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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

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[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 89 points 1 year ago

turbolib to lib pipeline confirmed

[-] iie@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(this is an in-joke where hexbears call themselves libs btw, not directed at OP)

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago

And this is why I (almost) always oppose defederating other instances. Welcome!

[-] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

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)

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

We look now to the example set by Sharkfucker 420 on how to be better people

By fucking sharks

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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".

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I too have questioned my gender, still haven't really figured it out tbh

This seems to be a trend I've noticed

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[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

oh wow you actually fell for the "read theory" meme?

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

marx-joker We have that in emoji form.

[-] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

I cant use them because I use jerboa so I save them onto my phone directly and post them as images. Looks the same to me on the app. What's it looks like to you? I didn't realize people could tell

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[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

hexbear-shiningsolidaritylemmitor

This is what the establishment fears 👁

[-] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

congratulations on your recovery

[-] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

A spectre is haunting the fedverse

[-] davel@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago
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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the resistance

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[-] Finger@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Was a lemm.ee user. Still don't like the defederations tbh cuz we're missing out on alot of potential leftists. Libs can be radicalized.

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[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

sharkfucker420 go on chapo

[-] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Never actually listened to the podcast tbh. The deprogram was great tho :P

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

excuse me this is a citations-needed fan site

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[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Blowback is good if you haven't listened to that yet

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Deprogram is better don't go on chapo it's kinda just dirtbags being vaguely left and/or socdem tbh. They're funny occasionally? Acquired taste imo.

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[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

why has nobody asked what yogthuos memes are yet. am I the only one that doesn't know what yogthuos is kitty-cri-screm

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

@yogthos@lemmygrad.ml hero-of-socialist-labor

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