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[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 98 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can smell the "I'm apolitical/actually very progressive" and the "No, I haven't considered/didn't opt for conscientious objection to IOF mandatory service" through the screen

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 70 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right on the money. He's a liberal who's horrified by Netanyahu's constitutional reforms. He also posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillologycirclejerk/comments/q3beji/flag_of_palestine_but_it_will_spark_a_ruthless/

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Wait, I'm sorry, but the vexillology post is really funny. If a Hexbear posted that on a lib lemmy comm it'd be hilarious. I guess their intention with it was "redditors are so antisemitic they'll bust a vein from seeing the Israeli flag" while my no-context reading was "redditors are such garbage you know there's gonna be a thousand jerkoffs going 'well ackchually' in the comment section."

Edit: nevermind, just saw the 13/50 post he also made. barbara-pit

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

That context is important. If a hexbear user posted this I'd assume they're a communist making a shitty joke. It's too one-dimensionally edgelord for an anti-Zionist to post. When it's a Zionist posting it from Israel in the lead-up to its current genocide, it's just like a Nazi posting "Here's the Soviet flag" with a swastika in 1937.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Gotta remember all circlejerk subs are irony poisoned besides gcj because we run the mod team there.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gcj is also horribly irony poisoned they're just also sometimes right

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

fair, my info's dated. I literally haven't logged into reddit since chacha was created comfy-cool

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

tgcj is also fine if you can get past the definitely not ironic dysphoria posting, cloaked in irony. trans people start at left-lib for the most part and it's not very hard to convince most of them to become comrades of one sort or another, and it shows in the posts on that sub.

[–] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Gamingcirclejerk

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

Guiado CircleJerk, official fandom of the true president of Venezuela.

guaido

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

The specter of the hexbear cabal looms large over reddit hexbear-specter

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also quick question why does at minimum one out of every t people you play against know you're isreali? Isn't chess pretty much completely anonymous. Or are you upset you're getting called out despite making it a part of your personality.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On chess dot com, you select a flag to put next to your username.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

You have the same thing in Street Fighter, and being a normal person I just pick 🇰🇵.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 75 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For like 20 goddamn years a player can't join a game without being harassed for having a Chinese name. Everything from "Taiwan no. 1!" to boiler plate racism.

[–] TimmytheDragon@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's totally okay to spam the dumb liberal Tiny Man Square copypasta every-time when there is something or someone that is related to China.

[–] DanComrd@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

I feel like that doesn't actually work anymore because people have done that in a game I played in and they still kept playing and just ignored the comments.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago (3 children)

https://www.reddit.com/user/avivkotlar/

The terrorist in question. Shortly before the invasion he left to study music in New York. He's afraid his relationship back in Israel might not last. Tell him that his girlfriend has already left him for a real man soldier and maybe he'll go die in the war he supports.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillologycirclejerk/comments/10wcik3/flag_of_racist_united_states_13_stripes/

Here's how racist he is. Find me a name.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

it's also the flag of the country that the nazis were inspired by to do what they did

Yes this countries history is as troubling as it is beautiful

lmao

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

inshallah-script

I pray to Allah that his girlfriend will marry a chad PFLP veteran and live happily ever after in a free Palestine.

[–] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

that comment thread caused me psychic damage geez

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago

This is how the rest of the world should treat USAians.

[–] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 49 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Once got a whole tf2 lobby to kick out an israeli from thr game

[–] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Knowing Israelis, the guy you kicked probably did most of the convincing for you.

[–] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

The server had a dude who made several t*welhead jokes and even he thought ksrael's racism was too much and also wanted the guy gone

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

This is my favorite emoji and one of my favorite images ever. The fact that it's Scott the Woz, the whitest possible person, the bad fit of the t shirt and the expression and stance showing HE MEANS IT. If he can look kinda cool just by being based, anyone can.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Knowing TF2, it was likely because he was Jewish lol

[–] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Fascist infighting

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I see an israeli flag crop up for my opponents in T8 or Street Fighter, I walk too-- and I'm actually rather grateful that latter generations gave us the opportunity to decline arranged matches. I'm not giving those terrorist scumbags a minute of my time.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

I think the reason liberals have fully embraced the antisemitism scare is because they think they found a loophole to bitch and moan about “anti-white racism” and “white genocide” without consequence.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't solve the conflict

Nobody expects you to. What you can do is to do your part to end apartheid. You could join pro-Palestinian groups inside settler society, you could refuse to take part in genocide and apartheid and leave Palestine for your homeland or you could simply say free Palestine as well and tell that you support decolonisation and oppose zionism.

Unlike being a Jew, being a zionist is a choice. Being born into the master race of an an evil fascist state does not predestine you to be a fascist. You can in fact do the right thing.

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 9 months ago

He could also remove the Israeli flag from their chess account, like the Russians were made to.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I disable chat online cause I can't stomach it, but I absolutely go harder against Israeli flags in chess

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see one and immediately start attacking. scholar's mate into the dumbest fucking wild attack that invariably somehow works out because they panic. I should probably just attack more often and spend less time worrying about playing the right moves.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You ever threaten mate in 1 and get check mated in counter? Happened to me today and I'M FUCKING MAD ABOUT IT. I was up a piece, silent_water!

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

yes, I malded and dropped 50 points because I kept rage clicking new game. forgetting to make luft - the bane of my existence.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

I’m from Nazi Germany, and every like 5 games or so I get an opponent that just says “end the Holocaust” or calls me a war criminal and either quits the game or keeps harassing me. Like dude can I just play chess without being called out on my nationality, I can’t solve the conflict and you telling me this makes no one but you feel better. And that’s questionable as well. Makes me not want to go online sometimes.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

My treats!! 😭😭