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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 41 points 1 year ago

The tankies from hexbear are not real communists. Just right wing trolls.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm well aware. Hexbear seems to be the biggest hive of bastards I've encountered on all of the federated instances. Every hexbear post I see is either super right wing or just insanely cringe My Little Pony type stuff.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

its almost like hexbear is full of pedo right wing shit heads or something

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I get the impression everyone on there is typically on 4chan. It's a cesspool.

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[-] Godric@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Lol no, they're not right wing. They just share the trait of being moronically devoted to their preferred ideology.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

Oh, they're real -- I've met several in person. It's very rare they're older than "young adult".

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] AmberPrince@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, people say right-wing when what they mean is authoritarian. There's a guy named Bob Altemeyer that has been studying authoritarianism for decades and he makes a distinction between left wing and right wing authoritarianism.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That'd make sense, but there's a good deal of stuff typically considered left wing (like antimisinformation and gun control) that is authoritarian too. Nothing inherently wrong with that, as long as it's handled fairly, of course.

The troll in me kinda wants to see how people would react if I started calling them righties for wanting to stop hate speech, but I think I know better.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Society requires a socially agreed upon level of authoritarianism to enforce the socially agreed upon ruleset. No system of organisation or control is absent from authority, but trying to conflate functional social authority with forced authoritarianism has been something I'm seeing a lot more from fascist thinkers.

Authority: When the majority tell the government how they wish to be controlled.

Authoritarianism: When the government tells the majority how they will be controlled.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Huh... I see you set a bit of a rhetorical trap there, where disagreeing or countering would make me seem like one of these fascist thinkers. Nice. Might not have been intentional though.

Anyways, I see them as different steps along the same spectrum. Authority is a component of authoritarianism, but the presence of authority is not necessarily indicative of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is authority taken too far.

On that topic, non-authoritarian authority is not always a good thing, nor does good authority necessarily stem from the will of the people. Sometimes the masses really don't know what's best. That said, democracy is probably still the best paradigm humans can manage on a long term.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whether the will of the masses is "right" or "wrong" is irrelevant, society as a construct is one of cooperation for mutual benefit and improved quality of life through cedeing control and authority to those who represent the will of the majority, so if the masses managed to corral themselves into society then the understanding of the benefit of cooperation is strong in the social consciousness.

A result of this is the understanding that anything that works against the will of the masses to benefit from cooperation is unsustainable because it involves exploitation of the least protected sections of society.

This means that anyone trying to abuse and mismanage social systems for their own selfish benefit (emotional, financial, or otherwise) are objectively harming society. Ergo, anything that restricts the will of the masses by allowing selfish minorities to exploit their way to wealth and power and to further let them diminish the capacity of the majority to benefit from social cooperation is forced without consent, we call these actions "fascist".

Fascism was the default social structure, he who controls the resources controls the society, but instead of that being an elected government of the populace it was one guy and his family that abused their position to maintain that position however possible from the first time an ape stole another ape's rock to a king stealing another king's country.

Society has slowly been slowly wresting control from the selfish individual to support the masses as social consciousness grows, democracy was one of the biggest steps in that direction of taking the power out of the hands of fascists and putting it into the hands of the people. But it's a work in progress, and those that are selfish and want to hold back the progress of social benefit are thusly called conservatives, because they wish to conserve the ability to abuse society for chance to gain more wealth and power than other people as opposed to contributing to society to increase the wealth and power of all the people.

Many of these fascist systems still exist and will take a significant about of time for society to claim more control away from fascist actors, there will always be an ebb and flow of fascism and selfishness in society but that lessens as time goes on. For example, the Democratic electoral system of the US government has been unable to avoid the influence of fascism over the years as evident by legal voter disenfranchisement through first past the post, non-preferential voting, gerrymandering, the electoral college, attempts to limit and remove citizens rights to engage with the electoral system by de-funding postal services and limiting mail voting, etc. These are all fascist claw backs attempting to regain selfish control over societies power structures for their percieved personal benefit.

Capitalism, a system integrated into almost all modern world cultures and societies is also a fascist concession that is a middle ground between kings owning everything in their kingdom to personal ownership and control, of course exploitation is still present under capitalism, because capitalism is just a stepping stone to a socially beneficial system not an end point of social development, it is also one of the last bastions of fascist control over wealth consolidation.

I could go on about how all these developments relate to issues in the social order and the inability for individuals to develop cognisance of the nuances of societies current place in human development but it's starting to feel like rambling.

If anything I hope that something I said resonates and provides context and understanding of the complex weave that is human social development.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Kinda skimmed because that's a really long essay, but:

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

Fascism is a fairly specific thing. It's not just anything that's not democracy. Overapplying the term is a tool that allows you to condemn reasonable stances as absolute evil. Note that reasonable, used here, does not mean ideal or without caveats. If you can condemn every stance other than your own as absolute evil, that is radicalization. Radicalization can have its use, but it's a dangerous thing. It needs to be focused. What is "Punch a Nazi" when capitalists are fascists too?

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[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

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"

[-] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

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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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together."

From Wikipedia

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[-] moffintosh@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Liberalism hasn't been left-wing for the past 150 years at this point

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Can you tell me what liberalism is, then? Because to me it's always meant "left wing on cultural issues."

[-] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

in most of the world, "leftist" implies that you are anti-capitalist, while "liberal" implies that you support capitalism. Leftists believe workers should control production, while liberals believe owners should control production. Liberals might be "left wing on cultural issues" but it's a lot less consistent among liberals than among leftists. You can find, for example, a large number of anti-trans liberals, but you'll have a harder time finding anti-trans leftists.

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[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Asking a Lemmygrad user to explain something political won't work out well

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe, but you have to know the definitions they're using to understand what they're saying.

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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-style/social democrats (found at the vertex of our U shape) as "right" because if you follow the U line, they would be.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, political compass is more precise, but I like splitting social and economics too, which makes a cube. Then I said tesseract as a joke.

But "us vs them" doesn't work as well when "them" has so much nuance.

[-] moffintosh@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Horseshoe nonsense moment

[-] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

So you think hexbear users sat around unfederated for 3 years and just pretended to be communists to each other?

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