cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8181688
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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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Hexbear comes here to be the debate bros they try so hard to dunk on. They are dying looking for just one little morsel of dunk. Not a good showing, not a leftist unity moment lmao
The post exclusively attacks Hexbear's ideological "left unity" position so it's kinda fair game for people from that position to want to say something in its defence.
The people doing marxist sectarianism instead of defending left unity are being dummies though.
Yes to the first part. Although, I'll take this moment to say: hexbear's left unity could use a tune up
I'm just trying to talk about the latter behavior you described, which is kindof a symptom of what I mentioned
Yeah I agree.
I think the issue here is that since left unity only has enforcement onsite, some are baited into sectarian arguments offsite.
There's also the issue that this is specifically posing left-unity as a marxist trick.
Some of us are also just don't believe the left is compatible with autocratic simps. I've tried to find common ground with hexbears and just don't have the time. It's hard to take their "left unity" seriously when I just get banned for questioning orthodoxy.
Me: "Maybe the left should stop making the same mistakes over and over again."
Hexbears: Ok shitlib.
Much unity.
This. I'm not remotely interested in changing out one master for another. Autocracy is not leftist.
this meme is explicitly anti-left unity, as is the OP
I think the meme is a not-so-great way to address a dark topic.
But what I was talking about was the behavior of hexbear users in response that is also not cool.
But also I was just kinda fuckin around being entertained by the arguing and trying not to take it too seriously. I'm not here to take a strong stance. People seem to wanna make me take one but I'm gunna keep trying not to give a shit.
"I was just doing a bit, and you can tell how bothsides I am by how good the bit landed"
I'm not doing a bit, I'm just not trying to take this thread seriously.
Bothsides in the context of arguing about leftist unity feels like a different thing entirely, but I'm also more trying to be "neither side" if that means anything idk I'm tired.
I just want productive progress towards the end of capitalism as soon as possible. In the meantime I'm watching all the anticapitalists find reasons to hate each other forever.
You can't be a fucker like OP and then complain about the lack of unity in response
I'm not complaining, I'm entertained.
And mostly using that language was me trying to reference the meme, try to bring it all full circle.
Oh no, there is unity. From the he bear users that came in as a brigade to drive the discussion out of the instance's users. There's more hexbear coments than any other instance what the fuck.
For real. It's been a wild day :D
Is it worth? I don't get what's going on with americans. Here we have both Anarchists and Communists doing stuff together ALL THE TIME. Even Trots sometimes are collaborative.
I really admire a lot of stuff you do, and I try to replicate in order to help those who can't read english. But it can't be healthy to start all this argument online with people calling each other terrible names.
Man, I just posted a meme. I didn't expect the whole hexbear red army to brigade me.
yeah, for me it is sad.
You criticize Hexbear for dunks, but also criticize them for responding at length with citations.
Wait I didn't mean to criticize citations I love citations mb.
What did I say I'll edit it
What sort of behavior are you critiquing here?
Personally I think "debate bro" stuff is more arguing for the sake of arguing/bending over backwards to defend even trivial or weak points, maybe with a sprinkling of going back-and-forth long after it becomes clear you're at an impasse. I don't see a lot of that here anyway.
It involves a wide variety of behaviors, including the stuff you said, but primarily the first thing that comes to mind for me is the behaviour of trying to force/coerce people to engage in debates/discussions that they don't want to have or are otherwise unprepared to have, usually on the bad-faith preposition that anyone who is unwilling to participate in said debate/discussion must only be unwilling for the reason of being wrong.
I see your point, but I think this is seriously undermined when you have someone like OP who is willing to post all day about this, and occasionally willing to dip their toes into trying to raise real points, but then throws up their hands and says "hey it's just a ~~joke~~ meme" whenever they're in a tough spot.
Eh, IMO it was more like they attempted to engage in response, and then tapped out when it went over their head. Or maybe they just got busy IRL.
It doesn't seem good to me to try and rationalize shitty behavior just because of a reason someone might deserve it.
Also tho, if you wanna call them a lib and consider them officially dunked, you don't need a certain response from them for it to work, you can just decide that.
Looks like they've been posting pretty hard in this thread for at least 6-7 hours, often multiple paragraphs at a time.
It's not shitty behavior to make a political response to a political meme, or to point out when someone isn't having a good faith conversation.
Remember, I'm replying to 12 people here. Y'all are replying to just me.
Yes, but I'm not taking issue with just making political responses or pointing out bad-faith conversations. I'm taking issue with attempts to force/coerce engagement in a debate/discussion when someone doesn't want to or is otherwise unprepared for debate/discussion.
I'm not trying to say any of this in the interest of proving anyone wrong or right or whatever. I would just like to see less of that behavior.
Straight up misgendering half the posters lol
Please don't. I take that seriously and it is obtuse to pretend you don't know the phrase "debate bro". It was a cultural reference, and I have no intention at any point of misgendering anyone.
Use debate nerd instead in cases where you don't want to gender people.
Debate pervert is also great
"debatenerd" I'm picking this up! But in my defense, I was saying "debate me bro", as in, someone who says "debate me, bro"
So, there is this cool thing you can do called making memes gender neutral instead of calling trans women bros.
Since you take misgendering extremely seriously, I thought you should know about this neat trick.
This is a meme I am referencing after seeing it on hexbear. Specifically imitating their language to make a point. Maybe we should talk to them about it too. I obviously hadn't considered the full implications, and will not use that phrase anymore, for sure.
You may also have seen "debatelord"
I don't remember seeing that specifically, I might have, but I did specifically see the other several times.
Gender is incompatible with left unity, therefore no they didn't
gotta make sure your insults are inclusive or something, I guess
They're starving, man