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Tankie goes on a rant about this community and throws in a quick Uyghur genocide denial -- They just can't help themsevles (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Also their history is wrong:

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’ -- I was in their Matrix and discords at the time (still am), and they were legitimately freaking out.

So no, SJW didn't defederate, Hexbear defederated from all the others. There was also no evidence of any of this bigotry either. There were also no mentions of Palestine at the time, either, considering this happened prior to the conflict and again there is no evidence.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, these people dream of violent revolution, but they're so afraid of adversity they can't handle people asking tough questions?

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

pretty much. they hate questioning

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can I trouble you to link an article or documentation for all of this? I would love to read more.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

It's within this community

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who the fuck said anything about the clean Wehrmacht? Are they just hallucinating things?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

I all but guarantee that it was misconstrued information or a set of accounts that have long since been abandoned because they’re right wingers and fascists posting against a torrent of liberals. Like four conservatives out of a thousand users. Compare that to every third hexbear user being utterly intolerable. !conservative@sh.itjust.works was where they congregated, until the space improved

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

That wouldn't be surprising

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 33 points 2 days ago (20 children)

Ultra wide screenshot is unreadable on mobile

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

日 Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net op c * + 5 - 15 hours ago Or you could just leave the Nazi bar. shitsjustfash was federated for about two days with hexbear if I recall correctly and in that time we experienced dozens of their users posting: ableism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, literal Nazi apologia in the form of the "clean Wehrmacht" myth, downplaying the genocide of indigenous people in the americas and the ongoing one in Palestine. So when they claim that we are denying a "genocide" of Muslims in China (there literally isn't one and they don't actually give a fuck about Muslims) it would be funny if these people weren't all over places like piefed too and trying to ensure that nobody from anywhere like here can actually provide any counterfactual arguments to their Nazi propaganda. And you. Yes you yourself, are all over here spamming your little copypasta trying to defend this decision and the BEST you can fucking do is "oh hmmmm I'll look into it by asking the literal Nazi mod of shitsjustfash if they're a Nazi, I'm sure they will be forthcoming and honest"

IMHO tankies and fascists are all just different flavors of the same authoritarian apology

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