Then you search them up and realized they were banned or removed 
The sword of Damocles reminds me when, if I ever turn rightist once again, may the Hexbear 
me dead
All those posters lost…like…piss drops…in rain…time to fart
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I wouldn’t be concerned about “ever turning rightist again” if you have a strong philosophical underpinning for what you believe.
The further left I go the further right I end up, because of the horseshoe.
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Part of that is survivor’s bias. Something else that plays into it is how we often don’t keep ties to leftist or left-leaning elders. But they’re certainly there.
Once I got bored of podcasts so I started listening to more lectures and interviews, all the academics I listen to are much older people. Vijay Prashad is probably the youngest, along with Gabriel Rockhill and Yanis Varoufakis. Otherwise, it’s Michael Hudson, Richard Wolff, Finkelstein, David Harvey, etc.
Writing this list out, I’m starting to notice a pattern, and I might need to start trying to look for more academics who aren’t old white men.
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Those sound great, will get to check them out once electricity is restored in my colonial hellhole
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It’s not hard to avoid becoming a Rightist when your life depends on it.
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Ah, yeah, of course. I didn’t just mean it like that though.
I just feel like there’s a certain point of no-return. If it’s mostly an online, armchair politics then I guess one can go/return Rightist. But if you really get into it and throw down, at a certain point there’s no going back.
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Yeah, what am I going to do, like landlords? Feel good about imperialist violence? Sign an epic pro-Israel pledge?
“I gotta be honest comrades, I had a sick ass bahn mi from a food truck. Since it was privately owned it made me think that market forces are actually… le good!”
I might get annoyed enough to stop posting, but it’s not like I’ll ever watch a Beanis Shabibo video instead.
My hatred of my petite bourgeousie leaving my body when I order a pupusa.
I honestly think the most likely way that the kind of person who posts here becomes more liberal is if they make enough money to be comfortable and settle
with a SO who’s a lib. So as long as we keep up our volcel pledges I think we’re in the clear.
Yeah lol one day I just forget dialectics. Which makes me wonder, what the hell is going on with all the Trots turned neocons? Did they just… forget everything?
Some people get their values overwritten by affluent material conditions. Some people never had a strong dedication to the cause anyway.
If it matters, I see one measure of dedication as how willing you are to make compromises with comrades.
well a lot of the original trots left the USSR for the USA, where they made hating the USSR their whole deal. so you can imagine the kinds of friends they ended up making there.
im worried im going to get severe brain damage one day and be reactionary as hell or something
no pfp
I will never have a pfp
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What if I stay as I am, and the entire world goes so drastically left that I am now the reactionary?
Then you win and die happy.
That’s the Proudhonesque dream.
you’re probably fine if it’s a one-off thing that you apologize for and self-crit. The biggest mistake people make is trying to post their way out of it.
It’s genuinely this simple.
There’s a huge gulf of space between being wrong about something (not going to get you banned) and deciding to die on a hill and turning into a corncob.(can get you banned)
Pm_me_your_Foucaults spent like 2-3 hours doubling and tripling down in the mod chat after the other person left the chat room. A ton of other people tried to de-escalate or smooth things over, Foucaults absolutely was not having any of it. They never do, and they regularly seek out arguments.
If they do some self-crit (the bar is on the floor) and want to come back, they’re more than welcome to do so.
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I still have confidence that we’ll come through this a better site.
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There’s a huge gulf of space between being wrong about something (not going to get you banned) and deciding to die on a hill and turning into a corncob.(can get you banned)
Honestly, I don’t understand why people double down, you know. It’s like this quote says…
What profits {them} to bleed? Shall the dust praise {them}? Shall the worms declare {their} truth?
“Never stop posting! Never stop posting!” the Hexbear yelled, being buried alive in more and more sand in the morning struggle session after the Revolutionary Red Guard found their bad take stash.
Man, I just know I’m going to catch a stray ban for being a weeb
I’ve never seen anyone get banned for being a weeb
If you’re talking about Bureaucrat specifically the account was deleted by one of the users because someone else kept getting into arguments with people or making weird comments that were catching bans from various comms.
It’s not only them, but prolly @PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net and prolly Awoo, judging from the modlog.
It’s good for cut my ego down, lest that happens
kept getting into arguments with people or making weird comments that were catching bans from various comms.
That’s just what happens when you’re on here long enough, you get used to it.
Geez, this place is a mess…
What can I say, tao tayo lang dito.
