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.
Lemmy was never yours to begin with but also where did we state this "goal". Thats straight out of lemmy.world's paranoid ramblings about us that have no basis in reality.
I never said anything was mine. However the circlejerk shit should not be allowed to infest every discussion. It's obnoxious. That's my opinion.
Edit - there's literally multiple threads on the front page of hexbear about "dunking on libs"
It'll probably taper off in the next weeks or so.
Edit - Probably what's most misunderstood is when the term liberal is applied. Not at all times they mean the Democratic Party and its supporters.
You don't need to be a Big L - Liberal to uphold liberalism. Republicans can uphold liberalism. Tory supporters can uphold liberalism.
It's an ideology tied to extreme individualism, reformism, those who can believe society will progress through individual action, devoid of any stances combating activism.
For ex: individuals who want women to be in the same position of power as men w/o questioning the oppressive nature of these positions of power that oppress women from the working class. Under liberalism: Thatcher, Melania Trump, Giorgia Meloni are Girlbosses. Does this ring true to anyone?
Liberalism as an ideology propagates the idea that if given "equal opportunities" in life, then it is up to people to grab those opportunities to have a better life.
But we understand that hard work is not enough because if so, then hired hands and workers should be rich by now, but they are not.
Because exploitation exists, oppressive systems in our society exist. That's one of the many limits of liberalism as an ideology. it has no class analysis.
Liberalism depends on reformism to advance a society, but reformism is not enough. You see news about social democracies backsliding into fascist politicians. But these social democracies also rely on poorer countries for their raw resources for their welfare states to run(like gold and tantalum and Libya bombing thing). Until how long can we reform a broken government?
Good explanation.
Just last night I also found myself explaining the misunderstanding around the term "liberal" to someone else who was talking as though they thought we were using conservative talking points because we were using anti-liberal language. I would bet we'll be seeing a lot of that now. Here was my attempt to clear up the misconception: