It has come to my attention that there is some minor unrest on Hexbear due to statements they believe I made that they did not appreciate. there has been some small misunderstanding regarding them, so allow me, dear reader, to make my position clear so these terrible rumors can be put to rest.
some time ago, another user on our matrix asked for tips on trolling Hexbear in their communities. specifically, they asked what might be said that would garner the most rage. as I generally consider myself to be the obliging sort, I offered what pearls of wisdom I could.
now, a thoughtful reader might wonder why I didn’t react with abject horror at the idea of someone trolling Hexbear, for that, I can only say that perhaps I thought it was proper comuppence for the brigading and harassment Hexbear used to perpetrate across the fediverse.
but I digress. the specific pearls of wisdom I offered were as such.
le gasp! how terrible! what scoundrel, what worthless cur would say that the soviet civilians deserved such a fate! genocide! fascist! liberal!
as you might have guess, discerning reader, Hexbear posits that such a scoundrel is me. they insist, that by saying the soviets deserved what they got, that I am actively supporting the genocide of twenty-seven million civilians. there are two problems with this, however.
one, I never said civilians. this is a word put into my mouth by tankies that are too fucking stupid to understand plain english. one would think that it is pretty obvious that it wasn’t some poor farmer that was invading Poland for profit, but if one were to think such, then one wouldn’t be a braindead tankie shitstain, and would instead be someone at least capable of the level of higher thought that evolution gave a jellyfish. it’s pretty obvious to normal people that the ones gleefully invading other countries alongside the nazis were, in fact, soldiers. here they were at least right when they assumed I was gleefully celebrating the deaths of those soldiers. they fought with the nazis, they invaded other countries, and they don’t get to absolve themselves of working with the nazis just because hitler turned on them, and tankies think that the country that supposedly single-handily fought and won WW2 are also the poor victims of the war, who had no choice in their actions.
two, there were no soviet civilians, merely innocent asian/eastern european souls that were held hostage by the soviet oligarchy and forced into starvation and destitution by an authoritarian system that valued propaganda more than human beings. the vast majority of those people probably would not have chosen to live in a dystopian hellhole were they given a chance, any more than the average North Korean wants to starve to death under the Kims. they were as much soviets as you or I, merely people with no freedom, and no other option but to live under the crushing boot of the imperialist USSR. they didn’t help the nazis, because they were powerless in the face of the state.
neither of these two points has stopped Hexbear from whipping themselves into a frothing echo chamber of self-righteous disgust and anger, and demanding that I be removed from my mod positions and banned. a demand which has, so far, fallen on deaf ears that are used to the utter bullshit so often spewed by these feckless internet warriors. if there was an award for arguing in bad faith, we all know the reeking denizens of the lower planes we all colloquially call The Triad would win it.
as you probably have gathered by now, this is not an apology. I did not do anything wrong, especially not what they have accused me of, and so I will not apologize for it. not that they would be willing to consider such an apology anyway, because for them there is only one truth, and that is that they are always right, and everyone who is not them is an enemy and always wrong.
now, they have banned me, and so they can’t see this, so I will instead tag @[email protected], a known affiliate of these heathens, who spent three paragraphs the other day downplaying the persecution of LGBT+ in the USSR before grudgingly using a mere two sentences in admitting the treatment.
my one regret, of course, is that since I have now blocked everyone from The Triad, I won’t be able to read the no doubt angry replies they are fiercely typing out, in which they’ll likely pour over my history to try and find something they can spin as damning evidence to back up their preconceptions. actually, now that I consider it, I find I don’t regret that at all.
in conclusion, I want to say thank you to the comrades that have supported me through these almost trying times, fuck you to the haters who want to be me, and thank you to the haters who made the thread about me on c/Slop like I asked. you’re the real MVP!
I believe cryptagion is just trying to counter the bad faith disinfo being replicated in c/slop just in case anyone believes it.
Cryptagion admitted to being very ill-informed and assumed 27 million was the number of Red Army soldiers killed, but the fact that he didn’t bother to check and went straight for “they deserved it” and is encouraging others to post in other comms about how the soviets deserved being victims of the Nazis is clearly bad-faith behavior to begin with, no? If cryptagion actually wanted to clear his name, he could have just apologized and clarified by saying he only meant the Red Army (as horrendous as those views are regardless), but now he’s doubling down and inviting needless drama.
It’s your comm and your instance, so do what you like, obviously, but I genuinely can’t imagine anything good coming from this. I like a lot of users here, and I’d rather Hex and dbzer0 not defederate because of that, but I can easily see this resulting in that.
As far as I can tell, cryptagion didn’t encourage it, that person was planning to do it anyway. We agree that it would have probably been better to try to convince for a different course of action, but that’s not really a huge failing.
Whats causing the friction here is people blowing it out of proportion, adding plenty of disinfo and end up calling cryptagion a “genocide denying groomer nazi” and then calling for a defed because of that. I can’t fault crypt for feeling they need to respond to stuff like that
I can’t agree with the idea that offering suggestions doesn’t constitute encouragement, but even beyond that, the friction comes from cryptagion’s inflammatory behavior. There was one good instance of good-faith here, and it was when he apologized for misgendering me. Even after I made it clear that I didn’t want to make this a big deal, in what I thought was the cleanest way, he doubled down and went for more personal attacks. The response to cryptagion’s comments and behavior is because of his comments and behavior.
I am of the opinion that hostile or even toxic behaviour of someone does not excuse retaliating with disinfo like that. Yes cryptagion is a bit too much sometimes, and I do wish they could chill a bit, but they’ve literally blocked your whole instance so they don’t have to interact with y’all, and hexbear still drove itself into a fury though nothing more than talking to each other in your own comm.
You always get people with more extreme opinions. Crypt apparently takes a very hard stance towards collaboration with nazis. That doesn’t make them a nazi or a genocide denier. These are some downright bizarre takes which are nevertheless the standard take in c/slop
We can agree to disagree here, I’m not interested in letting this spiral. I’ve said everything I feel necessary to say here.
Man, he is literally in these comments denying the Nazi genocide of the Soviet Union and saying that every dead Soviet soldier deserved it for not surrendering to the Nazis.