A lot of people have a purist attitude to politics. "Critical support" is a vital part in understanding these positions of Hexbear and others, that one can support a side of a conflict and still be critical of it. Geo-politics isn't a simple binary. No two groups will perfectly align, but that doesn't mean they can't see mutual lines of benefit despite their disagreement. For example, just because someone supports Ukraine doesn't mean they have to defend everything their government does, such as supporting the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. It would be absurd to assert that! Similarly, it would be absurd to tell the communists still crying about 1989 that they support the entirety of the capitalist Russian Federation, the same RF that destroyed many of the gains the USSR made for both countries by enabling oligarchs to loot the place and plummet life expectancy.
That's a big bag of wheat. Did they send a big spoon to go with it?
Idk, just feels wrong to brag about it or constantly bring it up so this is the first time I’ve ever mentioned it on lemmy
On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with encouraging and normalizing productive behaviors, like actions and reading theory. I've seen some communities normalize the whole "you're just an armchair posting online!" as a counterargument, or take digs at how they think most of the community don't read any theory. And I've seen a touch of the second on Hexbear, esp. when some bears visited Lemmygrad during the domain registration issue.
I don't brag about my antifascism and org work on Lemmy, but I really should start, to be honest. It's the little things behind the scenes that people don't realize gets done. Just make sure you're careful with what information you share, because fash could be looking.
is the same that I have with all the other ones
If I'm included in there, I don't post online about actions I take because I can legally get fired due to my volunteer work in a socialist political party, and some of the community actions I have taken involved dozens of arrests. So I have good reasons to avoid disclosing info and getting dox'd.
I suppose this applies to many others.
The other "problem" is that they were their own isolated place for a while which had an attitude of just laughing at or insulting libs instead of engaging (which is perfectly fine for an isolated website, where liberal intruders aren't welcome), and upon federation suddenly became the largest instance at the time and many kept up that same shitposty dirtbag attitude, like posting PPB or just telling people to fuck off in reply to pro-capitalist arguments. So they quickly earned a collective bad reputation as rude trolls.
I had a burner account back years ago before it was federated with the rest of Lemmy.
I'd already well-passed the stage where I was spending more time online than doing actual movement building on the ground so the low-content and causal comms are too chatty for me to even bother. There's also some underlying abusive moderation (at least there was a couple of years ago), but that's something I've seen on everywhere from .world to .ml, this is volunteer work and beggars usually can't be choosers, there's nearly always someone on a staff team who just deletes things they don't like. Purging that behavior is tough without a healthy mod culture and mods who care enough to start a fight.
On the other hand, there's some good comms among the slop and they keep liberals from coming in every minute with dumb questions they could have checked with a single web search or just reading an FAQ, so that's a huge plus (tourists can go to lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml with any good-faith questions). Their dev work is commendable. For the place that it is, it's done alright for itself, there's a decent foundation from what I can tell, which is especially hard for a big-tent socialist site to build given the conflicting worldviews and values that arise.
If so, what are some misconceptions or seldom known facts?
It's pretty hilarious how many of them seem repulsed by /leftypol/. They're remarkably similar cultures, just less PDFs and "read a fucking book" culture, less catgirls and no ironic slurs.
To clearly state the obvious: it does take away their liberty and that's a good thing. Economic liberalism is a tragedy.
Do you mean idealistically (a belief), or reality in practice? Because many groups have been given the legal right to harm others, e.g. military, police, certain sports players and businesses, so in practice, many people have the right to harm another and it's terrible.
If you mean idealistically, well, that's a nice idea but it means nothing until we collectively build the power to enforce it. The bourgeoisie crying about regulation taking away their freedom to put lead in our food tend to be the people with the money and power to perform regulatory capture.
I'm out here wondering if there's even one.
Fair call, many fields tend to write just like you described haha.
Maybe chemistry scientists could be a better reference.
I haven't used Illustrator, what does the shape tool do that makes it different to using boolean operations on shapes?
(to be clear, I was saying 'amateur hour' tongue-in-cheek ;)
That's wonderful! All I got was a disintegrating notebook of delights. I do like deciphering it but not when I'm hungry!