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[–] axont@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

us-foreign-policy

Westerners deciding who's doing real socialism or not. Westerners expressing their most vile sentiment for foreign countries rather than their own imperialism. Westerners praising the words of their own imperialist intelligence agencies. Westerners unironically praising their own nations for civil liberties like the freedom of fascists to assemble, freedom of parents to own their children, and freedom of school districts to continue racial segregation. Westerners praising imperialist nations like Norway as socialist while using bold language like fascism to describe places under that same exact threat of imperialism, like Cuba and Vietnam.

Westerners claiming foreign governments are merely pretending to be socialist, while claiming unorganized misinformed chauvinistic westerners are the true heirs to socialism, despite all they do is post online and complain about foreign nations.

Westerners praising anarchist movements from 100 years ago despite having no common cause with those movements, no connection to the circumstances within them, and probably no actual admiration of them. Westerners praising a bastardized, sectarian, perverse form of anarchism rather than attempting unity with organizations in their areas. If Buenaventura Durruti were alive today he'd be regarded with scorn by western chauvinists.

Westerners attempting to praise their own socialist leadership, who happen to be a scattered group of imperialist-aligned social democrats, Twitch streamers, and actual antisemitic grifters such as in the case of Caleb Maupin.

[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Its hard to challenge your opinions when you gish gallup 500 talking points

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You gish galloped, you ad homin-ed, you no true scotsman-ed, you one true scotsman-ed, and then you mot and bailey-ed.

Checkmate sir smuglord

[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Its ok to say you dont know what any of those mean. You dont have to make an ass out of yourself in the process

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe you just engaged in a masked man fallacy taken to the ad absurdum.

Checkmate smuglord

[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I believe you just engaged in ligma balls fallacy with a terminally online spin.

Checkmate smuglord

[–] somename@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Hey, that one was decent actually! Good job!

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"I know why the Hexbear ppbs"

Someone learned something here!

[–] IBurnedMyFingers@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What happened to PPB? I haven't seen it in a while despite a ton of PPB worthy posts

[–] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We got told to cool it with the emojis on other instances, because there's a Lemmy bug that makes our emojis look giant when we're not on Hexbear. A lot of us think it's funny though that our pig shit image takes up the whole screen. I want it to be larger.

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I looked through your post history and this is actually the best thing you've posted. Unironically good post.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago
[–] axont@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what any debate words mean and I refuse to learn.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

90% of them boil down to one person saying "You're uneducated on this subject, demonstrated by the fact that you're wrong"

And the other says "You're saying that because I'm uneducated I'm wrong! Haha! Ad-hom!"

But what they really said was "You're wrong, additionally, as a side note, you're uneducated and should feel bad about that"

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

OK, hecking epic sexist edgelord username haver.

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (28 children)

500 talking points and you couldn't find a single thing to call into question

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[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

If their post is short, accuse them of not engaging properly.

If their post is long, accuse them of gish gallop.

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[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Nobody's interested in becoming an anti-communist. It's you who must change your opinions because they are wrong

[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

It's hard to challenge my opinions because I'm cool as hell and I exude a pleasant aroma mondays

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Warning: this is a hexbear user

[–] axont@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Warning: 🚨 ⚠️ Hexbearian detected! Everyone, into the posting bunkers! bunker

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (36 children)

But is warning morally justified?

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[–] Grimble@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Google "line breaks". Google "paragraphs". Thank me later

[–] raven@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

We're talking about 6 countries and at least 5 people in the first place, and that's only the ones named. Sorry, reality is complicated like that.

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