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After the tragedy, hexbears swarmed posts on lemmy.ml with vicious antisemitism and calls for violence.

Now that evidence has debunked Hamas propaganda they've gone into hiding in their echo chamber to cope and seethe. It's crickets from them in the wider fediverse while their own megathread is popping off.

Some super hot takes in there, you've been warned.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like Nazis, tankies also loathe Jews but they hate them for their creation of strong, self reliant communities. But not surprising they are too wrapped up to realize that Islam also similarly does this but they tend to protect their theology with suicide.

[–] goat 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And these are the people developing Lemmy. Are we really okay with that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's the beauty of FOSS, we aren't generating revenue for them. If they implement something we don't like, we can change it. There is not anything inherintely wrong with using code written by someone we don't agree with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] goat 4 points 1 year ago

Wise idea, think I may switch over at some point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey if they pay for the servers I don't care. Load up their comment chains with high quality images, maybe the bandwidth will cost them a bit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know that initially thinking that the incident was Israel is 'Hamas propaganda', but the absolute certainty of tankies that their chosen side is incapable of making shitty munitions is... astounding.

[–] Cockmaster6000 8 points 1 year ago

The key to covering drama is to blow everything completely out of proportion.

But on the other hand, if your immediate reaction to hearing "...according to Hamas" is "death to Israel" then you're huffing propaganda.

[–] Socsa 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were up to "nearly a thousand" now?

[–] Cockmaster6000 6 points 1 year ago

Tankies reject reality and substitute their own