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Shut the FUCK up.
I'm so sick and tired of you MAGAts pretending to be communists, clogging my feed with your bullshit. I block one Hexbear community, another one pops up. How do I block this entire fucking instance? Trump LOST. GET OVER IT.
Reddit-brained liberals try to compose sentences without passive-aggressive sarcastic openers challenge. Difficulty level: Reddit.
If you guys aren't Trump supporters, then why do you hate on liberals so much, and only liberals? It's always "liberal this, liberal that". You claim to be Marxists, yet you never say shit about the rise of Fascism in America. Where are the "Republicans this, Republicans that" posts? I'm not falling for your BS.
Hell, why am I even wasting my time on you people? Your kind is mad at the Barbie movie FFS. Fucking Barbie. Give me a break.
Hey, did you know that Republicans are, in fact, liberals? When we dunk on liberals, we don't mean "people with progressive social views," we have more progressive social views than the overwhelming majority of so-called Liberals. We are primarily referring to economic liberalism, the ideology which upholds and advances capitalism. Occasionally, we are expressing frustration with neoliberals, the current ruling ideology which has subsumed politics in the west and encompasses both the Democrats and Republicans.
Not like “people with progressive social views” dont harbor horrendous views because they havent completely shaken out things like racism, classism, or homophobia because getting that far means they’ll leave the warmth and comfort of their baby ideology they’ve known for so long and finally notice the bodies their comforts were built on top of
Indeed. I've edited slightly to clarify further on this.
America has been fascist - I'd recommend the book "Blood in my Eye" by George Jackson for an explanation of how the US is fascist. Republicans and Democrats are both liberals.
Also, I loved Barbie, lmao.
If you guys aren't Trump supporters, then why do you hate on liberals so much, and only liberals? It's always "liberal this, liberal that". You claim to be Marxists, yet you never say shit about the rise of Fascism in America. Where are the "Republicans this, Republicans that" posts? I'm not falling for your BS.
Hell, why am I even wasting my time on you people? Your kind is mad at the Barbie movie FFS. Fucking Barbie. Give me a break.
a new copy pasta is born
Republicans are liberals lmao
You coming in her and making that accusation to begin with demonstrates just how remarkably ignorant you are.
Liberal doesn't mean what you think it means to most of the world. Sure, in the United States, lots of ignorant people like you bought into the "conservatives vs liberals" propaganda, but that's really part of liberalism: ignorance pretending to be knowledge.
are you trolling? hating on right-wingers is like the main thing we do. when we hate on liberals it's because they're too right-wing and not progressive enough.
we literally screened the barbie movie on our site lmao. why would you assume we were mad at it? it was pretty good
Conservatives tell you what they’re about. Nothing about what they’ve done should surprise anyone. What makes liberals dangerous is how disingenuous they are.
Also who’s mad at barbie around here?
Conservatives are liberals. Liberals are liberals. Libertarians are liberals. Neoliberals are liberals.
Liberalism has a storied, specific history. It is essentially support for capitalism combined with a set of other policies.
The modern, politico shorthand liberal/conservative dichotomy is an oversimplification, represents a split in opinions among liberals, and demonstrates the the narrowness of the Overton window, although "conservatives" can often lean toward fascism and democratic socialists are sometimes lumped in as "liberals" as well. Hell, right wingers call communism liberalism. That doesn't make it true.
This instance is constantly talking about the rise of fascism. However, like much of leftist thought, many believe that the ineptitude of capitalist, liberal parties and their policies, especially when they are positioned as "leftist", actually help give rise to fascism.
For example, the modern dominant strain is neoliberalism, which was actually first made popular by Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Alan Greenspan. However, neoliberlism has been continued by Clinton, Obama, and Biden. See the rise and support of charter schools in Democrat led cities, NAFTA, etc.
The rise of neoliberalism has coincided with the death of unionism and the stark increase in inequality since the 70s in e the US.
Also, most liberals, like conservatives, are opposed to socialism, which is seen by leftists as the most definitive obstacle to fascism. See the 2020 Democratic primary where all but Bernie Sanders were eager and quick to reaffirm their support and belief in capitalism and attempted to smear Sanders for his socialist beliefs.
This is also a safe space for leftists, and leftists are often most frustrated with modern "liberals" as you know them (i.e. Democrats, Blairite Labour, etc) because while they should ostensibly be allies in many situations, they are often the biggest obstacle in our way, demanding we stand down and acquiesce to capitalist policies, and talk down to us smugly and condescendingly.
We already all know we detest fascists and "conservatives" and Republicans. We vent about them too. But "liberals" often get our ire in our spaces because of the above.
That doesn't mean we work toward conservative goals.
Donald Trump is a liberal
Go check their history:
"I've been trying to block this community of [r word] cause I keep coming here by mistake, but I can't find the option in Voyager. I keep falling for these stupid troll posts. I mean, people are actually trying to convince me that apartments are better."
Driverless cars are better than meatbag cars acktually
"I agree. NFTs are stupid in their current state, but once VR becomes more immersive, more affordable, and less cumbersome, suddenly they’ll start making a lot more sence."
Imagine bragging about a 15 year old Reddit account
Unhinged suburbanite threatening an even more unhinged suburbanite
This one gets around a lot for some reason, and even evidence to the contrary is "this will only make the bazingamobiles better, one death at a time!"
Guess what's actually cool, safe, and easy to make driverless? Trains.
Techbros crave Rube Goldberg style tech solutions to solved problems because the Rube Goldberg style tech solutions can make them richer and sound more le epic.
Also they hate other people, particularly those with less money or more melanin than themselves, and are loathe to share a room with them.
They'd rather fantasize about escaping into space to get away from the poors and other undesirables.
When I talk about bazinga brains, this is the kind of post I want to have listed as a dictionary example of the term.
The idea of enforcing scarcity onto inherently nonscarce digital "goods" is one of the purest expressions of capitalist brainworms
The cryptogrifters assume that their internet funny money will automatically sell and build castles in the sky by planning for how to exploit that automatic success and enshittify it before it even exists.
In my more conspiracy-brained moments, I sometimes think NFTs are a plot to get people to accept DRM by buying into it in the same way homeownership got people to buy into capitalism in the US and UK.
The goal was to tokenize everything instead of having privacy.
that last one is just terrifying
are Americans okay?
"Web3" has been a long rancid wet fart so far.
More people died of covid under Biden, kids are still in cages, more wars have been started, women's rights have been limited, LGBTQ+ are more threatened, we're still dronestriking, the military budget has increased, the climate is only getting worse and nothing is being done.
If you support Biden, even critically, then you are much closer to being a Trump supporter than anyone here.
The only thing that makes you dislike trump is the fact that he looks kinda goofy in a suit and that he doesn't talk like a state dep ghoul.
Dronies only know how to regurgitate the heritage foundation, hate orange chip man, and lie
???? There's plenty of things to complain about with Hexbear from a liberal perspective, but I've never seen anybody here claim that Trump actually won the election; we don't really give a shit about elections in the first place. Where have you seen anything that gave you the impression that we're hardcore Trump MAGA posters cosplaying as communists?
Why do you think we're secretly maga chuds? I genuinely don't understand, especially if you've seen a lot of posts from here.
Their brain is too smooth to consider anything outside the binary, red vs blue politics on their teevee