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I am seriously concerned about that. He must know that he is risking being taken out, right? The people he’s in communication with must be making it clear too, I hope. He can’t be this far along in the organizing process to not know about the BLM leadership… (Just to name a recent example).
Yes, that’s an important thing to remember. Instances like .world and justshit are largely responsible for dragging down .ml and other (relatively speaking) decent instances. On hexbear, we’re used mostly seeing ourselves (obviously), lemmygrad, .ml, a little bit of db0, and a smattering of other little instances. The second you go on .ml, you’re inundated with loads of the same shit we all thought had been left concentrated on reddit. It’s not that .ml is that terrible, it’s that it’s too small to push back against the hordes of .worlders. And so the culture of .ml and other smaller instances slowly but surely gets degraded. Defederating from hexbear and lemmygrad preemptively by .world wasn’t done just because they wanted to be “safe” from having to see opinions and takes based in a reality they like to deny (it was that too), but also so they could hold sway and more easily influence and dominate the fediverse.
For everyone on hexbear that was gung-ho about federation because it would mean actively dunking on libs, if you were one of the ones (like me) who liked the idea of arguing with liberals and putting them in their place for all the lurkers to see how inept their worldview is, I very much encourage you to make accounts on other instances and help push back against .world’s insidious shit. If you’re a hexbear that has had enough of that shit and just want to chill in a leftist space, I completely respect that and would suggest that you not make accounts on other instances.
Hexbear has almost fallen back to a state of existence similar to how it was before federation happened, with the biggest difference being more cross pollination with lemmygrad. Which is good for those I just mentioned who like to not have to see liberal and chuddy garbage outside of the dunk tank. But it’s not good for .ml that they get so swamped by .world. I’ve said it before but I really do encourage hexbears who like the posting trenches to make accounts on .ml and check the same threads you read as a hexbear and take note of how drastically different the experience is.
reddit though? -->
@dead@hexbear.net posted this in the other thread about this earlier today, if anyone is interested in seeing more examples of how vile this person was, and why they deserve a
I went through his tweets from the last year.
spoiler
Advocating for violence against bicyclists https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1811572517519372463
Covid Denial https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1798482372008247663
No comment https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1797679831720829170
Zionism / Islamophobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1787644704131027346
Threatening to kill climate protestors https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1742956979381834233
Advocating for American civil war https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1737630849040785723
Transphobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1716879327613366492
Support for an American fascism party (America first) https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1715044435581390852
Zionism / Islamophobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1711001590163804208
Say immigrants to US should be sent to die https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1662973785245401088
Transphobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1659594821076385792
anti-abortion https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1656718480719085579
That is really cool, but let’s not pretend that DSA as an org isn’t often times extremely lib and that any actual communist party should never find themselves to their right. Did anything ever happen to those DSA caucus leaders who snubbed the president of Cuba and went to meet with the Gusano opposition instead?
This person has a long and sordid history as a misogynist piece of shit. They were fairly active on Lemmygrad who eventually banned them, but it was unfortunately just temporary. But you’ll see the incel/MRA kind of trash they believe if you look at their lemmygrad modlog history.
I’m certainly not getting any wiser going through these conversations on repeat and I don’t think anyone else is, either.
I bet a lot of lurkers are, including me.
I wish more of our team would disengage.
I wish for the opposite. It’s always funny to watch these people fume and sputter when they are faced with dissent instead of the clapping seals they’re used to. And I do learn a lot from what hexbears and lemmygradians say even when they’re talking to someone unwilling to be educated.