The opinions about Hexbear on that site are just bad faith at this stage.

It's depressing, but also kind of crazy seeing Lemmy.World whip themselves up a whole mythology about us that has almost no relation to reality already. So thoroughly based on "I heard this from someone who heard this from someone who heard this who said that they once saw.."

A pedal that falls apart really, just.. feels like failing at production step 1 of making a car.

What annoys me is not libs disliking us, or disagreeing with us about who the true LEFTIST is, or crying because they got banned.

It's just the sheer, utter disinformation where it's objectively demonstrable that they just make up shit about us and then all believe it. Still in .world, despite being corrected many times, the majority of users will say Hexbears did mass downvoting, when that's literally impossible.

They'll say we love Putin, and Trump. And that we're all fascists - even if you believed dumbdumb horseshoe theory, a fair portion of us aren't even close to authoritarian. That we're largely Chinese shills and bots. That we deliberately organise RAIDS on other instances and aren't just a big community group who like to share our personal experiences on other threads and we like to come to each other's aid. That we're a place of HATE when this place, of all sizeable internet communities, has one of the biggest cultures of love and mutual aid I've ever seen.

I get the political disagreements. I get the disagreement on conversational tone. What I don't get is the sheer determination to not even understand us in the slightest way, to take the most random bullshit, even when it is factually impossible, and take it at face value; all just so they don't have to acknowledge us as real people. That's what upsets me.

Now I made myself sad >:( I love y'all comrades

It's not that I think Russia is a free and fair democracy, it's clearly filled with corruption like all liberal democracies. it's just the misinformation about why and the utter hypocrisy and -100 self-awareness on criticising it.

• Navalny was never that popular, nore were any of the opposition members who were "banned" (for allegedly forging signatures). Nobody contests this, just western media like to act as if he mattered at all, and will never dare admit that the real opposition to Putin is commies (even if name only).
• Russia has not banned any of the actually major opposition parties, while Ukraine actually has explicitly banned almost all opposition.
• Acting like it's not common practice in all western democracies to deny people from being listed on ballots due to bureaucratic technicalities. They all do it.
• Putin's vote share does actually line up with widely accepted polls of his popularity. Russia is a country at war with a 1/6th of the world, the West, so it's little surprise to have an especially high rate now.

My constant reaction to libs arguing Putin is Hitler is "Sure whatever, now admit the state of democracy in your western country is about the same or worse and how that is the problem, Putin isn't special."

Ah yes, ol' antisemitic Croblin, remember when he was behaving antisemetic by.. uh.. uhm. An official inquiry clearing him of any antisemitic behaviour?

Cool to see he's not been deterred from helping Palestinians still.

The intense irony of a user joining a specifically trans safe space instance and then shouting about how trans people they don't like are just pretending is just upsetting.

I love my trans comrades

If the paragon of poor economic choices is overtaking you economically, how truly below awful is your country doing?!

In fairness, I'll take a committed pacifist over the standard "west = best" mindset any day. At least they're likely to have some principles in regards to human welfare.

As a random twitter user posted, the obsession with sperm extraction suddenly makes sense if you view it through the lens of thinking that racial purity is very important.

The 'personal belongings of one of the terrorists' was in a child's bedroom which was being used a Hamas base. Which was it? A store of 'personal belongings', a 'child's bedroom', or a 'Hamas base'? Because I somehow suspect no more than two Hamas members would have standing room in a child's bedroom, not even including the fact that it's apparently also storing the contents of bookshelves of all those Hamas members.

Just such a nonsense story jamming as many keywords into one narrative as possible. Sounds a lot more like "we killed everyone in a normal home, including the children, but I swear guys we found a book with Hitler's face so it's okay"

Israel is not a race. And much as it claims to, it doesn't speak for an entire race either.

'Spend billions of dollars on terrorism' is such a weird and funny sentence, like Palestinians are budgeting for and paying a Terrorism tax instead of supporting local business. Libs really can't understand how anything gets done outside the framework of money within a capitalist state.