• FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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    This is the take that bothers me the most, as if the most aggressive and outspoken faction of any group exist only to drag the more respectable members down by association.

    Eh, only a small minority of hexbears are fascists, but almost all hexbears tolerate fascists. All the fascists have to do is walk in and say “NATO is bad, Ukraine is bad, libs are bad, vote for Trump because he is a big lovable goofball” and the other hexbears are like aight let’s own the shitlibs.

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      only a small minority of hexbears are fascists, but almost all hexbears tolerate fascists

      A huge portion of hexbear users are trans or otherwise LGBTQ. Ask them what they think fascists want to do to them. Fascists also massacre socialists — often with American support, as in Indonesia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, El Salvador, Argentina, and Bolivia. Ask them how they feel about this. Hexbear users do hold some complex views on topics like China and Russia, but they have reasons for this and would tell you if you asked. You should consider talking to them, instead of making things up about them in an authoritative tone of voice. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a hexbear user who doesn’t want Trump dead or in jail.

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        A huge portion of hexbear users are trans or otherwise LGBTQ. Ask them what they think fascists want to do to them.

        Maybe I should ask Jessica Watkins, who explicitly supported fascists, and is now being misgendered and put in the wrong prison by fascists, for supporting fascists.

        Trans and genderqueer people can be just as stupid as Cishet people and vote for the leapords eating faces party. It’s not like fascism actually benefits people, it’s predatory to vulnerable people.

        You should consider talking to them, instead of making things up about them in an authoritative tone of voice.

        I have interacted quite a bit already. I got lots of animal poop pictures and a lot of people requesting that I post a picture of my genitalia.

        You’ll be hard-pressed to find a hexbear user who doesn’t want Trump dead or in jail.

        I’ve seen a number of comments from Hexbears supporting DJT and not a single comment expressing this.

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          comments from Hexbears supporting DJT

          show me one

          *make sure it’s sincere though, because I’m gonna go over there and ask the user what they think of donald trump and why

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                Aha thank you! That’s definitely one of the threads I was looking for, although the particular “vote Trump” plus comments I haven’t found yet.

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              defederated

              Go to the actual URL, hexbear.net

              Ick

              You’re reaching for some “fascists always pretend to be joking until they’re not” thing, but the Hexbear community originally formed around a deeply irony poisoned socialist comedy podcast called Chapo Trap House, and hexbears themselves are unsurprisingly also very irony poisoned. On top of that they were an insular unfederated community for three years, with no reason to make their banter intelligible to outsiders. They have a rich set of in-jokes and an emoji list a mile long. Your exposure to them is probably one thread where you argued with them and ten threads of lemmy.world users making shit up about them in absentia.

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                The podcast Chapo Trap House basically disowned r/chapotraphouse, so pretty much for the poisoned irony getting out of hand.

                It feels like r/the_donald, which was also irony, until it wasn’t, and suddenly the internet is swarmed with “ironic” Trump memes until he wins the actual presidency, stacks SCOTUS, which rolls back RvW.

                Maybe 10 years ago I would be down with all this irony. But there are real life consequences harming women right now, that are not so ironic.

                It’s time to wake up, grow up, pay attention to the consequences and decide if irony and chaos is worth incidentally supporting fascism.