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Which we should see as an excellent radicalization and growth opportunity!

It can be exhausting explaining ourselves again and again, always met with the same accusations and assumptions born from the mythos spun by our enemies.

However, we must remember these people are people, and many people change their minds given enough information, delivered with firm respect. For every belligerent person who appears like they wouldn't change their mind for anything, there are 10 people quietly lurking who are more on-the-fence. Even those who regurgitate insults and contempt may change their mind when the stars align!

These people are not our enemies, they are victims to the greatest campaign of dishonesty in human history! It is our duty to draw out the poison and deliver the medicine!

I know many comrades here have very difficult lives and do not have the patience or energy to deal with such people. Please do not exhaust yourself interacting with liberals, and allow comrades with more energy to deal with them.

Radicalizing online is not the end-all be-all, but at this point in the psychological war for those within the Anglosphere, every victory is invaluable!!!

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[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would disagree slighly. We definitely do a little trolling from time to time, but that is not what dunking is.

Dunking is ripping on someone for having terrible politics, advocating for terrible politics, or otherwise. It is doing so in a way that shames the person but more than that is a public spectacle. That is important to enforce acceptable norms. It should be quite clear by now on Lemmy that if you're federated with Hexbear and you do a transphobia you'd better be ready to be swarmed by LOTS of angry communists. Thats community protection online, without it you get communities that grow nazi problems. In addition to that, the spectacle of the dunking often includes reference to why the politics are terrible, links with other types of bad politics, these things are all interlinked as they are a part of the interdependent system of globalized neoliberal capitalism, which itself is supported on layers of classism, deep histories of racial tensions, homophobia, transphobia, and one of the most OG layers patriarchy. It provides opportunities for us to tie these disparate pieces together, and thats not to mention the inevitable effort post as one of us just cant stand it any longer and has to write a book on the subject.

But most importantly, its how we can get some catharsis. Its been said by many a leftist that its harder to face the world once you know. The suffering is just so blinding. Its a horrible world full of horrible systems that force people to do horrible things and I'm usually powerless to stop it, but I can make that liberal feel bad about it and since they support what this world is and does, and they're daring to do it in front of me, it feels great. In a grand and twisted sort of way its kind of like yelling at customer service, kind of. They're only like this because capitalism melted their brains, the poor fellas. I used to be worse than most of these libs so I know they could come around, but when I was that way I deserved it.

That was more than I intended to write lol

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Guess my hunch that I didn't fully understand it was right ;) thanks for taking the time

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Side note: you should add pronouns to your name so we know you're cool, tbh if I don't see pronouns or at least lemmygrad.ml in the name I expect bad faith lol

You'll likely get even better engagements with us that way

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Is that even possible for us folks on non-custom lemmy instances? I've heard hexbear etc run their own versions of lemmy with modifications for additional features. Regardless, I don't think I can do it through my app, so I'll have to figure it out when I get back to a computer. Thanks for the heads up

[-] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you go into your user settings you can set a screen name in addition to your @ and you can include some pronouns if you have enough characters left after entering your username into it (I think most Lemmy instances have a 25 character display name limit iirc so you should have space)

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Found it, thank you!

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, it is. Hexbear actually does it in the display name I believe.

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