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My experience the past day. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure I really agree with your first point, I think finding a way to find allys in all leftists would be worth it, even if it has a dark history. Things can be better.

But holy shit their reaction was intense. And the idea that their arguments were in defense of left unity was pretty silly... 99% of it was just "anarchists wrong and evil", and there is wild amounts of sectarianism going on just within hexbear that I'm sure lent energy to this.

I respect how you reacted under pressure. I really respect any admin of a website that can show that much restraint when dealing with personal attacks and people you explicitly disagree with.

But yeah the lethality of leftist infighting is maybe a topic that deserves more delicate conversations than memes.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your kind words. I will admit I did get snappy towards the end of the day as I was getting tired and they had gone to straight up brigading tactics with half a dozen hexbears shitposting random replies, so there wasn't even any point to reply anymore. It had just become a classic pile on situation because I hurt their feelings.

I’m not sure I really agree with your first point, I think finding a way to find allys in all leftists would be worth it, even if it has a dark history. Things can be better.

I'm not here to stop anyone. MLs can be allies when they act like anarchists, which they tend to do when they're not in power. But you have to be cognizant who you're getting in bed with.

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think finding a way to find allys in all leftists would be worth it

I am really fine working with all leftists when we go against nazis. When the goal is the same, the methods are the same or complement each other and they don't try to take control of "my" space/group, I can work with MLs

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

And then there are the leftists who call anyone who disagrees with them a Nazi.