• NaN@lemmy.sdf.org
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    There is a rumor that it’s all a game and you’re really just there LARPing in mockery of the type of people you’re pretending to be.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Pretending to be communists for 3 years and thousands of comments as high concept performance art

      In fact we’re so dedicated to this joke we read Marx and Engels and joined socialist organizations

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        Doing an actual communist revolution because we are just that committed to the bit.

        Some stubborn liberal that’s mad we had to [REDACTED] a few billionaires and war criminals as is necessary in revolutions comes in to the free gender affirmation clinic having just finished brunch at the local free kitchen and bursting into the reception area shouting “BUT AT WHAT COST?!” Then claiming the clinic isn’t actually real, and storming out mutter about paid Russian actors and Trump, who had since been posthumously convicted by the previous liberal government after having died choking on a McRib two years prior.

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              more and more I feel like people who are both transphobic, and also project that on China are really telling on themselves about what they would do if they were in power. It always feels like “you’re lucky our FREEDOM LOVING government lets DEG*NERATES like you exist!” It’s almost more terrifying than the typical right wing blue hair enby boogieman memes.

              • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                I feel like there’s a lot of people along for the ride when it comes to these narratives- like people who will seriously believe some military guy that spent the last two decades airstriking muslim weddings when he says with a straight face that he’s really concerned about the freedom of east Turkistan

        • good_girl [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Oh no I never considered that a place I’m critically supportive of might not be perfect. Guess it’s time to throw away all my beliefs and buy NFTs while sucking down whatever the dems are pushing in amerikkka.

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        You would be prosecuted and possibly killed by the Chinese government. Remember that.

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            It doesn’t matter. There’s no way you would even consider any point that doesn’t fit in your bubble. You and all the other idiots in your fantasy world of an instance are a waste of energy. You are lthe same as any Facebook Trump supporter. Your politics are different, but the brainrot isn’t.

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              I’m pretty sure it’s you who’s never explored outside their ideological bubble, because I was a bog-standard American liberal for over 40 years, until I actually read a book or listened to a point of view outside of that bubble.

                • HornyOnMain🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.ml
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                  All you know is that I think you and your buddies are removed.

                  anticommunists try to go 5 minutes without yelling slurs at people challenge [impossible]

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                    I don’t know what removed is a substitute for or why they didn’t just use the original word: there are no algorithms here to circumvent.

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                  I think it’s safe to assume that you think of yourself as a conservative, a centrist, or a “liberal”, and all of those are liberalism:

                  Liberalism is an idealist ideology that promotes free market principles, individualism, and fundamental rights

                  Now you know why we use the word liberal with a seemingly broad brush: we are using its original meaning, as people in continental Europe generally still do.

                  I don’t know what removed is euphemizing, or why you’d euphemize it on a platform that has no algorithms to circumvent.

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      Some people just can’t fathom the possibility that we actually mean it.

      It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism — Fredric Jameson

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      Reading hundreds of communist theory books and joining a democratic centralist party just to fool the libs.

      Not sure exactly what we’re supposed to be achieving by doing Hexbear and so perfectly engaging in communist discourse and advocating for literally every single downtrodden and oppressed group on the planet if it’s all fake? For what purpose? Surely doing that all so perfectly is just… Advocacy. Digital activism. It’s not a game if you do it so hard it just becomes exactly what you’re doing.