We can be radicalized
Granted I only used sh.itjust.sucks because it was the first instance recommended to me. However, it was during the brief time when hexbear was a boogeyman to all that I was exposed to true leftist thought. It took about a month or two of reading yogthuos memes before I read theory
Anyway I thought I'd give a hopepost, I genuinely was a turbolib
(this is an in-joke where hexbears call themselves libs btw, not directed at OP)
We call each other libs, not ourselves. Which is a remarkably accurate heuristic, seeing as I’m the one true leftist here
And this is why I (almost) always oppose defederating other instances. Welcome!
Oh for me me it's just so I can call libs morons when they wander in here instead of going out and getting banned for doing it.
(just kidding, I agree)
oh no, that part too is also really fun. collectively dunking on libs is my favorite part of federation
We look now to the example set by Sharkfucker 420 on how to be better people
By fucking sharks
I oppose all defederation except where opposing admins have blatantly been racist/homophobic or protected racists/homophobes in their teams.
Unfortunately that means SJW is always gonna be a "keep it defederated" from me. Just the acronym alone should tell you what that hellhole stands for.
BUT, right wingers are radicalisable. A lot of people that have fallen into that rightwing pipeline genuinely are just ignorant. We have a lot of people who have been rehabilitated from the far right pipelines. I will always engage with people that seek to engage in good faith.
Sometimes it takes a little while for them to open up to that kind of engagement though. Like you said, a few months of engaging with memes before finally trying to learn properly.
I fell into the youtube antifeminist mysognist pipeline as a kid, I grew out of it pretty fast thankfully but I definitely hurt some people with my words in those times. I've worked to make it up to them where I can but it fucks with my head pretty often. I was still very liberal after I grew out of it but not bigoted (as much as a liberal can be). Shockingly it was actually reddit that pulled me out of that pipeline; after I realized I was bi I sought out queer communities on reddit (which I had only just downloaded like a month before this) and found 196 which was pretty far "left" for me at the time. Then I used lemmy and found hexbear. Fuck I really have been raised by the internet, dammit.
I was gonna go somewhere with that but I am high and lost my train of thought. Basically I'm glad y'all exist and post as much as y'all do, genuinely helped me grow as a person.
genuinely helped me grow as a person.
Hexbear as a haven and rehabilitation of problem childs is a good bit
I am glad that you found your way comrade. One piece of advice, never stop learning. Never feel "finished".
I fell into the youtube antifeminist mysognist pipeline as a kid, I grew out of it pretty fast thankfully but I definitely hurt some people with my words in those times. I've worked to make it up to them where I can but it fucks with my head pretty often. I was still very liberal after I grew out of it but not bigoted (as much as a liberal can be). Shockingly it was actually reddit that pulled me out of that pipeline; after I realized I was bi I sought out queer communities on reddit (which I had only just downloaded like a month before this) and found 196 which was pretty far "left" for me at the time. Then I used lemmy and found hexbear. Fuck I really have been raised by the internet, dammit.
lmao i could have written this about myself and it still would be true
I too have questioned my gender, still haven't really figured it out tbh
This seems to be a trend I've noticed
Holy shit were you shark fucker on 196 too, or like the "I follow shark ladies" account? Bcs I think I saw your posts and comments iirc and that account followed me I think
Lmao i was in fact sharkfucker on reddit as well 👀
If i followed you its bc i thought you were funny
Similar enough to my own story. I was never conservative outright, but definitely had my own biases being raised in a heavily conservative environment, then started identifying as liberal until I learned more, grew up, and read more.
I had a similar story to some of comments chaining off this comment - atheist 11 year old debate bro adopted by the Dawkins/Yianopoulous/Hitchens anti-religious anti-feminist islamophobe pipeline, then growing out of it as fast as I got sucked into it.
I think right wingers that are truly commited to the 'facts and logic' shit can be especially susceptible. I found myself on the right in part because of my western chauvinist upbringing, but also because my main feeling was that society was lying to me. Everything felt so fake. The visible solutions were half assed 'left' parties like Democrats/Labour, who seemed to speak in jargonous platitudes, whose policies resembled faux-progressive slam poetry. Nothing ever seemed to get better under them. So I fell towards the 'tell it like it is' crowds. And yet, even within that crowd the contradictions are severe - I was still atheist, pro-choice, loved nature and hated climate change...
Then I discovered 'dirtbag leftism' - with all of its hidden truths, undeniable facts of intervention that 'say it like it is' right-wingers had concealed, explanations that finally 'felt' right, with a scientific (logic-centered) approach to politics. Leftism also has all of the spikes and barbs and anger that the feelgood progressives deny. It all just felt right.
Here I am, 4 years later, feeling like I've finally cut through all the bullshit, writing my dissertation on Western intervention in South America.
oh wow you actually fell for the "read theory" meme?
I cant use them because I use jerboa so I save them onto my phone directly and post them as images. Looks the same to me on the app. What's it looks like to you? I didn't realize people could tell
I've never had to unblur an image so that must be a non-jerboa thing
Its an open source adroid client for lemmy made by lemmy devs such as dessalines
And it's the fucking best, aside from not being able to use emoji. I also save them to my phone and use them manually; didn't know there was a difference in how it's displayed.
We have that in emoji form.
