To be fair, you have to have very high IQ to understand Hexbear.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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Just make fun of Russia or laugh at them and call them a bot for saying "zionist" too much. They will ban you from hexbear, then you block them and never have to hear from them again.
Yes, you could skip the first step ... but where is the fun in that?
I kind of like seeing the posts tho, but the commenter are so hostile. like, is there a button to block the commenters but not the instance? that would be a nice feature to implement :D
the vaush and hasan stans of breadtube
Tell you don't know what hexbear even is without telling me you don't know what hexbear even is
I don't love or watch hasan, but he cannot be as bad as voosh, surely? Like if you need to watch a big streamer, I'd see a hasan fan as someone with good intentions, but I'd be wary of a vaush fan; anything in the destiny orbit has stage 4 debatebro cancer.
they both have a hard-on for authorian regimes is all I mean. I wasn't comparing their degrees of harm
I occasionally watch both vaush and hasan segments on youtube, along with many other lefitst youtubers.
vaush doesn't do debates anymore, hasn't done one in... over a year at this point, almost two years?
I've heard him explain a few times now that debating anybody with hardcore right wing views is less than unproductive at this point, as none of those people are any kind of capable of arguing in good faith, thus all you're doing is platforming them.
also vaush is routinely quite critical of authoritarian regimes.
hasan, on the other hand, yeah, i agree, he has (at least initially? not sure if his stance has changed since) defended the russian occupation of crimea, he has platformed people that go waaay beyond being just anti-zionist and go all the way into general antisemitism, basically played defense for the Chinese government's actions against uyghurs...
he's much closer to a tankie, and tankies are what hexbear has a whole lot of, those are the rabid posters and mods you stereotypically get there.
So... I am confused as to how you would say hexbear loves both vaush and hasan, when ... rabid hexbears basically are tankies... and would generally agree with hasan (or think he doesn't go far enough), and despise vaush.
Nooo we can't be normal about horse man
Vowsh bad vowsh bad
thats fair <3
Sorry to bother you again, but I'm curious - what's hasans hardon for authoritarian regimes? I'd like to know, I don't want to advocate for that just because I'm not familiar. If you dont have time that's fine, but I thought it would be best to ask instead of staying ignorant. :D
him calling the Uyghur concentration camps "reeducation camps". also getting his news from Russian sources, like when he defended the Russia annexing Crimea.
jeez I never knew that. thanks for the info. Also you're a blahaj user so on the off chance you are on a gender journey, good luck and I love you, I hope you find the awesome you that you are <3
hexbearians generally hate vaush, in my experience
I don't really care where users are from, and I think it causes fractures and fragmentation across lemmy.
In a void without enemies, we make our own, it seems.
I like hexbear, I dont mind the posts, but the users are like rick and morty fans, they ruin it.
If you don't think the far left are your enemies, then you haven't been sent to one of their camps yet.
Who's supposed to be the far left in this scenario? It sure as hell isn't hexbear with their unwavering support of both the Chinese and Russian governments.
Hello, fed or propaganda victim.
Isn't it enough to just... disagree with someone?
If they're that insufferable, block them yourself.
People keep on saying this but I haven't noticed it. Am I just immune to being greatly annoyed by the delivery if the intentions are right? Show me where the hexbear touched you, OP!
Your instance isn't federated with hexbear, you won't see them
I'm sorry, I'm new to Lemmy. Thank you for taking the time to check, lol. Time to check them out and see if I'm annoying enough to fit in! 😅
you want nothing to do with these insufferable people.
my instance is federated with them, but I have every single community of theirs I've ever seen blocked now.
Thank you for your concern, honestly. I'll still try and see how insufferable they are, although they asked me about animal liberation and GSM (?) on the application so I have a feeling you're right to warn me, lol.
Glutimate, Sodiummono.
are you sure it was GSM? thats a cellular network protocol as far as I know
my instance is federated with them, but I have every single community of theirs I've ever seen blocked now.
Wait, we can instance block nowadays, why going through every community?
you say this to a weary soul that has wanted this more than anything reaches up like a parched and desiccated infected from 28 Days Later
I done tried it on Summit and it dont do shit some weird bug i reckon
you sound defensive for someone with no skin in the game :D
I'm sorry, OP, I've just read that a couple too many times and I truly wonder what the reasoning behind it is. Is it just American right-wingers complaining? Cause, whatever, America is going full isolationist so we only have to listen to them for a decade or so before they firewall everything and Lemmy goes full German, lol. Or is it something else?
The american right wingers comment was offhand and mostly a joke. like another user said, it was probably a bot. Or, it was a user I annoyed who is a mod on a small instance, and they banned me out of frustration. they might have even been right wing, who knows?
Sounds like there's something behind your comment, if you have a problem with anything I've said, just come out and say it.
Stop feeding the troll, for crying out loud. Look at their comment history. Look at the account's name. Can you guess that they're arguing in bad faith?
Social media literacy died in 2020, I swear.
I don't think they are a troll, I just think they are very poorly informed, and possibly stupid. But thenks for the headsup, I checked their comment history after reading your comment, I see how you came to that conclusion. "Never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity"
You know what? I'm about to say it: I don't care that you broke your elbow.
oh you've run out of things to say but you still want to complain? sorry, I'm not your therapist. one more dumb comment and I'm done :D
lmao, genocide deniers with good intentions. that's an interesting way to frame it
Isn't Hexbear a leftist community? Aren't leftists by default anti-imperialist and the biggest genocides in history and ongoing perpetrated by bloodthirsty empires? I feel like most people affiliated can't be genocide deniers, come on...
You missed a word, your comment doesnt make sense, but I understand what you are saying. Most communities on lemmy are leftist, and by default anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-genocide. Hexbear is not unique in that. They are often pro russia and pro china, and so by inference they are fine with the invasion of a sovereign nation, and fine with the genocide of the uyghurs.
So, pro genocide. More than one genocide can happen in the world at the same time.
Ehhh, the American administration has singlehandedly wrecked the world for their own gain pretty much since WW2, either directly through the murder of hundreds of thousands or indirectly sponsoring coups and sowing instability overall. I mean, even the invasion of Ukraine happened because of an American coup in Ukraine in 2011 (that, eventually, ended up with the actor in office) and Russia understanding this as the precursor of an American mobilization in Russia. And whilst the Chinese human right abuses are also monstrous and unethical, at least they're localised? It's a mishandling of internal affairs, not an external invasion and utter destruction. I'm sorry, but they're not even comparable. You could say "if China had carte blanche like the US did through military supremacy they would've acted the same way" but I doubt it, because I've seen and lived around Chinese people and around Americans/Westerners and the cultures couldn't be more different... Regardless, if we take away the maybes, you have to objectively admit the American admin has been a blight on this world, through leaders on "both sides" of the American political spectrum, moreso than anyone in recent history.
You can hate all three, or you can hate the American admin and give more leeway to those who haven't yet shown they're entirely Godless and immoral, and you can certainly prefer the Chinese and Russian admin for the same reasons, I guess.
The USSR rivals the US, Japan and Germany for the most imperialist state in the past 100 years, so no, leftists are not anti-imperialist by default, that's closer to liberals. Leftists are anti-capitalist by default.
Then maybe my understanding of "leftism" as a term is wrong. Just a little question, what political party would you consider "liberal"?
In the US? None, but the Libertarians probably come closest.
The US is built on imperialism so of course no party is anti-imperialist, being anti-government is as close as you can get.
Within Europe there are some parties that lean more anti-imperialist, generally green and liberal parties, but the traditional major conservative and leftist parties rarely are.
My other comment about alternative social media attracting extremism still stands
They are very far left
Like Authoritative Communism left (once you go past a certain point the left and right look the same)
I don't believe that, I believe that the terms stop having meaning when tyranny overpowers ideology.