I was a sh.itjust.works user
I was a sh.itjust.works user
We can be radicalized
Granted I only used sh.itjust.sucks because it was the first instance recommended to me. However, it was during the brief time when hexbear was a boogeyman to all that I was exposed to true leftist thought. It took about a month or two of reading yogthuos memes before I read theory
Anyway I thought I'd give a hopepost, I genuinely was a turbolib
And this is why I (almost) always oppose defederating other instances. Welcome!
Oh for me me it's just so I can call libs morons when they wander in here instead of going out and getting banned for doing it.
(just kidding, I agree)
oh no, that part too is also really fun. collectively dunking on libs is my favorite part of federation
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People will say posting isn't praxis but I genuinely had no idea how misinformed I really was about acts committed by the United States until I started seeing pushback from Hexbear. It started with seeing the suffering of people around me. Then I played Disco Elysium. Then I found Hexbear. Now I'm watching Richard Wolff and learning about BRICS. Osmosis is an underrated recruitment tool.
it keeps happening
Folks, many such cases, a lot of people are saying.
I oppose all defederation except where opposing admins have blatantly been racist/homophobic or protected racists/homophobes in their teams.
Unfortunately that means SJW is always gonna be a "keep it defederated" from me. Just the acronym alone should tell you what that hellhole stands for.
BUT, right wingers are radicalisable. A lot of people that have fallen into that rightwing pipeline genuinely are just ignorant. We have a lot of people who have been rehabilitated from the far right pipelines. I will always engage with people that seek to engage in good faith.
Sometimes it takes a little while for them to open up to that kind of engagement though. Like you said, a few months of engaging with memes before finally trying to learn properly.
I fell into the youtube antifeminist mysognist pipeline as a kid, I grew out of it pretty fast thankfully but I definitely hurt some people with my words in those times. I've worked to make it up to them where I can but it fucks with my head pretty often. I was still very liberal after I grew out of it but not bigoted (as much as a liberal can be). Shockingly it was actually reddit that pulled me out of that pipeline; after I realized I was bi I sought out queer communities on reddit (which I had only just downloaded like a month before this) and found 196 which was pretty far "left" for me at the time. Then I used lemmy and found hexbear. Fuck I really have been raised by the internet, dammit.
I was gonna go somewhere with that but I am high and lost my train of thought. Basically I'm glad y'all exist and post as much as y'all do, genuinely helped me grow as a person.
genuinely helped me grow as a person.
Hexbear as a haven and rehabilitation of problem childs is a good bit
I am glad that you found your way comrade. One piece of advice, never stop learning. Never feel "finished".
I fell into the youtube antifeminist mysognist pipeline as a kid, I grew out of it pretty fast thankfully but I definitely hurt some people with my words in those times. I've worked to make it up to them where I can but it fucks with my head pretty often. I was still very liberal after I grew out of it but not bigoted (as much as a liberal can be). Shockingly it was actually reddit that pulled me out of that pipeline; after I realized I was bi I sought out queer communities on reddit (which I had only just downloaded like a month before this) and found 196 which was pretty far "left" for me at the time. Then I used lemmy and found hexbear. Fuck I really have been raised by the internet, dammit.
lmao i could have written this about myself and it still would be true
Glad to hear about your growth, shark fucker.
Similar enough to my own story. I was never conservative outright, but definitely had my own biases being raised in a heavily conservative environment, then started identifying as liberal until I learned more, grew up, and read more.
I had a similar story to some of comments chaining off this comment - atheist 11 year old debate bro adopted by the Dawkins/Yianopoulous/Hitchens anti-religious anti-feminist islamophobe pipeline, then growing out of it as fast as I got sucked into it.
I think right wingers that are truly commited to the 'facts and logic' shit can be especially susceptible. I found myself on the right in part because of my western chauvinist upbringing, but also because my main feeling was that society was lying to me. Everything felt so fake. The visible solutions were half assed 'left' parties like Democrats/Labour, who seemed to speak in jargonous platitudes, whose policies resembled faux-progressive slam poetry. Nothing ever seemed to get better under them. So I fell towards the 'tell it like it is' crowds. And yet, even within that crowd the contradictions are severe - I was still atheist, pro-choice, loved nature and hated climate change...
Then I discovered 'dirtbag leftism' - with all of its hidden truths, undeniable facts of intervention that 'say it like it is' right-wingers had concealed, explanations that finally 'felt' right, with a scientific (logic-centered) approach to politics. Leftism also has all of the spikes and barbs and anger that the feelgood progressives deny. It all just felt right.
Here I am, 4 years later, feeling like I've finally cut through all the bullshit, writing my dissertation on Western intervention in South America.
Brigading actually works. I am here now because I wanted to find out why r/chapotraphouse was always trolling my echo chamber (r/samharris ...yikes). Turns out CTH trolls were right to dunk on "us".
sh.arksjust.fuck
This is what the establishment fears 👁
congratulations on your recovery
A spectre is haunting the fedverse
Look what thou hath wrought, @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml.
Welcome to the resistance
Same here
it's not just about the money, spiderman
no more half measures walter
Glad to hear I helped! :)
Your posts on lemmy.ml exposed me to lemmygrad and then hexbear :)
Yogthos is banned from .world because god forbid their users be exposed.
the communist pipeline :)
The Lenin of our time
lol if only
sharkfucker420 go on chapo
Never actually listened to the podcast tbh. The deprogram was great tho :P
Podcasting Is Praxis has the same humour as Hexbear does.
why has nobody asked what yogthuos memes are yet. am I the only one that doesn't know what yogthuos is
Yog is a prolific poster from lemmygrad. Comrade makes some banger memes and links a ton of news stories. I think there’s like a couple of his posts on our front page right now
do u live under a rock lol, comrade yogthos has like 5k posts.
welcome!
Also, I wanted to ask, is it not possible to change your display name on hexbear? I tried to do it a few times and throguh jerboa and it would change back, I also tried to do it through browser and just couldn't click on the displayname box
i'm pretty sure we use black magic fuckery (read: frontend code) to repurpose the display name field to enforce mandatory pronoun tags
We all just make new accounts each time we think of a funnier name smh
we use the display name for pronouns so not until lemmy supports tags on usernames
folks, shit does not in fact "just work" smdh
Comrade! 🍻
Welcome, Comrade
Can't resist the immortal science.
i used to be a turbolib too, i always talk to them in good faith if they seem to want to talk in good faith. it can be a very slow process, never lose hope!
That's why I have a Lemmy.ml account. I try to reach out to the Libs and lead them to theory and sound Materialist analysis.
I just keeps happening!
We have that in emoji form.
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