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The "Words of Iron" app gives zionists one centralized hub to promote posts that support Israel by increasing their engagement (including by pasting pre-written comments) while directing users to anti-zionist posts to report in an effort to get the post or the poster removed from the internet. It's a zionist brigading app.

Archived "Words of Iron" site

Medium article by the devs

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[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 129 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Twitch recently indefinitely suspended me (full time streamer for the past 7 years) for "sharing extensive content related to terrorist or violent extremist groups" so while I've been fighting that, I've been digging into the ways that zionists are manipulating social media platforms and algorithms to their benefit (and to our detriment).

[–] Des@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago (1 children)

their greatest (and laziest) weapon seems to be fucking with people's livelihoods like that.

silencing anyone with a platform. i hope you can win your fight!

red-fist

[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago
[–] booty@hexbear.net 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

wait this made me look up your username and i had no idea you had changed it or that you were anywhere near this based. i was in your discord for a bit lmao

[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 63 points 10 months ago (30 children)

haha no way! You're always welcome to join our server again, my linktree is in my bio.

btw I appreciate the compliment. My community and I have evolved quite a bit over the past several years. Growing politically in public (from centrist edgelord --> anti-imperialist communist) as a woman has also garnered me a TON of harassment from the usual douchey suspects, hence the current Twitch ban I'm fighting.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

big discord servers just feel like twitter or something to me, doesn't work too well for me tbh. i hope everything's chill in there though!

yeah idk, maybe i caught you somewhere in the middle of that transition? i watched a few of your streams where you seemed cool but maybe a bit lib or something, forgot about your existence and moved on. last thing i expected was to run into you on hexbear lmao

and yeah, being a woman on the internet has probably improved in my lifetime but it still looks like it sucks. shit, i still see my male friends get harassed in online games for having usernames that could conceivably belong to a woman

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

oh shit, I watched a couple of your streams way back when. I think you were still in your edgier phase so this is the last place I expected to find you. if you find a new place to stream, make a post about it here - I'm sure others would appreciate it too. cat-trans

[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're so sweet! Tbh I don't know if there's a future for me in streaming. Streaming these days feels so uncomfortable for me since so much of my income at this point comes from the same people whose voices im trying to amplify. Plus the CONSTANT harassment campaigns (usually launched by the same fashy people I used to run with back in my edgier days). Plus McCarthyism (like the ban I'm fighting rn). Plus the nonstop sexism. I'm tired.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I completely get it and I'm sorry you've had to endure that.

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[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

damn that sucks. i used to watch ur streams and appreciate the work u have done. hope you can find a new platform!

[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Thank you! ❤️

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago

If your interested in IG influencers, look into the “Tel Aviv Institute” which creates content and hints that it sells bots.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn that's dark, I hope you can find an alternative.

[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I had a whole breakdown when it happened 😀

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[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

As fucked up as this is, how hard would it be to take this concept and make a leftist version of it for us to use to brigade our enemies?

They started it so why shouldn't we? why-shouldnt-i

[–] jaeme@hexbear.net 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Zionists got so mad that leftists could post better than them so theyre buying clicks.

This is literally just people who buy clicks. They're just avoiding the bot farm ban hammer because they can use fash failchildren zionists instead of bots.

The actual idea itself is just the result of disgusting techbro startup culture that is the Israeli tech field.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're what every other site is terrified we are lmao

[–] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

Seriously though, how difficult could this be? What resources would we need?

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I edit in Wikipedia. The pro Israeli brigading is fucking painful. You can't get in one discussion without 7 other random editors jumping in to chime in to say that Al Jazeera is a biased news source or that a Twitter post disproved that point.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

Wikipedia of Iron

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Words of Iron" sounds like a name a neonazi would come up with.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wonder if its possible to sign up for this app and somehow work against it from their side

[–] jaeme@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

It seems they just give you a pre-written response to say to a specific post they pick.

I have no idea why they're boasting so much. You just bought an Azure Cloud service.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

This is the Jeremy Reiner app but for Zionism. You have a parasocial relationship with the creator, but you’re only allowed to react positively to it

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They need to add lootboxes and battlepasses if they want to convince me to join. Insult 5 Arab children and you unlock dark mode

[–] yuli@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago

Help prevent the spread of false or anti-Israeli content by reporting it.

bit on the nose imo

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Yeah, been saying for years that this is what the left should be doing.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I fully agree with you, but we'd be banned off the platform in a matter is days. Brigading is only OK when it serves the current power structure.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Which is why you do everything you can to make it look like an organic build up. Something that's easier to do when you have an organized platform like this vs just dropping random links in the dunktank without even anonymizing referrals.

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[–] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same, we need to employ propaganda more effectively. I don't like things like this, but the mainstream narrative is always against us and we should take any opportunity to offset that even slightly.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the mainstream narrative is always against us and we should take any opportunity to offset that even slightly.

this

This is one of the ways how the mainstream narrative is built. Organize means much more than Unions, it means using the tools we have available to us to build a united front in advancing our goals. One of which should most definitely be fighting their propaganda and the consent manufacturing that makes it easier for them to commit social murder on us. Oh, and in this case, literal Genocide.

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[–] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

ty for these

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: I have the home address and phone number of a prominent Zionist politican/"enterpreneour" named Dr. Eli David.

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you're ever driving around and see a way-too-big house, take note of the address. You can use the single free lookup from property-shark to see who owns it and cross-reference the name to linkedin and other spots.

I once found the Saudi education minister's home when looking at giant mansions in the DC area from google maps.

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

Of iron, huh?

[–] commiespammer@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

Words of Iron? How about Hearts of Iron now excuse me while I go get all my divisions fucking encircled because fucking Romania is buffed to shit for some shitty-ass reason fuck the forum users fucking nazis

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Brigading is a made up redditor concept used by people who are mad that people from outside their echo chamber show up. Whatever this is shouldn't be conflated with that.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it's the opposite, this is actual brigading and what redditors use the word for shouldn't be confused with this

[–] KiraChats@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago

whichever it is, please dont mistake me for a redditor k-pain

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Damn we need this for communism

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