Y’all remember that meme about leftists caring about human rights issues and tankies countering that with nothing other than “that’s CIA propaganda”? Well, someone . All I commented was “ITT: Insults, putdowns and whataboutisms”. Well, now I’m banned from a whole range of Hexbear comms permanently. Reason:
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Lol.
I really used to want to have communist friends before I got on this website. I’ve seen a group active in the city I live near and I’ve wanted to make contact and go try to be part of something but honestly interacting with these sealioning trolls kind of put me off it.
People IRL probably aren’t like that but the risk kind of doesn’t seem worth it. They might be the kind of people you get high with and then they gang up on you in a compromised state
Tankies rarely leave their houses, so that communist group is probably fine?
Dude it’s the internet. The far right has been trolling every kind of left group for over a decade and since Trump 1.0 it’s been state level actors.
Oh I know. I fucking expect it from them. I just kind of thought people championing social liberty would less shitty to be around.
Hell, I don’t even need people to be nice. Just holy damn don’t be toxic. Their culture is just being toxic and then blaming it on you. But it all makes more sense when you consider that’s not a social movement. That’s just a farm for social credit scores which is why they lash out and just go full bro debate bro all the time
They’re championing social liberty in the same way that teenage atheists champion humanist enlightenment. I can confirm that your irl communist group, full of functional folks who recognize and understand how to interact with people through more than quips and insults, is unlike hexbear. But be aware of where the flock cameras point. The US is doing a McCarthyist revival
Thanks. That’s reassuring. Maybe I’ll keep my feelers out. I hope there’s something I can contribute to a project like that even as I am now
Not all communists are like that, or are MLs. Anyone IRL is much more likely to be chill, especially if they are doing real activism and stuff. And if not, just leave em.