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TraitorToAmerica

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so it’s clear: I primarily use lemmygrad, I am not trying to hide this

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TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

I’m a grad user not a hexbear user but views are pretty much the same, I’ll say here: it matters a ton in the thread and way in which you tried to do this. if you give the slightest hint that you’re asking questions in bad faith, they’re going to pounce on you, because communists online constantly have to deal with bad faith trolls. There are an extremely small number of communists in the west, we are outnumbered basically everywhere online and in real life, so we are naturally protective of the very few places where we hold the majority opinion.

I’m not gonna go looking for your interactions with hexbear to actually see but I’ll answer any questions you have right now. also, you haven’t been banned or had any action taken against you by hexbear mods at all. you could always pose respectful questions in one of their general mega threads, or in ask chapo

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

got it. for anyone else reading this: why exactly is jumping straight to mental illness as the source of any disagreement not ableist? Does someone who struggles with mental health get no say on literally any topic?

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

Unlike a lot of liberals coming from reddit, communists often don’t have delusions about the neutrality of moderation and so they’ll ban you on a whim if they think you’re there to stir shit.

really well articulated. I feel bad for well meaning people, but so often they don’t realize it comes across as the exact same kind of bad faith trolling that communist online groups have to constantly deal with and so mods and users have little patience for it if it’s not explicitly a thread for that kind of conversation.

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

I’m curious about this, do you hold the same opinion about lemmygrad?

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

evidence? I see people say this but from what I remember the mod team was repeatedly stonewalled by the admins, or at least that was their claims, and I don’t think the admins ever disputed that

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

it’s not really making fun of it, more just a tongue in cheek joke about large arguments

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

i don’t think they really helped with the financing of lemmy, although their coders did/do make many valuable contributions to lemmy’s code base. out of curiosity, do you have an account on another instance? I’m surprised to see a sympathetic comment like this from an account on an instance that has them defederated

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

They really don’t like get called out like that, based on my interactions with them.

yes why would people get upset that you’re being condescending and calling them either brainwashed or a child? one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the world really

TraitorToAmerica , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

do you have an argument that doesn’t rely on ableism?

TraitorToAmerica , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

the original origin of the term was a group british communists attacking anyone who supported the Soviet Union’s crushing of the hungarian uprising in 1956. it then morphed into a term used to attack anyone who supports the use of force and authority in general to suppress counter revolutionaries. it’s final degeneration is that it is now used to attack anyone to the left of an american democrat like facebones said.

redsails.org/tankies/

here is a good article about it. To be clear: this is written from the perspective of a marxist leninist, who are normally the number one target of being called a “tankie”. Still, it is very short, and redsails is a really cool website that has the footnotes with citations pop up as you read long

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