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Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.

Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.

So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, he is a centrist. He doesn't even want to abolish capitalism.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And his views on Israel, yikes

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean? He is like the only senator that mentions Palestinians deserving human dignity.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, yeah if you use the rest of the US legislature as a baseline sure I guess he's not bad

But in absolute terms?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look, I hate Bernie too, but most of the people complaining about his stance on Israel are claiming in so many words that he's a "Bad Jew" for not being as zionist as they are.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe, honestly it's been a while since I looked at it - maybe I'm misremembering.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Totally fair mistake, he has taken fucked up stances on other countries, like Yugoslavia.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's more his support for the rest of US foreign policy. his views on Palestine are fine.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bernie is to the right of chester the cheetoh’s cheetah wrt to “Israel” which means it’s the gulag for him.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

waaait what on earth did I miss