The only reason to get mad at someone calling you a bad leftist is if you think it might be true. People will absolutely prey on your insecurity to make themselves feel like their chronic posting habit is praxis. The solution is to not be insecure. Be humble, do honest self-critique. Don't let lonely people work out their frustrations on you. There is a difference between pipe-lining and emotional blackmail.

  • apersonofinterest [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    this is not just a website, this is a place where i can talk with people who have the same general ideology as me and treat them complete contempt!!

  • reddit [any,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Seems I missed some kind of drama by not being online

    No one explain it to me please let me live in ignorance

    Insert that "go ahead, post another take" tweet

  • Dirtbag [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Don’t let lonely people work out their frustrations on you

    This is good advice for life in general. People who do that should pick up a healthier way to self medicate like alcohol or vaping

  • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I love Hexbear.net. I am in awe of this website. I am set free by it. This will be the finest website our galaxy has ever seen. This is more than a forum. Hexbear.net is an idea, a world-historical milestone, light itself. The internet is too small for it. Hexbear.net belongs to a much more elite class of websites, the more-than-websites. Timecube, Club Penguin, Bonsai Kittens, Zombo dot fucking com. Hexbear has done everything right since being founded. It cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second. Instead, it will be decorated as an epochal forum far too extraordinary to be contained by the mere internet.

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      ive never seen the full comment. thats some weapons grade cringe for fucking :hillary-apartment:

      • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        That's nowhere close to the whole thing, I had to really cut down the article to make it coherent.

        Here's the full original if you want brain damage: https://www.lennyletter.com/story/hillary-clinton-is-more-than-a-president

    • Dirtbag [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Zombo dot fucking com

      now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long, long time

  • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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    2 years ago

    The solution is to not be insecure

    that's my secret, I'm always insecure

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    For online interactions, you should absolutely have a zero tolerance policy with people who make you feel bad. As soon as some dipshit starts giving off bad vibes, disengage, block, and move on with your life. Unlike meatspace, there's no way of telling whether someone is actually who they say they are and whether they can be trusted. I don't even mean being some sleeper agent for the feds. Some people have a history that they try their damn hardest to cover up. They aren't part of a real community where they can be held accountable if they choose to be abusive. For your own safety, you should disengage. There's plenty of fish in the sea and plenty of online communities in cyberspace.

    I don't know you people, and you people don't know anything about me. And I would like to stay that way. I would treat any one of you who start shit with me in the same exact way as a belligerent drunk in the subway. It might sound harsh, but everyone has their own boundaries. I'm not your buddy, I'm not your friend, and I'm not your comrade. I'm just a complete stranger, no more and no less. But just because you people are all strangers to me doesn't mean I can't joke around with you or that I won't offer my two-cents on what's going on in the world. It doesn't give me license to act like some unhinged weirdo.

    If you're insecure and are constantly walked upon in real life like a doormat, start practicing setting up and enforcing personal boundaries in online communities like this one. Trust me on this.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Even in real life the best solution is to walk away, ignore, and/or ostracize vicious folk.

      Even petty negging is a form of bullying. Don't tolerate that shit for a moment. Fuck those people.

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      For online interactions, you should absolutely have a zero tolerance policy with people who make you feel bad. As soon as some dipshit starts giving off bad vibes, disengage, block, and move on with your life.

      nah

        • ella [any]A
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          2 years ago

          harass others with seeming impunity

          Harassment isn't allowed

          • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            You are just proving my point by removing my comment and not addressing the linked example that is clearly showing harassment that has been reported, and is not removed

            • ella [any]A
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              2 years ago

              The entire post was locked instead. The community's mods see reports, not admins (I am a mod of that community for historical reasons, I don't actively check reports anywhere)

              • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                That same user in that thread harassed me in a different comm earlier last month, refused to disengage and misgendered me. Then I got banned instead of her. Then I had to appeal with like 10 people backing me up to get it reversed.

                So why do these users hold such sway to get away with harassment time and time again? Why do the victims of harassment get banned instead of the harassers in both these cases with this user?

                Why is harassment not policed by admins if it is a sitewide rule?

                Why do you say to discuss this unilateral change in c/userunion then remove all the posts from one side of the discussion and lock the comm?

                What is actually going on here?

                • ella [any]A
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                  2 years ago

                  That same user in that thread harassed me in a different comm earlier last month, refused to disengage and misgendered me. Then I got banned instead of her. Then I had to appeal with like 10 people backing me up to get it reversed. So why do these users hold such sway to get away with harassment time and time again?

                  I don't know who you're talking about though I will say you were unbanned not because you appealed "with like 10 people" backing you up, you were unbanned because it was a bad call that we reversed

                  Why is harassment not policed by admins if it is a sitewide rule?

                  Harassment is policed by admins, that is not what I said. Admins don't have the ability to view community reports, only community moderators see those.

                  Why do you say to discuss this unilateral change in c/userunion then remove all the posts from one side of the discussion and lock the comm?

                  People have already discussed it. A few threads devolved into misinformation/concern-trolling which is why no more posts about this are allowed.

                  This is nothing but stirring drama again. We are not going to allow harassment and we will remove it like we remove all other harassment.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    But I love this website. Especially right now where I feel like I'm growing distant from my IRL relationships. While that specifically worries me, I'm not neglecting my RL relationships to hang out with hexbears. idk.

    • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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      2 years ago

      You are on the path, comrade. Once you are like me, with all my irl relationships long since withered and dead, rotting even in a mass grave of liberalism, then will you know true ppbpeace. Hexbear relationships are all that remains now, for me, as they should for you. But even then I find they hang from the most tenuous of threads... ideological threads... personal threads... or the most egregious: when one is being told the reactionary lie that one needs to... to touch grass.