Nuh Uh I posted about posting about gaming. Checkmate

I don’t bully anyone into revolutionary thought because building social justice awareness, economic understanding and critical thinking are journey’s everyone takes at different paces based on circumstances I’m not privy to.

What I do bully people for is having bigoted opinions or arrogant takes based on personal bias and subversive media slop that fundamentally impacts other people’s lives, wellbeing and right to exist as themselves within our system.

You can be a raging lib and not a bigot, yes there’s a deeper conversation to be had around how neoliberalism IS built upon bigotry and exploitation and that defense of it enabling bigotry but I can work with anyone if they understand what is needed to better minority rights in 2023 without evangelising their milquetoast political takes.

It just so happens most libs I meet online and irl are more concerned with personal trinkets, wants, personal privilege and their cringe entitlement than actually making material changes to improve the lives of those less fortunate than themselves who chances are we’re exploited to provide the comfy standard of living most of these asshats speak from.

So like naaaah I don’t look for fights, but I’ll dirtbag left anyone who wants to debate someone’s right to exist in conversation or have takes fuelled by subconscious white supremacy about nations and people they’ve never understood outside of media propaganda.

Am I the bully in those situations? Or are the majority with their gross ass bigoted takes just so used to being able to vocalise their bigotry with others that me and any other dork on this site calling them out feels like oppression because their victim complex built upon their privilege always sees calls for betterment and self improvement as infringements upon personal liberty vs a collective social call for better standards of discourse and civility?

Yeah we don’t take shit on this site but it isn’t coming from a place of Liberal/ally/white Knight paternalistic chauvinism but from a place of genuine struggle as most of us ARE victims of the same oppression we have no tolerance for.

That might make us seem immature or combative to the outside and yeah some of us can be dickheads but the core ethos of this site and community is protection of minority groups and promotion of leftist ideals BECAUSE we are both victims of systemic and overt oppression and as leftists who understand our struggle through the lens of society and therefore capitalism we won’t relent for someone wanker redditor coming in to flex his debatelord muscles for clout.

Non of that was aimed at you btw, just happened to have a confident moodlet going and ran with it on the pulpit.

Yes

Yes, you are the lib in the room

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You realise we can access hexbear.net and see the local posts? It’s absolutely coordinated behaviour. Hexbear users post links to a given thread from another instance in chat or chapo or wherever with a suitably inflammatory title along with a call to arms

Do you think we’re having users make accounts on defederated instances? We have a specific rule against “brigading” federated instances because it had like one thread about Ada where it actually happened. This is you jumping at shadows.

Mao Tse-tung

The modern romanization is Zedong, philistine.

killed, brutalised and starved to death more human beings than any other person that has ever lived.

Tell me about how much you aren’t a lib.

If the society you seek to build is based on that same, tired old philosophy then I will fight you every step of the way.

As opposed to what? Anarchism? That’s even older! But no, associating you with anarchists gives you too much credit. Tell us about how we should put more stock in whatever boutique ideology you pseudo-leftist piss sommeliers have cooked up lately instead of the ones that have actually gained ground or even exist outside of the internet.

It’s a very strange person that looks at the history of China over the last 100 years and decides they’d like to repeat it.

It’s a very strange person that talks about “the history of China over the last 100 years” while having themselves studied so little of it.

It’s a very strange person that looks at the history of China over the last 100 years and decides they’d like to repeat it.

Yeah, who would ever want to repeat this:

Famines were extremely common in China before the communists came to power and the Chinese people were among the poorest in the world. Mao certainly made mistakes, but these specific, dramatic events have been exaggerated to the point of obscuring the more general trend towards food security and poverty alleviation. Likewise, rural Chinese had no access whatsoever to modern medicine like vaccines, meaning that they were plagued by horrible, preventable diseases. But for some reason my history books neglected to mention things like the wildly successful Barefoot Doctors program, which drastically improved Chinese life expectancy and quality of life. I suppose stuff like that isn’t all that exciting since we take it for granted, but the fact is that no country has ever lifted more people out of poverty and extreme poverty in so short a time as the PRC. And it certainly wasn’t going to happen under the nationalists.

As for demonstrating: Yeah me too, but that doesn’t matter at all for an online shotposting forum and instilling a culture were we need to “prove” ourselves by sharing information that makes us easier to dox is fed shit.

As for “brigading” I’ll add onto what @GarbageShoot@hexbear.net says and add that the community c_tye"dunk_tank is for sharing terrible takes found online. It’s not an organising effort, but one of “look at this idiot”. I’ll not deny that it probably brings more attention to some users here, than they otherwise would’ve received, but I gotta be honest and say I can’t really feel bad for them. If they’re shitty enough to aggravate a bunch of people to dunk on them, then that’s on them. It’s not well-meaning libs or whatever that gets posted there’s nor is it simple disagreements. It’s pretty clearly awful people saying awful shit.

As for Map Zedong… There’s plenty to critique the man for, but it’s pretty clear to me you’re just quoting red scare era “black book of communism” misinformation. I’d recommend reading more about the man and the period. If you need pointers I know @robinn2@hexbear.net has a great wealth of knowledge about China.
But consider the following: China had famines every decade until the Maoists took over. China had one famine, which has been the source of a great deal of criticism. If we employed the same level of rigour to all other countries, then the “evil” of China would be like that of a school bully compared to that of the UK, the US and France being serial killers.
The Maoists made use of the Mass Line, which relied heavily on the cooperation of the civilian population, without the aid of which they never could have won. If Mao was so evil, how come the populace supported him?
They managed to come back after long march, having been relegated to a tiny rural region. How did they do this, of the populace did not support them?
The KMT saw immense numbers of defectors to the Maoists, why?
The population grew under the Maoists, and life expectancy exploded, despite apparently both civil war, “totalitarian repression” and deliberate starvation. Yet he apparently murdered millions by decree at the same time.
Tibet is often held up as example of political repression, which strikes me as odd. Before the PLA came to Tibet, it was a slave owning theocracy. Why was it bad to abolish slavery in Tibet?

China is not an area I am well-versed in, so if you wish to have a more rigorous discussion I’d recommend asking questions to @robinn2@hexbear.net or engaging with @Mardoniush@hexbear.net who has already responded to you here. It seems as though she is much more well versed than I on the subject.
There’s also this thread with a lot of good information.

This is why Lenin emphasised a party with paid, professional cadre. Workers don’t have the time and have responsibilities to others. It’s not quite as bad as it used to be, but a professional core is still essential.

Join a party that’s only moderately terrible, pay your dues.

As for Mao…it was arguably the least terrible century China has ever had, despite his errors. Most notably leaning too far into the KPAM’s anarchist theory during the Great Leap Forward. (I like the KPAM but they had bad takes like anyone else.)

I am willing to bet that you are speaking from a country that America drags along in its wake, so you remain a bidenist no matter how many snide remarks you make about ze stupid Americans.

I’m British dickhead, don’t rope me in with the hamburger people 😤 I have my own cultural failures to deal with without being a yank.

Ignoring that the United States is an imperial hegemon is equally silly.

Viewing the entire world through the American lens is folly.

i’m not american and i’m fine with calling these people anarcho-bidenists, it’s just a way of saying some anarchists (especially western ones) are actually just radlibs, whether in awareness of it or not

Yes, you are absolutely the smartest ones in the room. All rooms. At all times.

Yes, you are absolutely the smartest ones in the room. All rooms. At all times.

As opposed to you, who definitely doesn’t roleplay being the “smartest one in the room” and speak in condescending generalizations about a large group of political others. Never ever.

It’s okay, I realised I do all of these things plus ultra so I’m back to full self delusion levels 💪