• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        Saying somebody is from “hexbear” or a “tankie” is the new “communist” of American Liberals, deployed just like “communist” was in the old days when the chief of whatever political tribe they support does something which is pretty much Fascism and they can’t actually argue or justify it away.

        I supposed that because of their position in politics is so much to the right and so far from the center, than American “moderates”/liberals invariably just see one big blob to their left mixing everything up to and including all the variants of Communism.

        That said, this case is really special as even Center-Right people are against supporting the Nueu Holocaust being committed by Israel: one needs to be so far to the right to the point of being Nazi-adjacent to support this or those that support it.

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        I never heard of a hexbear before lemmy, and frankly, I don’t understand them. They don’t really seem to support any thing, they just actively don’t support things. They’re just negative about everything and basically, just annoying. They’re not on any political spectrum I understand

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          Because they want to sow apathy, accelerating the collapse of society. At least that has been my experience whenever I have to engage in debate with them.

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            I really think they are accelerationists. I never hear any solutions oriented discussion.

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          I didn’t understand them either, at first. The best way I can describe them is genuine, honest people who are passionate about leftist ideas of all kinds, that got caught in their own little socialism shitpost bubble for a time, and have now emerged. Again alive to the world of federated forums, they are either changing minds or pissing people off because they don’t pull their punches, and will argue for extreme action. They do this because they feel there’s no reason to play fair in a system so rigged against the masses.

          I, for one, am glad my instance stayed federated with them.

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          They’re essentially a Chapo Trap House fanbase whose main political discourse is antagonizing liberals. Outside of their instance they are probably being sarcastic, trolling, or flaming some generically lib take.

          Naturally they’re hated by libs and many a story and mythology has been spun about them as the boogeyman.

          So: they’re intentional assholes on the internet, and people resoundly find themselves shocked and surprised by that.

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        I moved from Reddit right into a .world account with leftist views. I didn’t even know what a hexbear was.

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          I think there’s a difference between a “hexbear user” and a typical “leftist.”

          A lot of their stuff reads like leftist versions of 4chan circlejerk insanity.

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            Oh I definitely know that now. They’re somehow more insane than the lemmingrad folks. Wild people.

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          If you came from Reddit, it’s chapotraphouse. When they were banned they made a Lemmy. Same vaguely violent meme content.