I’ve been having a number of conversations on Hexchan recently trying to make sense of their politics. The most common instance of their hateful hypocrisy I’ve encountered is this constant assurance that they support trans people while immediately attacking and dog piling and trans people who point out that the situation would be much worse under Trump.
The hexchanners who aren’t actively Russian trolls seem to be little more than useful idiots for conservatives, minimizing the damage they do to vulnerable populations and engaging in high school level pettiness and hate.
They’re liberals and can’t conceive that we’re genuine. They interpret all leftist politics as childish or a trick.
All liberals believe liberalism is simply the natural, logical final step of development. They see it as a fundamental truth like gravity. Anyone not subscribing to liberalism must either be confused or an active agent of misinformation.
this is the truth of it
they believe they are the adults in the room, and anyone to their left must be delusional or childish etc
no wealthy and influential Democrat could ever think in this way, so you must be terrible people or ‘utopian’ etc
Liberals have a hard time understanding that two groups of people could have conflicting interests is how I mainly see it. They see conflict as a personal moral failure rather than situations people are sorted into.
Capitalist and worker, colonizers and indigenous people, profit and the environment. To a liberal these aren’t fundamentally unsolvable problems based of contradiction, but rather situations that can always be mended through…I don’t know, raising awareness. Putting a cute sign in your yard.
Put this in the Hexbear bible.
Instead of a Bible I want a mystical Hexbear Grimoire stored in a cavern beneath a giant oak tree. After descending an inexplicable spiral staircase into the earth itself you find a wise owl, covered in shit, guardian of the ancient Hexbear tome.
Except most of the book would just be various emojis and pictures of pig shit
Given how new I am to Hexbear/Lemmy, I urgently need to acquire this book to understand all the history and lore. I feel like there are countless incredible tales from Hexbear’s past that would lie within.
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Thank you, this and Lemmygrad have already become my favorite online spaces.
Great point, as always comrade.
One of the few things that get to me is when they call us childish. Its like a 200 year long intellectual tradition, but somehow we haven’t thought it through and its childish
Sometimes I’ll fell them that they’re understanding of the world is childlike. They get really pissed at that.