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.
No investigation no right to speak. I haven't researched the Xijiang issue well enough to comment well on it, so I won't. Someone else can take up that cause if they want. But I HAVE researched it enough to know where the truth lies, I just would be bad at arguing the point. Admitting that isn't a weakness and doesn't make me look bad. Its literally a good thing. You put it out there, so I kind of have to acknowledge it or you would have used THAT to imply my weakness as well.
It doesnt matter if its hard to make a bot. It matters if its worth doing. Why would any country think changing hearts and minds of foreigners on Lemmy is worth their time? Its pure arrogance to think you're worth a foreign governments time and energy.
You can insist this all you want, but your positions on geopolitics align with the liberal hegemonistic order. You are at best a radlib who thinks they're a socialist for supporting universal healthcare or something. IE, someone who wants a bigger piece of the plundering of the global South and doesn't care about their plight. Your positions on geopolitics are liberal ones, whether you consider yourself one or not.
Sorry for saying guy, though if you ARE a guy and just doing this as a gotcha anyway you're an asshole.
I really doubt you dont live in the west. This one I have to assume is a bullshit attempt at a gotcha. "How do you KNOW I'm a westerner" is debate lord shit if you actually are a westerner. If you arent, well the useful idiot label still applies.
You did this to me too lol????
Why would the CCP want to undermine their biggest geopolitical enemy? You don't think they'd want to do this???
You very obviously don't know my positions on geopolitics and I'm done with this sad strawman debate since you've got nothing else.
You heard it here, folks, Lemmy users are officially the CCP's biggest geopolitical enemy. Eat shit, Biden.
It's only logical, after all, they spend all their time thinking about China, so why shouldn't the opposite be true?