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You can see it in your meme though. See the line going up? Proof that it works

Who, precisely, do you think I hate? Do you have evidence for that?

Oh God he’s white and thinks people can be racist against him

Hilarious. Good luck with middle school, you’re gonna learn a lot!

We literally defederated from a server that our trans community fairly unanimously said was harming them yes. Are you saying that we should have ignored our entire trans community?

Shit just works kept actually threatening our community so I appreciate our mods defederating from them too. Not sure what you think a “good” reason is if you apparently think “threatening actual material harm on a community” is a bad one.

All of this is clearly laid out in the posts about the defeds, which you could go read for more information. You won’t. But you could educate yourself instead of spouting complete nonsense

It doesn’t help that every feds response to literally any perceived slight is OH MY GOD DEFEDERATE NOW. Kinda defeats the purpose and advantage of the fediverse.

Hexbear still going strong though. We’ll be here after every else continues to splinter and defed from each other I’ll bet

I have 100 capitalism jokes, but you don’t have any

Hey look a genocide denier

I’m just trying to understand your level of acceptable evidence for what genocide is. If it’s “literally anytime anyone says the word genocide, it is a genocide no questions asked” then that’s fine. If that’s the case then lots of people call lots of things genocide all the time for nonsensical reasons, and by your measure almost everyone is a genocide denier. If it’s “I listen to right wing propaganda when it makes me feel good and confirms my racial biases and ignore it when it doesn’t” that’s fine too and would be a good thing to know about yourself.

The same people and organizations that talk about that genocide claim that communism and wokeness are causing a white genocide worldwide. Do you believe that too? It’s fine if you do, I’m just curious if you pick and choose what you believe based on literally nothing, or if you’re at least consistent with the propaganda you consume.

Where are leftists denying genocide? I’ve never heard a leftist deny a genocide, ever.

The reason horseshoe theory only makes sense if you don’t think about it is because it is entirely and completely surface level. A good recent example is that both the far left and the far right want to end the country of Isreal. So if you hear someone on the far left say “I don’t think Isreal should exist” and someone on the far right say “I don’t think Isreal should exist”, if you don’t think about it, you would conclude “wow they want the same thing! HORSESHOOOOEEE!!!”

When the reality is that the right doesn’t want Isreal to exist because they hate Jews and don’t want Jews to exist, and the left doesn’t want Isreal to exist because Isreal is a genocidal apartheid settler colonial state. The left’s viewpoints have nothing to do with the ethnicity of the people who live in Isreal, and the right’s viewpoints have nothing to do with the actions of the country of Isreal. Therefore any actions taken by the right or the left towards their statement of “I don’t think Isreal should exist” would be entirely and completely different. Although they’re saying the same thing on the surface, literally 1 second of thought is all it takes to realize “oh those are actually entirely different things.”

So if you think a leftist is denying a genocide somewhere and you start crying “MUH HORSESHOE THEORY” it just means you haven’t spent any time thinking about it. I bet if you did think about it you’d learn something.

Horseshoe theory only makes sense if you don’t think about it for even one second.

So, not surprised it makes total sense to you

You got to be a leftiest to be in a leftiest place, and you’re clearly just a reactionary.

Damn that’s some pretty smart bread

Sometimes too it’s that the right and the left come to similar sounding conclusions but for entirely different reasons. I think the Isreal/Palestine conflict is a great example. Both the right and the left agree that Isreal is bad, so it sounds like we “agree”. However the right thinks Isreal is bad because they hate Jews, whereas the left thinks Isreal is bad because we hate genocidal apartheid states. So although it sounds like we agree because we both say “Isreal bad”, the reality is that our viewpoints couldn’t be more different, and as a result what we mean when we say “Isreal bad” are actually completely different things.

I think you will find this is true for a lot of things that perhaps you think sound conservative on Hexbear. It’s why people think that the horseshoe theory of political viewpoints is valid; because they hear something high level that sounds similar between two seemingly different groups and just immediately jump to “well they must be the same!” rather than investigate why two different groups might be saying something that sounds similar. So if you see something you aren’t sure about I would suggest you ask about it rather than jump to an incorrect conclusion about it. Lots of opportunity to learn even if you don’t agree.

I’d love to know why you think we’re conservative. Or some examples of conservatism being supported on Hexbear

Hey look someone who didn’t read Capital talking about Capital.

Marx definitely wrote literally chapters about industrialization

Capital, clearly. Not a single anti communist has ever read it because they never once refute a single talking point from the actual book. But every anti communist acts like they totally understand what’s in the book and some go so far as to lie about having read it. And then you ask them what it says or why they’re anti communist and they just make shit up or parrot 1950s Nazi propaganda and pretend like that’s what’s in Capital or what communism is about.

It annoyed me the first few times it happened to me but now it just makes me laugh. Having a book on your shelf or knowing the title of it is not the same thing as reading it or understanding it

That only happened because Bernie is a pinko commie who is pro China, so he runs his office like China. In fact Bernie’s office is actually inside of a Chinese embassy, which means that it’s actually part of China. We know this because nobody would EVER be arrested for protesting in the White Free Western world, so the only logical explanation is that it must be China.

Funny that you think I haven’t been arrested for protesting, because I have. So no, not really. The smell of tear gas in my neighborhood doesn’t smell very freeing to me.