Empathy [he/him]

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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I originally meant to post this on the thread on transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone, but here goes:

    Here’s some very important context for anybody visiting this thread that may be tempted to join hexbear: don’t, unless you love authoritarian governments.

    Beware also: many lemmy.ml users are actually hexbear users that are exploiting the lack of moderation on lemmy.ml.

    For a long time now, hexbear users have been brigading communities all over Lemmy, spamming pro-russia and pro-china propaganda all over them. It looks like that’s what they’re doing here too. That’s why other instances defederated from them.

    Hexbear users regularly pose as communists, which I don’t personally have any problems with, but way more than they love communism, they love authoritarian governments. And for a while they had been literally posting memes mocking democracy with links in the comments promoting authoritarianism (NOT communism).

    Hexbear users, aka tankies, for a while had also tried to claim that “tankies” is a generalization that applies to all leftists and that we should all be offended by it. It’s not, it’s almost always used as a term for people broadcasting their oppression fetish on main.




















  • Perhaps I’m being a bit too optimistic, but access to information isn’t the same now as it was in the 20th century.

    Although we have a lot of false information to filter through out there, we don’t have to rely on what’s available at the local library or what our friends and family believe. I hope that it’s going to be increasingly difficult to spread misinformation and fear mongering.