this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
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Just remember Hexbear is always wrong. The more we call it, the less certain I become
I think that's what happened here just before Russia's military moved into Ukraine.
Of course I know them, they're me
I was surprised too. I had some "nothing ever happens" at the time.
The mistake was assuming a rational thing would occur
MFW
In my case I'll admit I was just looking at what the state department said and assuming they were lying about everything and not just most of it
I think all of us were assuming that Biden would lose in 2020. I know I was.
I think it was split. Lots of people here argued that we should vote for him for the sake of "harm reduction".
The main argument was covid, abortion, queer rights, the massive riots going on with people being disappeared in black vans and foreign policy. Lol. Lmao even.
(There was also pushback on this, but I am just trying to say that hexbear was not united on the election)
Technically the site was still chapo.chat back then and I hadn't even joined yet (I was still enough of a lib to vote for Biden, that's completely over) so I don't know how well Hexbear can call it
The real reason for the joke is hexbear more or less as a whole was of the opinion nothing would happen in Ukraine (something happened).
This is contrasted by our ability to lathe a great many world events, provided the scenario is sufficiently ridiculous. And that is how dialectics work.