Y'all remember that meme about leftists caring about human rights issues and tankies countering that with nothing other than "that's CIA propaganda"? Well, someone . All I commented was "ITT: Insults, putdowns and whataboutisms". Well, now I'm banned from a whole range of Hexbear comms permanently. Reason:

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Lol.

Saved you the effort to block the site. Don't see the downside.

They seem to get more hostile as they get more radicalized, I guess that tracks.

One of the first instances I blocked

What is this, Reddit?

I saw. I noticed when I looked at Slop's post about my post in the tankieslop comm.

They claim the comments under my post are unbearable but then their comment section is the usual apologia that you could cross out on a bingo card ("liberal", calling anyone who disagrees with them a nazi, ableism, etc.)

They also seem to call me a zionist, based on something I said a year ago ("anyone who opposes the statehood of Israel, make yourself known so I can block you"), which was more bait so I can just sort out the worst revanchists.

Like I am more an Isratin proponent now.

I really used to want to have communist friends before I got on this website. I've seen a group active in the city I live near and I've wanted to make contact and go try to be part of something but honestly interacting with these sealioning trolls kind of put me off it.

People IRL probably aren't like that but the risk kind of doesn't seem worth it. They might be the kind of people you get high with and then they gang up on you in a compromised state

That seems like an insult to reddit.

("anyone who opposes the statehood of Israel, make yourself known so I can block you"),

To be fair, that's a pretty Zionist thing to say so I'm not sure why you'd be surprised when people take it that way

Dude it's the internet. The far right has been trolling every kind of left group for over a decade and since Trump 1.0 it's been state level actors.

Oh I know. I fucking expect it from them. I just kind of thought people championing social liberty would less shitty to be around.

Hell, I don't even need people to be nice. Just holy damn don't be toxic. Their culture is just being toxic and then blaming it on you. But it all makes more sense when you consider that's not a social movement. That's just a farm for social credit scores which is why they lash out and just go full bro debate bro all the time

Tankies rarely leave their houses, so that communist group is probably fine?

just block the whole crap, and never look back. let the cavemen fight eachother.

I maybe went a bit far there. But basically, no matter how much one says one supports Palestinian self-determination and oppose Israeli crimes. As soon as you don't want people to fantasize about genociding Israeli civilians, you get called a zionazi by these people.

A part of me wants to do that. The other part of me says to not block it, because that just everyone live in their little bubble that much more, which is a major problem nowadays.

Not all communists are like that, or are MLs. Anyone IRL is much more likely to be chill, especially if they are doing real activism and stuff. And if not, just leave em.

By that logic you should go to klan rallies, and pride parades, peta protests and food drives.

Going to those signals support. There's a difference between that and not filtering out what certain people say. If anything, it's more like those people who go to counter-protests or go to the far-right rallies to question the people in a way to expose the falsehoods behind their beliefs (albeit on a much, much smaller scale, seeing as this is just the Internet).

It doesn't matter, it doesn't effect you

Except it does, it affects all of us. A major part of the reason (IMO) everything is so polarized is because so many people are living in their bubble and as such don't understand why others think differently. And understanding how and why those people think the way they think is the first step in countering it. I have been somewhat successful in moving people away from radical ideologies IRL, but only because I understood those ideologies and their faults.

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Me: "Yeah, nobody is surprised. That's what they do, that's all they do, they're idiots."

They're basically the left wing version of groypers, I cannot stress this enough: Good, be glad they banned you, if they hadn't I'd say instance block them anyway.

They're championing social liberty in the same way that teenage atheists champion humanist enlightenment. I can confirm that your irl communist group, full of functional folks who recognize and understand how to interact with people through more than quips and insults, is unlike hexbear. But be aware of where the flock cameras point. The US is doing a McCarthyist revival

Thanks. That's reassuring. Maybe I'll keep my feelers out. I hope there's something I can contribute to a project like that even as I am now