I’ve made several alts over the years and it’s wild to see how badly wreckers fumble on sounding like a leftist.

I used to think I needed to build more credibility before making a post, but it’s not the case at all. If you’re cool and stay consistent in your values, people here are so willing to give the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks for being a cool community who bans transphobes, debate lords, and chuds.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    72·
    3 months ago

    You see it all the time with how they pretend to be black. They’ll type out some 1980s parody version of AAVE and think they sound convincing. My favorite, though, is the whole “As a life-long democrat, I’m no longer part of the looney left.”

    Any actual leftist wouldn’t mention membership to the democratic party except as a source of radicalization lmao

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    The main problem with trolls and wreckers who pop up here is that they have no education, whether its politics in general or this site’s history

    So when they start yapping like strawman versions of us, we spot them immediately

  • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    56·
    3 months ago

    the fun ones are accounts that have writing styles and other quirks that are so specific you immediately know it’s a banned user’s new account. there’s one user that is so distinct I know one of their accounts on multiple platforms without actually trying to keep track of them lol

    • Cammy [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      40·
      3 months ago

      Were you there for the guy who expressed his hatred for pumpkin spice drinks through Hanna Barbera usernames?

        • Cammy [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          29·
          3 months ago

          He was so persistent in his misogyny. It was incredible to watch given how long it takes between making a profile and posting for the first time.

          • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            20·
            3 months ago

            i assume this was awhile ago? from what I remember it was pretty easy to make accounts on hexbear before they added the application, just had to give a username and password and maybe pass a captcha? at least that’s how I remember it when I made my old hexbear account a ~year ago before the reddit exodus and federation came

              • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                21·
                3 months ago

                yeah admins added it after enabling federation, funnily enough it was supposed to be temporary at the time but ig they decided to keep it. this is what the application is btw it’s nothing too hard:

                How did you find out about Hexbear, and why do you want to join?

                Why did you choose your username?

                What are your views on GSM / LGBTQ rights, racial justice, animal liberation, and similar movements?

                for comparison here is grad’s appliation:

                Why would you like to join?
What left tendency would you call yourself?
Please open this chapter on the Marxist Internet Archive, and paste the first sentence from the second paragraph (right after the quote) as a verification measure.
What is your understanding of gender? Should Marxists support the LGBTQ+ community?
What communities would you most like to participate in?
How or why did you choose your username?
                • HexcraftDirtFarmer@hexbear.netEnglish
                  27·
                  3 months ago

                  I tried to join so many leftist discords a few years ago and they all had questionnaires which were multipage when I finished and the only response I ever got back was one “what?” I have no idea if I put too much work into answering the questions technically because they were technical questions, or if my opinions are just weird AF because I actually read the theory and drew my own conclusions and that’s a great way to become quite eccentric and, let’s say interestingly, wrong.

                  Hexbear’s is pretty pain free, never been denied.

      • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        28·
        3 months ago

        user I’m referring to went by “pluto” on hexbear, although I’m sure BMF is probably pretty easy to identify wherever they go lol

          • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            23·
            3 months ago

            he just was the cause of a struggle session about khrushev of all people on grad like a week ago lol (which got his grad account banned from hexbear). grad admins are too lenient like hexbear admins too sometimes lol, they already permabanned him then lowered it to a temp ban but even after he kept shittalking grad for months after (until he started getting into spats with the hexbear admins, anyways, curiously changed his tone real quick when he realized he might get banned from hexbear soon thinking-about-it ), it still doesn’t really seem like he is on a short leash despite that history on grad already and then being permabanned on both pluto and makan on hexbear

              • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                22·
                3 months ago

                what really made me more mad than anything was what I was alluding to, he shit on lemmygrad for forever (and was outright lying about one of our admins being a patsoc) just because he was mad they tempbanned him, and then came back with an apology post. I thought it was sincere, until I go and look at the modlog a day later and see that he had been unmodded from the comms he was mod in on hexbear and even banned from c/news. made it feel really feel insincere especially since all his other behavior (rabid defense of cpusa, spamming of posts, etc) was pretty much unchanged

      • Sephitard9001 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        There’s someone on TrueAnon named liked throwawaybunchanumbers and they write the most sublime stream of consciousness essays on painfully specific things. It’s mind-blowing

        • Sephitard9001 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          One I saved from a while ago

          spoiler

          "American families tend to be really fucked up and the suburban hellhole just makes it like 10x worse

          something that floats in my head a lot is that I was cooking breakfast and my dad was talking about “when you gonna get a girlfriend” literally never ever because I’m 5’9 and brown and have moderate to severe mental illness and my mom was like “you’d probably try to fuck her you disgusting animal”

          i have a recording of my 100 year old neighbor getting into a screaming match with her 60 year old daughter on Christmas. “It’s not about that BAAAAARB”, yells crescendoing like the bwah of an All American Hornline. That same day, my mom and dad were fighting with each other while we ate Mountain Mikes. My NEET younger brother eating pepperoni while having a 1000 yard stare with the Saddam Hussein hair and beard (fucks to give about anything lim->0), fascist brother painting another WW2 Nazi tank (I just appreciate the uniforms and the humanitarian messaging) to sell to Ukrainian sexpats

          The social and familial fabric of the Yunaited Estates is one that is profoundly fracturing, shards refracting light into a little diaspora of pain

          Interracial couples: tatted up Mexican illegal manager fucking a white girl half his age, Whitey, when are you going to get my papers? Locker room talk as a frazzled future schizocommunist prepares synthetic potatoblend, sex addict mating press in between stories of white girl locking her inherited children in the car during the blazing California summer, frightened little brown boys cooking like biscuits in unfeeling fast food blast furnaces, it just gets worse. Psychologically these kids are going to have soul images that look like the face melt Indiana Jones man, strapped to a bed and drunk on Thorazine: the only respite from the panic is the silence of sleep.

          My neighbor killed himself a while ago (the police parked a bearcat on his lawn in response) and his ex-wife showed up and was like, “HIS BITCH SISTER IS NOT GETTING HIS KIDS!!!”

          Shut the fuck up and put the mask on and get in the car. For Sally, that might be the push that leads to 15000000000x10143 years of being stooped over a toilet, vomiting out everything they’ve ever eaten.

          At the aforementioned “job”, I once saw a man who looked a lot like the guy from Toy Story punch his daughter and call her a difficult child. Of course, difficult children need beatings.

          The United States is like some kind of Bosch painting where the abnegation of “child sacrifice” culminates in a capiroted capitalist waiting right at the bottom of the birth canal like it’s Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California with a pine stick, just waiting, always waiting to get a start in the 1776 blows. The first blow is birth, some blows after that is the Pledge Of Alliegiance, the 1776th is realizing there is a 76% chance of never owning a house. Birth experience looking like a Chilean surrealist film. Soon they’ll tell the kids they gotta pay the medical bill, right after they remind them of their instinctive, totally natural ideas about property rights and why people starve in a world that has more material abudance than any other time in the history of the planet.

          Focus on the family of course, for that is the germ of all that is wonderful, like domestic violence and being strangled until your eyes bulge, alcoholism and casual abuse, all in a concrete ant farm spackled with Astroturf, the finest Behr paints and apocryphal Joseph Beuys felt and fat origin stories. You were lucky to be born in God’s Country"

      • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        20·
        3 months ago

        i blame the admins for that one more than anything. the things they give leeway for at times are really really strange

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      I’ve noticed one unmistakable posting style of someone who got banned in the past year but I’m not saying any details because I am thoroughly entertained.

      • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        i get the feeling I know a former grad poster who’s on hexbear that I don’t want to say anything about just in case it somehow gets the user rebanned on grad lol

      • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        i don’t bother too much if it’s not obvious. i am always curious if anyone has ever recognized me as my old deleted account, I don’t think my writing style is that distinct but I’ve never asked anyone

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    My favorite was that one who simultaneously started a thread that seemed perfectly innocuous and normal while immediately tossing out slurs in another thread

    It’s like, the site ain’t that big, you’re on the front page smearing yourself with shit and going “I am a normal leftist, like you all”

    • Cammy [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      27·
      3 months ago

      Nothing to my knowledge. I was just reflecting on my new account and how nobody has ever given me shit while my alts were new.

      • HexcraftDirtFarmer@hexbear.netEnglish
        20·
        3 months ago

        Hexbear’s been pretty chill for the past couple years. Barring usual “I’m bored” tearing up the furniture when nothing in the news is getting our attention.

        That Olympic break dancing person for example, saw the posts on that one and just said to my boyfriend “Hexbear is bored, musta been an all right day” and logged off.