Just putting that out there. While we might have struggle sessions over bullshit, the larger internet zeitgeist is putrid and rancid.
Just putting that out there. While we might have struggle sessions over bullshit, the larger internet zeitgeist is putrid and rancid.
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I think what you’re describing is not just political opinions, but shared values. Especially when it comes to upholding human rights, and dismantling systems of oppression that threaten human rights.
Right wingers don’t really have any shared values, except obtain and hold power by any means necessary, so right wing forums are outrageously toxic to each other even when they technically hold the same political position.
That’s why we have a “loneliness epidemic”, as it turns out, being a genocide-supporting chud who doesn’t know empathy also robs you of genuine human intimacy.
i don’t think that’s sufficient to explain the loneliness epidemic. too many of us with humanity are also completely isolated and have no avenue to make friends or love someone
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Buh? Do we have a new policy of account creation
For a long time, I think.
Dang I really need to make a new alt I just think this handle is really funny
It makes me laugh, honestly the username bits here are all 10/10
Some of the esoteric bullshit you people reference or pun… it’s fucking artwork is what it is.
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Aww thanks, I’m a sucker for alliteration and birds crack me up so I’m pretty sure my next will be Unpleasant Pheasant
Hang onto it, it’s gold
Yours might be the best here. Every time I think about it, I start laughing again.
It is really funny. I think you’re good, you can just check the “create account” button to see the questions without making a new account if you like.
Huh, I’ve definitely run into other explicitly Marxist-Leninist places online where you have to fill out a political questionnaire. Some just want to weed out reactionaries, ultras, Trots and adjacent cranks, and such, some are probably full of academic cranks and Second Internationale types and want you to answer extremely complicated theory questions because they want only well read Marxism nerds, they don’t want to deal with people still learning the intricacies of the theory, or people who don’t quite “get” Dialectical Materialism but still think MLs are right about a lot of practical day to day stuff. (When you gotta copy the questionnaire into a text document and fill it out, in order to keep the question and answer numbers straight, you know the theory discussions are going to be over the smallest minutiae, or the admins are sick of banning baby leftists for stupid takes and want to just screen them all out at the questionnaire.)
I love that one of Hexbear’s rules is against sectarianism, but we all still
against Trots
It’s like when the Catholics, the Orthodox, and the Anglicans all get together and rag on Evangelical Protestants. Which is also something I really enjoyed participating in as a kid. (It’s called sectarianism for a reason. We’re worse than the churches sometimes.)
There’s sectarianism, and then there’s dunking on people the entire left agrees are just plain wrong and tend to be crank magnets.
At least for me, as a former trot, it’s like 70% a joke. A lot of them are either cranks or NATO-leftists (or both) but a lot of them are also basically normal
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I wasn’t accusing you of saying that, just saying I have been to some.
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