Lenins2ndCat @ Lenins2ndCat @lemmy.world

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A fascist runs defence for other fascists, no surprises here. He's been doing fascist dogwhistles for years and years, for example:

"Surf the kali yuga" has been a fascist dogwhistle for a very long time.

Maybe not enough by itself but when you combine it with everything else it's pretty obvious what he is.

Ya I agree. Harmless enough. ¯(ツ)_/¯

No they're not lmao.

It's literally just "be nice to people when visiting other instances, don't behave like a dirtbag leftist unless you're actually on Hexbear". Because the culture of Hexbear is.... Dirtbag left. Making sure that the userbase doesn't behave that way off Hexbear is pretty important. Hexbear users are lovely most of the time but get vicious with each other and are prone to extremely hostile fighting over topics they disagree on, this would be a massive shock to most normal people off-Hexbear. They're just trying to mitigate that.

I think so too, it's just a bit muddled.

Ok can you define tankie for me?

I'm trying to understand which communists don't fall into whatever your definition of tankie is, and that's pretty hard without understanding what you actually mean by that. If I were to assume that you mean something like "people that defend authoritarians" or something:

Trots: Defend and venerate lenin. Hate marxist-leninists. Support Trotsky killing off all the anarchists though. And support the USSR pre-Stalin. Trotsky's own book basically says he would have done most of what Stalin did too?

Marxist-leninists: Defend and support Lenin, Stalin, Mao, among others.

Maoists: Defend and support Lenin, Stalin, Mao. Mostly oppose Deng reforms.

So uhh... Which communists would you not include in your definition of "tankies" ? These are like the three main largest groups of communists.

I don't know why you and others keep calling it a jihadist coup.

The accusation by the media has been that this might lead to jihadists gaining greater power in the region as a result of taking advantage of the destabilisation. Not that these people themselves are jihadists.

My response takes that into account.

Truuuue

Hexbear has existed on lemmy for 3 years. It's just a socialist instance, originally it was /r/chapotraphouse on reddit until Spez banned it for its userbase saying things like "slaveowners should be killed" (because he is a prepper who has said he will own slaves after the collapse).

Chapotraphouse is a socialist podcast, it was also the #1 highest donated thing on Patreon for a good while. These days it's #2.

I think it's a bit different to not tolerate people that ideologically want the extermination of others for their immutable characteristics, compared to people that are working towards achieving a different economic and political system.

Not only that, but in discussion the fascists do not participate in good-faith whereas those of us on the left certainly do. I tend to find less good-faith participation from neoliberals compared to other communists actually, the softer liberals that seem more like fence sitters tend to be alright to talk to though.

They're defending Hexbear and lemmy.ml by calling them woke. And is proud of being woke.

Woke isn't a word that belongs to fascists.

Seems like you're not very confident in your ideology then.

Gonna be a laugh

The fork was a while back now, it moved back to regular lemmy these days after a lot of work in order to make it ready for federation.

It's literally just anti-socialism. I have no other explanation for it.

Lmao not the wording I'd use but I agree in spirit.

It's definitely not fascist lmao

This instance is federated with Lemmygrad which is considerably more hardline. Hexbear is softer and full of demsocs and anarchists, there's no justification for Hexbear not being allowed while Lemmygrad is.

This instance hasn't defederated from lemmygrad, which is by far much more of a hardline community when it comes to ideological position. Hexbear is softer than lemmygrad, its members are a mixture of ideologies of the left - democratic-socialists, anarchists and communists. It makes no sense to defederate from Hexbear before lemmygrad.

In terms of hatespeech and marginalised people it is by far the strongest and most iron-fisted instance on the lemmyverse. Having no-tolerance policy to it that goes well beyond that of anywhere else.

It's the only instance on lemmyverse that enforces visible pronouns, without cowardly forcing people to put it in hidden profile pages. If I recall correctly the last poll that was taken showed nearly 30% of its users are trans? Maybe 20%? I can't remember.

I'm less concerned about democracy in the poorest country in the world and significantly more concerned with building out the infrastructure it requires. Getting out from underneath colonial rule is a pre-requisite to progress in that domain. That either comes from a coup or from a revolution, I don't particularly care which.

If Castro was a religious zealot I’d also prefer Batista stay in power tbh. Castro was more secular though so I don’t see it as inherently doomed to an even more fucked up level of abuse and control and wouldn’t hold the same perspective.

Even if it did have a level of religious control and involvement(there's no evidence of that so far) we shouldn't let that cloud our judgement of whether it would be progressive politically for the country. If it results in the construction of infrastructure, or independent political structures, and a foundation from which the country can go its own way, then it is progressive.

Let me put it to you this way. If progress is impossible under whatever the current regime is (in this case it was a French colony) then anything and everything that moves the dial away from that becomes progressive as it opens the door to further movement in the direction that we would like to see.

In months/years to come will opposing this government and calling for progress be something I end up doing? Probably. (and that would represent further progress that was not possible under the previous French colonial arrangement) But for this exact moment in time I am mostly optimistic.

The main apprehension I have is over where France goes to get their uranium next. This take was doing the rounds yesterday. However I think it's probably wrong as there are quite a lot of different places to get uranium from, and also Niger's own uranium will end up on the global market anyway. But I'll be keeping an eye on what the French response to its energy needs are just in case.

The attitude "they're poor and starving and being exploited to the hilt.... but at least they're not religious" does not hold much sway with me. I'll take the latter if it improves some of the former where it previously could not have been achieved, then deal with the latter in further steps.