Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer is either straight up wrong or there’s some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance.
Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well.
So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.
Three American media outlets that weren’t censored by the government. How do you think this is handled in Russia? In China?
If we used non-western (or even independent western) outlets to talk about something that major western outlets don’t, you’d dismiss it as propaganda and conspiracy theory
Lib: The American media doesn’t lie.
Leftist: Here’s evidence that it does, from Western sources
Lib: Ah, but at least those Western sources reported it!
Leftist: Alright, here’s evidence that it lies, from non-western sources
Lib: You don’t really believe that propaganda, do you?
Unfalsifiable orthodoxy.
Thank you for putting that into words I had trouble picking my jaw up off the floor after reading their reply.
How do you think it’s handled? And why do you think that?
Americans have utterly memory holed the fact that their soldiers brutally murdered, mutilated and gang raped hundreds of unarmed women and children and that the only consequences were that the commander who personally murdered 22 people received just 3 and half years house arrest. Some of the people who did this are still alive and walk free despite having committed some of the most unthinkable evils against civilians with impunity and have been explicitly pardoned by the US government.
This crime is far worse than Tiananmen (which has estimates of a death toll between 200 to ~500 with the CPC putting the estimate at 300 including dead Chinese soldiers and police) on its own but it’s not taught in schools, even in the history of the Vietnam war (despite the role Hersh’s exposé played in helping to sway public perception against the war) and many Americans have no idea it ever happened.
You should read Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse