For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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anyway is there a way to block entire instances at once or do i just have to do it comm by comm or browse local
Unfortunately you're incapable of writing an interesting response yourself. Why do you refuse to engage with people who point out the flaws in your line of thinking?
I'm interested in understanding why people have this viewpoint, not arguing about it
lmao, literally admitting they're not even considering the possibility they might be wrong or missing something. They just want to circlejerk about how "tankies" are evil, I guess.
i mean yeah that's pretty much what it seems they wanna do lol
Task failed, 80-90% of the thread is Hexbears giving serious replies to the question lol.
Edit: Here it is if anyone wants to see it. It actually seems like a pretty good thread with some good discussion going on.
"Brigading" by every other instance: Nazis just showing up to hurl slurs at everyone to make discussion impossible and try control the narrative by shutting down all discourse.
Hexbear "Brigading": Hexbears go in and discuss the topic at length and actively encourage people to reconsider their preconceived notions, and are rude and unwelcoming to people who just want to shit stir.
Libs: "These are exactly the same thing!"
Shockingly good thread, wow.
John Brown, an actual mass killer
You go to settings and click the button called blocks and then you can block the instance
reason: Fuck off toxic shitstain
not very civil mr dbzero
Considering some of the behavior the some of the admins/mods there have defended ("Soviets deserved nazi genocide"), it's kind of rich of them to call others "toxic". Also, the original post that Leroy was replying to clearly was an attempt to start a circlejerk and not a good faith discussion, which could fairly be called "toxic" as well.
Edit: I do want to say I've had good experiences with dbzer0 users too and a bunch are in that thread engaging in good faith. I don't mean this as a judgment of the instance as a whole.
They are good with toxic circlejerk threads when it's ones like this one. Yet when it's about the one who loves to start drama or say the nazis should have killed all the soviets suddenly that's too far. Idk why the one that's the most toxic is always allowed to stay while others aren't
thank you <3
Was gonna say maybe a different mod did it but they're the only one. ๐ฌ
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Fuck civility lol
Just because we've disproved that Santa Claus is real, that doesn't change the obvious fact that there's a workshop on the north pole where all the kids' toys are made by elves. This is common knowledge
fucking redditor brained "leftists"
How very free association of them
tagging here because I think grad is defedded and also to not derail your otherwise good comment
https://hexbear.net/post/7197878/6786608
Stalin's brief denial that Operation Barbarossa had begun
I know you're just listing criticisms you'd heard and not making this claim yourself, but I wanted to point out that this is likely one of the many Khrushchev inventions that don't survive the opening of the Soviet Archives. I'm pulling from memory and a brief re-skim of Roberts' Stalin's Wars ch 4 and Medvedev's Unknown Stalin ch 11 here, so I recommend checking those out in addition to the poorly-summarized points I'm haphazardly throwing out below:
The day before the invasion Stalin calls the Moscow air defense and puts them on immediate alert.
That same evening a German deserts to the Soviets and warns of an attack, prompting Stalin and the leadership to send military directives in preparation for the attack.
Secretary records and visitor logs show Stalin working in his office until 2:00AM on the 22nd prior to the attack, then leaving to his home to sleep, then returning at 3:40AM when the attack happens.
Other leadership starts showing up at Stalin's office at 5:45AM, there's records of continuous meetings throughout the day.
Stalin leaves in the evening to try to sleep, but returns again at 3:00AM the 23rd.
Logs then show officials don't leave Stalin's office until 1:45AM the 24th.
Apologies for the rushed formatting lol
TIL, thanks!
I havent looked into it in awhile so i forget but wasnt Lysenkoism also a bit of a nothing burger (lol i hate this phrase but it popped into. my head while typing)
I've read some defences of it, but I'm not a biologist/geneticist so don't really know. I tend not to trust ideological reimaginings of scientific topics, like that one Trot cult guy that claims to have debunked the big bang theory with dialectical materialism. Of course capitalist science, as everything, should be examined critically, but just because someone's well-read in philosophy (or is a Trot that claims to be lmao) doesn't mean they know shit about biology or genetics.
Epigenetics might give it some ground, and there might be records of Lysenkoist practices actually improving yields (I haven't investigated this claim).
But my only real takeaway from it at this point is Lysenkoism or a rejection of western geneticism is pretty understandable for its time (even if it was ultimately incorrect) given the latter's close ties with eugenics and racism, something Western academia has tried to whitewash. I mean fuck, genetic determinists are still widespread and nonsense like The Bell Curve are still touted as truth by some, so the field could definitely use some radical criticism by someone well-versed in the science of it.
They probably would have let it slide without the "fucking moron". The disagreement is what actually made them want to remove it but that gave them the excuse.
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I've been interacting in there a bit, if you see me make a comment in there that's inaccurate feel free to @ or dm me :)