Maybe. But we also have plenty of nostalgia posts here about "remember that struggle session?" Literally one just yesterday about the BRICS girls struggle. Again. There's even that hexbear lore iceberg meme image that floats around sometimes. All it takes is skimming a single nostalgia thread to get that level of hexbear specific knowledge.
Their "the newsmega was the worst" part is what makes me think they probably were here for just a little while, though. Probably someone who couldn't let go of their imperialist brainworms and were flabbergasted at how we weren't all backing the poor smol bean wholesome Ukrainians and got their ass handed to them by people who actually have some understanding of geopolitics and history. The "treating it like football" is bizarre because the situation was the exact opposite, with the newsmega regulars often pointing out that that is exactly how the blue-and-yellow flag emoji people treat it, and ridiculing that kind of simplistic non-analysis. It's the typical accusation that's actually a confession.
My guess is that it was some lib who fancied themselves a leftie, who hung out here once or twice before the Ukraine conflict kicked off (when the newsmega was created, basically), said something cringe about it after it did and got schooled as a result. Rather than learn, they ragequit, unable to fathom how people who clearly knew much more than they did didn't support the typical US State Dept. narratives, which they still hold dear to their heart. Now they have constructed some bullshit scenario about it for the .world hexbear-hatred thread that also made them feel better about themselves.
Their "the newsmega was the worst" part is what makes me think they probably were here for just a little while, though. Probably someone who couldn't let go of their imperialist brainworms and were flabbergasted at how we weren't all backing the poor smol bean wholesome Ukrainians and got their ass handed to them by people who actually have some understanding of geopolitics and history. The "treating it like football" is bizarre because the situation was the exact opposite, with the newsmega regulars often pointing out that that is exactly how the blue-and-yellow flag emoji people treat it, and ridiculing that kind of simplistic non-analysis. It's the typical accusation that's actually a confession.
I just think they got bullied off the site by ZPoster lmao. It was probably what happened. They peddled some Putler is out of missiles bullshit which set off ZPoster.
well the burden on proof is on them. I think they're just so obsessed with hexbear hate that they deep-dived into the archives to build their "I was there!" persona.
there was a struggle session about the modlog not showing the moderators names anymore, but yeah I'll also assume that they were a hexbear and just incredibly oblivious
What you see in Hexbear now is Hexbear after the TransComrade69 reforms. Before them, it used to be a lot more rancid and had even worse issues with harassment, transphobia, misogyny, etc from certain users and it was often directed at mods. The change to anonymize mods pissed off the exact kind of user you can imagine.
Doesn't really work, though, if a mod is demoted that would add a lot of extra work. Not to mention that there's a complicated mess of people who moderate several comms, so accounts would have to be per-comm and suddenly you're managing a lot of credentials for many accounts when you could've just had one per person.
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Maybe. But we also have plenty of nostalgia posts here about "remember that struggle session?" Literally one just yesterday about the BRICS girls struggle. Again. There's even that hexbear lore iceberg meme image that floats around sometimes. All it takes is skimming a single nostalgia thread to get that level of hexbear specific knowledge.
Their "the newsmega was the worst" part is what makes me think they probably were here for just a little while, though. Probably someone who couldn't let go of their imperialist brainworms and were flabbergasted at how we weren't all backing the poor smol bean wholesome Ukrainians and got their ass handed to them by people who actually have some understanding of geopolitics and history. The "treating it like football" is bizarre because the situation was the exact opposite, with the newsmega regulars often pointing out that that is exactly how the blue-and-yellow flag emoji people treat it, and ridiculing that kind of simplistic non-analysis. It's the typical accusation that's actually a confession.
My guess is that it was some lib who fancied themselves a leftie, who hung out here once or twice before the Ukraine conflict kicked off (when the newsmega was created, basically), said something cringe about it after it did and got schooled as a result. Rather than learn, they ragequit, unable to fathom how people who clearly knew much more than they did didn't support the typical US State Dept. narratives, which they still hold dear to their heart. Now they have constructed some bullshit scenario about it for the .world hexbear-hatred thread that also made them feel better about themselves.
I just think they got bullied off the site by ZPoster lmao. It was probably what happened. They peddled some Putler is out of missiles bullshit which set off ZPoster.
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well the burden on proof is on them. I think they're just so obsessed with hexbear hate that they deep-dived into the archives to build their "I was there!" persona.
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there was a struggle session about the modlog not showing the moderators names anymore, but yeah I'll also assume that they were a hexbear and just incredibly oblivious
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What you see in Hexbear now is Hexbear after the TransComrade69 reforms. Before them, it used to be a lot more rancid and had even worse issues with harassment, transphobia, misogyny, etc from certain users and it was often directed at mods. The change to anonymize mods pissed off the exact kind of user you can imagine.
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Doesn't really work, though, if a mod is demoted that would add a lot of extra work. Not to mention that there's a complicated mess of people who moderate several comms, so accounts would have to be per-comm and suddenly you're managing a lot of credentials for many accounts when you could've just had one per person.
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