Can someone explain the hexbear community? (lemmy.world)

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I'm sorry if this breaks a rule for this sub or isn't in the right place.

I really don't know, most of the time I just lurk. I had an alt on Hexbear because they get defederated all the time, and I really enjoy their content, but it got banned because I called out Nazi propaganda about Ukraine(It's why I was banned. I'm not trying to talk politics I would like to focus on Lemmy), and I'm just very confused. The rules they referenced for the ban seem to barely apply to what I said, and in general, the server seemed like a cool place to be. I definitely felt like I was in a community where I belonged.

I'm just boggled and could really use some hand-holding on this one. In general, the rules of the Lemmyverse confuse me. I want to see everything, but the places I like most are usually defederated from the larger communities.

If this isn't right please please, just point me to where I can ask.

Thanks!

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[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago

Can't say I've ever spent any time inside the hexbear community, but all the external examples I've seen from them, not once have I ever seen anything remotely left wing. What they spout is pro-Chinese government, pro-Russian government talking points, and 0-100 death threats.

[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 1 points 22 hours ago

When people talk about left vs right, they don't always mean the same axis.

Strictly speaking it's about the economic axis iirc, but people almost never use it that way in actual political discourse imo. They seem to conflate other axes into it.

The original axis wasn't the economic one however, but rather the French one before it, where the aristocracy on the right were opposed by the commoners on the left. The right here stands for tradition and monarchy, while the left are the progressives and anti-monarchy.

I don't know by what logic, which axis, people on the fediverse like to call Russia left-wing, but I can suggest a possibility.
According to what I've seen of Russian propaganda worldview, NATO is imperialist. I think you can map that onto the original French model, with NATO being right-wing because they're imperialist and NATO's enemies being left-wing because they oppose imperialism.

Again, not sure if that's why, but that would be one way to come to the conclusion.

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago

Authoritarian left, not libertarian left. Very into iron fisted centralized government.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's nothing left about Russia as it is today. Fully capitalist shithole.

China's weird, it's more like an auth center government IMO. Very much still promotes capitalism and mints tons of new billionaires every year, but also has some sensible social policies and superb public infrastructure. Means of production are still mostly privately owned, but land is government owned so billionaires are free to billionaire, but you can't pass your home down your family forever without paying for it again since the land it sits on is on a 70 year lease which you may or may not get to renew.

IMO for the .ml and hexbear types, it doesn't really seem to be about auth left, it just has to be auth and anti-western. Even auth right is fine as long as it's not a western country.

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