Can we get an embargo on the US?

I was extremely polite in that lemm.ee thread, admitted we could stand to tone it down a bit, even called out a rude post from one of our own, and I only got hostility from them in response. There's literally nothing we can do to not be called wreckers

I understand that users outside of Hexbear might be offended by it, and that's entirely understandable and I absolutely agree we should behave ourselves outside of our own instance. But respectfully it isn't your place to tell us how to conduct ourselves within our own instance.

For the record, I think the time and place for such rhetoric would be exclusively within the Hexbear instance, against agitators who are deliberately being hostile towards us. Outside of Hexbear, and with users who are at least trying to engage in good faith, I agree that Hexbear users are often too impulsive with escalating directly to dunks and spamming PPB. In this case, I thought the user was way out of line and I politely told them so. Apparently they agreed and deleted their own comment.

I know Hexbear users can be a bit much, but I think we're capable of having level-headed conversations with other instances about toning it down whenever we step outside our own hive.

Look at all the users I blocked! LOOK HOW MUCH I DON'T CARE!!

This isn't even your instance lmao.

User goes into a ML space, calls Stalin a "shitbag," gets called a shitbag back, and now they want to defederate because they can't take what they dish out lmao.

After a week of making fun of really bad takes we're now seeing an uptick of "we should defederate from hexbear" posts.

We're too powerful.

It increases their approval rating with the military industrial complex lobbyists funding their campaigns, I'm sure.

I'm not seeing the connection between dunking on libs and denying them a platform. If anything lib-dunking requires that they have a platform so we can continue to have new takes to dunk on.

What threads? I'm looking at the Hexbear front page right now and the only thing I see is a user suggesting we don't use PPB outside of Hexbear. Not a single post about lib-dunking.

You heard it here, folks, Lemmy users are officially the CCP's biggest geopolitical enemy. Eat shit, Biden.