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People say this a lot, but the fact that the former US troops here on Hexbear haven't been driven off makes me wonder about the depths of their conviction.
I'd hope their conviction isn't real, because wishcasting mass death like this (1) is a purely aesthetic choice that does nothing but look unhinged and (2) is far in excess of even the most punitive measures suggested after WWII.
"We're going to kill every one of you if we win" makes winning harder, not easier.
This is hexbears stated position on white people and straight people, not sure why there's more of a carve out for people who willingly signed up to murder people for Haliburton.
And I'm not trying to play victim for white or straight people, ùjust like there's a bunch of former troops who don't say anything because they know it's not directed at them because they're already here, always just thought it was strange that the site is more defensivee of people who actively made a choice than people who didn't have a say in their situation.
This place doesn't have stated positions, and genocide sure isn't one of them, unless we've gone off the deep end of people taking edgy jokes seriously.
I mean the "I am not joking or being hyperbolic, I literally will never trust white people even if they're active in progressive orgs and I unironically passionately hate straight people" posts are deffinitly edgy but they're going out of their way to be pretty clear they aren't joking.
No one on this site sincerely hates all white people or all straight people, I guarantee their real feelings are more nuanced than that. People make those blunt statements out of frustration and exhaustion, and hexbear should be a safe place to vent like that.
It's for the same reason that the guy lost his mind at the end of The Telltale Heart.
Because we're supposed to be sympathetic they feel bad about choosing to murder people?
Not sure if you're joking, so I'll elaborate my point.
Most people on this site live in the imperial core, a lot of them are American, and while most probably were never in the military, there's a good chance they have friends or loved ones who were. It's easy for such people to brush off something like "kill all whites" because the notion that someone deserves to be punished for something they had no control over (their genetics) is patently absurd, but "kill all current and former American soldiers" hits a bit different because, even if it's not meant as a literal statement of policy, anyone who's a regular on this site knows the sheer depths of evil that imperial core armies are responsible for, knows that joining such institutions means being complicit on some level in their crimes, and so they can't help but suspect at least a little bit that it really is what they deserve.
It's also easier to ignore the white shit because we all know a fuckload of white peeps, but if you mention veterans then individuals pop up.
Well if history is anything to go by, they'll slink off under cover of darkness, leaving their allies to be overrun by the Taliban.