Disclaimer: I love my fellow dirtballs on hexbear, a lot of you are just as remarkable as the people I’m talking about.
Every self identified Marxist Leninist I’ve ever met in this country is the most bohemian, well-read, emotionally intelligent person I’ve ever met. It’s not a large group of people but I am absolutely staggered by the absolute beacons of intelligence these people are. And I do feel like this translates to lemmy.ml. Whereas we still have vestiges of anti-intersectional, reactionary coded thinking of the dirtbag left that has taken over podcasts and the online left, .ml’s for the most part are very much traditionalists when it comes to informed and holistic materialist analysis.
Thank you for not being obsessed over shit like the ‘repercussions of woke 1.0’ or wondering how cool it would be if the entire American left was made up of coal miners from West Virginia.
i think its because ML is the serious instance while we are basically a meme forum
Hexbear ? A meme forum ?
Really . A website of our caliber and class ?
I thought we were doing serious stuff?
Ppb is real to me damnit
Only Beanis is
Y’all’s emote/emoji game is unmatched, though.
I am going to make the president of the United States absolutely safe.
Yes
🫡😸
I have no evidence for this but I think the .ml comrades skew younger than hexbearians and as a result weren’t as exposed to the dirtbag left. This is based primarily on myself and a few other .ml users who’s ages I have estimated from context.
Hexbear has that core membership from chapo
Hexbear has that core membership from chapo
Radicalized by Occupy or Bernie Sanders. A real cognitive ditch to get oneself out of.
There was a core experience you walk away with watching the US choose Turbo Death Mode circa 2015-2021 instead of letting the socdem grandpa win while listening to this guy
and realizing it’s some of the only sane analysis in the room and MAYBE it’s time to pick up Marx and see what that’s about because oh my god rent costs WHAT now? And there AREN’T riots over it?And then there was that one podcast they went on with like the NYT or similar and the consultant firm hack analysists they were talking to just literally couldn’t figure out what to say to some of the most uncontroversial questions like “hey if the US didn’t have nukes and Iran did, and Iran murdered a US general, how would you feel? Okay, now imagine you’re Iranian”. I should dig that up again and see what held up or not.
So yeah that was certainly a super specific time to have a political awakening I think you’re onto something there.
I am not very smart :3
we stan stupid kittens
:3c
;3
i am actually an anarchist, but some of my best comrades from irl organizing have been marxistsAnarchists in America are either David Graeber level demigods or like literal children
Edit: not that you are the latter
Edit: not that you are the latter
why thank you, certainly too old for that
someone once posted an image of a bear and a squirrel labeled “hexbear & lemmygrad” and we immediately identified ourselves as the squirrel despite being hexbear, so i think we kinda already know we’re the little shithead one lol
You reminded me of that time we all got drawn and Hexbear was the hipster.I think the original is about hipsters though. So they’re all hipsters
Yeah but around the middle it switches into a term of endearment.
couldn’t have said it better myself
joke’s on you, I’m a fucking dumbass
repercussions of woke 1.0
I haven’t been able to sleep past 5am since 2020.
Hey I’ll have you know I’m plenty smurt
Doesn’t Homer know it’s spelled s-m-u-r-t-e?
We can’t all go to Gudger college
Smurt_owl
I ate five whole crackers
Woah, that’s more white people than I ever hurt!
Yeah see, all you think I don’t do praxis but I get my carbs in
