Diva (she/her)

That’s literally what every trot org does, they sing Lenins praises, while continuing to bicker about factional infighting from close to a hundred years ago.

I have family members who were (forcibly) internally resettled in the USSR who hold less of a grudge against Stalin than some American trots I’ve encountered.

I know my local revolutionnary/communist party, despite being leninist, is fiercely anti-Stalin, for instance. The fixation on defending totalitarianism is frankly bizarre.

You sound like you’re talking about trotskyists, who have been the main ones keeping the old communist scarecrows alive on the left

I remember going to one of my local groups anti-fascism reading years back and it was mostly a bunch of white people rambling about how evil Stalin was.

By comparison the student maoists I’ve known have way more nuanced opinions on Stalin and actually do community and propaganda work rather than selling newspapers

I’m honestly not sure what to make of this comment?

If this is what you think agreeing looks like then I pity the people in your life.

NATO was virtually entirely a mutual defense pact vs Russia in their previous incarnation as the USSR.

This “defense pact” has invaded, bombed and destroyed many countries within only my lifetime, it’s a laughable statement unless your historical horizon is less than a decade.

Living in America it’s incredible to me how people I run into don’t even know the countries that their own government has invaded using its “defense pact”, or pay attention to people whose lives they’ve ruined, and thus can’t even understand why people see them as a threat.

I was trying to wrap my head around the guy complaining about the lack of civil disagreement, people bullying and demeaning while simultaneously posting a thread calling all the users on what’s one of the largest trans instances on lemmy “insane” in the title before walking it back in the body

think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane.

Why make it the post title then unless you’re fishing for negative engagement?

They just let the hogs shit on balls then they photograph them and crop them into little emoji, don’t ask me why I’m not an anthropologist

Just quoting you:

How are you disputing the fact that OP is getting downvoted by hexbears right now?

Between 2 and n “hexbears” (understood to mean “humans afflicted with hexbear mind virus using other servers”) are behaving in some coordinated way. You were pretty clearly implying that it’s some conspiracy rather than simply other users disagreeing with you.

I’m sure there are people who primarily use hexbear and use alts, some of them may even be downvoting you.

I took your assertion to its ridiculous conclusion because it’s a ridiculous thing to be complaining about in the first place, as in not a real problem.

Gaslighting? Disingenuous? You’re the one asserting that anyone down voting must be a hexbear alt, by virtue of the fact that nobody could possibly disagree unless they were already a hexbear user.

It’s just a bit circular and not disprovable anyways. Maybe the admins should just check the logs and ban everyone who’s down voted so you can rest easy. Wouldn’t want to have any authoritarians using lemmy.

Hexbear, famous for having down votes turned on. But yeah, you’re totally surrounded by secret hexbears all down voting you

Before I get accused of being a hexbear alt, I only added them after I saw that they were in common use due to hexbear posters showing up in my /all. We did actually start mandating pronoun tags for people participating in /c/transgender -despite the fact that some of the admins are resistant at the instance level- because it seems to work well in the trans spaces on hexbear for fostering a respectful environment.

Loam (suglinok literally means “next to clay”) is a sandy soil with under 35-40% clay content, as you can tell from the political compass I posted

You’re the one who is a raging chauvinist

I put the effort in.

🆗

I got to couch surf while still working for several months this year because the person who owned the building I was planning to continue living in wanted more money. Did wonders for my mental health

I feel like a lot of the wider lemmy users surprised by hexbear users haven’t met very many trans people, because autistic transfems showing up in fly Soviet military surplus is not exactly out of the ordinary at a trans event.

ruscists

I- is this xenophobia? I’ve never heard that one before lmao

Zwastikas

There’s like a concerning amount of actual swastikas (among other charming symbols) on the guys carrying US weapons though

You saw them run over the guy in the square too, didn’t you? Incredible.

This guy knows nothing of the political spectrum.

Do you have some inside information you want to share with the rest of the class?