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comrade @Riverside@reddthat.com here isn't the slop, it's the comments. I mean regardless of what they think of us, this is sad lol

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[-] axont@hexbear.net 75 points 1 month ago

Liberals truly believe politics is like Goku charging the spirit bomb. If you don't offer enough intangible support like raw belief, you end up destroying everything. They think there's a god of liberalism that we're harming while we're simultaneously giving spiritual energy to the demonic God of Russia.

Liberals believe in this because they're so detached from political input they've decided politics must necessarily operate through spectacle and reaction. If you react incorrectly, it changes the nature of the spectacle, is how they see it.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Every leftist, when asked if/why we support China or any AES state, should simply say "I don't support them, I like them. Unless the power of my opinion is some kind of real prayer, it makes exactly 0 difference"

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago
[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Organizing my local fishers' community and proclaiming "In the name of Xi!" like a medieval herald

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Look, I was trying to be playful in my first response but I'm watching this get up votes so I'm just gonna be blunt. If you feel the need to say this, perhaps you're better off just not calling yourself a leftist? Solidarity is a core concept of being leftist and if even the aesthetics of supporting AES states to a fucking LIB is that much of a burden, maybe being "leftist" isn't for you?

Just hold the line, hexbear. It's not rocket science.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

You're right, to the extent that one can exercise solidarity and be materially useful to the interests of the working classes of the entire world, one should do so. And there are real material links between helping organize and advance the positions of workers in, say, Guatemala, and the project of Chinese socialism. We shouldn't shy away from saying as such, so yes, my previous message is not universally correct. It is correct in the context of raising money for Palestinians and someone interjecting with "you guys support Chinese authoritarianism though" because in that context, it really is salient and relevant to say that nothing Hexbear has done as a community materially^[By "materially," in the loose way I'm using it in this sentence, I roughly mean to that extent and in the same order of significance of the previously stated fundraising drive] impacts China.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

It is correct in the context of raising money for Palestinians and someone interjecting with "you guys support Chinese authoritarianism though" because in that context, it really is salient and relevant to say that nothing Hexbear has done as a community materially[1] impacts China.

I appreciate your acknowledgement, but hard disagree at this. Because at that point you've now engaged in their propagation of harmful stereotypes and have ceded the point to them. "Oh, you say so and so beats his wife? Well I don't support him, but I still like him." Fine you're not contributing to impacting them materially, but you are now contributing to harming them. Debatable whether we need to be directly engaging with these assholes at all, but if you are it sure as hell shouldn't be to appease them. Our job as leftist is to set an example and build the future. Not getting all wishy washy so the libs like us.

[-] AF_R@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m gonna be real I unironically and uncritically support everything China does, because even despite their current deficiencies, it is the one last hope for civilization in the world

[-] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Liberals truly believe politics is like Goku charging the spirit bomb

Kamala/Biden going "GIVE ME YOUR ENERGY!" and its all suburbanite whites and nazi tattoo-totting mercenaries who are the ones raising their arms agony-turbo

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Liberals believe in this because they're so detached from political input they've decided politics must necessarily operate through spectacle and reaction. If you react incorrectly, it changes the nature of the spectacle, is how they see it.

I think part of this is also the sheer prevalence of media people in the Democratic party. It's a party full of people with chronic media-brain.

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