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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I think the biggest thing that Hexbear has going for it is that there is a culture here that doesn't involve pandering to the voting audience.

Every conversation I have here feels like the other person is genuinely talking to me, not talking to an audience through me but talking to me directly, considering my words and seriously engaging with me even when we might disagree.

Over on reddit getting a real interaction with someone that doesn't involve in some way an attempt at pandering to possible voters is nearly impossible. Everything is influenced by the system. Everyone isn't really talking to each other but instead they talk to the audience.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels like an old bbs forum and holy hell I've missed that vibe

[–] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hexbear tradewars door when

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[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a great point. Now that you've articulated it, I think it's the same with other platforms. Now that you've planted the thought… Others doing that wasn't the only thing that turned me away from other platforms. I didn't like that I did the same thing, driven by the algorithms and the cultures.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I don't like it myself, it feels like there's way more dignity when we're talking personally. Like we all actually think about the other person as a human more. We even make more allowances for mood swings too, people have shit days it happens.

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I once made a reference to “genocide Joe” in a chat with a friend who I don’t normally talk politics with. He was confused - not because he thought what was going on in Gaza wasn’t a genocide, but because he had no idea what was even happening in Gaza, much less America’s involvement in it.

Polls on Americans’ opinions on things outside of the Lower 48 are completely pointless given how criminally ignorant most Americans are.

[–] assyrian@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they did a survey recently and most Americans had no idea whether more Israelis or Palestinians have died

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

tbf that's surely by design in terms of the obfuscatory coverage it's been given

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's crazy when you say something extremely based, but nobody understood because you need to explain the meaning and historical context of 4 words and also 20 minutes catching them up on things that happened in the last 1-20 years.

[–] Florn@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I can't talk politics with the people around me because I would have to start by explaining the 30 Year's War

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

Polling exists to help media drive whatever narrative they want.

They aren't a great indicator of sentiment, or they tend to only be an indicator of a certain group's sentiment.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

President Poopypants

It doesn't happen much any more but there are rare times I wish I had yet another unbanned alt I could use to post in r/PoliticalHumor. This is one of those times. Posting that could avoid the "not funny" trap even though a lib mod might still nuke it after just 30m or so for other reasons.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

me, an intellectual cheems

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I like this place since people aren't gaslighting me about rl experiences or telling me I'm a bot/ai since there's no way xyz happened nor do multiple minorities like me exist. The politics is a big added bonus.

[–] ArsenLupin@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Akshually! 🤓☝️ It's obvious you're a Russian bot!!

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

About 16pct there, more unhinged and openly bigoted and you'd have my every third interaction with reddit-logo before I just began mass blocking.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I'm convinced whoever is playing this tamagotchi chucked the game out the window into the void of space on start.

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yup, this place is basically Hogwarts commons and you're among fellow Gryffindors

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Real Tyler Durden energy in this post. Love it. Stay masculine.

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

when they put the hat on me the hat was like "lmao" and they sent me home

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

INTJ Ravenclaw vanguard gang gang gang kim-blood

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry Evilsandwichman but I must kill you now

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me disabuse you of this notion

Ahem

Pee pee poo poo

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, but have you considered: Piss?

[–] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But is a hotdog just a white man's taco?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Diogenes steps into the Greek Senate, he lifts a hot dog into the air and shouts Behold, a taco!

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Man delete this one immediately you made me depressed

[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah, when that friend stopped talking to me I ceased to have anyone to talk to about things like politics, fashion, media, etc., because I’m homeless, and every single person in my social milieu is either a fucking idiot, or if they have any interests at all that overlap with mine, they’re fucking insane and only want to talk about stupid shit like Morgellons disease, and drones.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

I see you participated in the Beanis survey today then huh

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you see how Iran pathetic after idf-cool counter-strike to Iran’s counter-strike to idf-cool strike on Iran’s embassy in Syria. Really makes you think about us-foreign-policy in the time of biden-harbinger and the justified idf-destroyer hamas-red-triangle

[–] ta00000@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! Release yourself from the fetters of bourgeois English!

This is a key element to why we're so based

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's also a place where you can see a picture of a pig shitting on its own balls

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The devs strategically placed the PPB button in the exact place where I keep accidentally touching the phone screen all the time. They did this on purpose to spite me

I'm not owned

[–] charlie@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

We should start a group. I am also a Targeted Individual

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes when I go to click the modlog I'm only half paying attention and I hit ppb instead and don't notice until I've ppb'd myself.

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Beat me to it.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

[This post is just a fart noise that lasts over a minute.]

[–] ta00000@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

There are a handful of topics that would be effectively impossible to talk about anywhere else because of the minefield of reactionary thought terminating cliches baked into Western culture. That is, so long as we didn't just have a struggle session boarding that topic.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, then how about you intellectually stimulate deez nuts with yo mouth

gottem

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

i cant exist anywhere else

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I like it here because it's a respite from the exhausting lib brained world we live in.

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