It just feels difficult to have meaningful conversations on here sometimes. Like yes I dislike America, but I don't need to act like nothing good has ever come out of it. Maybe China is better than America, but I don't want Xi nuking American cities. I don't think war is suddenly cool and good because Ukraine has some nazis in it. Not everyone I disagree with is some bumbling mass of idiocy, a lot of times we just differ on certain core values.
Having tried to introduce a couple people to it, we are essentially incoherent to people who aren't at least past some aspect of 'Social Democracy is a moderate form of Fascism' which is deep in the leftist theoretical weeds. But then again, so are most online spaces at first. I'm just happy that cat-posting doesn't devolve into online baby talk like most places on the internet, its really one of my largest pet-peeves.
I hope you never find out about the outdoor cats struggle session, the first one on Hexbear I think.
I have seen it referenced and referenced it myself, but I have never read the actual thread.
Keep it that way lmao. It was something else. Nice to joke about it now
Or the pitbull struggle session I accidentally started with what I thought would be a lukewarm take in an effort post.
Pitbulls good. Hating pit bulls based in racism.
Look at this good doggo, I love him:
:walter:
That's gotta be a bull terrier. they look so funny but I love them
Chonky domed fellas with hearts of gold :an-eco-heart:
Beware effort posting, lest you be classified 'debate-bro'. Which is a great posting tendency to combat, btw. Didn't realize how much I liked it until I tried to go back to Reddit for abit.
It’s so fucking good. Everyone should read it. Great slop. 10/10
On the flipside, I've introduced a couple trans comrades to it who aren't very politically aware, but are very wary of online spaces generally. And they were so happy and relieved that we go hard, basically. It make it an obviously safe and welcoming space for them.
Fuck this. Radical inclusion means not fucking tolerating “earnest posts” from uneducated bigots. If they genuinely want to learn, they’ll read through the site and self-crit. Fuck ‘em.
:anarchy-trans:
Shits just a good policy.
:kelly:
God dammit how did nobody do this one until just now? And it was accidental?!
:kitty-cri-screm:
Lol nah he got me.
I appreciate you taking the long walk around to get there. Makes it even better.
Ironic, he wanted to see sincere-posting but he wasn't around long enough to see it.
Damn. Got me.
That’s fine. The rest of the western internet is full of chauvinists, transphobes, liberals, misogynists, and racists.
It's not really that deep. The first book I read - Blackshirts and Reds - goes into that idea and I understood it perfectly fine.
Idk where you are at, or all this sincere posting has fried my sarcasm-o-meter, but Micheal Parenti is incredibly obscure literature where I live.
You're right about that yeah, I've never heard it referenced outside of online stuff.
In terms of theory though it's very digestible. That's what I meant by how deep it is in the leftist weeds. No previous Marxist reading required to understand that book.
Oh yeah, I agree but I can't get people to read the fucking thing. Mostly because I can't get them to read at all, outside of fiction.
Definitely true. Most sorta left brained people I know watch Hasan and that's about as deep as they'll go.
Yeah, that's my point. Just reading a book puts me deep in theoretical weeds. We are at a point in time where it doesn't really matter if alot of the working class can read, and it's bad opsec to just, hold classes on this stuff if you attract any attention. Scary stuff. Hence the, you know, irony.