If so, was it polled somewhere?

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    I don’t mind the general hexbear ideology in itself. Sure. You do you.

    But, damn, I see more than a few of its members just being obnoxious.

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      It’d be lovely if you could just see the hexbear powerusers somewhere convenient and mass block. I went through a couple subreddits of theirs, found the top posts, blocked everyone with more than 50 upvotes. Real pain in the ass, but I suddenly have far fewer teenagers who peaked in middle school debate club to deal with.

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        It’d be lovely if you could just see the hexbear powerusers somewhere convenient and mass block.

        If you go to our megathread, most of the people tagged in the first comment are our most active users.

        idk if there’s a tool to mass block them, seems like it would be a pain to go through them all but you do you.

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        Real pain in the ass, but I suddenly have far fewer teenagers who peaked in middle school debate club to deal with.

        This statement isn’t even internally consistent, are we teenagers or did we peak in middle school?

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          You peaked in middle school, you’re now a depressed teenager in high school or therabouts.

          Try a little harder when trying to pose as a well intentioned and reasonable human.

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            Civility is when I get to deride anyone who disagrees with me as a child and they are forbidden from saying anything mean in return

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            Try a little harder when trying to pose as a well intentioned and reasonable human.

            Imagine typing the paragraph that came before this, and then going on to write and post this without detecting the irony

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              Saying humans a lot makes other humans think the human saying humans is a well intentioned and reasonable human that just wants all other humans to be more reasonable and well intentioned humans. Humans. very-intelligent

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              I make no such posturing, because I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think of me. I’m not dedicating my life’s work to… making other internet less pleasant for everyone else? Because you can’t possibly be so deluded as to think your actions as a whole are positive?

              Anyways, there’s no chance in hell lil smoothbrain me is going to convince any of you enlightened geniuses of our time to pull your heads out of your collective asses. I’m just annoyed you make the meme machine worse.

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                I’m not dedicating my life’s work to… making other internet less pleasant for everyone else?

                You are posting from an instance full of people who have been doing nothing but that since we whitelisted you

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                  Pfft, please cry about it and get your whole cult to fuck off. Would be so much simpler since we can’t block entire instances yet.

                  Anyways, your echo chamber works better the more enclosed it is. Win win!

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                    So is it an echo chamber or are we brigaders?

                    The only cult behavior I see is from you noxious ass liberals who all speak in the same reddit cadence acting all aggrieved because people are to the left of you and aren’t being nice to you

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            You can actually go to Hexbear communities like mentalhealth or mutual_aid and half the posts are shit like “I need help paying rent” and “I hate my job”

            You’re so married to the reactionary idea of “Communists are all just ignorant teenagers” that you can’t see the evidence against it when it’s right in front of you

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              No, you’re just the worst kind of communist/socialist: the insufferable type nobody else wants to fucking deal with. Stop giving socialism a bad name.

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            well intentioned and reasonable human

            Stop LARPing as a Silicon Valley logic machine. It’s creepy and cringe.

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              B R I G A D I N G

              Having other troglodytes upvote you doesn’t make you right monkeys, it makes you look transparent.

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        “America bad looool I just debunked imperialist propoganda”

        Is just about the highest IQ take I’ve seen out of hexbear. Ya’ll got that cult-like disconnection from reality.

        Also when there was a user in unixporn yesterday asking what words will replace “ricing” now that it’s entered social consciousness that the term has a racially based origin, a hexbear jumped in to say it’s now going to be called “crackering”.

        Wow, dunked on that racism so hard.

        It was so racist of that user to better themselves and replace a racial work with a non-racial word. Good thing we have hexbear to help out.

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          Having had a disagreement with you in another thread and seen you mischaracterize it as “supporting the rape of innocent women and children” to someone else, I’m fairly confident that if anyone has a cult-like disconnection from reality, it’s likely you.

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            If someone tells me it’s bad to be anti-racism, or that systemic racism isn’t real, I’m of course going to say they support racism.

            Your position was that it’s bad to help Ukrainians defend their families from being raped because it damages worker solidarity. Yeah, you’re not going around raping anyone yourself, you simply supporting the system in which it occurs.

            And I don’t think supporting the system of rape is intentional on your part either. I think you’re anti-America (which is good) to the point that you’ll be apologetic towards rape (which is bad), as long as it means you keep being anti-America.

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              Your position was that it’s bad to help Ukrainians defend their families from being raped because it damages worker solidarity

              No, actually I was articulating someone else’s perspective, which was that advocating for greater conflict as retribution for rape is misguided, and I think it’s a reasonable perspective and not, as you and others were suggesting, evidence of faux leftism.

              But good-faith representations of perspectives you disagree with doesn’t seem to be one of your strengths.

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                No, actually I was articulating someone else’s perspective

                Someone else as in a real person?

                Or a hypothetical person you made up in your head?

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                  Does knowing who’s perspective it is really change your opinion of it? Or are you asking so you know who you can accuse of being a Russian apologist?

                  If it stands up to your scrutiny then I wouldn’t think it matters.

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                    I’ve talked to too many covert Nazis who will say, “Oh, I don’t believe that Jews secretly control the world, I’m just here to tell you that some people believe it, and here’s the evidence they use.”

                    Don’t argue someone else’s position. If you want to talk about disingenuous, that is disingenuous.

                    State your own position on the rape of civilians and minors in Ukraine.