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The rest of the internet is bad, like real fucking bad, this place and lemmygrad and trueanon (when they're not saying shitty stuff) are like the only good normal healthy places left online. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Just putting that out there. While we might have struggle sessions over bullshit, the larger internet zeitgeist is putrid and rancid.

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[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Huh, I've definitely run into other explicitly Marxist-Leninist places online where you have to fill out a political questionnaire. Some just want to weed out reactionaries, ultras, Trots and adjacent cranks, and such, some are probably full of academic cranks and Second Internationale types and want you to answer extremely complicated theory questions because they want only well read Marxism nerds, they don't want to deal with people still learning the intricacies of the theory, or people who don't quite "get" Dialectical Materialism but still think MLs are right about a lot of practical day to day stuff. (When you gotta copy the questionnaire into a text document and fill it out, in order to keep the question and answer numbers straight, you know the theory discussions are going to be over the smallest minutiae, or the admins are sick of banning baby leftists for stupid takes and want to just screen them all out at the questionnaire.)

[–] emdash@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I love that one of Hexbear's rules is against sectarianism, but we all still solidarity against Trots

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's like when the Catholics, the Orthodox, and the Anglicans all get together and rag on Evangelical Protestants. Which is also something I really enjoyed participating in as a kid. (It's called sectarianism for a reason. We're worse than the churches sometimes.)

There's sectarianism, and then there's dunking on people the entire left agrees are just plain wrong and tend to be crank magnets.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

At least for me, as a former trot, it's like 70% a joke. A lot of them are either cranks or NATO-leftists (or both) but a lot of them are also basically normal