we have been on this site for three years before federation with the same strict anti-bigotry culture since the beginning. I wish you guys could realize how fucking wild conspiracies like this sound like to us. Like we were only pretending to be gay marxists to ourselves for three years lmao
I think you are missing some necessary historical context to follow along with what they’re saying here. Capitalists (through military, CIA, NATO etc) have routinely engaged in mass killings of communists around the world. One specific instance being the murder of 1 million+ people (communists) in Indonesia between 1965-1966 all organized and funded by the US. There’s a great book about this called The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World that I think everyone who isn’t familiar with the incident should read.
Clearly not true, but I hope you’re having fun with whatever it is you think you’re doing here!
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion! Great stuff as always.
Democracy and authoritarianism are not mutually exclusive The USA is a “democracy.” The USA is also one of the most authoritarian countries in the world.
There are so many people who believe that the ideology suppressed by the government is always bad. While this is sometimes the case, this is definitely not the case for authoritarianism.
Wouldn’t the government suppressing an ideology also be authoritarian?
(all governments are authoritarian)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
Also can’t pass up the chance to point out that the capitalist USA has the world’s largest prison population by both total incarcerated and per capita. That seems pretty authoritarian to me.
There a plenty of very sensible people who have issues with NATO. If you’re interested in an intro into one of the reasons why that is I’d recommend reading To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Perenti.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1721-to-kill-a-nation
It’s on sale for only $3 right now!
Anti-sectarianism as in no hostile ML vs anarchist debate club style shit, and no derogatory names for other leftist tendencies. There’s a lot of that in most of the larger online left spaces and it gets extremely tiring seeing the same arguments play out endlessly.
it originated as a shit posting site after reddit banned the chapotraphouse subreddit, but it has become its own thing over the past few years. Primarily it’s a left unity space - communists, anarchists, etc all welcome with no tolerance for sectarianism. Still a lot of shitposting, but also in depth discussions about news and books. We’ve developed a pretty strong site culture as well with an emphasis on discussion (we don’t have downvotes), and probably the strongest anti-bigotry rules you’ll find anywhere. It is 100% not full of trolls or fascists. I think a lot of liberals who have never heard from communists in any meaningful numbers are just very confused on their first encounter with us
you’re a fucking baby lol
It should feel so deeply pathetic to reply to shit you disagree with this way, but clearly it does not for so many of you out there
Like in all the massive, protracted fights I’ve seen on hexbear and lemmygrad I’ve never once seen anyone be accused of being a bot, wrong ethnicity, disinfo troll, whatever. But it’s constantly thrown out by libs as some kind of gotcha. It’s such a weird thing to do.
Every unmoderated internet space is destined to look like that. Just use it for music sharing and you won’t even know the chat is there.
whoopsies i did yet another imperialism killing millions in the process
The thing is though, most people do distinguish them quite heavily. The hammer and sickle is still frequently used as an international symbol of worker’s liberation while the swastika, black sun, etc are firmly attached to one of the greatest atrocities in human history. To compare them as equals, even without their direct relation in history, is extremely strange and something that only fascists would typically do in an effort to downplay the holocaust
Are you having difficulty distinguishing between the people who perpetrated the holocaust and those who liberated the concentration camps?
dog how can you be this clueless about NATO and still have such a strong opinion lmao
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1052756
the idea of NATO “just existing” is a straight up rejection of history
they blocked us before we even federated lmao
you’ve made it extremely clear that you don’t read, but I’m going to leave a link here for fun anyway
damn this thread is still rockin’ huh
You live in the US which has the world’s largest prison population by both total numbers and percent of the population. Is this the non-authoritarian democracy you’re talking about here? We have so many people in a cycle of poverty, bad health, and prison because we all got together and decided that this is how we want to allocate resources? Billionaires, private prisons, private healthcare, unaffordable housing, and child poverty?