• Demifriend [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    What is with this level of hostility? She’s just talking to you in a totally normal tone despite your obviously reactionary line of thinking (We did something in the past and it was fine (according to me) so it’s fine to keep doing it in the future) and you respond by going off on some rant full of personal insults for what, the crime of disagreeing with you? What is the matter with you?

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        10 days ago

        Instead we alienate allies because they say “dumb” when someone is acting dumb.

        I don’t think that happened. I’m very skeptical of the idea that willfully letting reactionary thought slide because you’re preemptively afraid of “losing people” is ever a solid strategy. Truth is truth. Throwing around words like “dumb” is ableist and lazy in any context. Someone (or their argument) being “dumb” is never the root problem. Uninformed, out of touch, willfully ignorant, false consciousness, motivated by racism, motivated by self or class interest, these are the real roots of reactionary thought like in the OP.

        People are capable of learning to take good faith crit from comrades and learn something without throwing a tantrum about it.

      • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        10 days ago

        Because this shit is a waste of energy that could be directed at common enemies

        so is fucking crying about it

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          9 days ago

          Y’all deleting comments like this is childish as fuck. See this dumbass sub later. Whiny, childish, and out of touch is what you all are

          “We’re revolutionaries” say the people telling me not to use the word “dumb” because your feelings get hurt.

          Sick of this community. You can have it. Peace out mother fuckers and enjoy your echo chamber. This is how you lose people, this is how you become bloated versions of yourselves. You’re SO FUCKING SURE of the way it has to be, no willingness to engage or be wrong

          Fuck y’all who censor this shit, you’re a joke, and you fucking know it. Later gaterz

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            4 days ago

            i don’t know why you chose to cry in my inbox when i just told you crying about this particular issue is embarrassing and pathetic. i don’t care. you don’t matter.

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            9 days ago

            The word dumb doesn’t hurt my feelings because I have an inflated ego. However I am extremely aware of how close it is to “removed”(ya know, the r-word) and when that shit comes out of someone’s mouth all I’m thinking about is my 30-06. Listen to people when they tell you that you have hurt them. Some of us won’t have the manners to let you know.

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        10 days ago

        Please read Mao’s “On The Correct Handling Of Contradictions” until you understand the difference between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions and how a movement can grapple with both at the same time

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        10 days ago

        this shit is a waste of energy

        “It takes two to tango” Educating and uplifting potential allies is valuable work. Making sure everyone is more or less on the same page amplifies your message and raises your signal to noise ratio.