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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

If you want you can read some of my comments here and watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument, put words in my mouth, and project some person who makes similarly bad takes which exists inside their head onto me: https://lemmy.today/comment/17304484

Edit: there's also this thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32415724/17304693

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Need more bait posts like this to help expand my blocklist, just got so many. Thanks OP!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Got to cultivate that echo chamber

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't consider Hexbear to be an "echo chamber." A true echo chamber, isolating oneself from views that go against someone's current viewpoints, is only possible if your viewpoint aligns with the dominant views of the society you live in. Communism in the english-speaking internet and world is fringe. Nobody on Hexbear can truly avoid engaging with liberalism as a daily requirement for their existence, everyone has to exist in the outside world and touch grass at some point, be it for work, errands, engaging with friends, family, etc.

What is possible to create an echo chamber around, is blocking off leftist viewpoints. Blocking Hexbear just reduces the chances of yourself running into views that challenge your existing viewpoints. The reason why Hexbear bans liberalism and anti-communist viewpoints is because you can find them anywhere on the English-speaking internet, it gets pushed heavily by mainstream media and permeates discussions even about social reforms like healthcare. Hexbear making a space safe to engage with other communists who just want to hang out doesn't actually close off viewpoints.

Looking into your comments you linked, you threw around words like "authoritarianism" and "technofeudalism," without really describing or understanding each. It comes across as you trying to figure out a way to describe a Socialist system that restricts the rights of capital owners in a negative way, without trying to understand why the overwhelming majority of Chinese citizens support their system and believe it to be generally on the right track. I recommend glancing through this Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Study Guide to see how and why the Chinese system works, and why one would support it.

All in all, I think blocking Hexbear if you don't like echo chambers is actually counter-productive, as you cut yourself off of a large portion of the Leftist userbase on Lemmy, thus restricting what you see to a more narrow subset of generally "progressive liberalism."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Congrats! We're all so happy for you! Extremely well done!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

And as can be seen from the behaviour of all the .ml'ers in this thread, you really should block that instance as well. They are the same people, just using different accounts to spread their hateful fascist stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Got to cultivate that echo chamber

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Horseshoe theory isn't real lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (40 children)

Communism isn't fascism, and to conflate the two is a serious miscalculation. Communism/socialism are historically worker-centric systems and ideologies, while fascism is best described as capitalism, only when the bourgeoisie needs to employ violent and extreme measures to protect their ownership of private property. As a consequence, communist-led violence is violence against the minority of society, the oppressor capitalist class, while fascist-led violence is against the majority, the working class, as well as the marginalized in society.

I recommend reading Blackshirts and Reds.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

Buddy, you're the one blocking them. You're not in a position to accuse other people of being in an echo chamber.

watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument

Unlike you, making such sound and well reasoned arguments as "lol no" and "Have you been living under a rock?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

thank you for posting your massive, massive L's for us all to point and laugh at 🙏

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Come back baby we didn't mean it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Im sorry for what i said when I was dunking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit starts playing

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

in the west, it's very hard to get honest/accurate analysis of the chinese system. i really recommend you stop parroting bullshit that you've heard and read some marxist/anarchist books on the chinese system post-2004.

(the reason 2004 is chosen is because there was a massive paradigm shift in the country at that time. any book that's worth reading will cover it)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Alright. This is the response I was wanting. Educate me :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Read

Socialism With Chinese Characteristics by Roland Boer https://archive.org/details/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

What would you like to know? I csn recommend books. You will have to read them tho

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