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This post and its comments go more in-depth about the Hexbears' grievances: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1989401

The announcement from a Hexbear admin: https://hexbear.net/post/369410

The casus defoederationis that's got me most concerned is that the 196 mod appears to endorse usage of the -tard suffix. When the Hexbears mention ableism, this is the specific objection they have.

Really bad form of OP to not include any links, and honestly it should be a Hexbear admin making this announcement, anyways.

I was within inches of doing that, but I decided it would be best to not jump the gun, as it were.

Also, how does one get the pronouns in the username?

That's what I thought, thank you.

@CARCOSA@hexbear.net @DuckNuckem@hexbear.net @TomboyShulk@hexbear.net Do you think that this thread or Hexbears participating in it goes against your rules? One of you had previously said "I am formally asking for Hexbears to stop commenting on meta posts in other instances" (πφ) but your current Code of Conduct says "Allow instances their own space for discussion, if requested implicitly or explicitly.".

So far I've certainly enjoyed having my silly, ignorant questions about former and current socialist projects answered in-depth. It really is a breath of fresh air to feel like I can converse with others about the USSR, DPRK, China, Cuba, Vietnam, et cetera, without the capitalist mythologizing meant to portray these countries in the worst possible light — and at the same time, being a leftist conversing with other leftists, also without the sort of counter-mythologizing of these countries meant to portray them in the best possible light, to appease the impossible standards of liberals. The conversations I can have here just feel more mature, despite this being the selfsame instance with Pig Poop Balls. I'm not even a Marxist-Leninist, but I'm just tired of people brushing off massive improvements to the standards of living of over-exploited regions because "it was a one-party dictatorship who did it" or "it doesn't count because it's a stateless rebel territory, not a real country".

Thanks, I'll look into that.

In that case, there's no need to focus on American atrocities: Norway's poisoned the water of Brazilian natives to the point of cancer and fetal deformities, and killed local wildlife in the name of green energy — and our imperial escapades are ongoing to this very day, as most Norwegians continue to live in blissful ignorance, still believing that we're a harmless country that just got lucky with the cod and petrol in our backyards.

my favorite part is when gorbachëv said "it's gorbin time" and gorbed all over those guys

Thank you for responding. This is very interesting. Do you have any pointers for where I could learn more about these different topics?

Also, when you mention stereotypes about food/goods shortages in the USSR — do you mean that these stereotypes emerged after 1960 and were then retroactively applied to the USSR pre-Khrushchëv as well?

When they say "liberals" I personally understand it as referring to liberalism in the textbook economic sense, i.e. support for private property, market economies, Age of Enlightenment ideals of personal liberty, and what could be called "bourgeois" democracy. You may be somewhat familiar with the economic definition of "liberal" from the term "neoliberal", which refers to the types of market liberalization associated with Reagan and Thatcher.

So basically the confusion comes because in the popular discourse of the United States, political terms are often used with completely different meanings from their more international/proper definitions. This is made worse by the fact that leftists use a number of words, such as "anarchy" and "dictatorship", in completely different ways than most of the rest of the world.

The issue of contradictory definitions is particularly problematic for me as a Norwegian-American leftist, because I might say "I'm a republican. I'd never vote for Liberals or Democrats in my life. I strongly oppose liberal ideology." one moment, and then the next I might say, "Oh, no, I'm absolutely a liberal! I hate Republicans like nothing else and only vote Democrat.", with these statements not being contradictory in the slightest because these words are all autoantonyms with meanings depending on who exactly you're speaking to. And don't even get me started on the American versus Norwegian Overton windows!

Edit: I guess you could say these are examples of what the What Is Politics? podcast refers to as political "worbs". Great podcast IMO.

It's too bad that it doesn't also block comments from users of blocked instances. Isn't there a uBlock Origin cosmetic filter that does that? Does anybody remember what that was?

Also, does anybody know of a way to browse two instances as one feed, and easily switch between users? I swore I heard there was some way to do that, but I don't remember the details.

Absolutely, absolutely. This is why I have high hopes for this type of cybernetics.

Do you have any knowledge/opinions on OGAS in the USSR?

boy he die!!! shit boy!!! boyyoass how he have die over some SOCIALISM!!!

Alright, for a serious question: I have always wondered and never really found a satisfying answer to why something like Cybersyn doesn't currently exist in any socialist states. I'm sure that it's complicated and multifaceted and there's a lot to say about material conditions and internal politics and all that jazz, which is surely a lot of juicy stuff to get people arguing over.

I'm also specifically wondering about the role that 3D printing and CNC might or should have in a more automated Cybersyn-like society. It feels like that technology has the potential of creating a shift towards extremely local production for a lot of things, which I think would be really good for the environment, for building local community, and for strengthening individual freedom.

Is that, like, your thing...?

Thank you for delighting us with another example of Hexbear Hygiene Advice™

Am I allowed to say "this, but only half-ironically"?

The problem isn't really with dictionaries, which are a great tool for documenting and learning a language as it changes. I have nothing but respect for the editors of dictionaries. The problem is more with the way that a lot of people treat dictionaries as an authority, even though that isn't what they're supposed to be used for. This ends up being just one way in which a sort of hegemonic standard language is established/reproduced, which marginalizes non-standard language use.

...I dunno where I'm going with this. I just started typing and then blacked out for a second.

I don't think the glans is supposed to be sucking.

Sorry, I didn't see that you edited this. Yes, that would be unfair.

Generally opposed for what reason? Is it maybe a moral judgment, and if so, where did you get your morals from? Is it more that it just makes you feel uncomfortable, and if so why does it make you feel that way? If it's something else, then what is it and why? Do you think that there may have been a difference of experience that led one community to find calls to violence to be acceptable, while your community finds that type of behavior to be completely reprehensible? What sort of difference of experience might that be? Have you ever thought to look into that?

These are the questions that I want you to seriously reflect on. Again, you have no obligation to respond, you can even dismiss this whole comment and say that these are all loaded questions, and tell me to stop replying if I'm being annoying and you've had enough. All of that is completely fair.