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I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don't actually think everyone there is insane. I don't care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It's not going to scare me to take this down

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just wait until they start swarming in this thread, they will leave you with no doubts whatsoever. ;)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Pretty much, yeah, they're insane. They're also a very good reminder to go outside and talk to people outside your echo chamber regularly

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I was going to block them and lemmygrad at first but decided not to and instead tried to understand what all these people were about.

Now I'm a communist, have a hammer and sickle, live in China, and my favorite color is red. Death to America comrades! Get fucked libs /s

Seriously though, they're not anymore insane than us. Maybe just a bunch of drunken commies at a bar who don't really bother to distance themselves from the subjects of a century of red scare propaganda. In any case, it's worth keeping an open mind and engaging in good faith.

Though as leftist as I personally am and have become in time, I'm not going to call anyone comrade or start using hammer and sickle imagery except in the context of history lol. Libs can still get fucked though.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

"HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point"

Without taking any sides, saying some group is insane and then saying that them lashing back "proves your point" is beyond stupid.

Like, of course they will, what else do you expect them to do? Sit and politely agree?

We should stop with this kind of BS in any sort of debate. Groups will protect themselves, and will not get polite to those who throw slurs at them; that's natural, normal and speaks nothing about their average behavior.

This never proves any point and is nothing but a dirty rhetorical device aimed to shut your opposition up and make them seem irrelevant. This is not part of any possible healthy conversation.

Also, post is not a genuine question.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes. Block the community and move on.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It's not just you. Like many people that get sucked into cults, you don't want to directly engage with them. Just nicely encourage them to deprogram themselves, and focus on maturing and becoming an adult. They really don't like get called out like that, based on my interactions with them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (8 children)

They really don’t like get called out like that, based on my interactions with them.

yes why would people get upset that you're being condescending and calling them either brainwashed or a child? one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the world really

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Basic mental health config for a non tankist user of Lemmy is to block hexbear, lemmygrad and lemmy.ml instances first. Then, any user from there that you will see calling nazis anyone who don't think like them.
I almost left Lemmy thinking it was a tankist shithole before understanding the pattern.
Then it gets back to the average former-Reddit techie activist, which is still pretty left.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Yes, Everyone. the bots, the human user, me, and even you. You can't escape it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I will not define insanity or who is or isn't, but hexbear users' stances and opinions tend to be missing nuance as one often do when one is terminally online and mostly form opinions based on the reverberations of an echo chamber.

They do occasionally have a golden meme, though. But the amount of shit coming from there got too tiresome, and I could only look past so many genocide denials before I ended up blocking the entire instance.

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