I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

  • danhakimi
    21•7 months ago

    So, as others mentioned, they’re tankies. They circle jerk about how “the west” is entirely responsible for every bad thing that ever happened. They blame the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the West, they deny the oppression of the Uyghur people as pure western propaganda…

    Any time you cite something horrible Russia or Iran or China or North Korea does, they say “the west is just as bad,” draw some false equivalencies, and then proceed to explain why that means that the West is the only bad thing and there’s nothing at all wrong with Russia or China.

    And… they’re so aggressive about it. It’s not just that their opinions are so detestable, but that they brigade other threads and insist that everybody who isn’t actively bombing US government buildings is evil.

    They’re annoying. On the fediverse, that might be the highest sin.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      6•7 months ago

      God yeah. Even if they had some interesting ideas they’ve been lost to all the circle jerking that there’s no way of seeing how any of them can be taken seriously.