Hexbear being Hexbear.
Hexbear being Hexbear.
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It's not a monarchy it's democratic bro it's just that the same family is so popular that they keep winning all the elections bro it can't be a monarchy bro they painted it red and called themselves a democratic people's republic
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They love the leader so much that back in the 90s 3.5 million people dropped dead in love of the dear leader. He also doesn't poop.
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He works so hard he burns the energy from inside
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Fami ne from the fami ly.
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Brah!?!
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What a bunch of cunts.
I wish we could deport all tankie roaches to North Korea (and then do interviews with the few who survived in 3 years).
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I’d love to see some of the worse ones volunteer as sunflower fertiliser in Donetsk.
Beats the poor minorities Russia is sending as cannon foder to silence them and entrench Moscovite dominance.
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russia has finally run out of petroleum reserves to buffer the destruction ukraine has been putting on their pipelines and pump stations. and they're scraping the bottom of the barrel on manpower, sending people on crutches into attacks.
I just hope they can keep it up until vladdy gets pushed out of a fucking window
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I doubt they would even get that far.
They would probably be interned and tortured to death by some fucked up russian goons for being "American Spies".
Shouting "Lemmygrad! I support russia!!!!" (in english) is not going to be much help to them.
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Sunflower fertilizer?
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There was a buch of INLA (communist IRA) guys who went to NK to train with the DPRK army to learn who to fight the Brits. It didn't end well. They where hungry and most lost faith in socialist ideology. if the system were to work anywhere it would be there but everyone was starving.
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Removed by Moderator — Modlog
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That guy has several faces in his camo. Or I'm losing it. Both equally likely.
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Walter White
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kinda looks like angry joe
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I'm almost too afraid to ask, but... What's the deal with hexbear?
I know:
- Lemmygrad is very tankie.
- Lemmy.ml is the pilot/dev instance of Lemmy or whatever, but has some of that.
So... where does hexbear fit in? What its ostensible niche?
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tl;dr The_Donald subreddit, but for nepo Tankies
When reddit refugees flooded Lemmy, they filled it up with "libshit"
The regulars at .ml, lemmygrad and the developers themselves saw this takeover as a threat (despite telling Reddit to come join) and to even out the field of all these liberals, they brought in Hexbear.
Hexbear opened up their instance for the rest of lemmy, with the sole purpose to troll and 'purge the libs.' But that means liberals can also wander into their instance.
Within 24 hours Hexbear defederated from all the instances they wanted to troll because a bunch of clueless liberals asking questions was too much for them to handle with multiple members of their community having 'panic attacks'
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When I first joined I happened into a hexie thread and tried to respond to someone saying that the US has the most propagandized citizens on earth. I thought that surely they were forgetting that NK citizens aren't free (to even access the internet), yet I was told that actually they are totally allowed to leave the dictatorship if they so choose, and if they don't it's because the US has sanctions against them (or something). Oh and apparently it's really SK that's the military dictatorship instead, or at least that's the origins of it, which I guess means something important.
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Hexbear is (originally) the outcome of the chapotraphouse subreddit getting banned
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They were originally a subreddit that got banned, years ago. They moved to a private server, running some fork of a fediverse platform (I don't remember which but I sorta recall it not being Lemmy) and spent years there developing their own little 4chan-like subclture that's big on using a bunch of custom emotes and lingo and being aggressively sarcastic. Also, yes, entirely supportive and uncritical of China, as a while.
When Lemmy started taking off after the reddit API-calypse, they decided to open up federation across the Lemmy network, to "spread their message to all the new users", and instantly became the loudest voices in almost every community. Quite a few servers defederated from them. Eventually, they toned down the aggression, outside of some of their own communities.
Me, I was never bothered by them enough to want to defederate, even found that a decent portion of their content, and their commenters in general are good faith. Maybe I just have a higher tolerance for being able it ignore their nonsense.
Also, FYI, to this day, downvoting is disabled across their entire instance. If your client lets you downvote a post from hexbear, it'll get saved on your own instance, but it won't federate to them, nor any other servers. Thus, if you see posts with high upvote/downvote ratios, don't make the mistake of thinking that means they're high quality, and if you use sorting algorithms that are based on downvote ranks, hexbear posts can end up not being fairly ranked.
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even found that a decent portion of their content, and their commenters in general are good faith.
No fucking way.
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Just the kind of backstory I was looking for, thanks! Yeah, peeking in I didn't really get the tone of comment threads, but that makes more sense now. Seems that culture is still there.
And yeah, it seems not too defederation worthy... at a glance. Everyone's a little mad in different ways.
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they were the least problematic of the triads to be honest but they do show that they are pretty annoying form time to time, so they get blocked. the most obnoxious being ML.
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How can a bunch of teenage shitposters roleplaying as "communists" (while supporting oligarch state capitalist regimes) be seen as acting in good faith?
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Collectively known as the tankie triad. A sizable chunk defederate hex and grad entirely. The .ml is let slide more because they're the home of the primary devs, but behaviorally not much better.
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They're less overt comparatively, but still pretty bad.
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In addition to what other people said, they were also trolls.
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Reminds me of that scene from Gladiator where The Joker gives Dumbledore a hug that lasts a lifetime.
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they are pretty much as delusional as conservatives.
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They are conservatives. They want to conserve the USSR.
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Given that conservatism is pretty much "what if we somehow conserved the power dynamics of the feudal era into democracy?", Stalinism is just conservatism, but with communism.
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The irony there being that Putin doesn't want the USSR. He wants to go back to the Russian Empire. He's kind of open about that.
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Potentially more-so.
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Not potentially, definitely.
Unless you're refering to the notion that a large number of them are clearly roleplaying and "being edgy online" (Cuba is a democracy and has free elections! NK is a great place to live! Everything I don't like is BIA conspiracy!).
I think a large number of Threadiverse tankies are demagogues and are merely chimping out for the "edgy aesethic".
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90% of the time when your see the dumbest possible take, it's someone from hexbear.
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Yeah, fascists be this way.
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Tankies' new ally:
Comrade Trump
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Right, how do they reconcile Trump being a friend of Putin's Russia with their adoration of Putin's russia ?
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they were already supporting trump under the disguise of accelerationism
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Tankies already support Trump
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Kim, whispering in the soldier's ear: "If you tell anyone about my boner poking your thigh, I'll have your entire family erased. Not even just killed, erased. If will be as if they never existed. I'm literally God. I can do that. Do not test me."
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Funny, yet not ok.
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And why were they in Kursk, all the way on the other side of the continent from them?
And yes, basically the same question should be asked of pictures for "US Army soldier consoled after loosing unit in Iraq". If you're incapable of asking the question in both cases, then you've wondered into an intellectual pit.
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