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What's the deal with Hexbear?
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Your instance, along with exploding heads and lemmygrad, are ruining the fediverse. I've stopped recommending it to anyone because of people like you.
Here you are brigading
Midwest.Social, and you constantly push authoritarian propaganda throughout the fediverse.
We are not brigading. We're just extremely online and this post came into our feed like it did yours. Are we not allowed to comment on posts in our feed?
Bullshit
Coping that your instance isn't as active as ours lol
I don't care how active my instance is, I'll probably move to another one soon anyway. I just hate authoritarian propaganda.
bro the United States has the largest prison population in the world and regularly overthrows countries they don't like, the US is by far the most authoritarian country in the world by any sensible definition
I thought Hexbear users didn't assume gender.
Do you even look up what these words mean? The US has some considerable authoritarian issues, but it's way more democratic than many other countries.
Also why are we suddenly talking about the US, are you just reading from the script or what?
apologies, we have pronoun tags on Hexbear so that we don't have to assume, we can just know.
democracy is when most of your country disapproves of their elected representatives and authoritarianism is when most of your country approves of their elected representatives and yes, there are in fact elections in China and even (hold on to your hat for this one) North Korea!
Is democracy is the mere condition of being able to choose from two awful choices, or is it instead the condition of having a competent government of which most of the population approves of?
Could you see how it would be incredibly easy to create an authoritarian government if you decided to have effectively the same party swap power every couple terms, so long as you defined "democracy" as "the ability to vote for what party rules over your state"? Could you see how it would be much more difficult to fulfil the latter definition without actually addressing the concerns of the populace, which bad authoritarian states would have a hard time doing?
"authoritarianism" is the condition of one person, or group of people, having coercive or even violent power over another. all governments are authoritarian, obviously, and most are very authoritarian. Lenin's definition of the state as the means for the outnumbered class (the rich, the elite, the bourgeoisie, whatever) to exert control over the working class is the most sensible and applicable definition I've ever found, and by that definition, and by the fact that people all around the world have to labor for the rich regularly to not starve or become homeless, all countries are generally pretty comparable in "authoritarian-ness", making it an awful way of defining countries at all.
Says the brain genius that has been non stop NPC posting how everyone is a bot or 'BrAiNwaSheD'
Couldn't help but notice you raising pronouns as a
'gotcha' and not actually providing your pronouns.
Hey maybe you'll have a better experience with the community on this website if you stop being such a giant piece of shit
Can I just say how infuriating that "why did you assume my gender" thing is? They tried that on me too and I felt compelled to apologize for saying "guy" but its so CLEARLY being used as a
"gotcha". Its such an obvious trap but you sort of HAVE to fall into it or look like even more of an asshole. Fucking infuriating.
After I got called on it once I'm just doing blanket they
—Xi Jinping
The united states is the most authoritarian nation in the world