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

And why did he do that?

Hexbear is very against stochastic violence, which on the left is called “Propaganda of the Deed”

I thought propaganda of the deed was that anarchist thing where they'd do soup kitchens or do cool shit in hopes that the people they help out would become leftists eventually lol

That’s not true at all. Look at any post about landlords or Zelenskyy or “bourgeoisie”. Count the number of pictures or references to guillotines.

This is like a children's picture book-level of understanding of the differences between these. This same group of people are responsible for getting you things like healthcare, or the 8 hour work week, or fucking paid vacation. Maybe listen to them and read a little more before posting dumbass takes like this.

Thanks, I really appreciate it!!

OH I understand, I meant that as heavily sarcastic. Maybe should've added a tone tag or something.

Oh! I deleted that one because I couldn't get the image to post for some reason on my end lol.

What's the context on the phrase 'gender inclusive'? Sorry, I struggle with subtext sometimes and I thought that was generally what folks used most of the time.

Hi! Sorry I'm kinda lost on the context here. Are you talking about this thread? https://midwest.social/post/2107341

Where am I brigading other instances????

they highly value gender inclusivity.

It’s pretty much exactly what the right wing does.

I'm sorry WHAT

Please tell me this is a shitpost

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 🤷

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Also note for folks reading: this user is not from midwest.social, they are from lemmy.ml.

This is really rude tbh, I haven't had any interactions with Hexbear users that would warrant this comparison.