I had to make a new main account on a different instance so I could maintain access to HexBear communities. I am so thrilled to finally be interacting with a community of actual leftists! Drag me further to the left daddies✊
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Change over to a hexbear account so we don't see "lemme.ee" at the end of your name. I try not to, but I judge those users a lot more critically. (Half joke)
But really, welcome and hope you find what you're looking for!
The hexbear account comes with the best emojis in the world.
Aren't they pretending to believe we're all Republicans doing a three year long larp as leftists?
That's their latest thing yeah. "Well see you both agree with Republican ideas of isolationism and therefore you must ACTUALLY be right wing."
Libs plz. We believe in US isolationism because we want the US to stop fucking around with the rest of the world and leave the rest of the world alone to figure itself out without being bombed and coerced into doing what the US wants the world to do. The right believes in US isolationism because they're nationalists who believe the US should only help ourselves and should never help anyone outside our borders. We're literally polar opposites. There is no overlap in those 2 viewpoints.
Republicans, famous isolationists who opposed the Iraq War
im not so much a us isolationist but more so i want the usa to stop doing things overseas on account that it stops existing altogether
When we say "isolationism" we mean "quarantine"...
Suddenly they're not "as left as they come, but..." They're just sniveling fascist with
when people live in an echo chamber, the outside is scary and confusing
Sure, Hexbear was its own kind of echo chamber, but I think it got a weird sense of solidarity overall and the internal struggle sessions were mitigated somewhat by just how sheer fucking liberal the federated communities were revealed to be next door.
Especially programming.dev. What the fuck is up with those cryptofascists?
You get plenty of good folks in programming, but you also get high volumes of:
- Stemlords
- Bazingas
- Temporarily embarrassed millionaires
- Labor aristocrats
- Misogynists
Lots of underlying drivers of reactionary thought.
Desperately pushing aside the fascist and libertarian programmers to reach the hot trans stalinist in the back row
How do you guys feel about democratic socialism? I feel like it's the only realistic way to get socialism without bloodshed - though I also understand the US is a long goddamn way away.
Be gentle pls, I'm still learning ❤️
Edit: thanks for all the replies!! There's a ton to read through so bear with me
No, must have missed that being posted on the front page for weeks
Them disliking us is a given. Them being surprised by Hexbear's takes was novel to me.