something something specter something Lemmyverse hexbear-specter

  • HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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    Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.

    The Shadow Over Hexxsmouth

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    If you’re saying I’m calling their viewpoints crazy, I’m not. I didn’t get a view point besides I’m pig slop, a piece of shit, brainwashed by the empire (whatever the hell that means), stupid, a basement dweller, and today, I think they called me a pervert

    michael-laugh TAGLINE

    This is my exact same experience. I ask for someone to elaborate on their stance, get told (not accused, told) I’m trolling. Ask for explanation/definition of a concept, get called an idiot shitlib and told to read some theory. Ask for civility, get told I deserve abuse for “endorsing genocide”. (By the way, I absolutely oppose the genocide in Gaza. But I’m a genocide supporter I guess because I won’t flush my vote third party this November.)

    tfw Hexbear wants you to vote third party??? Who is advocating for this???

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    It’s that person that thought Putin wants to reinstate the USSR and refused to denounce Israel without equating Palestinian “guilt.” he-laughed

    They wandered into a dunk tank post, debate perverted, and whined on Lemmy.world

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    they’re less like the meeting room of a communist party than like the bar where those communists hang out and drink beer, after the meeting is over.

    I actually really like this description. I’m amazed at the number of people in this thread who actually somewhat get it. It’s heartening <3

  • Staines [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    There’s never been one of these “Hexbear is mentally ill because they disagree with me” threads that hasn’t been result of someone coming here and getting banned after posting in bad faith. – Surprisingly, it seems that the rest of the fediverse is increasingly aware of that.

  • Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Folks is our reputation improving? I’m seeing pretty even splits in terms of people defending our instance vs. scratched libs. Some even saying we changed their minds on things.

  • Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.

    New tagline just dropped

      • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        I see this posted from time to time and today I finally read through the whole thing. Very compelling and evocative. You see the manifestations of this form in those southern megachurches. Joel Osteen is like a simulacrum of this inversion of religion under the social relations of capital. He has synthesized Christian Faith and Capital Accumulation, creating in effect a Christianity skin suit for this “Real God”, in which to parade it out into the open.

        You must sacrifice a portion of your wages to the church in the form of a seed in the hopes that it will one day bloom into a bountiful harvest. It is a similar myth to the one expressed by the preachers of Capital. Sacrifice your time, your money, in service of a future return on your investment. In both, a lack of success is only the manifestation of a lack of sacrifice and commitment to this social order on your part, and in no way a failing of the “gods” for which you are toiling for.

        Like a house of mirrors, our social institutions are reflected against the mirror of capitalism, warping their intended form against the shape of capitals demands. The longer you stare into this twisted reflection, the more likely you are to be convinced it to be the true form, until you can no longer recall what the original form was, or that it even existed at all.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      They also claim they stopped arguing with people here because they realised it was “punching down” because we’re apparently all “neurodivergent”.

      Literally can’t help themselves doing lazy eugenicist shit because their debate-lord, appeal to the ref shit doesn’t work on people who know exactly what they’re doing and don’t tolerate it.

      As though extremist liberals who cannot even tolerate people existing with a different opinion or refusal to play some arbitrary game by their rules aren’t the ones with a dismissive hyper fixation.

      We love our neurodivergent comrades, many of whom regularly make libs like this look like schmucks without even looking up from what they were doing.