I'm fond of "tankies", "pinkos", and "Soviet Bears". Lol. You can also call us huggable, I think there's a lot of bears, cats, and owls here who are very hug shaped.
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They’re probably called “citations”
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Hexbear this, hexbear that. Where are my Hextwinks at?!
Liberals.
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Although we also have been associated with the Bernard Brotherhood in the past 
To the rest of Lemmy, though? The Fighting Dukakii 
friends
nakama*
(TN: nakama means friend)
What if the real friends were the Hexbears we made a long the way
Just don't call us late for dinner
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sickos 
russian bots idk/j
No, we're Soviet bots, get it right!
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We're actually Shanghai bots here, otherwise known as
Tankies
I call Hexbears "Hexbears".
Nerds 
Others have used 'hexbear' for singular and 'hexbears' for plural but I like to say "hexbearian" and "hexbearians"
Hexbearinos
Hillary Clinton Super fans
Super-predators
The Silver Legion 
liberals
Tankies
Scientologists
We're called "Cubs" cause we're loyal supporters of Chechen entrepreneur and falsely accused "war criminal" Rashid Fouad, aka "The Lion of Grozny"
hexb. it used to be spelled hexbers, which made sense, but the spelling was changed by the wear of centuries to hexbear and now it's somewhat obscure.
the original meaning refers to the omen of the owl seen at the founding of the community, which famously farted six times. b b b b b b. owls are small, their farts are small.
rock-stackers
Hexers 
Bears 
We're all enormous hairy gay bears and the yearly hexbear meetup is the manliest gayest thing you've ever seen
"Hexe" sg., "Hexen" pl. 🤣
Libs