i just woke up, and this is a little test - i just got banned from [email protected], and i’m NOT even sure if this is the right community to post this on. does anyone know?
that said, first off, i would like to sincerely apologize for calling the genocide over in gaza a “feud”. i called it a feud because the countries of israel and palestine have been a war, but i realize now that me calling it a “feud” is sort of an understatement and is a bit insensitive. oh and i WASN’T pulling the ol ‘both sides are bad’ card - i strongly support palestine in this war in gaza.
secondly, i sincerely promise to act in good faith and learn a bit more when it comes to socialism/communism. i sincerely hope you forgive me.
if anyone has any resources to watch without losing focus, i’d appreciate it. thank you!
edit: i just edited the slop link. seriously!
I would not worry about it honestly. Anyone can create communities and I would not be to concerned if one is run by thin skinned folks. I mean banning you without discussion to me is I place I don’t want to frequent. Was using the word feud to cavalier. Well yeah. I mean we all realize how fucked the situation is but personally if I saw someone call it that I might comment but not sit there and think they are purposely trying to minimize it or something. I would just block the community and move on. Heck I consider being blocked a convenience to find out places I don’t want to frequent.
i called it a feud because of huge tensions between israel and palestine, but i realize that that was an understatement that’s a bit insensitive.
that said, do you think hexbear is run by tankies who DIDN’T realize that you DON’T have to support stalin to support marxism-leninism?
Stalin has been dead for over 70 years, and “tankie” is nothing but a terminally-online pejorative for anyone left of Sanders. Maybe spend less time worrying about people’s takes on Stalin. He was neither Jesus nor was he Lucifer, despite what a century of anticommunist propaganda has said about him.
As Weng Weiguang says, The Evaluation of Stalin is Essentially an Ideological Struggle. Marxist-Leninists don’t idolize Stalin. At the same time, Stalin synthesized Marxism-Leninism, and oversaw the world’s first socialist state during its most turbulent period. The CPC rates him as 70% good, 30% bad, and this rating is roughly orbited by most communist orgs. Those who denounce Stalin entirely, also denounce the USSR, and existing socialism.
I don’t really concern myself with who runs things. I just treat the federation like the real world. If I like places I frequent them, if I don’t dislike places they will be in my rotation, if I don’t like them then I don’t hang at them.
So you’ll frequent a Nazi owned bar as long as it plays music you like?