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I'd love to know why you think we're conservative. Or some examples of conservatism being supported on Hexbear
There is a rumor that itβs all a game and you're really just there LARPing in mockery of the type of people youβre pretending to be.
Pretending to be communists for 3 years and thousands of comments as high concept performance art
In fact we're so dedicated to this joke we read Marx and Engels and joined socialist organizations
Doing an actual communist revolution because we are just that committed to the bit.
Some stubborn liberal that's mad we had to [REDACTED] a few billionaires and war criminals as is necessary in revolutions comes in to the free gender affirmation clinic having just finished brunch at the local free kitchen and bursting into the reception area shouting "BUT AT WHAT COST?!" Then claiming the clinic isn't actually real, and storming out mutter about paid Russian actors and Trump, who had since been posthumously convicted by the previous liberal government after having died choking on a McRib two years prior.
We're method actors. I'm actually a neo-paleo-retro-Whig, but I took the job of being a communist crisis actor and I have integrity.
Lying on my deathbed in 2176, my life having been radically extended by medical research in a prohuman economic environment, My weakened eyes gaze out the window at the cities floating gently above the planet-wide food forest. I gather my descendents around me and croak out "It was all a prank, bro. It's just a prank. I'm not really a communist. I helped build 100$ of communist as a joke. Just for a laugh."
I'm just a dude playing a dude larping as a revolutionary.
literally millions of comments and hundreds of thousands of posts lol.
This is why they are so afraid of us. They could never match our posting power
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You're definitely very dedicated to a joke
Yeah it's such a well done conservative LARP that it's one of the only places on the internet I actually feel safe asking genuine questions as a trans person.
People from unfederated instances responding to hexbear comments with ridiculous bullshit- but they don't show up on our end.
@Summzashi@lemmy.one eat my shit and hair bigot
Doesn't China have free publicly funded gender affirmation clinics? Or like at least one opened recently?
They do, the comment is ridiculous. However this person is clearly not invested in what's good for trans people because they immediately misgendered me in their reply
more and more I feel like people who are both transphobic, and also project that on China are really telling on themselves about what they would do if they were in power. It always feels like "you're lucky our FREEDOM LOVING government lets DEG*NERATES like you exist!" It's almost more terrifying than the typical right wing blue hair enby boogieman memes.
I feel like there's a lot of people along for the ride when it comes to these narratives- like people who will seriously believe some military guy that spent the last two decades airstriking muslim weddings when he says with a straight face that he's really concerned about the freedom of east Turkistan
Just further proving my point that places outside of hexbear harbor and even defend these shitbags.
It really is just barely beneath the surface in the more lib instances. But then rather than deal with it they just play telephone to make it about how we're actually the problem
That's awesome I didn't know htat.
Oh no I never considered that a place I'm critically supportive of might not be perfect. Guess it's time to throw away all my beliefs and buy NFTs while sucking down whatever the dems are pushing in amerikkka.
Lmao they'd be treated with more kindness by state security agents than they would be some dipshit County sheriff in the U.S countryside.
It's fucking bizarre people keep hammering on this when the US is engaged in, I cannot emphasize this enough, anti-trans genocide as defined in international law. Like bruh. Bruh. Clean up your own house.
It's that brazenness which makes me feel compelled to respond. If you live in the US, claim to be on the left and can't even call for an end to your own government for its crimes I have no interest in your contributions.
Hahahaha little man is angry. Thanks for making my day soyboy.
You would be prosecuted and possibly killed by the Chinese government. Remember that.
Remember that you swallow every ridiculous piece of Atlanticist propaganda thatβs fed to you.
LGBT rights and issues in actually existing socialist countries
It doesn't matter. There's no way you would even consider any point that doesn't fit in your bubble. You and all the other idiots in your fantasy world of an instance are a waste of energy. You are lthe same as any Facebook Trump supporter. Your politics are different, but the brainrot isn't.
Iβm pretty sure itβs you whoβs never explored outside their ideological bubble, because I was a bog-standard American liberal for over 40 years, until I actually read a book or listened to a point of view outside of that bubble.
anticommunists try to go 5 minutes without yelling slurs at people challenge [impossible]
I donβt know what removed is a substitute for or why they didnβt just use the original word: there are no algorithms here to circumvent.
Lemmy.ml added them at some point I think, because when I checked over on their instance they were using the r-slur
I had to google r-slur.
I think itβs safe to assume that you think of yourself as a conservative, a centrist, or a βliberalβ, and all of those are liberalism:
Now you know why we use the word liberal with a seemingly broad brush: we are using its original meaning, as people in continental Europe generally still do.
I donβt know what removed is euphemizing, or why youβd euphemize it on a platform that has no algorithms to circumvent.
It's hilarious that you assume I'm an American.
Fair enough.
'pretending' to be trans for 3 years in effectively a private instance to do what exactly? make you feel weird when we finally federate?
Some people just canβt fathom the possibility that we actually mean it.
Itβs easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism β Fredric Jameson
Check the lower right of this authentic vintage Frank terror meme. So many people just cannot accept how embarassingly sincere most of us are.
Reading hundreds of communist theory books and joining a democratic centralist party just to fool the libs.
Not sure exactly what we're supposed to be achieving by doing Hexbear and so perfectly engaging in communist discourse and advocating for literally every single downtrodden and oppressed group on the planet if it's all fake? For what purpose? Surely doing that all so perfectly is just.... Advocacy. Digital activism. It's not a game if you do it so hard it just becomes exactly what you're doing.
The 500-1k active Hexabarbearians are a plot to... uh... shit let me get back to you.
It's true I am actually a 63 year old paleo-conservative living in rural Iowa pretending to be a communist with my Republican friends at hex.bear.parody. I believe in guns, going to church several times a year while accusing everyone I don't like of being a satanist, voting in every election for the worst human being imaginable, and sports.
Some of the arguments/memes I'm seen there are been shared by conservatives, using the same talking points, I was struggling to detect what comments were sarcastic but now it's clearer
such as...? People can't respond if you keep being vague about it.
Sometimes too it's that the right and the left come to similar sounding conclusions but for entirely different reasons. I think the Isreal/Palestine conflict is a great example. Both the right and the left agree that Isreal is bad, so it sounds like we "agree". However the right thinks Isreal is bad because they hate Jews, whereas the left thinks Isreal is bad because we hate genocidal apartheid states. So although it sounds like we agree because we both say "Isreal bad", the reality is that our viewpoints couldn't be more different, and as a result what we mean when we say "Isreal bad" are actually completely different things.
I think you will find this is true for a lot of things that perhaps you think sound conservative on Hexbear. It's why people think that the horseshoe theory of political viewpoints is valid; because they hear something high level that sounds similar between two seemingly different groups and just immediately jump to "well they must be the same!" rather than investigate why two different groups might be saying something that sounds similar. So if you see something you aren't sure about I would suggest you ask about it rather than jump to an incorrect conclusion about it. Lots of opportunity to learn even if you don't agree.
We're like Bane "The Venom is the only thing keeping him alive" levels of irony poisoned here. Add almost 7 years of in-jokes, memes, obscure conspiracy theories, and thousands of emojis
and I can only imagine this place is a nightmare to navigate for visitors.