Has 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 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.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          What do you mean? He is like the only senator that mentions Palestinians deserving human dignity.

          • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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            1 year ago

            Well, yeah if you use the rest of the US legislature as a baseline sure I guess he's not bad

            But in absolute terms?

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Look, I hate Bernie too, but most of the people complaining about his stance on Israel are claiming in so many words that he's a "Bad Jew" for not being as zionist as they are.

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  Totally fair mistake, he has taken fucked up stances on other countries, like Yugoslavia.

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          it's more his support for the rest of US foreign policy. his views on Palestine are fine.

          • duderium [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Bernie is to the right of chester the cheetoh’s cheetah wrt to “Israel” which means it’s the gulag for him.

          • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            The folks in front of me have been sleeping for like over two years straight but I'm gonna politely wait for them to wake up so I don't ruin The Democratic Process (but they smelled awful for some reason for the first few months after falling asleep idk what that was all abt shrug-outta-hecks )