I think the biggest thing that Hexbear has going for it is that there is a culture here that doesn't involve pandering to the voting audience.

Every conversation I have here feels like the other person is genuinely talking to me, not talking to an audience through me but talking to me directly, considering my words and seriously engaging with me even when we might disagree.

Over on reddit getting a real interaction with someone that doesn't involve in some way an attempt at pandering to possible voters is nearly impossible. Everything is influenced by the system. Everyone isn't really talking to each other but instead they talk to the audience.

I once made a reference to “genocide Joe” in a chat with a friend who I don’t normally talk politics with. He was confused - not because he thought what was going on in Gaza wasn’t a genocide, but because he had no idea what was even happening in Gaza, much less America’s involvement in it.

Polls on Americans’ opinions on things outside of the Lower 48 are completely pointless given how criminally ignorant most Americans are.

me, an intellectual

I like this place since people aren't gaslighting me about rl experiences or telling me I'm a bot/ai since there's no way xyz happened nor do multiple minorities like me exist. The politics is a big added bonus.

Yup, this place is basically Hogwarts commons and you're among fellow Gryffindors

Let me disabuse you of this notion

Ahem

Pee pee poo poo

But is a hotdog just a white man's taco?

I see you participated in the Beanis survey today then huh

Yeah, when that friend stopped talking to me I ceased to have anyone to talk to about things like politics, fashion, media, etc., because I’m homeless, and every single person in my social milieu is either a fucking idiot, or if they have any interests at all that overlap with mine, they’re fucking insane and only want to talk about stupid shit like Morgellons disease, and drones.

It's also a place where you can see a picture of a pig shitting on its own balls

Did you see how Iran after counter-strike to Iran’s counter-strike to strike on Iran’s embassy in Syria. Really makes you think about in the time of and the justified

There are a handful of topics that would be effectively impossible to talk about anywhere else because of the minefield of reactionary thought terminating cliches baked into Western culture. That is, so long as we didn't just have a struggle session boarding that topic.

[This post is just a fart noise that lasts over a minute.]

Oh yeah, then how about you intellectually stimulate deez nuts with yo mouth

gottem

i cant exist anywhere else

Same

I like it here because it's a respite from the exhausting lib brained world we live in.