Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.
Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.
So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.
I do like how libs use the same arguments as conservatives when arguing against leftists.
I remember back on the Reddit days getting called a shill for George Soros for saying universal healthcare isn't going to make their taxes go up to 99.9% and end society. And I dismissed their PragerU and Breitbart counterarguments.
Also it's easy to think of western news media as credible when you forget recent history. In the 90's they said the Mujahideen and Osama Bin Laden were freedom fighters or how Americans did some election interference in Russia to elect Yeltsin (and his right hand man Putin). Aged real well. Or how about in the 00's there were suddenly WMDs in Iraq? (I'm not going to link anything since even libs admit this was western propaganda). The cancel culture mob even got the Dixie Chicks! In the 10's it was pushing to bomb Iran or North Korea. Afaik this goes back a while, the US media blamed the sinking of the Maine on Spain to justify going to war with Spain.
Anyone with a memory longer than a goldfish should be suspicious when either liberal or conservative media posts negatives about their economic or ideological rivals. To their credit, though, sometimes they do admit they were wrong about Social Credit or the balloon that flew over the US didn't collect any information which is something. But these don't make headlines in the same way.
Look, the U.S. has only lied to start a war in the ~~1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s~~ 2010s, and the media went along lockstep, but that was ancient history! We've got this war totally right and definitely won't conclude we were wrong in the future!