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I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of 'hitlerites'

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online -2 points 10 hours ago

Fuck stop appearing in my frontpage

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Hexbear, lemmygrad and (in great part) lemmy.ml are tankie instances.

They basically deny any crimes of Stalin, Mao etc…

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

You should block hexbear

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 149 points 1 day ago (10 children)

TLDR: they are right-wingers pretending to be left wing

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I love this image. Something that always confused me is that they are communist, but support russia? An extremely far right government?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Authoritarians like authoritarian regimes. They'll perform extreme mental gymnastics to reconcile their preconceived notions with reality, like the tankies that declare China to be socialist. Also, most of them see the US as the Great Satan that is responsible for any and all evil in the world. Therefore anybody who opposes the Great Satan must be good.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (9 children)

There's no support for the Russian Federation. Support for the USSR? Absolutely, but not the RF. There's critical support, as in the RF currently takes an antagonistic stance towards the United States, which many Leftists see as the greater global evil, but no leftist genuinely thinks the RF is doing that out of "good intentions" or has any model that Leftists should replicate.

That sums it up.

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[–] tht@social.pwned.page 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

"Tankie" here, russia sucks

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[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What does the Y axis represent here?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

Technically, the X-axis doesn't represent anything either, as the far-right plot point curves upward, rather than continuing.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amount of mental gymnastics being done to justify their ideology

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

"Y" is the name of one of the major meme/shitpost contributors on lemmy.ml

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 29 points 1 day ago

Wow, I was wondering why I hadn't blocked a single hexbear or lemmy.ml user here: my instance did it for me! I've had multiple accounts on multiple servers and consistently had to block hexbear users until finally blocking hexbear outright. It's been a much better experience then.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Hexbear, lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml are the "Tankie Triad".

Hexbear is the worst most extreme of them and lemmy.ml is the least which is why they've managed to avoid getting defederated from world (either that or because they're like the third largest instance behind only .world and SJW)

Hexbear is pretty widely defederated

[–] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

A lot of .ml users and communities are there just because it was the only big instance much earlier on. I'm in no way a tankie but still use .ml a lot (a community I run is on there) because it was the first one I made and i'm too lazy to look into new instances or switch.

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[–] tht@social.pwned.page 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its a leftist space that sometimes has trolls

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[–] amon@lemmy.world -2 points 12 hours ago

Do not interact with them destroy it with fire

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would block hexbear. I've done it server-wide. They are mostly very loud trolls pretending to be communists. Some could be actual communists, but I don't buy anyone actually wanting to be in such a toxic environment and believe what they claim to believe.

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

"Anyone right of me is Hitler" sounds pretty on point for them. Instance block and move on with your day.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 31 points 1 day ago (9 children)

block hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml. And any user named "UniversalMonk" on any instance. You'll thank me later.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago

I'd probably be more selective about blocking users from lemmy.ml, but I'm a bit biased in the question given the server I chose when I joined Lemmy

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[–] kaprap@leminal.space 40 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I'm sorry if I sound tone deaf I am new to Lemmy .~.

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