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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

They've been havin struggle sessions about hexbear nearly once a week. We're on their minds a lot lol, especially peeps from .dbzero and .world.

My guilty pleasure has been perusing those threads and then thru the biggest crybaby's modlogs to enjoy the sweet schadenfreude of the hexbear thread where they got clowned.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why do they care about us so much?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The average Hexbear post is pretty wild when you're a lib. I remember finding r/cth in 2016 and the shit people would say casually in the comments kinda blew me away. "Do it again Sherman" goes crazy with a Southern education.

Even then as a Berniebro they were a lot closer to my politics than 2016 reddit (🤮). Funnier too

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

yeah i was a newly minted socdem coming from vague left-libertarianism that often posted in r/politics and kept hearing about how scary r/cth was.

so i made a different account to go check it out (because god forbid i get banned from everywhere for touching the forbidden subreddit)

some of that stuff shocked me a bit at fiorst but only took me a few days to realize everyone was far more progressive then the so called "left as it gets" libs. also there was none of that reddit smarm and "personal responsibility, FAFO" BS.

then I was riding the sub along with the pod during the Great Bernie Ratfuck finally made the stalin, lenin and mao posting no longer seem shocking but instead deeply prophetic

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a spectre haunting lemmy socialism-spectre

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

the ops are usually libs who have been recently banned from here, misrepresenting their ban and admonishing others to "stay away for their own safety". Beyond regular ol hurt feelings i don't know why we stick in their craw so bad

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

I think part of the reason is that we're their reminder that they aren't "as left as it gets". Which is why they push the "redfash" line so much, it's how they cope.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which instances are having struggle sessions about us?

I would love to read them to satisfy my morbid masochism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://sh.itjust.works/post/26126787 was a tasty one from last week. Let's see... This one was fun ...https://sh.itjust.works/post/26003281.... This one had comments for days https://sh.itjust.works/post/24781037

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I feel like we need some automated post grabber that just collects these post and cross posts theme here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...I don't think about them at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're better than i. I relish their pain and the fact they think far more about us than we them, but i cannot resist watching them twist and seethe in anger. It is low, i know, but i'm still so angry at shitlibs for their smug and stupid worldview being the only voice i could hear and speak with for so long... It twisted me some, and I'll never stop hatin' baby.

I watch them cry out in pain and surprise after spouting the nonsense that gets them lib-upvotes and am healed. They stand in for every talking head i scream at on the tv. Their sweet pained voices are answers from all those i can't hold accountable.

Yes, yes I am bitter. I'm working on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Acknowledging is the first step to change! They deserve ire though, but that is the crux of mercy - not giving someone what they deserve.