this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
60 points (90.5% liked)

askchapo

22817 readers
268 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

  1. Posts must ask a question.

  2. If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.

  3. Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.

  4. Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I feel like I've actually encountered some Libs IRL and in other online spaces who at least sounded more intelligent. Every one that wanders in here just insists that their right, cites Wikipedia, and tries to troll people like a 14 year old who stole their moms laptop.

You think we'd occasionally get a somewhat more articulate one there but I've yet yo see it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I know it's a meme in its own right now, but LiberalSocialist's "power dynamics" thing at least had some legs when it came to the material conditions that are most likely in place between significantly different aged people in a relationship, even if they're both adults.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They could have articulated that better than just spamming "power dynamics" at people constantly.

Also the more I looked into it the more I was convinced they were a Destiny fan doing a bit.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also the more I looked into it the more I was convinced they were a Destiny fan doing a bit.

Why would a "Destiny" (that alias is too pretentious for me to not hang quotes on it) fan be anything but enthusiastic for abusing power dynamics? libertarian-alert

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well specifically that whole power dynamics thing came up right when the Destiny sub was having a field day about Hasan having a sus age gap relationship with someone years ago. When someone pointed out the odd correlation in timing there they got really pissed about it.

Someone made a detailed post about it, but all their drama posts seemed to line up with things the Destiny sub were talking a lot about.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know those details and that explains a lot.

Sounds like it was was a slapfight between "influencers" that went the way it usually goes.

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think Hasan was a dating a Jackson? So the discourse went "Is the age gap problamatic?" >>>> "Is the age gap problamatic even if the younger person is more famous then you are even now, mr-twitch-politics-guy." I don't even remember if any of this was beyond rumor. bleh You can see how this became a firestorm.

same-as-it-ever-was

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

dating a Jackson

Now THIS is Titoism

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm still surprised power dynamics is what stuck the most when "do you disagree?" was right there

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Do you disagree?" should have been the dunkable repeated quote. "Power dynamics" was a legitimate argument to me.

[–] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

I also found "Power dynamics" as a response to like every comment after a certain point to be legitimately funny. If I remember a years old thread correctly LS did respond with some arguments early on but defaulted to it as the comment count got real high.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are they the "soulist" one or am I thinking of someone else?

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't recall the use of that term here.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Ah, then probably not the same person. Though their arguments were more "the evil authoritarian tankies are oppressing me by pointing out the flaws in my arguments" sort of thing, so they wouldn't fit in a thread about libs with cogent arguments.