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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wtry@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 year ago

Lemmygrad isn't "hated" by most of the wider lemmyverse. There's just a loud and obnoxious minority of people that will rail and rant about lemmygrad. They loudly rant about lemmygrad because they aren't used to seeing their worldview get challenged and by its very nature as a radical leftist community, lemmygrad is a challenge to the typical background liberal perspective.

It's no surprise we all end up seeing a lot of threads about "those mean tankies at lemmygrad" (and hexbear too) made by people who can't take their worldview getting questioned, or even shown to be flawed, or just not standing up to their own scrutiny, and who get mad when that happens. There are also of course people with ideological reasons to demonize leftwing politics and will spread shit for that reason alone. But overall, I don't think most people care enough except to think "oh yeah that's that instance with those radical lefties, they're weird but they do make some great memes sometimes."

[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

There are people who called the main lemmy.ml instance a community of tankies, so I'd take a lot of these claims with a grain of salt.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a difference between challenging other people's opinions and calling them fascists or Nazis just because they're not at the extreme left.

Even worse, in this very thread I've been called a fascist for the sole reason that my instance is sh.itjust.works, one of the bigger instances and one where your political opinion isn't a criteria to subscribe (especially not when I subscribed, they didn't even ask for an email!)

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

You must've done something to court those allegations. What'd you say? What'd you do? Who'd you align with geopolitically? I bet we'll find an answer in at least one of those three.

[-] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I only joined shitjust works because that's where the cdda Lemmy is and that's the first thing I used it for, didn't even know people think it's a political instance. Though I guess with the hexbears and lemmygrads everything's political somehow. That's why I generally avoid dealing with them anyway.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

everything’s political somehow.

If somehow, everything isn't political for you; that's your sign that you might just be a settler. Just the act of going outside in a hwhite neighborhood is a political action for me with how many cop-caller Beckies I live around. Wish I had your sweet-assed life.

[-] Stuka@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago
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