chapotraphouse

and you think you can just condesendingly harp on about how i've been brainwashed? seeing hexbear made me decide to take a second look at my worldview, and really research who i was, what i believed, and what i stood for. If you think you can reduce that to me being brainwashed, you can go to hell.

Ironically you're experiencing a very old slander here comrade. The term "brainwashing" originated to explain the behavior of downed US pilots during the Korean Genocide. It turns out that once those shot-down American pilots actually met the people they had been killing and found out they weren't what they had been told, they tended to change their tune about the war. They had to be discredited somehow, so it was decided that the tiny rural nation of Korea possessed scary oriental mind-altering techniques that they were using on POWs to make them anti-war.

Pretty similar story to "Stockhopm Syndrome" actually, and the discrediting of returned "israeli" prisoners who had good things to say about Hamas. Any non-sanctioned accounting of the facts that refutes core propaganda narratives must be pathologized. Right now you're being given the immune system treatment by hegemonic cultural liberalism. That's good, that means it perceives you as a threat.

Seeing the way libs blame "tankies"/Russians/insert-enemy-here for radicalizing people reminds me a lot of how abusive parents react to being cut out of their child's life. They'll blame one of the child's friends, or their new significant other, or their therapist, saying the person in question "poisoned their child's mind," but the one person they will never, ever blame is themselves. The entitlement, the infantilization, the complete blindness to their own wrongdoing, it's all eerily similar.

Why does .world even exist? I just spent a few minutes scrolling through the first few pages and it's literally just reddit.

So you're saying that a bunch of Hexbears didn't kidnap you and force you to watch a bunch of yellow tinted Parenti videos until you renounced America and/or all cishets?

Shit, comrades, I think we nabbed the wrong person.

Semi-related, I think one reason we stick in their craw so much is not only that we bluntly reject their delusional browbeating, but that we use teamwork when doing so. Someone here said there's about a Dunbar's number worth of hexbears, and that means that we know each other, we're familiar with each other's styles, and we dunk as a pack. They don't have that, they're too big, so every big argument with us is like a bunch of conscripts who don't know each other vs a well-drilled and experienced unit.

Like genuinely, as much as their presence annoys us, they seem to actually...well, maybe fear is a bit too strong a word, but they seem so hyperfocused on us Like shitposting Sarduarkar, our dread-mythology precedes us.

back in 2023 I had this instance blocked until a nice bear had replied to me on some thread earlier this year. I don't remember what it was, but I remember in the moment looking through their posts and deciding to unblock hexbear to look around, and over time you all really taught me a lot. not just about American politics, but about a lot of things in the world. everyone here has always been nice to me too. I spend more time on here now than a lot of other places. you all on the bear have helped me start seeing things for what they really are elsewhere too.

Do you think some internet strangers can automatically re-write 10 years of the US school system's imprint on my brain?

This is something I think a lot of annoying-ass liberals miss: the only way commie propaganda wins anybody over when they're otherwise inundated with pro-capitalist and anti-communist perspectives, is if it resonates with existing experiences and attitudes. It has to click with something already there.

They have to think you just haven't seen what they're offering, because they can't stomach that you've seen and compared both, and their shit just comes up short for more and more people.

IDK about all of that but glad to have another comrade margbar America

They don't see any posts by hexbear users or on hexbear communities. You'd have to make an account on .world or an instance they're federated with if you want them to see it.