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[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

This entire thread is justification for telling hexbear to fuck off. These goons are trying to create a leftist version of The_Donald.

edit: and nothing of value is lost.

edit2: lol, look at all the brigading shitheel goons I get to ignore.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

The_Donald is when you have entirely different politics from The_Donald.

[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

???

I'm obviously biased as an accursed tankie myself, but looking at this thread:

  • 1.) The article wasn't even posted by a hexbear user.
  • 2.) The level of discourse seems to be pretty level between hexbear natives and other users.
  • 3.) The failure of the US to fight illicit opium production in Afghanistan, despite it being a public aim of the US and its allied government in Afghanistan, is well documented. Just doing a quick look, here's a New York post article (I know, I know, but it's well sourced, and certainly not leftist): Why the only winner of America’s war in Afghanistan is opium . It cites the Afghanistan papers and a variety of US and Afghan officials, and illustrates a timeline on how every program implemented by the US to combat opium production only intensified cultivation. The success of the Taliban government in cracking down on it despite far more limited resources suggests either gross incompetence or malice on the part of the US government.

EDIT: I will also point out that the harshest criticism of the US here is from a user from your own instance. That wouldn't even be allowed on hexbear, so glass houses.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

This isn't even your instance lmao.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

leftist version of The_Donald.

This is not a thing which is possible.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their complaint with The Donald is that they were mean, and we're mean, so we must be exactly the same, because liberalism is about being civil and fascism is about being incivil.

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

something something, "liberals don't understand words, only tone"

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago
[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

Is... are you coming out as a fan of the heroin industrial complex here? Are you really mad we don't support Big Heroin ™️

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

All things I don't like are exactly the same, united in their nature of me not liking them. very-intelligent

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

wojak-nooo mods help!! The lefties are posting well sourced arguments again!!

edit: and nothing of value is lost.

Behold the Redditor

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another redditer who doesn't understand how federation works.

[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You see, brigading is when content that I am interested in is algorithmically prioritized in my feed and I interact with it. The more algorithmically prioritized the content is, the more it's an inorganic brigade.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No dont you understand Hexbear is an evil cabal who organizes raiding certain posts. What? You cant see that anywhere on their instance? Huh... they must be hiding it.... uh... somewhere.

[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

We all live together in the posters' gulag in Yakutsk where we are forced to post incessantly for the glory of the post-Soviet motherland.

We we see a bad post we all gather around the collective 2004 Gateway laptop and laugh at it.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

We have a secret brigade thread in double-lemmy. Lemmy2.0

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No dont you understand Hexbear is an evil cabal who organizes raiding certain posts.

We're not?!? sicko-wistful

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

"Organize" is the problematic term here. We absoltuely are not that.

[–] NailBunny@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Whenever leftists post outside of their home instance it inevitably breaks down into a rehashed version of "This is America, why can't you speak American?"

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

This entire thread is justification for telling hexbear to fuck off.

Why exactly? You have not given a reason. Vaguely gesturing at the thread full of people criticising the US is not a very good reason, unless you are an angry american nationalist.

[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Glad to see that your instance filter is working. Everyone should be free to curate the content they see.

For the benefit of others, checking your comment history, it is hilarious to me that you've never posted in your home instance even once and have the audacity to call us brigadiers.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lemm.ee user posts an article on lemmy.ml

random reactionary from a third instance: wtf how could hexbear do this wojak-nooo

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look at all the users I blocked! LOOK HOW MUCH I DON'T CARE!! rage-cry

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'll turn the mind control machine off now sadness

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

It's just like the good old days, where everything anyone didn't like on Reddit was because they were being bridaged by the Hexbaerinos.

[–] eatmyass@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Won’t somebody think of the opium trade!

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

"I'm so proud of my echo chamber! Want to see pictures? No critical thinking can touch me! hahaha!"