• PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Just fyi most people here are further to the left than Bernie, have major criticisms of him, and are skeptical about whether he could have achieved significant change if he had gotten into office.

    There's a lot of lingering affection, but nobody here seriously thinks he's going to run or could win if he did

        • mateomaui@reddthat.com
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          1 year ago

          Sometimes I'm not sure what I've gotten into.

          edit: for instance, I have no idea what this person's issue is, if this is a instance of leftists:

          https://hexbear.net/comment/3921398

          • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            This post is mostly enjoying the absurdity of Trump and Biden polling neck and neck. I'd say it's fair to say that people here don't think fundamental change can happen through elections, or that America is in any meaningful way a democracy at all.

            There was a big thread recently by a person asking about Hexbear's genuine opinion on Trump and the consensus was that while he's very funny, he should probably be executed. But also every American president is a war criminal. A few people think that him getting elected might hasten the decline of the American empire, and so be good for the world in the long term

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            How so?

            We're a non-sectarian socialist space, so communists and anarachists (i think mostly Marxisr-Leninists). Theres some variation because of that, but broad strokes we have agreement here.

              • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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                1 year ago

                You might be thinking of lemmygrad.ml, which is a Marxist-Leninist instance, with which we are federated. We're majority ML, but are a non-secretarian leftist space, with much more shitposting and many endearing weirdos.

                • mateomaui@reddthat.com
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                  1 year ago

                  Until this moment I thought "lemmygrad" was just a nickname for lemmy.ml. See? Just trying to work out what the hell is going on in the fediverse.

                  The funny part of this whole exchange is that my original reply intended to mean "good luck getting Bernie elected" to whoever did that poll, which seems to be in line with the collective opinion, yet somehow we got here.

                  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    We get a lot of people wandering in here looking for an argument and we like to argue, often extremely aggressively. But we're also cool if other people are cool. Lurk around and see what the vibe is

                        • mateomaui@reddthat.com
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                          1 year ago

                          oh boy, I just realized this is a group of people who really like to argue. This is in the opposite direction of my 12-step program, but ok then.

                          • barrbaric [he/him]
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                            1 year ago

                            Hexbears are generally a lot more hostile and assume good faith a lot less to accounts from other instances (understandable, but not necessarily justified, since federation has shaken things up, to say the least). Ime the two best ways to avoid this are to make an account here, though that's obviously inconvenient, or to add pronouns to your username.

                          • StalinwasaGryffindor [he/him, comrade/them]
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                            1 year ago

                            Make sure you take care of yourself first, if you think posting here would have a negative effect on your recovery I’d rather you avoid this space. Good luck and I’m sending you good vibes to stay strong meow-hug