TheLastHero [he/him]

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • TheLastHero [he/him]@hexbear.nettoYe Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•What is a Wrecker according to Hexbear mods?English
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    3 days ago

    so idk if you know but that’s mutation of a famous quote from the Comintern, almost 100 years old now. I assume you’re probably a social democrat since that’s pretty much the left edge of acceptable politics in the USA. If you are, you should consider doing a little reading about the historically famous, deathly feud between Communists and Social Democrats. The German KPD and SPD and Gustav Noske specifically. You may understand where this apparently confusing hostility comes from after that, because a lot of clueless social dems assume that because they are the “closest to the left choice” that communists should at least like them more than we do.

    What they’re saying is basically, “these reformist politicians would also kill us, like the fascists would, if it meant they got to hold office, you can’t trust them”, and if you’ve seen the way some of the modern liberal-left talks about “tankies” I don’t think it should be too surprising that we are still saying this. However in real life I’ve not seen this impede very much cooperation anymore, mostly because real social democrats (not new laborite neoliberal imperialists) are only slightly more relevant than communists in the west anymore

    You also dove right into the middle of one of our ongoing “struggle sessions” re: Zohran (big debate), and we are in there dishing it out to each other and those can get a pretty hot. Would not recommend wading into the deep end like that if you don’t know what you’re getting into, not my favorite thing to do personally, but others like debating more than me

  • TheLastHero [he/him]@hexbear.nettoYe Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•What is a Wrecker according to Hexbear mods?English
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    3 days ago

    Nah I don’t really want to talk about electoralism either. We do that enough amongst ourselves lol. But you seem earnest enough so I’ll give you an effort post about this.

    Not a mod, but probably the reason you were labeled a wrecker is saying stuff like “You just want to shoot people. You want people to die due to fascism” and “This is your 100th chance to not come off as a fascist supporter.” “this whole post is psy op”

    like there you are, you’re lying and slandering us. all you’re missing is a part where you call us Russian bots or Cee-Cee-Pee agents. We’ve heard it all. We don’t need or want to hear it again. It’s boring and annoying to us.

    Here’s how I see your core problem, if you will allow me to try to read your mind and put some words in your mouth like you did to my comrades a couple years ago: you liberals understandably feel powerless about this decay affecting the nation, the world. Your politicians, political systems, who could supposedly do something about it seem completely unaccountable and inaccessible, or if they aren’t they usually only provide lame excuses. Now you don’t have to accept this framing they provide, we don’t, but you largely do.

    But this feeling of powerlessness and anxiety you have is still there, so to ameliorate this you target those who are accessible, the annoying tankies who love arguing on the internet, thinking if you sway us into “getting with the program” and supporting Kamala you are doing something productive, coalition building, deradicalizing, whatever you want to call it to feel good- you are taking back control.

    But this is a fiction, what you and I are doing here, posting, its basically entertainment with a dash of socializing. Nothing we are saying here matters to the enormous forces governing all of our lives, if hexbear.net dropped an offical endorsement for the democrats Trump would still be president. Even trump himself, for all his dictatorial ambitions and constant media presence, is pissing in the wind of forces beyond his control- history, economics, civilizational inertia. No one can control them, we’re all along for the ride. Read some Marxist theory if you want the specifics.

    We posters on hexbear try not to worry about this lack of control, and just want to have a good time with our leftie friends while we’re here, that’s what social media is for. And fun for us also includes dogpiling on randoms drifting in and scolding us about it. But when it becomes not fun anymore and they crash out, call us slurs or fascists, etc we just ban them and get back to it. We call this wrecking because we think it’s a funny term to use basically. You don’t have to worry about we think about you, and you don’t have to think we’re funny, but I certainly think that our way is more personally fulfilling than engaging in the same argument again and again on twitter yelling at funhouse mirrors and bots hoping that it will achieve anything.

    TLDR: wrecking is killing the vibe, we’re all just posting, don’t let it stress you out.