Roderic Day talking about this site

memes and Redditism

Hexbear hated him because he told the truth.

"why isnt this niche left shitposting site a vanguard of the proletariat???"

Quite flattering for him to call us an "organization" lmao

Roderic is the one who should read more theory

Specifically, Mao's "No Investigation, No Right To Speak"

At least he isn't accusing all our trans users of faking it to cover for red fascists

Roderic Day try to understand humour and dry sarcasm challenge: Impossible

He's right about the laziness though lmao, but he fits in because he didn't bother to check whether we're not all yanks

I think this place has the most encouragement to read theory I've ever seen, and I did an actual philosophy graduate degree.

we're here to laugh at the picture of a pig shitting on its own balls, this is not a communist org. we're not here to "up the ante" lmao

"It's got good stuff, but mixed with memes and Redditism and laziness"

that's what I'm here for mostly.

"this shitposting website is neat! why aren't we overthrowing the bourgeoisie together though??" is not an uncommon misunderstanding from new users

he'll figure it out or something

Wasn't the "you actually have to x and y to learn z" just a bit?

Also, does he not see the pinned Das Kapital reading megathread?

And what does he expect the site to do, organize demonstrations in the public internet for feds and fascists to see?

Who the fuck is Roddy Day

the conditions for creating a vanguard party don't really exist in the west, and he shouldn't expect a shitposting site to be able to do that. We're here to commiserate together and just fart around with fellow leftists.

I would take this guy more seriously if he had any amount of engagement.

We need a higher quality of critic. Is there any chance we can convince one of the Krassensteins to complain about this place?

How much has the profile of this site grown? It seems like more people known in leftist circles are aware of it. Wasn’t Second Thought or someone on here at some point? I also remember a leftist streamer posting on here.

we have "this could have been a serious site..." as a site tagline for fucks sake

well-meaning dirtbag

guy literally saw one post saying personal experiences are also important to understand and concluded the whole community is against reading theory

Look ma. Im famous

Bro literally made this exact point

You might say that Americans aren't communists because they aren't as exploited and benefit from the super profits of imperialism.

Seems like he's just a contrarian for the sake of it.

We're a shitposting site. Sorry if that is not what he is looking for.

Ofc Roderic Day couldn't tell that first post was a joke lol

It’s completely untrue that Hexbear is federated with most of the other major Lemmy instances? Either this person knows nothing about Lemmy or they’re deliberately lying.

Nah his last comment is 100% spot on. Though that is the site culture most people want to be fair.

Also, I will continue quoting Samir Amin until some of you actually start reading theory.

this mirrors the same angle when people got disillusioned that the leftist comedy podcast didn't want to involve itself in "actual politics" and was content to just do comedy podcast stuff; as if them doing it would mean that everyone listening to the comedy podcast would transmute them into contributors to the cause rather than passive listeners to some guys making some jokes

same here, why isn't the pig poop balls website (that sprung around said comedy podcast) more involved into "actual politics" therefore making my posting be active contribution to the politics of the nation, rather than a place to post pig poop balls countdown gifs to the libs wandering in telling us about whatever insane shit radio free asia made up this week

One of the more wild things about a lot of these terminally online western leftists is their insistence that Marxists need to be "all business all the time." You can't make jokes or talk about anything other than the Revolution. You must behave exactly like a caricature of a communist from a Hollywood movie at all times. 0 personality, 0 interesting things to say, you must discuss the theory at all times. You can't behave like a human, you must be a smug elitist who consume theory 23 hours a day and is therefore the Best Communist. The only way to win people over is to show them that communists are utterly humourless and completely dull and uninteresting people who believe that life should be homework 24/7. No nuance, no subtlety, just be more "principled" by having less of a personality.

How dare he! Some of these allegations are only half-true!

@RodericDay@hexbear.net hello

who?

The post he screenshootted was mocking some other post, I don't recall what it was exactly but I do recall that.

That just means we gotta start being more obnoxious about telling people to read theory again.

Also @emizeko@hexbear.net we gotta post more theory

We're an organization, not just a silly site free from libs?

Alright I'm in the Hexbear Posting League

i dont understand why he doesnt just subscribe to the more serious communities like c/theory and what not and ignore the rest of the site, i guess it would be lower engagement but like he had to deal with twitter morons all the time i dont see why he just doesnt do that. or make a lemmygrad account and make a community that solely revolves around serious discussions and what not

swing and a miss there Rod

Who?

Lmao what a nerd

wot if it was roderic bae

Almost like this place is not for organizing and is not meant to be centered on America let alone one ideology.

I’d prefer this place not be a hermetic vault of online theory nerds incorrecting each other.

I can easily spell bourgeoisie on the first try.

STFU Bean Dad

People who say they “want something” without actively creating it should not be taken seriously or listened to.

Permanent twitter brain...

Masses Elites and Rebels guy, pls touch grass... if you want actual change, go to a mutual aid group or something

What does he think of fakenews?

He's not wrong, except the first pic where he says it's "full", because it's fortunately only minority.

How some people put this pseud on a platform is beyond me. He falls into the pit of most Western Marxists where they are either completely idealist and treat Marxism as some literary analysis or completely mechanistic who thinks that even discussing the role of ideology or conscious human activity is "idealist." In other words, his analysis is not particularly dialectical, only instead of erring on the side of idealism like the majority of leftists, he errs on the side of materialism. But you don't get points for being undialectical just because you aren't an idealist.

And he's overall not very bright either. There's that embarrassing thread about why sitcoms don't have school shooter episodes and instead of tying this to the production of sitcoms and how syndication, which forms the lion share of a sitcom's profit, requires sitcom plots to reset back to a status quo at the end of each episode, he had some dumbass contrarian explanation on moralism (another favorite word abused by the mechanists) or some other bullshit. That massive tl;dr blog post on how propaganda shouldn't be characterized as brainwashing falls apart with the trivial observation that Burgerlanders are orders of magnitude more brainwashed than their imperial core peers while at the same time living in worse material conditions. Can't shoehorn in dependency theory or unequal exchange to explain why Burgerlanders are more susceptible to propaganda.

maybe i'd care what he thinks if i had ever heard of him

could hexbear posting be a… treat?😰

Some blogger discovered J Sakai's account and simply will not stop talking about it.

This guy sounds like a weird loser tbh

I have no time for crackers who bloviate about optics politicking. I do not give the first fuck what he does, what he runs, or who he claims; Roderic’s come off that way(a bloviating optics-obsessed settler) in what may well be his first impression on me, ergo, I have no time for him.

Roderic Day is the definition of a midwit pseud. He's no better than the podcasterati.

After reading the replies in this thread I can see now that Rod was right. Fuck I need to stop spending so much time perusing the dunk tank.

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Roderic Day more like Roderic Gay am i rite

Ah yes the anual roderic day struggle session.

How is this a dunk lol