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Welcome to c/news! We aim to foster a book-club type environment for discussion and critical analysis of the news. Our policy objectives are:
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To learn about and discuss meaningful news, analysis and perspectives from around the world, with a focus on news outside the Anglosphere and beyond what is normally seen in corporate media (e.g. anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, Marxist, Indigenous, LGBTQ, people of colour).
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To encourage community members to contribute commentary and for others to thoughtfully engage with this material.
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To support healthy and good faith discussion as comrades, sharpening our analytical skills and helping one another better understand geopolitics.
We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.
Newcomm and Newsmega Rules:
The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.
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Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
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Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.
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Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.
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Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
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Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.
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Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.
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American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.
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Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.
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AI Slop: Don't post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.
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are you really doing the "you say you are a communist but have an iphone?" bit? communists can't criticize people for being wrong unless they have "led the world revolution?" combat liberalism and no investigation no right to speak are only ideas that matter after a revolution has been accomplished? we don't need to fight against liberal ideological positions until after the revolution?
which is it? is hexbear a website online full of random people with no affiliation to a party, or is it a place of comrades? why would I consider people actively disparaging millions of revolutionaries as comrades? why would I see people who literally hold the same positions as the venezuela far right as comrades? why would I assume that strangers online posting imperialist talking points and taking Trump as the arbiter of truth on hexbear as comrades? I don't need to be elected to state my perspective or push back against someone else's. all these false notions are really exposing that you have nothing of value here, you are just highly emotional and basing everything off your unregulated feelings. talk to your therapist about it, not me
I have repeatedly told you to shut up? when? and how do you know these strangers are comrades? are they your friends? you all know each other outside of this random website?
okay, link it. all the comments are still there. show me where this happened. show me the evidence I denied, please. I've been begging for it the whole time and no one has provided it, but you disagree, so prove it right now.
oh thank god this white is one of the savior variety. please continue to use alleged south americans to boost your credibility, it really helps you to seem like a person who understands the reality of the topic we are discussing, and definitely not like a person claiming they have a Black friend.
whats it called when people claim that something is true because everyone already knows it is true? hmmm