• Psythik@lemm.ee
    3024·
    1 year ago

    I wish lemm.ee would block Hexbear. Fuck capitalism, but those people are nuts. They make MAGAts look good.

    EDIT: I used to be an active member of /r/LateStageCapitalism until I left reddit for good, but go ahead and keep assuming things about me.

      • Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        269·
        1 year ago

        “I’m all for socialism as long as it looks and feels just like capitalism and all the inhuman death and killing that comes along with it because at my heart I’m a selfish self centered lib who is quite happy to see minorities and working class people domestically and abroad killed to maintain my cushy standard of living. Read a book and learn what actual socialism and leftism means? No chance, I use my paper thin knowledge of politics and my middle of the road positions to impress whoever listens to me because I know nobody cares enough to Google why I’m a liar when I talk about politics, and demonising actual leftists as extremists gives my vapid centrist soc dem takes more clout with everyone huffed up on anti communism and crypto fascism these days. Sadly for me hexbear do know more than me and call me out for being the bloodthirsty callous lib I am and it makes me piss my pants and cry when it happens because I don’t want to take any social responsibility for the exploitation i benefit from waah”

        Or something to that effect.

        • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          yeah magat… what trump supporters want universal healthcare, decommodification of housing, defunding the police, defunding the military, open borders, free college, and to send american war criminals to stand trial at the hague or in the countries they committed their crimes against?

          how illiterate do you have to be to hear what socialists want and think “yeah they support trump”?

      • Psythik@lemm.ee
        86·
        1 year ago

        Uh what? I have no idea what any of that means.

        I just don’t like Hexbear cause they claim to be communists yet constantly talk shit about liberals. Only MAGAts and Hexbear users hate liberals.

        I miss /r/LateStageCapitalism, a community made of actual communist liberals, unlike Hexbear which is just full of rage baiting trolls. But I’ll never go back to reddit again.

        • Bnova [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          234·
          1 year ago

          “Communist liberal” is incoherent nonsense. Liberalism is a capitalist ideology that promotes private ownership of the means of production, communism subsequently doesn’t, they are contradictory ideologies.

          • FaeDrifterEnglish
            86·
            1 year ago

            Liberalism is a capitalist ideology that promotes private ownership of the means of production

            Absolutely false. It espouses private ownership. This can mean your own clothes, your own phone, your own computer, your own house, your own sentimental belongings, instead of everything being communally shared.

            It is possible for the means of production, like factories, to be communally owned, while still allowing for small personal private ownership. You can strike a balance between liberalism and private ownership, and communism and communal ownership.

            It’s not a black and white binary choices between “everything is private” and “everything is communal”.

          • Psythik@lemm.ee
            44·
            1 year ago

            Things are not so black and white. It’s possible to like ideas from both sides, without having to fully subscribe to a single idealogy.

            • Bnova [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              71·
              1 year ago

              There is no third way in this context, either you want workers to own the means of production or you want Capitalists to. Liberals want Capitalists to, and some liberals want Capitalists to own less, but see no overall problem with the current relationship between workers and their exploited labor. Communists want workers to own the means of production by contrast, these are opposing ideologies.

    • MattsAlt [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2714·
      1 year ago

      It’s funny how for those who Hexbear is to their left, always use the critique of “they’re crazy” then compare us to right wingers without fail.

      Absolutely no actual critique and the typical liberal understanding of politics that “there are only two teams, and if you’re not on mine then you’re on theirs”

      Please read a book

      • FaeDrifterEnglish
        107·
        1 year ago

        I’ve seen posts of Hexbears saying they’ll vote for Trump, with no pushback from anyone else.

        I had a Hexbear today tell me that it’s okay that Russian soldiers rape women and children in Ukraine because ML’s support violence for their cause and that’s just how it is.

        It’s a small minority of Hexbears who hold abhorrent positions, but the rest of Hexbears tolerate them.

        • Gork@lemm.ee
          61·
          1 year ago

          Does that particular Hexbear know that raping is wrong?

          • FaeDrifterEnglish
            85·
            1 year ago

            What I suspect the Hexbear will tell you is that NATO has committed large scale crimes and NATO soldiers have also raped women, you just won’t hear about it on western media because it doesn’t fit their imperialist propaganda narrative.

            • Gork@lemm.ee
              71·
              1 year ago

              That’s when you need to bring out the big eye roll emojis

              🙄

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      44·
      1 year ago

      I wish it didn’t block them. I can block individual instances and the instance of commenters is in plain view, just block them as you encounter them if they come of as too strong. They have some decent communities where sometimes there’s interesting things to read. Basically only some of the LGTB ones but yeah.