They were tired of getting their ass beat in the comments and are currently hate scrolling Catadora's profile. They're apparently opposed to Israel but automatically assumed that I would also condemn Hamas? I don't go into the posting mines very often anymore because this shit is exhausting.
Western liberals with a fetish for talking about property crime. They call themselves anarchist but don't read literally anything in the anarchist bibliography.
This whole saga is hilarious. I wonder what this person's motivation for doing this is? What are they thinking will happen? Do they expect all the "tankies" will just go "Yes, I never thought of it like that before, this link to the CIA's website is very compelling evidence that I am completely wrong and will change my mind posthaste!"
I'm 99% sure that person was a paid propagandist. I don't make that claim lightly because I think quite often libs do state department work for free, but this one, well, they set off every one of my "this person is being paid to try to make communists look bad on the internet" alarm bells.
If they were, they probably wouldn't sound like a cliche teenage American "anarchist" though. Real feds are much harder to spot, and mostly lurk to keep tabs on people, this is far too incompetent for the feds.
"Debate me bro! Stop being such a debatebro about it though, debate me, I'm just asking questions, why are you scared to respond? Why are you afraid of the truth? Stop being such a debatebro nazi and answer my questions! You're coping and seething! Debate me! Give me the attention I crave!"
I have learned the secret art of not giving a shit about engaging with people
It works at the mall for those folks at the kiosks, it works with Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, and it works with the chuds at stores who are mad that I still wear a mask everywhere
I've honestly thought about just being like "Yeah i'm a huge fan of Hamas" if i ever end up in a argument with one of these guys. Honestly, it's not like there'd be any consequences worth noting
I mean I was one of the people that got harrassed by homophobic DMs when the site first started. I've only ever used DMs to check if someone is fine, continue a long comment thread privately instead of having a 50 comment deep public chat, and to contact the original developer about site bugs. (Though I don't think they are around anymore). I don't even understand why people would DM randoms on hexbear lol. Especially to debate? Weirdo behaviour.
I remember getting some hate DM from some weirdo patsoc because I was dunking on vets except the patsoc also hate-DMed like 40 people from that thread lmao
I checked their temper tandrum thread before they got banned, and they also hate-DMed you as well.
I am going to argue that this narrative is nonsense. It tries to pass off as universal and eternal something that in reality is particular and ephemeral. In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. [...]
Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.
@anarchost@lemm.ee is a pathetic troll, just your typical pol brained shit-flinger without an ounce of integrity or political coherence
And if they're a paid propagandist they're a cheap one, literally asserted checking sources critically was "nazism", absolute bottom barrel dipshittery
The trick is to instantly recognize these scumbags and immediately clown them, cause whether they're paid or not they're all highly insecure people who measure their self-worth by an imagined proximity and loyalty to power
That anarchost person just dm'ed everyone they interacted with on that thread I'm pretty sure. I think maybe they switched to dm's after realizing their arguments weren't working because people weren't buying what they were selling
!anarchost@lemm.ee I'm a fan of anyone fighting against genocidal colonizers. Hell, even as a child I was rooting for the native Americans over the white man.