Need a politics-free safe space? It's called "going for a walk"

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Almost like the very aggressive communists have a nose for right wing nut jobs and relentlessly hound them until they log out

    • dartos@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I think that’s awful an immature behavior. When you fight idiocy with aggression (at least on social media) you just get idiots who think they must be right and start truth social or something

        • dartos@reddthat.com
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          1 year ago

          I usually just ignore them.

          I find that a lot of crazy right wingers do it to “own the libs” or get a rise out of their supposed enemies. It’s all just a sports game to people like that.

          If you ignore them they get bored and stop being so staunch in their awful beliefs. When you fight with them it makes them feel like they’re right. You end up forcing them to rationalize every shitty position.

          Almost nobody posts on the internet trying to challenge and reconsider their beliefs, so it’s not like you’re going to change their mind anyway.

          I mean that’s what I think, at least

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            I usually just ignore them.

            Does ignoring the fascists make them go away? Please.

            If you ignore them they get bored and stop being so staunch in their awful beliefs. When you fight with them it makes them feel like they’re right. You end up forcing them to rationalize every shitty position.

            So now you're accusing us of making fascists more fascist, as an excuse for your ridiculous theory of just ignoring fascism.

            like you’re going to change their mind anyway.

            Its not even about changing their minds. Its about forcing them out of shared spaces. Fascists should driven out, shamed, harassed, and redacted.

            What you think is lib bullshit that gets your spaces infiltrated and taken over by fascists and reactionaries.

            You want to ignore them fine, but don't condescend to people who confront them and drive them out of shared spaces as if you have a more "mature" solution. Your solution is literally "if i close my eyes they go away" baby logic

              • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                We actually study history and read shit. Like I just finished reading Long Walk to Freedom & Armed and Dangerous, both are a fairly good firsthand on how "fascists" respond to non-violence and only start to have reservations when the oppressed shoot back.

                Oh and PIGPOOPBALLS

                • dartos@reddthat.com
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                  1 year ago

                  It’s just polarizing. You’re just making people more staunch in their beliefs or just annoying people who would rather not deal with aggression (like myself)

                  If your goal is to drive people away and make a space where everyone just agrees with you all the time then it’s effective.

                    • WideningGyro [any]
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                      1 year ago

                      This is really the point to hammer home. Back in my lib days, I started hanging out with a dude who was much cooler than me, and his anarchist friends. We once got to talking about how our town used to have a pretty substantial neo-nazi presence, in the 80s-90s. I said something to the effect of "good thing people are smarter today!" and he and his friends got really animated and saying how "they didn't just go away one day, we fucking chased them out of here!"

                      While at first I just didn't like getting yelled at, it eventually dawned upon me that that he was right. I, and everyone I had ever talked to about it (other libs), just assumed that that whole unpleasant nazi thing just went away, through the magic of progress, presumably. It was just a thing that was there once, now wasn't. People like him and his friends (and I've since met many more) were the actual people who went out and risked life and limb to oppose the nazis everywhere the went, to vandalize their posters and stickers the moment they went up, to show up in numbers every time there was a demonstration. To do everything to make life as shitty as possible for these pieces of shit until it just wasn't really viable to be a nazi in our town anymore.

                      That whole realization did a lot to cure me of my "we can't sink to their level"/freezepeach brainworms.

                  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    Polarization is clarifying. It drives away fascists which protects their targets and makes spaces safe for them. It also exposes people who would more readily share spaces with fascists and just ignore them than with the people who oppose them.

                    If it drives away people like you who ignore fascism, yet want to argue that opposing it is immature, then that's a bonus

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I usually just ignore them.

            You save your hatred for those scary tankies because you have not shut up yet.

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            When you fight with them it makes them feel like they’re right. You end up forcing them to rationalize every shitty position.

            Literal fascist talking point. "Look what you made me do"

            I mean that’s what I think, at least

            Investigate before you start thinking next time. Are trans children out there looking for fights just by existing or is your belief that fascists need to be provoked first founded on nothing but bullshit?

            • dartos@reddthat.com
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              1 year ago

              Yknow I’m talking about on social media platforms, right?

              Frothing at the mouth raging at someone on a social media platform doesn’t do anything but cause more radicalization, so I just ignore people instead. I don’t spend most of my life fighting with people on the internet over politics.

              • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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                1 year ago

                Frothing at the mouth raging at someone on a social media platform doesn’t do anything but cause more radicalization

                Are you deadass actually suggesting that people are transphobic ableist nazis because communists go after nazis online?

                or are you saying that it radicalizes more people into avid antifacsist communists, which is an unambiguously good thing (unless youre on team nazi)

                This is a real question, please answer.

              • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                I don’t spend most of my life fighting with people on the internet over politics.

                You won't push back on fascists, but you can't shut up when pushing back against people who believe in pushing back fascism.

                cause more radicalization

                Its been pointed out multiple times now that this is literally a fascist talking point. Pushing back against fascism is not what makes people fascist. In fact its how we protect the targets of fascism on shared spaces online or off.

                As has also been pointed out to you some people just existing is seen as an incitement by fascists. What are they supposed to do? They can't just ignore threats and the invalidation of their humanity. That you can shut your eyes to that says a lot about you.

                • dartos@reddthat.com
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                  1 year ago

                  They can do whatever they want.

                  I don’t care what other people do, I just ignore people I don’t think are worth failing with.

                  And yeah pass judgement if you want, but how I choose to deal with people on the internet is up to me.

                  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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                    1 year ago

                    And yeah pass judgement if you want, but how I choose to deal with people on the internet is up to me.

                    Yeah, and you're a bad person for choosing to act this way. Points for owning it though tbh

                  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    And yet here you are failing.

                    Great to hear that the targets of fascism "can do whatever they want." They don't have a choice in the matter of being a target, unlike you obviously.

                    I've already told you this but our goal isn't to change fascists minds. Its to drive them away, to shame them. To not allow them to spew their bullshit or attack their targets without resistance.

                    Pushing fascists out of our spaces is the only way people whose existence is targeted by fascism can actually "do whatever they want."

                    • dartos@reddthat.com
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                      1 year ago

                      I have no goal here. Just sharing my opinions. Not failing to do anything.

                      Yeah being aggressive is good for driving people away. And yknow given that your goal is actually to drive people away I was wrong to say it’s immature.

                      I just don’t like aggression. I don’t go on the internet looking for fights.

                      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                        1 year ago

                        Your posts are "just sharing your opinion"

                        Our posts are "aggressive"

                        Pure lib shit.

                        We're sharing our opinions, because of the things you said. Maybe you're not looking for "fights," but you know how to start them

      • HornyOnMain
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        1 year ago

        Regardless of handwringing about it, the fact remains that we've driven out and proud fascists off of lemmy instances that we're federated with. The simple existence of hexbear pulls the Lemmy overton window so far left that social democrats are now the right wingers - this is a good thing.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        immature

        The most maturity obsessed internet people, like you, act like smug adult children while policing the maturity of others. smuglord

    • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Which sounds great until you realize that many of them define right wing nut jobs as anyone who's not a Marxist-Leninist

      Edit: LMAO exhibit A below me. "We're not sectarian, they're just not real leftists." Yeah guys, you're doing exactly what I said

        • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          In much of human behavior there tends to be a divide between what we say and what we do. This is no exception

            • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              The -oid suffix, as an insult, has a long history of ableism and racism. Maybe you should work on being better instead of projecting your bigotry by appropriating Marxist-flavored gotchas

                  • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    You're telling me huh

                    Im looking through several hate speech websites and I'm not seeing a single thing about what you saying, anyway. Just a single reddit post (ofc) with no linked information.

                    I am sorry (to myself I guess) for using bigoted language (... to myself? like who am I hurting here besides using language that targets me) and I would love for more information on the subject. If I'm wrong, im happy to take the L and throw such language away.

                    but here revised:

                    You are a fake leftist that simps for imperialist and colonialist organizations founded in collaboration with nazis. You are useless to the worldwide movement and no matter how hard you work, you will be doing so in the wrong direction, and would be as useless as you are right now. You use problems of people far worse off than yourself as a shield to help ignore everything you do wrong when you should be using it to look at yourself. You "don't care how anyone identifies" until it is used against you. You ignore the actual fascists and racists because they would not harm you, and you know it. Go take your nonsense to someone who would actually care, you sorry excuse for a leftist. Your liberalism will never be accepted anywhere that has anything more than surface level political knowledge, and that is completely fine by me.

                    • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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                      1 year ago

                      This is just one example

                      You are a fake leftist that simps for imperialist and colonialist organizations founded in collaboration with nazis. You are useless to the worldwide movement and no matter how hard you work, you will be doing so in the wrong direction, and would be as useless as you are right now. You use problems of people far worse off than yourself as a shield to help ignore everything you do wrong when you should be using it to look at yourself. You "don't care how anyone identifies" until it is used against you. You ignore the actual fascists and racists because they would not harm you, and you know it. Go take your nonsense to someone who would actually care, you sorry excuse for a leftist. Your liberalism will never be accepted anywhere that has anything more than surface level political knowledge, and that is completely fine by me.

                      LMAO!!!!!!!!

                      • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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                        1 year ago

                        This is just one example

                        that gives a 404 error message with a picture of nixon.

                        And wow, got me, lmao

                        how old are you? You shouldn't be online so young.

                        • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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                          1 year ago

                          that gives a 404 error message with a picture of nixon.

                          Idk what's up with your browser then it's hatebase.org/vocabulary/removed

                          Don't act like your infantile scrawl deserved anything but an equally infantile response

                          Edit: Since others can't see the link, suffice to say that -oid insults are based on outdated words for people with downs syndrome, and those of obsolete race "science."

                          Obviously the -oid suffix can also mean "like," but that is not the context in which it is used as an insult.

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            You got a trite truism for every time you say shit without investigating it and are told you're wrong about it?

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Here's a bare-bones answer to get whether or not you're a right-winger or Left-winger. I emphasize again, this is a bare-bones answer that's leaving out a lot of other stuff.

        Who should have ownership over the means of production, or Capital Goods if you want to use non-marxist lingo. If you say the working class should have ownership over the means of production then you're left-wing. If you say capitalists should have ownership over the means of production then you're right-wing.

        • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Yeah I can get behind this, and I'd say you're right that it's the bare-bones definition of the economic left vs right divide.

          But then you have people who will look at market socialists, anarchists, or some other brand of leftism and call them secret fascists or something like that. It's my experience (and yours may differ) that MLs are eager to insist that theirs is the only way and dismiss the rest.

          Not all MLs are this dogmatic. But when a leftist is this dogmatic, they always seem to be ML

          • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            fake Marxists who ignore the basics of marxist? heck yeah we hate them. I've yet to see any fake anarchists or MLs on hexbear that werent immediately banned tho

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            But then you have people who will look at market socialists, anarchists, or some other brand of leftism and call them secret fascists or something like that. It's my experience (and yours may differ) that MLs are eager to insist that theirs is the only way and dismiss the rest

            What you're describing is the analysis of Marxism-Leninism on other socialist tendencies based off of the historical materialist end results of their respective ideologies. A very simple example of this would be is how Marxists would prod anarchists as being more idealist over materialist over the fact that the more idealist members of the anarchist faction advocate for the immediate and total abolishment of the penal system can't reconciliate the fact that anarchists reestablished the penal system during the Spanish Civil War on their turf due to the material conditions they faced forcing them to make that decision. There's a lot more to this discussion that's being left out with plenty of worthwhile perspectives from all Left factions on the civil war in regards to this and much more.

            It's in this regard that marxists will ruthlessly critique all ideological threads and each other all in the name of finding the most materially realistic path to Socialism within their respective home countries - and historically, revolution is the only means to the goal of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat and a scientific socialist society.

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            There is not a valid distinction between economic left and political left, or economic right and political right.

            There is the left and its various tendencies and ideologies (anarchists, communists, MLs, etc.) And the right and its various tendencies (liberals, conservatives, libertarians, fascists etc.)

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        The people I see deploying this take the most are the same people who think Democrats are communists