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It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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Why do people act like they need to "make sense of our politics?" We're open with our politics and we never shut up about it lol.
We aren't hiding anything about us being communists, anarchists, and other socialists. As much as we have divergent view points in this non-sectarian space, we're pretty cohesive and coherent on the broad strokes.
Oh wow!
hadn't seen this one yet!
We really do disdain to hide our views and aims
lol i just made the exact same comment without seeing yours
also what a gem of an emoji
My politics is that I'm coming for your treats. Since criticism is often seen as a direct threat against treat supply, I may as well confiscate them.
Feared by the treaterati and wine cave warriors alike
Pete Buttigege in shambles, cowering in the corner
They're liberals and can't conceive that we're genuine. They interpret all leftist politics as childish or a trick.
All liberals believe liberalism is simply the natural, logical final step of development. They see it as a fundamental truth like gravity. Anyone not subscribing to liberalism must either be confused or an active agent of misinformation.
this is the truth of it
they believe they are the adults in the room, and anyone to their left must be delusional or childish etc
no wealthy and influential Democrat could ever think in this way, so you must be terrible people or 'utopian' etc
Liberals have a hard time understanding that two groups of people could have conflicting interests is how I mainly see it. They see conflict as a personal moral failure rather than situations people are sorted into.
Capitalist and worker, colonizers and indigenous people, profit and the environment. To a liberal these aren't fundamentally unsolvable problems based of contradiction, but rather situations that can always be mended through...I don't know, raising awareness. Putting a cute sign in your yard.
Put this in the Hexbear bible.
Instead of a Bible I want a mystical Hexbear Grimoire stored in a cavern beneath a giant oak tree. After descending an inexplicable spiral staircase into the earth itself you find a wise owl, covered in shit, guardian of the ancient Hexbear tome.
Except most of the book would just be various emojis and pictures of pig shit
Given how new I am to Hexbear/Lemmy, I urgently need to acquire this book to understand all the history and lore. I feel like there are countless incredible tales from Hexbear's past that would lie within.
Just wanted to say welcome! Hope you like it here
Thank you, this and Lemmygrad have already become my favorite online spaces.
Great point, as always comrade.
One of the few things that get to me is when they call us childish. Its like a 200 year long intellectual tradition, but somehow we haven't thought it through and its childish
Sometimes I'll fell them that they're understanding of the world is childlike. They get really pissed at that.
It took me a while to comprehend hexbear and I almost didn't want to bother because hexbear looks and feels like another 4chan to an outsider; I can understand where they're coming from.
Have you been to 4chan? As an idiot who spent an unhealthy ammount of time there, they're a world apart.
i haven't visited 4chan in almost 20 years and i stopped hanging out at reddit last month because it got too wierd; i can't image how fucked up 4chan is by now.
/pol/ infected every other board, it's the most active one too
"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains."