Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.
Third such fundraiser in hexbear, maybe it’s time to reconsider who’s the worst person :P
Let me know when they’ll do a fundraiser for Ukraine…
Are three fundraisers for Palestine not good enough for you? I don’t think this is the correct community or post to expose such animosity, this fundraiser is a good thing for people who are suffering under Isntreals thumb and I believe that should be the focus: if you want to own hexbears epic style, the best way to do so would be to organize your own fundraiser outside hexbear for Palestinians.
In my experience, hexbears have no animosity towards Ukrainians. I don’t want to get political because this is not the appropriate comm for this, you can disagree with the geopolitical analysis of the situation with hexbears but they surely don’t want Ukrainians thrown into a meat grinder (nor Russians for that matter) and have no animosity for Ukrainians as a people, in a similar way to how many people criticise the Iranian government’s policy without hating on Iranian people.
Are three fundraisers for Palestine not good enough for you? I don’t think this is the correct community or post to expose such animosity, this fundraiser is a good thing for people who are suffering under Isntreals thumb and I believe that should be the focus: if you want to own hexbears epic style, the best way to do so would be to organize your own fundraiser outside hexbear for Palestinians.
That’s not the point, it’s great they’re doing something good but they spread intolerance via propaganda from authoritarian countries.
In my experience, hexbears have no animosity towards Ukrainians. I don’t want to get political because this is not the appropriate comm for this, you can disagree with the geopolitical analysis of the situation with hexbears but they surely don’t want Ukrainians thrown into a meat grinder (nor Russians for that matter) and have no animosity for Ukrainians as a people, in a similar way to how many people criticise the Iranian government’s policy without hating on Iranian people.
You must be blind then, because.ml and hexbear are both massive voices on Ukraine being filled with Nazis and it should be wiped out and returned to russia. The only reason they hate what Israel is doing is because Israel is backed by the west, which they hate.
Would you be here saying how great it is for a white supremacists group raising funds for something? Probably not.
Tolerance of the intolerant must not be allowed.
and it should be wiped out and returned to russia
You are definitely making this up, saying something like this would first get you dunked and then banned, feel free to do the experiment. I’m saying this as both a frequent hexbear user and someone who hosted a Ukrainian refugee in my own home at the beginning of the war. Again, not the correct post or community to be arguing about this shit.
https://hexbear.net/post/253926
I dunno what instance you think I’m talking about but literally hexbear users saying shit like:
“(but also, the ukrainian state genuinely has a nazi problem, not that russia’s invasion had anything to do with that really).”
Is not pro Ukrainian, it’s russian propaganda.
You might need to check and see if the hexbear I’m talking about is the same one you are thinking of.
I’m not here discussing your support for Ukrainians, I have family in Ukraine, so thank you for taking refugees in.
well, at least there will be a positive effect from them for once
AFAIK it’s the third such fundraiser from over there
that’s genuinely nice
I’ve never heard of Hexbear. Care to explain?
Many instances defederated from them because a large chunk of the user base was abusive and brigading. To an extent even the worst right wing instances federated couldn’t match.
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I don’t like tankies much either but I’ve seen way worse from the fascists.
Not really sure if it’s useful to ask if diarrea or regular shit is worse.
I don’t want to step in either
Not disputing your claim, as it doesn’t surprise me at all, but I’m curious: What are “the worst right wing instances” ?
I haven’t paid enough attention to notice any instances with a consistent and noticeable right-wing lean.
They are authoritarian left and even though Russia is not a leftist country they will refuse to say a single thing bad about Russia, China, and some will even say nothing is wrong with north Korea. If you search the instance for ‘Ukraine’ you will see them saying Russia is the good guy in the Ukrainian war. They will say things like authoritarianism doesn’t actually exist. I legitimately wonder how many posts are state sponsored lol. There are a lot of them on lemmy.ml as well
Just a week ago I had a conversation with someone that is thinking that Russia is a still a communist country and was arguing if I was sure about the opposite
It’s a leftist instance that’s very active and will argue with people that post anticommunist popaganda.
it’s just a leftist lemmy instance
Hell yeah
Yeah, awesome stuff tbh
Hexbear has always been really good at supporting fedizens.
And driving away 95% of their traffic.
Great news!
Good work Hexbear!
Good shit indeed
Sounds good, but make sure the money really goes into the hands who needs it the most: the vulnerable rather than those wanting to fight to the death.
