bonus points if you get banned for sharing it

i’ll start: most “vote blue no matter who” liberals are actually good people (not including terminally online liberals as anyone who is terminally online is a bad person)

  • somename [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The entire period of the VCJ onboarding, as well as the response and direction by the admins was kind of a clusterfuck. Worst time on the site for me.

    Edit: To expand on this for those who weren’t there at the time, the Vegan Circlejerk subreddit was risking a ban from reddit, and got a lifeboat offer to Hexbear. This subreddit wasn’t really a socialist subreddit, and the influx brought a ton of wreckers with it.

    You had people arguing that there were no vegan capitalists, that socialist revolutionaries weren’t real socialists because they weren’t vegan. In the same breath that they’d argue pictures of cheese pizzas gave them panic attacks, they’d argue that if animal liberation wasn’t the sole, primary focus of your movement, you were basically

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    supporting child rape due to animal breeding, as animal lives and human lives were exactly the same. All kinds of awful arguments like this.

    And it’s not like animal liberation isn’t important, that ending the industrial agriculture system we have developed isn’t critical. You could feel the amount of bad faith radiating from some of these posts though. And like, yeah, wreckers come, wreckers get banned, but this kept going without real response or meaningful bans for like forever. It just kept dragging on and on, and it was awful.