I lift a lot of stuff from it because they have their finger on the pulse of slop. But like I’ve seen a lot of casual antisemitism coming from them whenever anything jewish adjacent pops up. Ableism too, like real bad, slurs and all. Yes I know reddit and all that, but it feels like hexbear is the only place on the net not infected by shit.
I’ve seen a lot of casual antisemitism coming from them whenever anything jewish adjacent pops up.
Well, do they assert that regular Jews going to a typical synagogue in the US are worthy targets of anticolonial violence, and then dogpile and ban you if you disagree while maintaining an anti-Israel stance?
I’ve seen a lot of posters straight up blaming “ZOG” and shit like that, so yes, in a way, they’re implying that ALL jews are targets.
That’s plausible but a bit of a leap from A to B.
For something concrete, take the case in which 3 .MLs and 3 Hexbears a) line up in support of someone who tried to indiscriminately kill Jews, b) argue for guilt-by-association of how if your place of worship has ever had a shitty take, you and everyone who’s ever attended there all deserve to be slaughtered, and c) call someone (who is vocally anti-Isra*el, donates substantial amounts to Palestinians, and has put emself on the line in solidarity demonstrations) a “Zionist” for being against a strategy of tension. (don’t click if you want to keep high faith in this instance)
I’ve always seen it as the cth refuge for people who really want to be able to say slurs and remain on reddit
Yeah, I’ve always found it to be like an odd outlier out of the communist subreddits I have in my custom feed. Their jokes are corny and the casual use of slurs is a problem. TankieTheDeprogram is much better, especially after they banned posting dramaslop. I’m banned on reddit but I still browse through it daily.
no one is truly banned on reddit until the photo identity checks are adopted there, comrade
its like a bizarre 50-50 mix of DSA libs and 4chan brained chuds
every other post is like “zohran isnt perfect but hes doing a rent freeze” or “did you know that jews got kicked out of 109 countries”
I was reading it for a bit a few years ago but they seemed to really hate trans people. I remember at some point they were posting pictures of Natalie Wynn and picking apart her appearance as to whether she was passable or not. Just a general lot of commentary about trans people being freaks and stuff. It was intolerable.
Those libs banned me for DTA posting. They are so scared of getting the chapotraphouse treatment. At least r/cth died on its feet and posting untill the end. Cowards. Libs.
Brace only stopped saying the r word because he thinks it’s cringe because the right likes it too much now.
Like, explicitly he said this a few times.
On a chapo call in episode one of the calls was about how they keep having to defend chapo to their friends who say they use the r word. One of the chapos said “if we’re still gonna get flak for this why did we even stop saying it?” To which brace replied “i never stopped saying it!”
I love the show but they’ve been problematic the whole time
everyone on reddit is a stupid asshole
stop going on reddit
Seriously, the reddit frog pot has been violently bubbling, lid rattling as jets of steam escape, for awhile now
but i have 10 year old tech support questions
its fine for that and porn but don’t scroll it habitually
we have had this classic banger forever:
if people need the reminderi need information that only r/shrimptank can provide
I know this is probably a joke, but just in case it’s not, there’s a ton of old fishkeeping forums that are still accurate and more often than not have a better ratio of good info to chaff.
:yea:
I will continue to self harm thank you very much :^)
:this:
Ableism
Podcast: has slogan “be normal”
Podcast’s Subreddit: is bigoted against people who society considers abnormal
Brace Belden, an overwhelmingly normal dude
Hexbear is pretty much the only Internet place I still respect. Ofc it’s not perfect but I swear there’s not a single other Internet third space that’s actually principled
Hard agree, even other supposed leftist spaces have all kinds of bs and or ableism that keeps pissing me off or at least making me tired. Today I had 2 Portuguese mad at me and being racist in a post about GTA lol, and saw some members of the clan I’m in in Warframe discussing fucking eugenics because someone bought up some bs Switzerland is doing, good thing me and another user were countering the bs there.
Every other social media platform is the YouTube comments section and should be treated as such
The entire world is a YouTube comments section
Hexbear is real life, everything else is computer. When someone tells you to touch grass what they are actually saying is that you should post more on the bear site
Yeah nowhere is perfect but at least we put in the work to not be scumbums sometimes.
Im certain there are various discords and even smaller forums that enforce no slur usage but as I said most of those arent Marxist or even leftwing afaik.
This is a Christian server
i thought we were taosits against hentai
It’s the only place thst still kinda feels like web 1.0. I still think we should be a BBS style forum.
I’m banned there
Much like the sub that this site spawned from, it is supposed to be a space for left wing people who like edgy and vulgar humor. So yeah, there’s gonna be a lot of problematic shit there. This community decided to move away from that legacy, which I think is mostly a good thing (there was a period I think we overcorrected a bit and you could be banned for even mentioning the existence of Cum Town).
It’s not for everyone for sure.
Yeah it has a lot of semi-“ironic” cultural tailism (that is sometimes actually not ironic). They take the “be normal” dictum to mean using the slurs of the “common person” and just generally don’t police many of the reactionary tendencies common on Reddit.
There’s also good posters there that reject this and there’s regular cross-posting there and here from among those ranks. But yeah I don’t go there anymore.
Doesn’t Brace use the R slur regularly? Or am I thinking another adjacent podcast?
He’s stopped but only in the last year
And he said he found it “gauche” not that it was an offensive slur
Maybe I can listen to it again at some point then.
I kinda stopped listening to it unless they have a guest I am really interested in hearing from.
I don’t get it he’s funny af otherwise, and his politics are on the left. Like, drop the fucking slur from your vocabulary dude!!
