im so proud of you for this one, at least I know you’re not in deep enough that you repeat the “LG and Hexbear are all chinese bots!?!?” cliche.

Still it hurts, can’t you stroke our egos more like normal liberals do by pretending we’re important enough for China to pay attention to us like that rage-cry

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    “tankies ruining lemmy!”. Meanwhile lemmy devs have che and fidel as pfp 🗿

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    Lol, imagine thinking that Hexbear and Lemmygrad are funded right out of Big Man Xi’s own pockets… No, the truth is actually that all the other Lemmy instances are funded directly by Spez in order to stomp out his competition!

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            The emoji is called michael-laugh so evidently. I’m assuming you’re referring to Michael Jamal Brooks (political commentator, 1983-2020) as opposed to the inexcusable number of other notable Michael Brooks on Wikipedia.

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              Yes, we all loved the direction he was taking MR on r/cth and then he suddenly died right before the launch of chapo.chat (now hexbear), so we of course created this in memoriam.

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          You’re asking the wrong person lol you need to ask one of the older hexbear users, I consider myself a LG user (which is why I use this account) and I also have only had an account on Hexbear since May anyways, I just think it’s a funny emoji. when I’m using hexbear emojis im opening up hexbear on another tab, clicking reply to some comment or post, searching for the one I want, and the copy and pasting it over to the comment I’m making on LG

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      It’s the same energy as saying everyone not alt-right is funded by George Soros. But don’t tell the libs that.

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    I’ve been active online and in an actual communist party for years now. I am yet to be approached by a Chinese or Russian official to be a paid shill. You’d almost think it is projection.

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      Just remember, in the US, Nazis have more rights than you. For example, protections under federal labor law specifically do not apply to communists. Great country, eh?

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        Do you have to specify you’re a communist when you take a job in the US? Why not just say no anyway?

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          Government jobs, yes. Lying could result in jail time, in some cases. Jobs here are also known to pay people to search social media for dirt. Really just a matter of time before they decide to start trying to use it again to avoid wrongful termination fines.

          More than anything, I think it’s important to highlight how fucked up it is that it’s still on the books and no equivalent anti-Nazi laws ever have been.

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    Lemmy.world people are leaving Lemmy because of Hexbear?

    Good, that motivates me to post three times as hard. Sissypea money well spent xigma-male

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      Nah, it’s well established CPC doesn’t pay bots

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    I know overseas shipping is rough, but I’ve been a China shill for about 4 years. Either China really is capitalist and they’re outright stealing my wages, or my check’s still en route. Regardless, I’m pretty pissed off. All this PRCposting and I haven’t seen a single fucking yuan.

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      Didn’t you hear? Chinese dollar reserves are on the decline. The dollars must be going somewhere jajajaja

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      It’s simple: the Russian and Chinese governments are actually one.

      I mean, think about it: have you ever actually been to Russia and China? I mean, sure you’ve met people who claim to be “Chinese” or “Russian” online or maybe in the street, but they’re all getting paid by the government of the Sino-Soviet Socialist Republic, too. See, there was no Sino-Soviet split, actually, but rather a union — the whole split was actually a farce meant to trick the United States into believing that the socialist world was more fractured than it actually was. The USSR never actually dissolved, and there is no war in Ukraine, either — that’s just a way of tricking NATO into giving billions of dollars and countless firearms and so forth to the mighty SSSR.

      The entire territory of the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Mongolian People’s Republic, the United Socialist Republic of Indochina, and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, are all one big glorious nation. This fact must never become known to the capitalist west! It is in fact the most masterful and ingenious part of the godless communist strategy to subjugate the entire globe under the mighty, terrible heel of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

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        Your last paragraph made me both happy and sad. Don’t cry for what could have been, smile for what was…

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        It’s simple: the Russian and Chinese governments are actually one.

        So, yellow peril and red scare united into… orange terror?

        Shit.

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          in a shocking turn of events, the service workers of florida have taken control of the national guard depots and established a people’s state. they have seized all private industry and are engaged in a defensive war against the US military. they call it “orange terror”

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            FBI cannot confirm whether they meant the U.S. state of Georgia’s southern neighbor or the sovereign one’s southern neighbor in an embarrassing turn of events

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        In fact, BRICS actually serves as a front to make people think there are independent countries, and for secret annexation votes to the communist superstate.

        There was actually a secret vote in 1991 to annex other countries into this superstate, so the dissolution of the USSR was performed as a masterful distraction by Comrade Gorbachev

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      The CPC is doing most of the funding, but Russia agreed to contribute bot technology to CPC if we would support Russia despite being a capitalist state. This scheme worked quite well, and Lemmygrad today is full of pro-Russian commenters.

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      Still it hurts, can’t you stroke our egos more like normal liberals do by pretending we’re important enough for China to pay attention to us like that

      Still it hurts, can’t you stroke my ego more like normal liberals do by pretending I’m important enough for China to pay attention to me like that.

      (that better?)

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    can’t you stroke our egos more like normal liberals do by pretending we’re important enough for China to pay attention to us like that

    Reminds of that sad joke about a Jewish man in 1932 reading “Der Stürmer”

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      I can’t imagine it was much better in 1932 than what I’m reading it was in 1933 and 1934…

      Obligatory Nazi: fascist coping