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What's the deal with Hexbear? - Hexbear
hexbear.netHas anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become?
Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one
long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while
waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or
getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think
everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are
all written by the same people. Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse
observer [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list] is either straight up wrong or
there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less
than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active
userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance. Seems to
me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like
a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well. So glad this thread could become such a
perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.
Seriously, they're doing my bits for me!
I can't comment on the locked post, but this
Is literally poking at the propaganda model described by Herman and Chomsky. The point isn't that any individual journalist is so loaded that they write to defend their wealth. It's that they're selected for their jobs, and are even considered for them in the first place, because they usefully slot into said jobs for the capitalist owners of the journalism outlets. With a few exceptions most of the journalists at, your choice [NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Time, etc], are there because their pre-existing beliefs. Perfectly exemplified in this Chomsky clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcpcytUnWU
"I don't say you're self-censoring. I'm sure you believe everything you're saying. But what I'm saying is if you believed something different you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."
Liberals individualize everything to the point that they think individual reporters and journalists have to be "in on it" in some way to contribute to propaganda.
They don't even have to believe it, they just have to believe in nothing. If you watch the Chris Cuomo interview on the Adam Friedland Show, the distinct impression is that he doesn't believe in anything, knows it and is proud of it. Either that or he is doesn't ever indicate that he believes in anything, knows it and is proud of it. The effect is the same, he is chosen not only because of his connections to politics, but also because of his lack of belief in anything outside of himself. Hell, even he doesn't believe journalists, but that never stopped him from reporting their stories.
When he talked about how they pivoted without question to the line the Bush admin fed them without any remorse, I wasn't surprised but I was disappointed.
insert disco quote about moralism
Precisely. This stuff was completely deconstructed in Manufactured Consent. You only need to see how many people who were journalists become politicians, and vice versa, to see how intertwined these classes are.
And they all went to the same ivy league schools that churn out clones for alphabet agencies and DC.