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What's the deal with Hexbear? (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Menachem@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social
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Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

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[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Similar because a good portion of the propaganda in both extremist groups is coming from places like the CCP and Kremlin that want to destabilize the US and other powerful countries (like India).

Divide and conquer isn't anything new, but it's implementation on social media is.

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Question for you, why would the destabilization of the US be a bad thing? For me it would be an objectively good thing considering all the evil in this world it has wrought. While I will continue to deny that I'm a paid shill for China and ESPECIALLY Russia, I won't deny that the end of western neoliberal hegemony is a desirable goal for me.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

The idea that American right wingers are taking their ideological cues from a communist government is probably the most galaxybrain take I've ever heard

And by the way, it's the Communist Party of China (CPC). You just come off as ignorant and possibly racist when you deliberately use the wrong name for them.

And are you actually saying that destabilizing the hegemonic global empire is a BAD thing? Let alone the fucking genocidal religious fascist government that's running India right now??

hitler-detector beep beep beep

[-] jack@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Yoooo is that a new emote? It rules.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think it got made around when the 'Hitler particle' quote started floating around

[-] macabrett@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

It's very easy to never question your own world view if you think everyone you engage with that disagrees with you is getting talking points from another government. Have you considered that your thinking that our ideas come from government talking points IS an actual talking point from western politicians?

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to who? People defending the narrative that they are contradicting? Yeah man. What a totally unbiased and reliable source for that information.

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