While I hope that I’m wrong, there is at least a very real possibility that in the immediate future, the US empire will launch an unprovoked and immoral attack on a socialist state (Venezuela) in order to secure that country’s resources. It is understandable that, should that happen, many of you will be feeling extreme anger at these acts and post about it here.
In light of that, the admins and mods of Hexbear figured we’d remind everyone:
No fedposting
That includes, but is not limited to, talking about threats of violence against people or groups of people; including if you add “in minecraft” or “[redacted]”.
We really don’t need to come under fed scrutiny (or worse). Ultimately, fed posting doesn’t even serve much purpose other than “blowing off steam” – and that comes at the cost of potentially putting the site and its users in legal jeopardy. There are more productive ways to vent that anger.
Also, if you end up having a comment removed for fed posting, I’d urge you to not take it personally.
And saying this as a user, not an admin: a little revolutionary optimism never hurt anyone. We must have clear eyes about reality, but as socialists we also should have faith in the power of people to resist oppression.
(Edited for grammar)
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Yeah. Never threaten anyone.
Why would you give them warning lmao
I like to challenge my opponents to combat so I can face them at their best. Makes the fight better
I cant renounce violence but I never plan to do violence. Sometime it’s just the darhmic thing to do
on the other hand maybe that’s why i cant fight for shit lmao. I just do it when im cornered
Anyone can fight you just need to find something worth fighting for. Training with saiyans helps.
the safest most effective way to fedpost is by writing your fedposts down on a piece of paper and then sending that directly to the president via the USPS
Make sure to put the pads of your finger tips cleanly and firmly all over the paper to ensure the feds know you’re a professional fedposter
Yeah, as much as it pains me to say it’s probably best to protect comrades on here and stop them from fedposting and getting sent to fucking CECOT. I know HB made a name for itself from reddit by allowing much looser speech but you have to weigh if it’s worth it to fly off the cuff and wish death on someone in the moment, or have an ounce of protection to stop someone from ruining their life.
I think it would be good to set some real parameters here on what makes a comment a fedpost. There’s a difference between wishing death on someone and making an explicit threat to a specific individuals life (aka actionable threat). Can I not say I wish Netanyahu would just fucking die? Can I not say I wish Trump were killed by a foreign state power? Can I not say I wish Gavin Newsom never makes it to the 2028 election due to an unforseen accident? Seriously, I’m not saying those things, really, I’m only asking if I can.
The heinous stuff we said on reddit that made us notorious was “slave owners should be killed.” That’s not fedposting. I really fucking hope we will always get to say that and things like it, even things like as mentioned Death to America. I can’t imagine HB ever mandating that we can’t, at least not until the fascists cracking down all over the net really kicks into high gear. But at that point, I feel like it wouldn’t really be Hexbear anymore.
It really does come down to keeping this place as a site and community safe and functional and even more so keeping the users here safe in general. So clear boundaries on what is and what isn’t considered fedposting would be an important thing for us to establish, and it might even need to change as the slide into more overt fascism continues apace.
Agreed but I never thought Hexbear would have done something as cringe as banning the “Lionization of Luigi”. Not Hexbear’s finest hour.
And that rule still stands.
It does? That’s news to me.
It is news to you that the rule still stands? Well I could be wrong but it would be news to me if it had been retracted.
It was never an admin-agreee policy. Like at most I would zap someone for posting something like a list of addresses to CEOs houses while using a picture of Luigi as the thumbnail image.
Thirst-posting, news posting, bickering over whether or not anything has particularly changed since then, or even thirst-posting him while saying he’s both innocent and being used as a scapegoat, I would say is free game.
I’m not sure how involved you were at the time, but there were plenty of people simply saying positive things about him, no worse than like “Luigi Rocks!” and getting their comments removed for it. You may have had a more understandable policy for how you enforced it, but the rule was made for silly reasons. The thing is, that rule was made for the purpose of removing posts and banning repeat offenders that held him up as a person who had done a good thing. But he is a person who did a good thing.
thirst-posting him while saying he’s both innocent and being used as a scapegoat, I would say is free game.
Thirst posting is always removed, as it should be. But one of the mods, former now, who was also enforcing the anti-lionization rule was doing so because they believed, still do apparently, that he was innocent and being used as a scapegoat.
Thirst posting is always removed, as it should be.
Damn. We should ban Alaskaball for thirsting then
Anyways, as long as there’s no actual fedposting, take it from this horses mouth you’ll be Gucci
