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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Narrator: it was actually a 14 year old idiot

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The combined age of hexbear is about 45.

Even the MEGA lot are amusingly insane. But hexbear posters always strike me as just fundamentally uneducated quite possibly because their voices haven't broken yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's quite uncanny how they can cite a bunch of random socialist essays, but are completely unable to contextualize them within a boarder political science framework.

It's so easy to recognize, because I legit remember going through that phase as a teenager where I would lecture my AP history about the most recent Chomsky chapter I'd read that week, while he patiently waited for me to finish embarrassing myself to quiety demonstrate I had no idea what I was talking about. So far this has been basically every interaction I've had with hexbears.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think everyone goes through a communist phase but gets out of it when they grow up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Or a right libertarian phase, both are fine as long as they end in high school.