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When will the left drop the sectarian BS and work together? (hexbear.net)

submitted 23 hours ago by MayoPete@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I am at risk of being sent to a camp because my brain works a little differently than others. Being on the left isn't going to help.

Our friends and colleagues are being deported and jailed just for having anti-Zionist opinions and daring to express them.

Right wing violence is Surging. Our Trans comrades are in increasing danger. We are all having our rights stripped away...

...and the largest new thread is another fucking anarchist beefing with MLs.

What is it going to take for us to work together and fight a common enemy? Anarchists are not my enemies. I don't care which series of 200 year old books you have or have not read, and you shouldn't care either.

You know who ARE my enemies? Those old white people who go to Republican party meetings and plot to deport my neighbors and throw me into a "wellness" camp because they're too much of cowards to handle anyone different than them.

I'm sick of all this endless infighting! Can we all just, IDK, organize to shut down some local GOP meetings, or create some Socialism 101 agit prop, or do anything productive? Or is this what the left does, just endlessly bicker over books online?

Get outside, touch grass, and accept the person next to you no matter what kind of left they claim to be. We're not big enough for this and I really need you to organize because I like living outside of a DHS cage.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'll admit that I was in that thread and did spend some time just trying to dunk for the sake of dunking —I gotta admit that it feels good but it's not productive when the target isn't even someone who wants to oppress anyone, just someone who might be misguided about some internet slapfight.

I think it's true that we have to be a lot more united. No ifs, ands or buts there. This website is a place to post memes and news, though, so maybe part of the problem is that for a lot of us it becomes a proxy for political action, especially for those of us who might not be in the correct circumstances to do more things on the ground.

[–] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago

For what it's worth I personally take part in this because I need to understand better where all this is coming from and how people think and it's also incredibly disappointing for exactly the reasons the OP pointed out. Yet these "tankies bad" posts just keep on coming and are symptomatic of the state of the left in the West.

I approach online discussion thinking that there could always be people reading it who could benefit from seeing the counterarguments. I know I did, I used to have far more brainworms (no doubt I still do). But without seeing the arguments I don't think I would have evolved past them, at least not as quickly. Our basic westoid countries are very hegemonic on the bourge talking points.

It doesn't mean I don't touch grass or try to aid class consciousness in my every day, but I am not going to post about those on an online forum.