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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tankies forget that the CCP is against the lgbtq.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 years ago

nooo, they remove gay scenes because it's uhhh... western propaganda, something something, america bad, something cia

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I saw one of them claiming China was more LGBT friendly than the use the other day and it took me a second to process that they were being completely serious.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After hearing what China did to the Uyghur (sp?) people, this is not surprising at all

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They believe that’s a hoax.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Tankies, keep up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I wish they'd just go to China by themselves so we may never hear from them again.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago

"N-no, you see, they have to censor us because we're Western dogs... self-flagellation for the Comrade-Chairman will redeem us of our sin of birth!"

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

Useful idiots are like chained guard dogs. They belong outside the house.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That website is CIA propaganda! But also it's a good thing and China's firewall is necessary to prevent the poison of western ideology from ruining glorious CPC!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

north korea is a paradise!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

something something free healthcare that probably exists over there

[–] dangblingus 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now if only dbzer0 would defederate them.

[–] bingbong 4 points 2 years ago

Fingers crossed!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Not even the ones who's figurative dick they figuratively sucking want them. I wonder why they're not defederated form anywhere yet. (Same with Lemmygrad and to some extend Kbin)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Kbin doesn't have a tankie problem, though?

The guy running Kbin has a reasonable head on his shoulders. I've never seen any problematic folks there. Heck, Kbin is one of the places Beehaw still federates with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

They're defederated from @lemmy.world and the all feed there is so, so much better for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait, Kbin? Kbin is pretty normie. I should know, I generally stick to Kbin mags.

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

@Dirk

I do kbin mostly and I can't say I've ever seen a single hexbear post or mag (and only a handful of their users) unless it was someone else telling me what hexbear is or complaining about them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They haven't whitelisted kbin, so you won't see their posts (edit: unless they're made to non-hexbear communities). Only their comments on other instances, and a fair number have blocked them at this point.

[–] bingbong 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, if they're not federated, then their comments are still visible?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If I understand correctly, their posts and comments to communities on other instances will still remain visible to you until your instance specifically blocks them. Hexbear won't talk directly talk to kbin, but will talk to lemm.ee, and lemm.ee will tell kbin about posts and comments that hexbear users have made on lemm.ee's communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That’s because they’re not communists. They’re anarchist trolls making fun of everything—including themselves.

[–] uniqueid198x 26 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I've gotten serious pushback from them for advancing basic anarchist ideas. The prevailing ideology amongst hexbear users is not anarchist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, as an anarchist they are DEFINITELY not anarchists.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmmm. They're not very happy about anarchism either. Accelerationism fits somewhat if one would try to pin it but there's a diverse range of users.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As far as I can tell, they’re contrarian authoritarians. That is, they support strongman dictatorships primarily because doing so shocks the sensibilities of and upsets the people around them. It’s childish nonsense without any rigor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Big time reactionary authoritarians. They just absorbed some Lenin somehow and are trying to be "based".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They’re anarchist trolls

Maybe a few, but there's no reason to think that there's any more than that, let alone a majority. There's no shortage of actual tankies in the world, so why should hexbear be some elaborate ruse?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please don't lump anarchists in with those Stalin worshipping crazies.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some of them hate anarchism.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ah I see hexbear has gone from alt right trolls to anarchist trolls now

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