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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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[โ€“] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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."

[โ€“] Clbull@lemmy.world 4 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.

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[โ€“] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I could tell you, but the last time I responded to a thread like this I got banned for a couple weeks because toxic political personalities aren't very tolerant.

[โ€“] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
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[โ€“] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

ITT: offended lennygrad and hexbear users giving good examples to answer the OP

Some people are to hypothetical conversation what a boulder is to the wind.

[โ€“] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't be a fan of a nazi or islamist instance either. One for communists is hardly any different as far I'm concerned. They're all groups of extremists that I don't want anything to do with. Just look at the modlog of this instance for example. Exhibit B is the fact that this message will get deleted in couple hours and I'll likely be banned.

[โ€“] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

there are no good Marxist instances

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