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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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So, Hexbear.net’s users told me to promote my stuff in their instance—only for mods to ban me soon after for spam, just for crossposting posts from !jorbex609@piefed.zip including links to my socials. No rule against it, of course, but why let something like rules get in the way of a good old-fashioned power trip?

This is the kind of hypocrisy that doesn’t just rot communities—it rots movements. The same people who’ll lecture you about "solidarity" and "anti-authoritarianism" will turn around and run their little fiefdom like a tinpot dictatorship the second they get the chance. This is the kind of behavior that doesn’t just stay online. Give these people real power, and suddenly you’re looking at a Pinochet-style regime: dissenters disappeared, criticism crushed, and all of it wrapped in the hypocrisy of calling themselves "leftists." If this is what their version of leftism looks like, I’d hate to see their idea of authoritarianism.

Funny how the loudest voices for "freedom" and "equality" are the first to slam the door shut when someone steps slightly out of line. But I guess that’s the Hexbear way—rules for thee, not for me.

So here’s to Hexbear.net: proof that the only thing more predictable than a mod abusing power is a "leftist" mod who thinks they’re the exception to their own principles.

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Tankies aren't true communists in any case; taking anti-west foreign policy positions just to be anti-west is hypocritical when the anti-west regimes are not only not communist themselves, but in cases such as Russia, actively fascist.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah agreed, your strawman is not a true communist.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

taking anti-west foreign policy positions just to be anti-west is hypocritical

Okay, but that’s not what we’re doing; it’s what you imagine we’re doing.