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[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 104 points 2 years ago
[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 96 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lemm.ee has a smattering of decent users and a massive heap of regressive liberals desperately trying to turn it into the same echo chamber reddit has become, hexbear is where the cool kids hang out

[–] Fibby@lemm.ee 66 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I hope I'm a part of the smattering 🥺

[–] DeadWorld@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Everyone on lemm.ee is a liberal except for me

[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Hello fellow non-lib. I am hexbear's only non-lib.

[–] SeducingCamel@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm on Lemm.ee although I'm primarily on this account now

[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

hexbear lemm.ee dual passport

[–] DeadWorld@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

Yet more proof that i am the only real leftist

[–] HotSoda@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Same. I have both.
You can't chain me.

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[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 83 points 2 years ago

Best we can do is the liberal instance hexbear.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 79 points 2 years ago

i'm sorry to say, there is only liberals here :bawllin-sad:

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 76 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Us and Hexbear are the biggest. Lemmygrad is Marxist, and Hexbear is all about leftist unity and pictures of pigs, poop, and other Trumps.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 80 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Token anarchist mod checking in and this is correct. Lemmygrad is very cool but Hexbear is a bit more diverse in opinion and politics, while being a bit more irreverent and more laser focused on bullying libs and chuds at every opportunity while having some very opaque in-jokes and site culture.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The ease with which the explicitly Marxist Leninist server merged with us is really awesome, kinda wish there was an anarchist version of lemmygrad we could federate with and have us serve as a sort of conduit.

We're pretty unique in that we actually managed to be a good place for left unity, probably because we're too busy screaming at braindead libs and posting memes to fight.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It also helps that the anarchists we have here are actual anarchists, rather than the "I learned everything I know about politics from a neckbeard western chauvinist twitch streamer and I vote blue no matter who" types you'll find cosplaying as anarchists over on reddit-logo

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

That's kinda what I mean, like I want to find another server with principled anti-imperialist anarchist types. But the anarchists that keep popping up are all like "yeah I'm an anarchist, I watch Vaush streams"

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

There's a higher bar than this that the anarchists here take, which is supporting China, Vietnam, Cuba, and Laos along with Rojava, the Zapatistas, Revolutionary Catalonia, the KPAM, and the Paris Commune.

A lot of this comes from a constant and relentless unmasking of American propaganda.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think we were just happy to have more leftists to brace against the wall of liberals. And you guys discovered that same thing pretty much immediately I thnk. But also, as you mentioned, you guys are also SIGNIFICANTLY better than the braindead anarchists we typically dealt with on the rest of the lemmiverse. I'm sure a few have dropped by here.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Cultural Anarchists are bullied pretty hard here. You can like stuff that's culturally anarchist, like punk rock and graffiti and other "anarchist" associated things and be anything.

Which means more often than not the people who specifically enjoy that particular cultural segment are in the default political position of uninformed liberal. Which means you suddenly have a ton of liberals who think they're anarchists because they like listening to the Sex Pistols or Anti-Flag.

The only reason you don't have the same issue with Marxist Leninists (at least not at the same scale) is because there isn't really a massive cultural market that has been created by Marxist Leninists. Anarchists got rolled into situatinalism and maintained a presence in the West during the development of the "diffuse spectacle" (to quote Guy).

But yeah, the whole hatred of anarchists thing is just a hatred of liberals. Anarchism as an ideology is something that can be discussed while liberalism just needs to be mocked.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I definitely got that they were really just lost liberals. Sorry if it didn't come out that way.

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[–] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago

pigs, poop, and other Trumps

This is piss erasure and I will not stand for it!

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

shit, birds, shit-covered birds, and garrison cum edits

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

don't forget the sicko coming in under the stall to watch you shit

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hexbear is all libs and ultra's except for the The One True Leftist, we just haven't figured it who that is yet.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We have The One True Leftist, yes, but what about The Second True Leftist?

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[–] smiley@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're mostly communists and anarchists over here on Hexbear. Hang out with us!

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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

welcome home cat-trans

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hexbear is the home of power posters like @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net, @RNAi@hexbear.net and me, the ever ebullient Flakes Bongler

[–] axont@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've always found you more mellifluous than ebullient

[–] aen@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

your name is amazing

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Eggbert@lemm.ee 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the greetings, just trying to figure this thing out.

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Take as much time as you need. Care-Comrade

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

All I can say is that you've come to the right place

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago
[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Oh hay there marx-hi

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hexbear:
Marxist, leaning ML, but broad (radical) left

Lemmygrad:
ML exclusive

dbzer0:
Anarchist/AnCom, run by long-term R*ddit anarchist mod u/dbzer0

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Anarchist community willing to federate with us hyperflush left-unity-4

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

no this is a christian server

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

blob-no

hexbear-chapochat is a LIB unity server uniting both the far right and true left in support of continued amerikkka aggression, imperialism and exploitation of the global South.

Tankies gtfo agony

[–] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup, from Saudi wahhabist clerics to freegan lesbians who get all their meals from salad bar trash cans, we embrace them all. We're the true forward party, really

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Truly the vanguard of the revolution 💪

[–] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

meow-melt i dunno but if you stay we may find it together

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago
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