Just wanna say it's always a real nice feeling when federated users come and have a goodwilled, open conversation in hexbear. I'd kill for a hundred-fold more users being open to conversations like this.
Aawww thanks! Not gonna lie, I always thought hexbear was super annoying and hostile in other threads like other Lemmy users, but this one has been filled with such good conversations and educating answers without too much berating me about not knowing stuff that it definitely has made me re-think my original attitudes. I still disagree with ya'll about other issues, like attitudes towards the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but it doesn't mean we can't still have great conversations and I appreciate that 💙
You know, Cuba is a good gateway into socialism ideas in general now that I think about it, especially without a Castro brother there as an old authoritarian scapegoat to point at. The "authoritarian" label doesn't really hold up as well when it's some new guy whose name the public doesn't even know. Scare mongering like the kind done with China doesn't work, because they're not really a threat and they're too poor to affect our markets by buying companies or whatever. Now the only criticisms left are one party rule, the word "communism" is scary, and lack of press freedoms, and this graphic helps with the first one.
Hexbear may come off as hostile but it's generally in response to people actively poking the bear, as it were, or otherwise espousing politics we find noxious, like blind acceptance of neoliberalism as objective truth.
Hexbear is only hostile when someone is clearly not willing to engage in good-faith or is completely closed up. Can't force a horse to drink. The hostility serves as a means of people avoiding wasting their time engaging uselessly, as you know how much time we can spend pumping out walls of text by now.
Just wanna say it's always a real nice feeling when federated users come and have a goodwilled, open conversation in hexbear. I'd kill for a hundred-fold more users being open to conversations like this.
So take some dang love
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Aawww thanks! Not gonna lie, I always thought hexbear was super annoying and hostile in other threads like other Lemmy users, but this one has been filled with such good conversations and educating answers without too much berating me about not knowing stuff that it definitely has made me re-think my original attitudes. I still disagree with ya'll about other issues, like attitudes towards the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but it doesn't mean we can't still have great conversations and I appreciate that 💙
You know, Cuba is a good gateway into socialism ideas in general now that I think about it, especially without a Castro brother there as an old authoritarian scapegoat to point at. The "authoritarian" label doesn't really hold up as well when it's some new guy whose name the public doesn't even know. Scare mongering like the kind done with China doesn't work, because they're not really a threat and they're too poor to affect our markets by buying companies or whatever. Now the only criticisms left are one party rule, the word "communism" is scary, and lack of press freedoms, and this graphic helps with the first one.
Hexbear may come off as hostile but it's generally in response to people actively poking the bear, as it were, or otherwise espousing politics we find noxious, like blind acceptance of neoliberalism as objective truth.
Hexbear is only hostile when someone is clearly not willing to engage in good-faith or is completely closed up. Can't force a horse to drink. The hostility serves as a means of people avoiding wasting their time engaging uselessly, as you know how much time we can spend pumping out walls of text by now.