberal ideologies in european governments afterwards but that part is just a quick throught so don't quote me on it. You are definitely right that there are different definitions tho, one of them just also seems to reframe the word liberal which makes absolutely no sense to me. In the end they are all flawed and the biggest issue is that no matter which you use extreme ideologies like neo liberalism and backwards thinking aka the "modern" definition of conservative attempt to frame themself as the "middle" which is dangerous af and makes no sense ether so it's a rather pointless fight with a third party as winners! :/
  
  It's from the early 1900s. Liberal hasn't changed. Conservatism is not the same thing in all societies ie a Chinese conservative and Iranian have very different outlooks on theocracy.
  
  What the hell is a trans hexbear?
  
  A trans person from the instance hexbear.net
- You expect something that literally threatens people with fatal violence to get sensible discussion? Sure it's a meme and all, but shit like this is just asking for trolls to start shit. No one should get threatened with violence, even in the form of a meme or a joke and it just gives assholes more fuel and no-one wins.
  
  Yes, most aspects of human history like warfare both threatens human life and is open for debate.
  
  Post trollbait
  Get trolls
  Rage about all the trolls
  WHY IS MY LIFE LIKE THIS?!
  You do you, if that's how you want to live. You're seriously going to act like this post was a sensible and reasonable opening for discussion? Never did I say anything about discussing violence, but this post isn't a discussion in any way and you know it.
  
  You do you, if that’s how you want to live. You’re seriously going to act like this post was a sensible and reasonable opening for discussion?
  Yep, sure will. Die mad about it.
  
  Sure, buddy lmao. I don't know what your problem is and I don't really care. The only one here that's mad about anything is you. Keep feeding the trolls and wondering why your life is so miserable. Have fun, love.
  
  Lol nah, you care, that's why you were removed about it. But if you want to play it cool to save face, it's okay. I'll let you. The rest of us will happily continue to enjoy the thread knowing it was made in good faith.
  
  Whatever you wanna tell yourself. Learn to read.
  Enjoy your hateful delusional circlejerk and all the trolls. An asshole is an asshole no matter what flag they fly.
  LMFAO "in good faith". Stroking your ego and patting yourself on the back for exactly the same kind of behaviour you're mad at at the people on the other end of the spectrum for? No wonder you're so salty. Keep fueling the fire that makes you miserable, but don't cry about it when it burns you.

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