Liberals often think that if someone has different opinions from them, then they must be a conservative, because they have no idea that socialists exist.
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Sometimes liberals think that socialists are the leftmost liberals, but weβre not liberals at all: we want nothing short of the abolition of private ownership of the means of production.
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Or they know that they exist but don't really understand socialism, Marxism, historical materialism, things like dictatorship of capital etc.
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Very weird game of telephone happening on Lemmy rn where apparently the longest running queer instance on Lemmy is being presented as full as 'conservative sleeper agents pretending to be queer to mock 'real' queer people'
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lol no
Hexbear is a big tent community that tries our best to avoid sectarian shitflinging while having three very strong points of unity: Trans rights, anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, and relentlessly bullying reactionaries (this includes both liberals and conservatives in addition to the obvious targets: the mask off fascists).
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tfw no anarchist ghost smh. I didn't know the afterlife was so authoritarian, damn tankies.
This is funny because it seems to be a more appropriate image to invoke for Hexbear users as we are the ones more notorious for "dogpiling" or "brigading" which is ironically a function of the fact that we disabled downvotes because of reactionaries using them to astroturf posts and harass trans people without actually speaking out and outing themselves.
So for years the site culture is one of disagreement yielding a flood of dissent instead of just a "silent" downvote.
TL;DR if you want to force your community to up their posting game, disable downvotes.
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No.
Just to put in liberal terms, we are:
Culturally Progressive (eg. Pro LGBT)
Economically Socialist (eg. Pro-Economic Planning, Pro-Gift Economy, et Pro-Nationalization)
Anti-imperialist and critical supportive of progressive forces on foreign policy (Eg. Pro-Cuba, pro-Vietnam, pro-China, though somewhat conditionally supportive of Russia, in fending off NATO and its Ukrainian proxy)
We are thus also anti-orientalist and also kinda support 'another kkkrakka down, unlimited genocide on the Global North' sort of shtick...
We're tankies, by your definition, but normal leftists, according to other people...
And I say this as a moderate rebel a la White Helmets...
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I'd love to know why you think we're conservative. Or some examples of conservatism being supported on Hexbear
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What exactly about society do you suspect we're interested in conserving?
No, not at all. They are very far left communists and some anarchists. I love them.
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No?
In my experience it's a centrist instance. Trots are as welcome as LMs, and so are anarchists. Most users are libs tho
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Lol no
a fish, swimming in water, asking if the person sitting on the shore is wet
You're more conservative than us.
No lol
They're left leaning and ~~pro-orientalist~~ anti-imperialist, I think?
They're left leaning and pro-orientalist
They're left leaning and anti-imperialist
pro-orientalist
Anti-orientalism would be closer to the mark, or more generally, anti-racist/chauvanist.
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left leaning
We would make Stalin look like a liberal.
pro-orientalist
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