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My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a "tankie" instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

We need some Andor emoji's. I really want some "Syril-Shocked" or "Syril-Cop-Surprised" stickers to drop in comments.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

"The Ukranian perspective"

You mean being wrong and stupid?

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

Tagline material right there stalin-comical-spoon

Thank you, moderator of that community, for your service zoidberg salute 2

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

We got the best mods, folks! a-little-trolling

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s a lot of words to say “I’m a fascist sympathizer who spreads Nazi propaganda and I got banned for being a fascist sympathizer who spreads Nazi propaganda”

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

I love our mods Care-Comrade

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

which seemed to be free from anything overtly political

lol.

farquaad-point The liberal doesn't like ”political” content!

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That was genuinely the funniest part to me

[–] SamotsvetyVIA@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago

which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk

gamingcirclejerk, famously apolitical

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 54 points 2 days ago

comm which seemed to be free from anything overtly political

looks inside

participated in a post about a political decision in a game

[–] jack@hexbear.net 92 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I banned them! I'm the one who called them a fascist sympathizer!

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's funny because @Rose@lemmy.zip isn't actually banned from hexbear overall, just the game comm.

So if they think the mod decision was somehow wrong, they can come here and file a grievance with one of the admins.

Like me lenin-dont-laugh

[–] jack@hexbear.net 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope they organize a brigade from that thread and come try to argue with me!

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

God forbid like three or four brave souls decide to go on an expedition here to try and win a political victory over us on!

I'll let them stand on their soap box and see how many comments it takes for them to start saying slurs

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago

biden-point Listen, jack

spoilerNice job.

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 80 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

Based mod alert.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

Mods! Mods! They're questioning western hegemony and propaganda narratives! Mods! i-spil-my-jice

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago

oh he took action, he banned their ass lol

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

This is amazing, I initially thought this was a bit. data-laughing

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know something doesn't exist in a society when it's illegal. If it ever happened why would there be laws against it? How could laws ever represent anything but good faith zeitgeist of pure order and benevolence?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

How many times do we have to kick you out, Martin Luther?

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am asking for just one "hexbear bad!!!" thread that wasn't written by a user who was caught spouting fascist apologia

[–] Diva@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

it really is like clockwork, I usually make the effort to check the modlog and I'm rarely surprised

[–] axont@hexbear.net 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh my God how do y'all stand these people for more than a moment lmao. They take online posting so seriously. Everything's a matter of life or death civilizational collapse and scary foreign devils attempting to beguile our pure little minds away from glorious Western consensus.

Also if you're a self described leftist stop trying to be one of the good ones. You're never going to be a model minority for liberals. They don't care. You're not winning anything by claiming to be a leftist, but not like those scary Chinese, but rather like the good nice white Swedish. It's not gonna work. In fact the whole exercise of denouncing the West's enemies before calling yourself a socialist is demonstrating your obedience. You've showing that you'll always play a little game before saying anything of substance, you'll eagerly waste your own time. It doesn't go anywhere

Furthermore not even the political stuff, these people are insufferable nerds who should get stuffed into lockers while I point and laugh. I don't even understand the urge. If I got banned from a forum of genocide denying fascists, I'd simply go about my day no longer burdened by the ability to look at the opinions of a bunch of deranged fascist lunatics. If I were in a protracted conversation with someone online, upon discovery of a contentious opinion of theirs (genocide denial, bigotry, etc) I'd simply tell them I had sexual intercourse with their father and then I'd send an image of a pig shitting on its own balls. Then I'd never interact with that person again. Why do liberals believe they need to defend their honor online? Being on an internet forum at all makes you a little weird goblin (myself included), so just embrace it.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also if you're a self described leftist stop trying to be one of the good ones. You're never going to be a model minority for liberals. They don't care. You're not winning anything by claiming to be a leftist, but not like those scary Chinese, but rather like the good nice white Swedish. It's not gonna work. In fact the whole exercise of denouncing the West's enemies before calling yourself a socialist is demonstrating your obedience. You've showing that you'll always play a little game before saying anything of substance, you'll eagerly waste your own time. It doesn't go anywhere

There's a reason the "dirtbag left" upsets liberals so much, by refusing to play their games, refusing to engage in the complex liberal ritual of dancing around a topic while never explicitly condemning it OR committing to it, it just breaks their brains, it makes them so mad that someone could actually stand for something, and not just empty token gestures, and not sacrifice their own morals in the sake of "civility" either. They hate it, because it is a reminder that they are not the inherently good people they think they are, and that liberalism is a path of failure and destruction, not centrist enlightenment.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I've been thinking about it, and honestly I'm not so sure this is always the case. There's definitely cases where being flippant and uncouth goes to our detriment, even when someone is engaging in bad faith. Like, it's one thing for the opponent to make a bad faith attack then do a rebuttal with a pigpoop at the end, and it's another to respond to their bad faith attack with nothing but emotes. If the context of the conversation can lend credence to their argument, the lack of a serious counterargument can speak volumes. The onlookers get the wrong message.

More concrete example: someone here says that it's a shame Al Qaeda seized control of Syria. Lemmitor comes and says Assad was using chemical weapons so regime change was justified. They get nothing but PPBs in response.

Will an onlooker have their beliefs about so called "tankies" challenged? Or did we just give them license to keep dismissing us? Wouldn't it be helpful if on top of being rude, we could be ruthless and actually thoroughly debunk their claims?

I miss how Egon would do this relentlessly, I think that kind of dunking is a lot better than (only) namecalling.

Edit: I checked the original thread this is referencing and nevermind, everyone did a good job of actually engaging in the conversation with good sources and solid points.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Oh, yeah, I didn't mean just "hurl insults until they go away" is effective, but treating their attitude and opinions with the respect it deserves is very effective. The dunk is an important part of that, and what I was thinking of. I haven't really seen any examples where a lib says something ignorant and the only responses are insults and PPB, that isn't just several lines deep in a comment chain already (where others have tried and failed to explain things to them.) Not saying it doesn't happen, just that it wasn't what I was thinking of, I was probably imagining the same scenario you do, where people call them out for their ignorance, attempt to educate them and refuse to coddle them.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 84 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Honestly the actual socialist states, the Scandinavian ones. Tend to be some of the happiest and highest rated on the planet. Consistently even. Generally the authoritarian ones regardless of where they pretend to be economically are often the worst.

Lol, the dumbest people are against us

[–] MarxusMaximus@hexbear.net 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Happiness inquiry: "Can you imagine a future where you are happier than you are right now?"

Scandis: "No. I cannot be happier than I am right now, despite being miserable, since happiness is an illusion."

Libs: "This means they're the happiest people in the world!"

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[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You haven't heard of AES (Actually Existing Scandinavian) states?

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[–] SamotsvetyVIA@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Tend to be some of the happiest and highest rated on the planet

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ would love to be discriminated against because im brown again

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[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I once again ask what I said in reply to their comment, what the fuck does Holodomor have to do with language suppression? This dipshit was so low effort and yet they thought they presented some bombshell.

Also I love how posting a law that bans displays of anti-fascism and the denigration of nazi collaboration is somehow impossible to construe as fascist.

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[–] falgscode@hexbear.net 64 points 2 days ago (2 children)

reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk

literally the same fucking mods (or close enough) that run gcj run our games comm, what a clown. @Rose@lemmy.zip every joke on gcj besides the others from your fellow hapless libs went over your head, and you should be ashamed for that.

eat shit fascist.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also if you're looking at this thread, the reason that the comment that called you out for spreading the Holodomor myth and called the Holodomor nazi propaganda is because nazis literally came up with the narrative of the Holodomor as a genocide so they could rehabilitate the image of Eastern European nazis as freedom fighters. You know, Eastern European nazis like... Yaroslav Hunka of the SS 1st Galician who got a standing ovation in Canadian Parliament for being a Ukrainian hero?

[–] falgscode@hexbear.net 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah when I read those crocodile tears about the uncritical repetition of propaganda was when I added the last bit. @Rose@lemmy.zip I hope you literally eat some shit, you genocide revisionist

the liberal got scratched, idk

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

@Rose@lemmy.zip tell me your reddit username so I can ban you on gcj lmao, the entire modteam of gcj is marxist-leninist and holds the exact same opinions you will see on hexbear.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wait which mods in the games comm are gcj mods? I am a mod on gcj, I didn't know any of the others were here though lmao.

[–] falgscode@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

I was thinking of you lol, no other specifics

and I get you're not a c/games mod, but in general your takes are hexbear-centrist so they may as well be party line lol

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago (4 children)

hexbear-centrist

Possibly the funniest thing anyone's called me

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[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago

Ukraine is literally using israel as an example and btw the donbass uprising happens because azov started killing russophone ukrainians.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

Isn't this the game where the shotgun burst pattern is a swastika?

https://hexbear.net/post/4004673?scrollToComments=false

[–] Sator_is_Tense@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

"actually, that's a built in feature, that you're clearly too performatively outraged to even know exists"

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then he called me a fascist again, and someone else said I was a fascist. And then they basically all started shouting fascist at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me." Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my camera and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lmao that story always cracks me up. Libertarians don't understand their own ideology or its history. Stolen from actual leftwing libertarians (who called themselves that after 'anarchist' was banned in several countries). Explicit rejection of empiricism. Claims "not real libertarianism" when bears take over their town.

when bears take over their town.

sicko yes

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dude the libs are on a roll the past 24ish hours. They must be in heat.

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