Every single time.

What lovely ableism, from the "we're all demsocs, we just tolerate Nazi dogwhistles that Goat has to say stop, and we tolerate ableism and explicit racism too"

The person that dm'd you that dumb shit somehow managed to turn the response thread into a circular firing squad lmao

like clockwork, they finally caught a rule 1 (temp) instance ban and there's a cm0000002 post rending their garments about how it's "bigotry" to speak ill of lemmy.ml.

like bruh the rule 1 ban is probably more related to this activity. the i report i made probably just showed up for the .ml admins too:

Oh that's the user that asked about ttrpg because they needed a new instance.... Because no one likes their behavior but maybe they'll join sjw?

Even if you educate someone about the context and convince them your take on it is correct

Because we're skipping past this part to the "here's how it's relevant to today" part, I want to again emphasize that educating someone about the internal party dynamics of the Weimar Republic and convincing them your take is correct is a herculean task in its own right. This is reasons 1-100 of why delving into this topic is a poor way of convincing anyone of anything.

But assume you've educated me on all the context and I agree with you about who's at fault for what in 1920s Germany. When trying to apply that to today you still run into huge points of disagreement like:

• That was a parliamentary system and we have just two parties, right? Doesn't that change the "split the party" discussion quite a bit?
• What about all the ballot access issues that would come with splitting from Democrats?
• If we're successful splitting from Democrats, can't they just run in our primaries like we occasionally run in theirs? There isn't a way to expel people from parties in the U.S. the way there is in European parties, right?
• Was there a huge lobby on one side of the war credits debate that exists in parallel with a huge imperial interest in an overseas colony?
• Germany had just lost a devastating war in its front yard. The U.S. doesn't have anything like that today, right?
• Germany had its colonies stripped away after WWI while they U.S. is the premier imperial power of today. Doesn't that change a lot?
• Weren't the conditions of the average German worker far different from the conditions of the average U.S. worker today? How comparable is a guy driving an Uber to a guy in a factory?

The comparison adds more complexity rather than clarifies, and it opens up a dozen theoretical rabbit holes to get lost in.

That makes sense and thanks for the lore. In practice I think Hexbear is 99% ML also, but the difference is that HB is less serious. Personally I prefer that because I don’t think anonymous forums can ever be leveraged to organize, due to being public and open. Hexbear does it right. It’s mostly for sharing information and building camaraderie/optimism and fighting that lonely feeling when everyone IRL is liberal or worse.

Anarchist.nexus + dbzer0 for the five with hexbear, .ml, and lemmygrad

Oh I know the answer here: "Death to Israel" and "From the River to the Sea" are actually calls to genocide and that's why they are antisemitic and anyone posting them is just using them as a dogwhistle to hide their real goal of killing all jews (from the g*rmans POV at least)