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I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don't actually think everyone there is insane. I don't care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It's not going to scare me to take this down

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It's not just you. Like many people that get sucked into cults, you don't want to directly engage with them. Just nicely encourage them to deprogram themselves, and focus on maturing and becoming an adult. They really don't like get called out like that, based on my interactions with them.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

They really don’t like get called out like that, based on my interactions with them.

yes why would people get upset that you're being condescending and calling them either brainwashed or a child? one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the world really

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

So here's the thing. Hexbear has some smart people on it. @[email protected] wrote a good comment over here that talks about how it's good that they can see injustices in the world and get pissed off: https://lemmy.world/comment/12220633

But cults suck in smart people, and they're very skilled at this. They feed off of righteous anger at the state of the world, and promise neat, easy solutions. And the issue is that you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into, especially people that suffer from black and white thinking. You can't talk about how the world doesn't neatly fit into tidy categories, because that's not as comforting as what the cult offers. The only thing you can really do is reinforce that they've fallen into a broken system of thinking, and encourage them to want to reason themselves out of their current position. Once that desire is there, they'll accomplish it all on their own.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They feed off of righteous anger at the state of the world, and promise neat, easy solutions

communists don't think there are "neat, easy solutions" this is fundamentally a misunderstanding of our positions. this is the entire point behind why people constantly accuse tankies of being bootlickers and what not: we think transforming the world will be hard, and will involve making harder decisions than me you or anyone else on this website has ever or probably will ever have to make, and that mistakes that socialist states make in these circumstances are entirely understandable even though they are tragic. Of course, socialist states are evil or something which is totally not black and white thinking by your side, of course. America's enemies are totally doing worse things than america does which has very nuanced and reasonable reasons for overthrowing democratically elected socialist leaders or invading countries and killing millions of people to stop communism or even just general anti-colonial governments and replacing them with fascists and socialists and other anti-imperialists are evil barbarians with no nuanced reasons to try to use whatever methods they can to stop them. why am i arguing with such an obviously bad faith person what is wrong with me

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The easiness of the solution isn't how much work is involved. By "neat and easy" I mean, "The root of all evil is capitalism and we solve that with revolution".

Black and white thinking pops up again. Why do you think I think socialist states are evil? Why do you think I think everything America does is reasonable?

It's another cult-like behavior that is rampant with tankies. "This person thinks this, so I will assign these other views to them as well, so that I may dunk on them".

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

By “neat and easy” I mean, “The root of all evil is capitalism and we solve that with revolution”.

This is exactly why they are responding to you as they are. This is not an accurate summary of the marxist position. You’ve built up a strawman to knock down to justify calling us cultish.

Some basic questions that marxists are concerned with:

  • Why is a revolution necessary to begin with?

  • Who is exploited, and who is the exploiter?

  • What material conditions are necessary for a revolution to be possible?

  • How do you organize society post-revolution?

  • How do you prevent those who oppose the liberation of the proletariat from taking over your post-revolutionary society and destroying it?

  • How do we learn from the successes and the failures of history so that we don’t repeat the same mistakes?

If you don’t understand the marxist position on these questions, yet continue to criticize us, then of course you will come to nonsense conclusions and just piss people off. You’ve made up a guy to represent us and then mock them.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

By “neat and easy” I mean, “The root of all evil is capitalism and we solve that with revolution”.

this isn't what we believe once again. class society predates capitalism. you know nothing of marxist thought but arrogantly assign beliefs to us, but once again that is not "black and white thinking" on your part. we believe revolution is the solution because we believe that all evidence shows that the bourgousie will not let us take power peacefully, just like the bourgousie were forced to use violence to take power when they were oppressed by the aristocratic class. this is baby baby basic marxism and you don't even know this and yet you deign to talk down on us? it's pathetic, truly.

“This person thinks this, so I will assign these other views to them as well, so that I may dunk on them”.

this is a thing literally everyone on the planet does. When you see someone say they think gay people should die, is it unreasonable to presume they are a reactionary conservative and assume they have other wack beliefs? I see you making a smug liberal enlightened centrist argument, and thus I assume you are a smug liberal with similar beliefs. Why would I put the effort into getting your opinion on every single topic. why would you do the same for mine? that's why you call me a tankie, isn't it? there is someone I got into a slap fight up with further in the thread that is a liberal and tried to make me mad by saying that putin "fucked male prostitutes". he assumed I would care because I am a "tankie". Do I see smug pricks like yourself going around calling his ass a cultist? No!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

we believe revolution is the solution

Yes, that's the issue.

smug liberal enlightened centrist argument

That's on you for assuming that just because you don't like an argument it must be those smug libs.

tankies of being bootlickers and what not: we

I didn't call you a tankie, you self-identified as one

Do I see smug pricks like yourself going around calling his ass a cultist? No!

I call out silliness when I see it, but most lib stuff that I come across is of the bland, inoffensive variety. I haven't been checking this entire thread for everyone that's wrong, I've spent enough time on this already.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's the issue.

Where along the Marxist theory of the State with respect to Revolution do you begin to disagree? Fundamentally? Is it with certain aspects?

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