It's funny how easy it is to sus out a new account being deliberately reactionary.
I've made several alts over the years and it's wild to see how badly wreckers fumble on sounding like a leftist.
I used to think I needed to build more credibility before making a post, but it's not the case at all. If you're cool and stay consistent in your values, people here are so willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for being a cool community who bans transphobes, debate lords, and chuds.
the fun ones are accounts that have writing styles and other quirks that are so specific you immediately know it's a banned user's new account. there's one user that is so distinct I know one of their accounts on multiple platforms without actually trying to keep track of them lol
I've noticed one unmistakable posting style of someone who got banned in the past year but I'm not saying any details because I am thoroughly entertained.
i'm forever proud for starting this guy on his downward spiral. while it was @Edelgard@hexbear.net who posted the thread it was me who shared it with her in the mega lmao
The numerous "porn star name and politician name lol" melange chud was one of them. I didn't find them particularly fun though, especially when the "Ron Jeremy" version bullied numerous comrades off this site all in the name of "loving us all" and demanding "normalcy" during a pandemic during New Years, such as "kissing a stranger." Mysterious hangers-on accounts showed up to continue the bullying of "shut-ins" for days afterward.
I hate that piece of shit more than any other former long-term account that eventually got banned.
When a longer-term Hexbear account has a reactionary meltdown over a specific treat or struggle session, I sometimes wonder if they were some kind of more successful infiltrator that finally lost their patience and couldn't wear the mask any longer. Sometimes those meltdowns are remarkable, almost like a shapeshifter losing their disguise shape.
If I can pointificate I would say it's equally likely to just be someone who has a personal experience which gave them a reactionary stance on a specific issue, hence meltdown. Always wild to see a ban on a four year account tho.
I understand that nazbol is an utterly incoherent (and basically entirely online) reactionary ideology, and maybe I'm naiive for thinking this (and I'm definitely not defending the abhorrent views many of them have, nor do I think they should ever be tolerated here), but does it not serve as a useful pipeline to salvage people from full blown nazism?
The way I see it, best case scenario, people initially drawn to nazbol are eventually forced to grapple with the inconherency and may end up deciding after a time that its reactionary features are not worth retaining, and may eventually just continue on down the communism pipeline. Worst case, they are marooned in what is essentially a dead end ideology with virtually zero real world organizing, but also end up being quite alienated from "full nazi" movements that do have real world organizing and real consequences.
I don't know of any other political "pipeline" that is capable of moving people on the far right to the left so efficiently. I'm curious what others think about this.
I've met IRL nazbols cause Texoma is hell - They're just Nazis who read some theory. The worst case is they organize other fascists using a fraud of socialist promises based on racial hierarchy.
Of the ones I've met - I would not say it is in any way possible to move them left. The false socialism is just to imagine a good place for themselves in the world - the brutal genocidal rage is the core of who they are and they'll take that over everything.
on the contrary, it appropriates the language of the left and works to muddy the waters for those so inclined. We know where cloaking nationalism with socialism leads
Hexbear's been pretty chill for the past couple years. Barring usual "I'm bored" tearing up the furniture when nothing in the news is getting our attention.
That Olympic break dancing person for example, saw the posts on that one and just said to my boyfriend "Hexbear is bored, musta been an all right day" and logged off.
My favorite was that one who simultaneously started a thread that seemed perfectly innocuous and normal while immediately tossing out slurs in another thread
It's like, the site ain't that big, you're on the front page smearing yourself with shit and going "I am a normal leftist, like you all"
You see it all the time with how they pretend to be black. They'll type out some 1980s parody version of AAVE and think they sound convincing. My favorite, though, is the whole "As a life-long democrat, I'm no longer part of the looney left."
Any actual leftist wouldn't mention membership to the democratic party except as a source of radicalization lmao
Idk if it's just my name and pfp, but I've had liberals assume I was Chinese because I didn't put up with their casual racism. They ended up calling me slurs based on these interactions.
It's like they have no idea what it's like interacting with anyone who isn't a white cis man and expect that racism and misogyny are acceptable if they can loosely define them as differences in political ideology. Much like the way they started talking about Russians after the SMO in Ukraine began.
They have no idea what it's like outside their bubble and then project accusations of echo chambers on everyone around them.
And then us old account havers get cancelled for having lawns! And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Dandelions 4 life! Unlimited weeds on the suburban world!