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If you vote for Harris or Trump
We will remember that you endorsed genocide.
You might as well start wearing a red armband with a swastika.
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We'll have a long memory
Given my experience with liberals (I suppose just Americans in general), that's gonna be a big 
from me
What they mean is 20 years from now someone will write a twitter thread claiming that ~~ralph nader~~ jill stein was responsible for the $US_MILITARY_ATROCITY of 2026 then be dogpiled by people calling them an idiot because every democrat in the house & senate voted for it. I am quaking in my boots thinking of the reckoning that I will experience on that day.
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Oh yikes they still preaching the lesser of two genocides hmm? Losers.
It doesn't get better once you dip into the comments
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It's funny cause hexbear was one of the og instances along with like lemmy.ml and the contributors here do a lot of heavy lifting for the lemmy project as a whole lol like I think hexbear devs made pinning threads for lemmy possible
Pinning a post globally was something I upstreamed, IIRC. Also Emojis and Taglines
Hard to believe there was a time before having a thousand custom emotes. I was there in the first week and barely remember anything but the random struggle sessions
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Lemmy.world is the biggest instance, and given it being an anti-Marxist instance designed to replicate Reddit, it has the most turbo-radlibs that couldn't stay on Reddit through the API crisis. Zionism, transphobia, racism, all manner of the worst takes possible. The smuggest people on the Fediverse, and the rudest.
Sh.itjust.works is 50/50 lib/fascist, NCD and MeanwhileOnGrad push the fascism.
Lemmy.ca is just landlords.
Lemm.ee is more of a tool than an instance.
Lemmy.ml is constantly a struggle session, .worlders outnumber communists and anarchists but the mods side with the communists, so it's constantly a struggle.
Grad is grad, doing fine it seems.
Dbzer0 still pretends to be okay with Marxists, but they can't support AES. Weird spot, doing okayish.
Solarpunk is small but has your typical anti-AES anarchist slant, some users are more reasonable than others, which is just a symptom of putting aesthetic over politics.
Think that does it!
Stalking your ml profile is a window into the madness of the lemmyverse. I don't know how you can keep arguing with libs like that.
It's an outlet to get out frustration, honestly, though sometimes it leaves me more frustrated. I've stated before, Hexbear is by far the more enjoyable instance for me, but I get satisfaction out of calling genocidal libs out or proving some ultraleft "Marxist" wrong about their understanding of Marxism.
Solarpunk as a concept is so funny
What if my politics were just, like, a vibe
I've spoken with a few users, carefully pointing out how by being anti-Marxist but not also being anti-liberal, and further having no links to theory of any sort beyond aesthetic choices, opens them up to opportunism. They seemed to vaguely accept it, hope it can get through to them.
You're out there combating liberalism every day and I admire it
See, it's entirely self-driven and egotistical, I get grim satisfaction from asserting my knowledge of theory against the smug liberals. It isn't healthy, nor is it out of any grander vision, I still haven't picked a party to join yet. It's just me being a debatebro, albeit less of one than I used to be on Reddit.
I appreciate the sentiment, I just think my energy would be more productive elsewhere.
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They blocked Hexbear immediately, hopeless, that place really does just have an aesthetic.
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Dbzer0 still pretends to be okay with Marxists, but they can't support AES. Weird spot, doing okayish.
Whenever I see some shitlib bullshit it's always either from them or the stupid star trek instance
Yep, anti-AES Anarchists often play into Imperialist hands, which describes the overall dbzer0 pretty well. Our Anarchists are great!
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Someone from reddit.world accused me of being a right-wing troll and it started a dog pile session where they got torn apart by a dozen other commenters for being a moron. It was actually really affirming that my neurotic screaming into the void has been acknowledged and accepted.
Never stop posting. 😏
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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.
Why do they care about us so much?
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
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
There is a spectre haunting lemmy 
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
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.
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Hmm idk let's see.
Lemmyworld is the biggest right wing instace and that kinda ruins the other instances with their libs and fash users, they also working in some java alternative to lemmy but they have zero progress on that
java alternative to lemmy
why. Just why.
Because lemmy ml is controled by evil tankies who force freedom loving people to learn rust in order to develop the site
Why did they leave Reddit if they love capitalism so much?
Most go back to Reddit, the ones that stay are the "true believers" in whatever vibes-based ideology occupies their brainpan.
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Completely rewrite a fully functioning foss and decentralized project with a lot of users written in an insanely fast modern language and use ..
java
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i wish the network as a whole had more users i got excited the first time i scrolled through the federated instances like damn this shit is so cool then realised most of them have like 10 users
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I only remember other instances when I load up Hexbear and forget to press "local". I read a few awful and unfunny posts and then realize that I made a huge mistake
you can set your default to Local in the settings and never have that experience again, FYI
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