epicspongee

joined 1 year ago
[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

No, we left Reddit because of what Spez did to it.

And why did he do that?

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Where am I brigading other instances????

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

LMAOOO WHAT?? I'm just using the term they use for themselves.

I ran into a group of Trotskyists once and it turned out they were absurdly boring and wanted me to grab coffee with them for weeks on end before they'd tell me anything, and they apparently read a metric fuckton of theory. So now I know the word Trotskyist. But I guess that makes me a tankie 🤷

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I understand that Marx and Engels did not have realistic political ideals

Have you read any of Marx? I'm not an ML but if you even glance at Capital you can tell that Marx's whole schtick was using science to come up with realistic political ideals.

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you define direct action for me? What do you think it is?

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’ve participated in dozens of protests. Protests with political organization can lead to change. Protests without political organization are just yelling at a wall.

Protests !== organizing. Organizing achieves political change. Protest does not. Leftists know how to organize, liberals do not.

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

What’s the difference between a fascist and an “anarchist” who does everything they can to kneecap the only viable left leaning political party in the US?

Sorry which party is this? Dems are not even a remotely left-leaning party. Joe Biden literally criminalized the rail workers using their legal right to strike.

This is also like a children's picture book-level of understanding of fascism. As if the Dems' policy of 4 more years of the status quo could prevent fascism at all. That has literally never worked as a way to combat fascism.

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social -2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

BUT neither really believe in good faith discussion, it’s mostly trolling and “dunking”.

I do not like tankies but I have absolutely never experienced this, all tankies typically want to do is discuss theory and history to the point that it's exhausting. Have you talked to any Trotskyists??

It’s way more present since Hexbear federated in, every first impression is that it’s an alt-right troll farm.

I literally never got this impression, it's like extraordinarily clear that Hexbear is a leftist instance. From the pronouns in names to the leftist jokes lol.

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

However, being bombarded with it 24/7 is a great way to make people numb to politics and stop caring.

I have literally never experienced this.

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

What does this mean lmfao, leftists discuss shit ad nauseum, have you even met a leftist

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do they do this? Do you have links? So far what I've seen is they comment on posts that go viral on their instances, as they're allowed to do. I can't say I've had any problems with Hexbear users.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi confused about this. Also confused about my gender but that’s not related.

 

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