• JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    There really are a lot of commies on here aren’t there?

    Well not real ones, obviously, but like 15 year olds whose parents work late. Lots of those types of communists.

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      Lol, I’ve been wondering how to describe them…

      Like, I have a buddy who’s a communist, and we agree on everything. I come on Lemmy and say I don’t agree with the most extreme forms of socialism and communism, though, and I get straight up shit on and banned as if I said something incredibly offensive.

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          I can’t keep track of this one-dimensional political spectrum people keep using. I thought tankies, socialists, communists, and liberals were all considered left wing, but I keep hearing things about some of these groups being on the right instead.

          When can we upgrade to the political tesseract?

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            Hexbear is more or less a 4Chan equivalent, sharing the same memes and single image posting behavior. They exist to make left leaning people look bad.

            Their supposed communism is equivalent to start an argument online with “as a black man”

            Just a bunch of right wing trolls.

            Tankies are right wing authoritarians, and don’t believe any of the left wing political they use as a vaneer. Its like how the Nazis were National "Socialists "

            Theres a reason they support modern day Russia and China, two notoriously far right nations

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              This is the take that bothers me the most, as if the most aggressive and outspoken faction of any group exist only to drag the more respectable members down by association.

              I would be one thing to say, “I don’t understand that group”, but it’s quite remarkable to say, “I understand that group so little that they must be the opposition in disguise”

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                It’s blatant though? They use right wing talking points for everything and it’s all dog whistles?

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                  “Geopolitics exists as a binary, and on some issues they agree with the opposite binary from me”.

                  Worse actually, “they might agree with me on one issue but they disagree on another, so they must be pretending to agree with me to begin with”

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                    On hexbear, geopolitics exists as whatever hexbears feel like owns the shitlibs the most at that particular moment.

                    Sometimes, Russia is just months away from a well planned and strategized victory, against an evil Nazi Ukraine.

                    Other times, everything is a mastermind NATO move that’s all benefiting NATO, and Ukraine is just the meatgrinder victim.

                    What feels most alt-right about hexbear isn’t any particular position, but the fact that there’s no particular position. No logical cohesiveness, no rooted in solid reality. It’s superfluid ever changing dream reality.

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                This is the take that bothers me the most, as if the most aggressive and outspoken faction of any group exist only to drag the more respectable members down by association.

                Eh, only a small minority of hexbears are fascists, but almost all hexbears tolerate fascists. All the fascists have to do is walk in and say “NATO is bad, Ukraine is bad, libs are bad, vote for Trump because he is a big lovable goofball” and the other hexbears are like aight let’s own the shitlibs.

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                  only a small minority of hexbears are fascists, but almost all hexbears tolerate fascists

                  A huge portion of hexbear users are trans or otherwise LGBTQ. Ask them what they think fascists want to do to them. Fascists also massacre socialists — often with American support, as in Indonesia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, El Salvador, Argentina, and Bolivia. Ask them how they feel about this. Hexbear users do hold some complex views on topics like China and Russia, but they have reasons for this and would tell you if you asked. You should consider talking to them, instead of making things up about them in an authoritative tone of voice. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a hexbear user who doesn’t want Trump dead or in jail.

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                    A huge portion of hexbear users are trans or otherwise LGBTQ. Ask them what they think fascists want to do to them.

                    Maybe I should ask Jessica Watkins, who explicitly supported fascists, and is now being misgendered and put in the wrong prison by fascists, for supporting fascists.

                    Trans and genderqueer people can be just as stupid as Cishet people and vote for the leapords eating faces party. It’s not like fascism actually benefits people, it’s predatory to vulnerable people.

                    You should consider talking to them, instead of making things up about them in an authoritative tone of voice.

                    I have interacted quite a bit already. I got lots of animal poop pictures and a lot of people requesting that I post a picture of my genitalia.

                    You’ll be hard-pressed to find a hexbear user who doesn’t want Trump dead or in jail.

                    I’ve seen a number of comments from Hexbears supporting DJT and not a single comment expressing this.

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            There’s not many all-in on authoritarianism that aren’t extreme left or right economically.

            The political compass is better than a one-dimensional spectrum, but it’s literally twice as complicated.

            You can pretty safely plot a symmetrical U shaped line running through the political compass and find almost everybody. That’s why one-axis works well for describing the political climate of the USA, it’s mostly in the right half of the political compass sitting on this line.

            So tankies are very Communist (left) and necessarily very authoritarian to achieve their goals.

            They represent the other half of the political compass that Americans usually do not see. So people on here frequently get confused when exposed to tankies.

            And you also have the tankies talking about the Bernie-Sanders/AOC-types (found at the vertex of our U shape) as “right” because if you follow the U line, they would be.

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          Oh, they’re real – I’ve met several in person. It’s very rare they’re older than “young adult”.

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          Extreme left-wing ideology is indistinguishable from extreme right-wing ideology. They both want to kill lots of people, and if you aren’t on their side you’re on their shit list.

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      The irony of saying this when the students say Tiananmen were literally protesting against the CCP for not being communist enough.

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        Go on. What’s ironic about my statement and what you just brought up? Why do you think me saying that there are a lot of commies here, has anything to do with my view on what happened in Tiananmen Square?

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        ? your comment makes no fucking sense. Why do you people try SO HARD to have a dissenting but relevant opinion constantly? its tiring, go fuck yourself.