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!
Hexbear is run and populated by toxic extremists largely unable to deal with middle ground and a spectrum of opinion, last I checked. I’d consider this a fortuitous omen to block the whole instance and dust your hands off as a job well done.
shhh, DON’T say that, you’re gonna get the hexbear people angry!
I’d heard about them before, but prefer to reserve judgement until I see things with my own eyes, or at least directly see how they’re treating others.
Eventually, at my community, I posted a comic examining some of the various self-strife between Israeli folk, and from out of nowhere 3-4 Hexbear users who’d never taken part before materialised and began ranting about Israel and calling me and the community some pretty awful things. After that, I started paying a little more attention to their user comments across the Fediverse. Just… yikes.
i do think israel and palestine should both agree on a permanent ceasefire, and by that they WON’T fight anymore, and israel will definitely NOT commit genocide anymore. this would probably give people in palestine enough time to overthrow israel’s government and merge that country with palestine.
but even if the country of israel violates that ceasefire and continues genociding people, there’s still gonna be a revolution. just saying. seriously!
Wasn’t me, but you can post in [email protected] if you want discussion of a moderation action you received.
I would have probably given you a temp ban, but considering you just got banned from a hexbear account for the same sort of activity and are now complaining about ‘tankies’ in this very thread, that would probably have been too kind.
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.
do you think hexbear is run by tankies who DIDN’T realize that you DON’T have to support stalin to support marxism-leninism?
hmmmm sounds like good faith to me
that last part, i was venting my frustrations with hexbear - especially the more hardline admins and mods there. seriously!
it’s a Marxist/anarchist space, and tankie is not a meaningful term, it’s an epithet for punching left. if you’re expressing contrition maybe stop acting like every other social democrat shitter running around here.
what about libertarian socialists/communists?
could you explain how that’s not covered by the categories I listed
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?
You mean [email protected]
You’re over here on the #3 most intolerant communist instance complaining about the #1 most intolerant communist instance.
Maybe find an instance that’s not specifically designed as a safe space for Marxism.
