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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LodeMike@lemmy.today to c/rant@lemmy.sdf.org
 

Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

If you want you can read some of my comments here and watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument, put words in my mouth, and project some person who makes similarly bad takes which exists inside their head onto me: https://lemmy.today/comment/17304484

Edit: there's also this thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32415724/17304693

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[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

And as can be seen from the behaviour of all the .ml'ers in this thread, you really should block that instance as well. They are the same people, just using different accounts to spread their hateful fascist stupidity.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Got to cultivate that echo chamber

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (33 children)

Communism isn't fascism, and to conflate the two is a serious miscalculation. Communism/socialism are historically worker-centric systems and ideologies, while fascism is best described as capitalism, only when the bourgeoisie needs to employ violent and extreme measures to protect their ownership of private property. As a consequence, communist-led violence is violence against the minority of society, the oppressor capitalist class, while fascist-led violence is against the majority, the working class, as well as the marginalized in society.

I recommend reading Blackshirts and Reds.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure last time I read a thing you sent me and replied, you just told me to read more things.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I don't really remember that, but reading is always good.

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[–] Flickerby@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No guys, Hexbear TOTALLY doesn't brigade threads, whaaaaat?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I'm shocked that Redditorsstill haven't learnt how Federation works.

Well not that shocked

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

I blocked the instance a long while ago. Not because of divergent views, but because I didn't find myself stimulated by their overall culture and communication style. Other than that, live and let live, glad they have a spot to discuss what they want.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't consider Hexbear to be an "echo chamber." A true echo chamber, isolating oneself from views that go against someone's current viewpoints, is only possible if your viewpoint aligns with the dominant views of the society you live in. Communism in the english-speaking internet and world is fringe. Nobody on Hexbear can truly avoid engaging with liberalism as a daily requirement for their existence, everyone has to exist in the outside world and touch grass at some point, be it for work, errands, engaging with friends, family, etc.

What is possible to create an echo chamber around, is blocking off leftist viewpoints. Blocking Hexbear just reduces the chances of yourself running into views that challenge your existing viewpoints. The reason why Hexbear bans liberalism and anti-communist viewpoints is because you can find them anywhere on the English-speaking internet, it gets pushed heavily by mainstream media and permeates discussions even about social reforms like healthcare. Hexbear making a space safe to engage with other communists who just want to hang out doesn't actually close off viewpoints.

Looking into your comments you linked, you threw around words like "authoritarianism" and "technofeudalism," without really describing or understanding each. It comes across as you trying to figure out a way to describe a Socialist system that restricts the rights of capital owners in a negative way, without trying to understand why the overwhelming majority of Chinese citizens support their system and believe it to be generally on the right track. I recommend glancing through this Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Study Guide to see how and why the Chinese system works, and why one would support it.

All in all, I think blocking Hexbear if you don't like echo chambers is actually counter-productive, as you cut yourself off of a large portion of the Leftist userbase on Lemmy, thus restricting what you see to a more narrow subset of generally "progressive liberalism."

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[–] diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago

Free thought, or aimlessly contrarian?

You could pretty much swap in flat Earth theory here and it would still make perfect sense.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It's so funny how defensive and upset ml users are here

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

If you had any self-awareness at all you'd have died of embarassment by now

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

Buddy, you're the one blocking them. You're not in a position to accuse other people of being in an echo chamber.

watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument

Unlike you, making such sound and well reasoned arguments as "lol no" and "Have you been living under a rock?"

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh no! Did those scary ideas that conflict with US State Dept propaganda hurt your little bitty ego? Did you not get the pat on the head you expected for your bold, approved by the neoliberal order takes you so graciously bestowed upon Hexbear? Lmfao.

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