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I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of 'hitlerites'

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Have you ever heard of a drop bear?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Fuck stop appearing in my frontpage

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago (45 children)

Oh another one of these

Short answer:

"What if 4chan was communist instead of neonazi"

Similar level of assholety and low post quality. Better politics. Overall don't bother, not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

“What if 4chan was communist instead of neonazi”

Not quite, that would be /leftypol/

wiki page / KnowYourMeme


Better politics.

This reminds me of one of their site banners:

screenshot of a chan imageboard post with the text "What the fuck? Why does /pol/ have one or two reading lists and /leftypol/ has tons?"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hexbear has its origins on Reddit's ChapoTrapHouse which I'm pretty sure has a connection to leftypol in its history.

But sure

My point is:

Hexbear = Jerkoffs, except class conscious

Would be nice if they weren't jerkoffs but hey, at least they have class consciousness.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (12 children)

Hexbear.net is a Left-Unity instance populated mainly by Marxists and Anarchists. They generally don't get along with Lemmy.world, whose admins defederated from the major Marxist-aligned instances.

Whether you block Hexbear is up to you, I enjoy my time there a lot but it's also because I'm a Marxist. The ones saying they are "pretending" to be Leftist never seem to be able to explain why a large group of people would all ironically have theory reading groups and ironically support trans rights for years, even before federating with anyone else. What would they have to gain?

If I were you, I'd ask on an instance actually federated with them. You'll get different perspectives than you will here, which is always the case when it comes to controversial topics like Marxism, where opinion varies greatly from instance to instance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

The issue with hexbear isn’t Marxism or anarchism or communism, it’s apologism for violent authoritarian regimes to the point of insisting on an “alternative facts” version of “history”.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Left-Unity instance

I doubt it or I'd be over there. Instead, I got attacked and mocked by a circlejerking mob of angsty teens from Hexbear operating in bad faith for remotely questioning something about communism and then got permabanned from Lemmy.ml. I didn't even attack it! 😂

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Credit where credit is due, youre honest and youre correct. Have my upvote!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

I try to be both, lol. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I'll do you one better, why is Hexbear??

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