My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a “tankie” instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    82·
    1 month ago

    Honestly the actual socialist states, the Scandinavian ones. Tend to be some of the happiest and highest rated on the planet. Consistently even. Generally the authoritarian ones regardless of where they pretend to be economically are often the worst.

    Lol, the dumbest people are against us

  • roux [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    77·
    1 month ago

    Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

    Based mod alert.

  • sgtlion [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    64·
    1 month ago

    I am asking for just one “hexbear bad!!!” thread that wasn’t written by a user who was caught spouting fascist apologia

  • falgscode [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    63·
    1 month ago

    reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk

    literally the same fucking mods (or close enough) that run gcj run our games comm, what a clown. @Rose@lemmy.zip every joke on gcj besides the others from your fellow hapless libs went over your head, and you should be ashamed for that.

    eat shit fascist.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    51·
    1 month ago

    Oh my God how do y’all stand these people for more than a moment lmao. They take online posting so seriously. Everything’s a matter of life or death civilizational collapse and scary foreign devils attempting to beguile our pure little minds away from glorious Western consensus.

    Also if you’re a self described leftist stop trying to be one of the good ones. You’re never going to be a model minority for liberals. They don’t care. You’re not winning anything by claiming to be a leftist, but not like those scary Chinese, but rather like the good nice white Swedish. It’s not gonna work. In fact the whole exercise of denouncing the West’s enemies before calling yourself a socialist is demonstrating your obedience. You’ve showing that you’ll always play a little game before saying anything of substance, you’ll eagerly waste your own time. It doesn’t go anywhere

    Furthermore not even the political stuff, these people are insufferable nerds who should get stuffed into lockers while I point and laugh. I don’t even understand the urge. If I got banned from a forum of genocide denying fascists, I’d simply go about my day no longer burdened by the ability to look at the opinions of a bunch of deranged fascist lunatics. If I were in a protracted conversation with someone online, upon discovery of a contentious opinion of theirs (genocide denial, bigotry, etc) I’d simply tell them I had sexual intercourse with their father and then I’d send an image of a pig shitting on its own balls. Then I’d never interact with that person again. Why do liberals believe they need to defend their honor online? Being on an internet forum at all makes you a little weird goblin (myself included), so just embrace it.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      1 month ago

      Also if you’re a self described leftist stop trying to be one of the good ones. You’re never going to be a model minority for liberals. They don’t care. You’re not winning anything by claiming to be a leftist, but not like those scary Chinese, but rather like the good nice white Swedish. It’s not gonna work. In fact the whole exercise of denouncing the West’s enemies before calling yourself a socialist is demonstrating your obedience. You’ve showing that you’ll always play a little game before saying anything of substance, you’ll eagerly waste your own time. It doesn’t go anywhere

      There’s a reason the “dirtbag left” upsets liberals so much, by refusing to play their games, refusing to engage in the complex liberal ritual of dancing around a topic while never explicitly condemning it OR committing to it, it just breaks their brains, it makes them so mad that someone could actually stand for something, and not just empty token gestures, and not sacrifice their own morals in the sake of “civility” either. They hate it, because it is a reminder that they are not the inherently good people they think they are, and that liberalism is a path of failure and destruction, not centrist enlightenment.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        1 month ago

        I’ve been thinking about it, and honestly I’m not so sure this is always the case. There’s definitely cases where being flippant and uncouth goes to our detriment, even when someone is engaging in bad faith. Like, it’s one thing for the opponent to make a bad faith attack then do a rebuttal with a pigpoop at the end, and it’s another to respond to their bad faith attack with nothing but emotes. If the context of the conversation can lend credence to their argument, the lack of a serious counterargument can speak volumes. The onlookers get the wrong message.

        More concrete example: someone here says that it’s a shame Al Qaeda seized control of Syria. Lemmitor comes and says Assad was using chemical weapons so regime change was justified. They get nothing but PPBs in response.

        Will an onlooker have their beliefs about so called “tankies” challenged? Or did we just give them license to keep dismissing us? Wouldn’t it be helpful if on top of being rude, we could be ruthless and actually thoroughly debunk their claims?

        I miss how Egon would do this relentlessly, I think that kind of dunking is a lot better than (only) namecalling.

        Edit: I checked the original thread this is referencing and nevermind, everyone did a good job of actually engaging in the conversation with good sources and solid points.

        • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          16·
          1 month ago

          Oh, yeah, I didn’t mean just “hurl insults until they go away” is effective, but treating their attitude and opinions with the respect it deserves is very effective. The dunk is an important part of that, and what I was thinking of. I haven’t really seen any examples where a lib says something ignorant and the only responses are insults and PPB, that isn’t just several lines deep in a comment chain already (where others have tried and failed to explain things to them.) Not saying it doesn’t happen, just that it wasn’t what I was thinking of, I was probably imagining the same scenario you do, where people call them out for their ignorance, attempt to educate them and refuse to coddle them.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    1 month ago

    This is the stupidest Lemmy I’ve ever seen. No I don’t think I will contact my MP “lemmy.zip” I think I’ll post about you and laugh at how fucking stupid this is.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        35·
        1 month ago

        Also “pls mr congressmen let me post in the reddit clone site” lmao

        It’s genuinely fucking embarrassing. I would be embarrassed to write to an mp about this shit. British libs would never write something as stupid as this. I have embarrassment just imagining writing to an mp about this while people are being flung into poverty by existing government policy and a fucking genocide is ongoing.

        Idiots.

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          23·
          1 month ago

          You’d think they would put the VPN details first and then a spiel about “if you want to be an embarrassment, you can beg your MP to let you use Finish off-brand reddit-logo these ways”

  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    44·
    1 month ago

    Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

    Tagline material right there stalin-comical-spoon

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    42·
    1 month ago

    Then he called me a fascist again, and someone else said I was a fascist. And then they basically all started shouting fascist at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling “you’re breaking the NAP” and things like that. “Stop initiating force against me.” Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my camera and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      1 month ago

      lmao that story always cracks me up. Libertarians don’t understand their own ideology or its history. Stolen from actual leftwing libertarians (who called themselves that after ‘anarchist’ was banned in several countries). Explicit rejection of empiricism. Claims “not real libertarianism” when bears take over their town.

  • falgscode [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    42·
    1 month ago

    these scratched liberals are doing god’s work. it was the same sort of complaining about the subreddit from an obvious shithead on like /r/hockey or somewhere that got me to sub in the first place

    now I haven’t even used reddit in five years comfy-cool

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      1 month ago

      It’s fun how so little sets them off lol. They got banned on a forum they had never even posted on, after working themselves up into a frothing posting frenzy. Then they go to complain about it somewhere unrelated without even a second’s reflection

      Like if this person hasn’t been banned for the holodomor stuff how long would it had been for simply being a tightly wound argumentative nerd who can’t just log off.

  • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    421·
    1 month ago

    That’s a lot of words to say “I’m a fascist sympathizer who spreads Nazi propaganda and I got banned for being a fascist sympathizer who spreads Nazi propaganda”