I just checked and those rules are wild.
Posting a picture of a slice of cheese without a NSFW tag and a content warning is bannable but calling violence against large groups of people isn’t.
Holy hell that sounds like a parody community made by 4chan.
Yep and like 4chan It’s full of Russian propaganda. Just look at how many of their posts reference Ukrainian Nazis.
Also talks about “Da West” as much as Putin does.
Cheese?
It appears to be a rule against posting food made from animal products. As someone who doesn’t eat animal products myself, I don’t particularly enjoy scrolling Reddit or Lemmy and seeing a picture of a meat dish, but it doesn’t ruin my day I would never dream of demanding a content warning for it.
To my knowledge CWs are geared towards content that has the potential to trigger past trauma, and I can’t understand how a food category could be so broadly traumatic to someone (outside of EDs I guess, which is obviously not the focus of this rule).
I suspect it’s less of a trigger warning, and more of a means to reframe perceptions of food.
Like, if TV commercials just started putting little “viewers may find the following depictions of dead animals disturbing” stingers before a commercial of a family eating steaks, it might change perceptions over time.
Yeah, that’s exactly what it is.
Homelander drinking a consenting woman’s breast milk is disturbing and helps convince viewers he’s a creep. Yet if he were to enjoy a nice glass of refreshing cow breast milk, that would be completely normal. Why? Because our society has made a very deliberate choice not to consider there being anything wrong with milking a cow.
Hexbear simply does not participate in that choice. On Hexbear, there is something disturbing about milking a cow, and that’s because the admins want you to be disturbed by it. That has always been the default state of things.
The gif that’s typically shared is after he’s murdered her, and finds some in her office fridge. I wouldn’t hold it up as a textbook definition of consent.
Unfortunately trigger warnings got watered down very quickly, to now also being used as an “anything someone might find the slightest discomfort in”
I just don’t understand them. The users I mean.
We are a platform that welcomes anyone who wants to be here in good faith. With that said, we are also an intentionally leftist platform; conservative and reactionary ideologies will not be tolerated here.
They live in an idolgical bubble where contrary opinions are not tolerated, and dissent is shunned. The only voices they hear are leftist and extreme leftist voices shifting the Overton window of politics in their minds leading to radical beliefs.
It’s important to have your beliefs challenged at times, they lack that. If you can try and listen to voices from opposing view points, maybe even share your own in a respectful manner.
(This isn’t an issue particular to any side of politics, it also occurs in more right wing groups)
I guess I’ve been really surprised at their support for Palestine.
I thought that the left would be less supportive of the more conservative religion
I don’t think they support Palestine as much as they oppose colonialism.
If that’s true it seems very reductive.
Good. Fuck all fascists. The allies who fought in WWII were heroes, and the farmers who rape cows are villains. This is a consistent ideology.
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Two years ago I told a 16 year old to stop being friends with the person who raped my wife. Raddle believes it is child abuse to tell teens not to hang out with rapists. That’s because the head admin is a rape apologist.
In their general rules:
Any pictures of food containing animal products, including but not limited to meat, cheese, or egg, must be tagged nsfw along with food discussion content warnings (CW: Food).
Animal Liberation is essential to any leftist movement, including platforms like Hexbear. Volunteers, comments, and posts, should not be anti-vegan, although users and volunteers are not required to be vegan.
Wow. Just wow. That is so far beyond leftist.
It’s like if Fox News was to create a leftist website. It smells so fake.
Oh they would try if it could make more money.
I don’t know, you see a cow being shot and cut up, it’s NSFW. You put some parsley on it, it’s now food.
Yeah. That’s how that works
That’s generally how human brains work. We’re capable of switching empathy on and off, allowing us to both hunt and love animals, protect our group and fight the others, be careful not to hurt others and perform surgery… People are paradoxical creatures.
I love your name
The feelings are mutual.
That’s so far left, it’s behind
Maybe we should be putting people into cages and harvest and sell their organs… I mean why not ? It’s not like humans are different from animals ¯_ (ツ) _/¯
Well, I’m so glad you volunteered! … No, really. Very glad. Right this way…
I am glad the animals volunteered too! :-)
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They’re transphobic? That’s almost as bad as being vegan! /s But seriously, I hadn’t known that.
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I believe they do, yes. It’s done to out anti-trans people, making them easy to spot as they complain loudly about being forced to.
rare hexbear W
I mean, it’s unverifiable and unenforceable. Personally, I wouldn’t sign up for anything that requires identifying myself like that. I can just look at someone’s comment history to see if they’re strongly pro or anti tolerance. As it stands, this has as much value as as North Korea calling themselves democratic.
Unverifiable maybe, unenforceable, no. They simply ban anyone who refuses.
What if I just lie?
The point is not to make you reveal your gender, but to make you explicitly choose a gender, thus normalising the idea that gender should not be assumed. Transphobes will object to this and get banned. At least, that’s the theory.
I just default to gender neutral terms if context clues don’t suggest a specific one.
Just make a rule that transphobes and other bigots will be banned like everyone else.
Just make a rule that transphobes and other bigots will be banned like everyone else.
And how do the mods find the transphobes to ban them? They’ll have to wait for an argument to happen and someone to complain about it. Waste of everyone’s time. This way transphobes will get triggered when they try to sign up, throw a tantrum, and get banned. That’s the plan; I have no idea whether it works in practice.
Suddenly I like a hexbear policy!
Steps 2 and 3 involve denying several genocides and then calling for genocides based on skin color and global locality.
Are many of them from a single country?
I’m kinda amazed they’re so unanimous in some of their political opinions.
You’d think that would make one question wether their beliefs truly are their own, or rather - our beliefs
Going by spelling and phrase choices, I’d say the majority of them are youngish Americans who’re still naive enough to believe extreme left-wing/anarcho political systems aren’t just as controlling of the populace as the political systems they despise. Either that or they crave big state control systems because the feel a lack of control in their own lives and want a political daddy to make the decisions for them.
I’m not convinced they’re even human if I’m being completely honest. Learning language models aren’t new in the propagandasphere.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, I guess.
what if I honestly dgaf and prefer that people call me whatever they want?
“Any” is probably fine. It tends to be my choice. That said, you’re better off just not using Hexbear. Ya know, unless you’re chill with things like genocide.
Then you put that I guess.
they/them I guess.
They’re a satire of failed marxist extremists that hate everyone and everything. Just block them and move on.
I don’t paint with such a broad brush. I welcome differing opinions on my social media feed.
