Hexbear users are pretty stupid because they almost exclusively alienate would-be supporters, or at least close allies.

They fundamentally cannot see the difference between any non-communist liberals (left) and fascism.

Tankies have an incredibly black and white view of the world. Anyone that isn't with them is a fascist. It's also why they can't accept that their favorite authoritarians have practiced imperialism, oppression of minority groups, and lots of killing. "Stalin believed in the same economic policy that I do, so therefore he never did a bad thing."

Like the kind of people you'd have to be insane to call fascists?

Well, it is Hexbear...

Also, isn’t Beehaw like, a bunch of fuckin’ hippies? Like the kind of people you’d have to be insane to call fascists?

There's actually a growing problem of far right rhetoric and conspiracism in hippy circles. The guardian wrote about it recently https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/17/eva-wiseman-conspirituality-the-dark-side-of-wellness-how-it-all-got-so-toxic

communism and tankies

pick one, because they are not interchangeable.
One is antithetical to authoritarianism, and the other seeks nothing but.
There is plenty of good reason for LGBTQ+ folks to be attracted to communism.

It's hard to argue that communism as imagined by the tankies is better in any way than the souless capitalism that we all suffer under. However, real communism as imagined by Marx (but not Lenin) is vastly superior.

See, Marx saw the workers owning the means of production on a local scale. The example being factory workers owning the factory they worked in. Workers would directly profit from their own labor.

Lenin envisioned the State owning the means of production. Workers would work for the good of the State, or else.

Marx postulated that economies followed a sort of progression, feudalism led to capitalism, which in turn led to communism.

Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work in neat, linear progressions.

Marx imagined a utopia, and Lenin, in an attempt to create something like it, reinvented feudalism with different masters. Which is not surprising, as Russia was still living under feudalism when Lenin was born.

My prediction for the future of government is as follows; as the climate crisis and automation crisis progress, there will be four types of government.

The first are failed states. They will have lost the climate roulette. Their populations are either fled or dead.

The second are puppet states. These will exist mostly for resource extraction. Their populations will still exist, but many will have fled or died. The rest will toil in resource extraction to feed the last two categories.

The penultimate is the fascist police state. China and Russia are well on their way to this outcome, and the US is actively flirting with it. This is the end game of capitalism. A new feudalism where the serfs are disposable and interchangeable, instead of tied to the land and part of an inheritance. The only saving grace is that fascism always leads to an unstable mess of a government that almost inevitably crashes and burns when the strongman dictator dies.

The final category is the automated utopia. Automation takes off fast enough to put everyone out of work, and the governments realize that money is just something we made up and decides to just let anyone have whatever they want (within reason) because it takes no human effort to produce anything.

The automated utopia is a dream, I hope it happens. It would look sort of like a cross between Marx's dream of communism and UBI with no strings attached.

The admins are certainly toxic though. Any criticism of them whatsoever results in an immediate ban.

Every bloody time I see the word "dialectical" or "dialectic" or any of its other forms I get annoyed because I go look up the definition and stare at it for 10 minutes and STILL aren't sure what the fuck it means.

Seriously people LOOK at this hot mess.

and the mods spend more time chatting on discord than actually modding their instance.

Lmao well said.