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Then you admit to browsingBrigading is when I say something stupid and people who can see it tell me how stupid the thing I said is
Brigading is when people post comments. Because posting goes against the spirit of a *checks notes* web forum.
I'm stating the obvious, but it's only brigading because libs don't want to see hexbears in "public spaces". Instead, they're better off segregated into the containment instance.
They don’t like free speech like they claim. They don’t want to see communist remarks.
It doesn’t eve make sense from a practical view. I don’t think ever seen a post here telling someone to brigade an instance. It’s usually someone just posting a dumbass take, it pops up on someone’s feed here, and it gets shared verbatim and they get upset when someone says they’re stupid
I could see an argument for some posts that made it into the dunk tank, but 90% of the time it's just us posting harder.
i like how they felt the need to clarify that some of the edgy nazi memes were very funny
Awesome how their description of the "auth left" instance is "they're stupid and evil genocide denying idiots" and their description of the "auth right" instance, who are, to be clear, actual fascists, is "ha ha they're just kind of silly and edgy i guess :)"
I'm beginning to think that the person who made this is a fuckin dipshit 🤔🤔🤔
dipshit
That's a really nice way to describe a person who carries water for fascists, i.e. a fascist.
Blahaj isn't bottom left these people are out of their fucking minds. @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com is absolutely to the left of them liberals and I won't stand for this slander.
Nobody is anywhere because the political compass is incoherent gibberish
Also true but we can both agree on a left vs right, and on a bunch of neoliberals being to the right of actual revleft anarchists.
This is true. Also, nobody is anywhere because posting online is not practicing politics.
The notion the Beehaw is far left is also absolutely bonkers. They're all basically Thatcherites.
They defederated ages ago because they were coming to lemmy with takes so hot that even libs were dunking on them. I would even say that one guy (Yogthos) bullied them so much with truth and reason he by himself was much of the cause for their defedation.
implying beehaw and blahaj are just as far left as lemmygrad or hexbear
these are some fucking fighting words here
the last post I ever remember seeing on the 196 sublemmy or whatever was a vaporwave edit of the NATO flag saying "Gay Marriage is non negotiable"
people in the replies brought up at least two (Turkey and Poland if I recall). There's probably more if I bothered to check
I do remember one of our own posters bringing up an excellent response that was something to the effect of "Honest question but what do you think NATO is? A queer rights organization with guns?"
The urge to spread one’s own “values” by force to “backwards” nations is an imperialist and chauvinist urge that gets used justify imperialist war that actually sets that backwards country back even further (what “backwards” countries really require is peace, stability, development and education not war, instability, destruction and brain drain). Let’s call it the Woke Man’s Burden.
Anytime you start thinking “my country is better on x principle, therefore we should war with an enemy country to spread our ideals” you should definitely consider deeply if you are just being a stooge falling for imperialist intrigue. Lots of western leftists have fallen for this on Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia and even Palestine
Anytime you start thinking “my country is better on x principle, therefore we should war with an enemy country to spread our ideals”
I know that the British empire has been pulling this shtick for at least 200 years now so it's refreshing to see that it still works among nominal "leftists"
Let’s call it the Woke Man’s Burden
I generally agree but this is lame compared to, like, "orientalism" or even just the original "White Man's Burden" or perhaps "Western Power's Burden".
It’s a specific subset of White Man’s Burden with a synthesis with rainbow imperialism. Radlibs wanting to invade all the “fascists” like Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping and Putler.
But strangely not the Sauds or Modi or any other of the dozens of homophobic places they support or even control.
Well, you see, if you are willing to kill or die for what you believe in, your an authoritarian, baby.
I hereby welcome this fine gentleman into the league of "authoritarians"
The longer I live, the more I realize the "Libertarian vs Authoritarian" scale is really just "government or not government?" and its not a useful thing to measure.
The only valid political compass format is “who should own all the stuff” on the x axis with “everyone” on the left and “one person” on the right. The y-axis is “how serious are you about that?” with “very serious” at the top and “eh I don’t really care” at the bottom
turning a big dial taht says "oligarchy" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
On any political compass test it means "genocide or no genocide", I've never seen any sane person get authoritarian left
Chasers are libertarians everyone. Thinking that certain kinds of people exist only for your sexual gratification is freedom.
See also: "I want to be a part of the fediverse so other instances can interact with each other, but I wish all these other instances would stop interacting with MY instance!!" They're literally just federation NIMBYs
“Brigading” is when we are active posters and go everywhere posting
federation NIMBYs
*latest fad
why are all these commoners in MY commons!?!?
Most of them are unironic tankies and
communistsMarxists.Sorry folks, they got us. We're not real commies, we're just theory-reading, paper-selling, terminally online mArxIsts.
For real though, can anyone here fluent in lib lingo explain to me why they think they're so smug crossing out "communists" for "Marxists"?
"communism" is good in theory cuz it's harmless, it's only when put into action and has to be defended that it becomes authoritarian MarxismStalinLeninMaoGenocidism 600 Brazillion dead
I read it the opposite way, that they think people label themselves as Marxists because the communist label is too bad to be open about, whereas Marxism gives an intellectual flair
I don't think the OP is using "Marxist" as a softer label if they're pairing it with "tankie" though. It seems to me that they're trying to make some kind of implication that the tankies and the marxists aren't real communists, they're just authoritarians with a communist aesthetic?
idk, I'm not fluent enough in brainworms to decode this
"china is authoritarian state capitalism, norway is socialism"
Radlibs are trying to make communism the next social democracy, by defanging it. Thats why we are the “real racist putler conservatives”and they are the pro-minority inclusive cia liberals. Basically trying to recruit for the Dems.
Even the libertarians and rightoids are doing the “no true communist” thing I guess where they pretend to know what communism is better than the communists
Communism: A noble, if idealistic (GROAN) cause.
Marxism: Obsolete dogmatic screeds bound 100 years ago in crumbling, cigarette stained paperback.
If blahaj and beehaw is the libertarian left i am a tankie now
Political neutrality is when you take the most mainstream neolib positions, and the more you agree with the prevailing ideology, the more neutral you are.
Instant license to not take a single thing they say seriously from that point on lol
Centrism is such a fucking dumb ideology. They don’t even pretend to have values. They just look around and say to themselves “how can I be the most cravenly status quo bootlicker possible?”
Politically neutral aka what I already believe because my position is the correct default one.
Weird how Lemmygrad and us are out of touch with reality, yet most of our views align with the majority of the world.
The same majority that the west has admitted publicly in the media that they’ve failed to court because no one trusts them.
Weird. But it becomes less weird when you remember that “being out of touch” means having opinions while not being a cracker, or agreeing with someone who isn’t a cracker.
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"actually all gay people are automatically as far left as communists" 
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