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Did you all notice that week or so of utter shock from federated Lemmy liberals when they saw takes to the left of themselves? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/chat@hexbear.net
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I don't just mean outrage or regular rage, I mean shock that someone was to the left of "legal weed and free college but only for those that operate a successful business for 3 years in a disadvantaged community" top-cop takes.

I think federating took them by surprise, looking back. For about a week, those smug liberals were at a loss to even fathom what Hexbears were saying, and could only chant bullshit about how we're Russian/Chinese bots.

Sure they still do that but they've slightly adapted to Hexbear presence.

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[–] 42 points 3 years ago (2 children)

hexbear is definitely to the left of all the sites we federated to, and there has been some shit takes by our feddie comrades that were fun to laugh and dunk on, but i feel like we do have a responsibility to educate the other instances so long as they are willing to be educated. like im not at all against giving the other feds like blajah a second chance if they listen to us and understand why they suck.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    hexbear is definitely to the left of all the sites we federated to

    I don't think it's really to the left of lemmygrad, though I wouldn't say the reverse either

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I agree. I wouldn't try to take the dunk culture out of Hexbear, and many people deserve to be dunked on, but sometimes if they don't seem like a lost cause you gotta just teach them what you can and then leave them something to think on that they can hopefully look back on positively.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    On the other hand I have a lot of sympathy for people who do try to have a good faith discussion and then after a dozen thousand word comments the lib just goes "don't know why I bothered obviously none of you know how government works"

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