Cowbee_Admirer
@Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com
- Comment on we need more users 4 hours ago:
Oh hey buddy, sorry, I didnt mean to stir up stuff around your username. I’ll delete the account to prevent further confusion.
- Comment on we need more users 4 hours ago:
I don’t make alt accounts to force anyone to do anything. I’ve explained you that Hexbear is a safe space without transphobia of Zionism, and I’m glad it’s mostly defederated and I’m not exposed to cognitohazard of such levels.
- Comment on we need more users 5 hours ago:
I’m not Cowbee
- Comment on we need more users 5 hours ago:
My main account is vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net, I’m really not lying to you. But I feel honored to be compared to comrade Cowbee
- Comment on we need more users 6 hours ago:
Can you make posts/comments criticizing china, russia
If they’re nuanced, yes. “China bad” is not accepted, but there’s plenty of criticism of China in Hexbear. A Chinese member called Xiaohongshu routinely posts comments and critiques of Chinese policy, such as failing to leave neoliberalism behind and maintaining dollar hegemony for its own benefit. There’s also been big criticism recently for the lack of material support to Venezuela against US imperialist invasion. What’s not accepted is “vuvuzela no iPhone”, “tinyman square” or “ruzzians are bloodthirsty orcs”, and it’s honestly refreshing.
I’ve discussed this at length, but I’ll try and explain myself here too: the problem is not that Marxists don’t want representation of the mistakes and bad policies that did happen in Actually Existing Socialist countries. The problem is that they’re overmagnified and given extremely long coverage and attention whereas western atrocities, by all means much more violent and deadly, are just brushed off and not discussed. The problem is not that people discuss gulags and gulag victims, we should totally do that. The problem is that for every gulag museum there should be 10 colonialism museums because colonialism murdered hundreds of millions. Until there isn’t this proportional representation, you must understand why Marxists are fed up with discussion exclusively of socialist bad policies.
- Comment on we need more users 6 hours ago:
People over on Hexbear don’t love Russia. I myself have posted news articles on Russian authorities enjailing marxists and they got widely popular in Hexbear.
- Comment on we need more users 6 hours ago:
Yes, that’s why it’s inclusive of trans and bans transphobia, that’s a good thing! An internet space without overt Zionism, transphobia… It feels great
- Comment on we need more users 6 hours ago:
I’m not Cowbee, I just appreciate Cowbee, as my username says. Cowbee is the opposite of supporting dictatorships, he’s a socialist supporting the struggle against western imperialism.
- Comment on we need more users 7 hours ago:
I see, wasn’t aware of that. Thanks!
- Comment on we need more users 8 hours ago:
Unfortunate shortening for the username lmao took me a while to understand
- Comment on we need more users 8 hours ago:
Hexbear is super trans inclusive (50ish% of users are trans per the last survey) and bans transphobia instantly, you may fit right in :)
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 13 hours ago:
The standard for NATO has always been to only accept democracies
As defined by whom exactly? Chinese citizens will tell you that they’re in a democracy and very satisfied with it, much more so than Spaniards for example (my homeland)
I’d even go so far as to make respect of human rights a demand too like we have in EU
EU is literally funding the genocide of Palestinians with 0 economic or political sanctions to Israel coming from governments. By that logic, all of EU deserves out of NATO immediately. NATO also triggered the Libyan civil war through bombing, bombed Yugoslavia, and many NATO countries directly participated in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 15 hours ago:
No serious political scientist claims democracy is a matter of ideology or “who feels represented.”
This simply isn’t true, ask Cuban political scientists or Chinese ones or Vietnamese ones.
There is broad cross-national agreement
Argument from the majority. By that logic, Taylor Swift objectively makes the best music in the planet, and Jazz isn’t real music.
There’s no need for a supranational authority to decide this any more than there is one for physics
Ridiculous comparison. Political sciences are not a hard science, and different political systems give rise to different interpretations. The fact is that this “broad cross-national agreement” is rejected by many, many scholars, particularly Marxist ones, with Marxist political scientists describing the western system as “bourgeois democracy”, meaning that despite suffrage once every four years, the outcomes are functionally the same as if only the 10% wealthiest voted. This is serious criticism based on empirical studies (such as likelihood of laws to pass based on what percentage of the population agree with them by income), and you cannot simply disregard it as “it’s not the consensus”.
The decisive distinction is whether these actions can be challenged, exposed, reversed, and punished
Macron is president and won’t go to jail, the ECB is still operative and no bureaucrat will go to jail for destroying the Greek economy, nobody has gone to jail in Spain for tampering with democracy and fabricating false evidence from within the police, and the judges in the highest court of Germany won’t go to jail.
they lose their freedom, their lives, or very famously, fall out of windows
The fact that you aren’t aware of these things happening in Europe or the USA doesn’t mean they don’t happen. You could look up the cases of Rita Barberá or Miguel Blesa, both higher ups of the conservative party in Spain (PP) who died in mysterious circumstances shortly before going to trial, or Fabra winning the lottery 3 or 4 times. Ask the Catalonian pro-independence politicians if there is democracy and political freedom in Spain, with many of them enjailed or fleeing the country as political refugees. Ask Julian Assange or Edward Snowden about freedom in western “democracies”.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 21 hours ago:
In Romania, they declared a candidate illegal
In Estonia they also recently determined a decade in jail for a few pro-Russian politicians. Not saying that necessarily that’s a bad thing, those are just right wing ghouls, my problem is more why those same mechanisms aren’t used against our autoctonous far-right
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 21 hours ago:
I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago
Ten years ago Swanson’s law for solar photovoltaics was well established, not comparable.
- Comment on Fuck it... iCharlie 22 hours ago:
iCharlie? More like no hay Charlie
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 22 hours ago:
No need to get rude and ableist just because I gave you my reasoning
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 22 hours ago:
I doubt political scientists in China agree with, say, German political scientists’ definition of democracy. What supranational organization will decide which countrie’s political scientists are correct?
I could perfectly well argue that France isn’t Democratic. The majority of the population voted for a leftist coalition that is being blocked by the president of the republic from being elected, and Macron has already skipped the democratic will of the people by declaring emergency measures to pass antidemocratic legislation such as the increase of retirement age.
In Greece, when a leftist government (Syriza) was elected around 2010 after the huge economic crisis around a platform of reviewing the state debt and democratically decided on referendum to do so, the European Central Bank threatened with dropping its obligations towards Greece and forced neoliberal austerity policy.
In Berlin, the people democratically voted through direct referendum for a cap to rent prices, and shortly after the highest court of Germany declared it illegal and rent prices were uncapped again (despite economic studies of the policy results in its limited lifespan prove it was effective in lowering rent pricing).
In Spain (my homeland), when a leftist party (Podemos) was getting ranked 3rd in the country by polls and was on trend to overtake the socialdemocrats (PSOE), an illegal police operation directed from the ministry of internal affairs fabricated false evidence of funding of said leftist party from Venezuela and Iran and leaked these falsified police reports to all media before the elections, which destroyed the popularity of the party.
I gotta say, being a leftist in Europe, it doesn’t feel democratic at all that all the choice we have is to vote on the colour of the party that will impose neoliberal austerity policy and raise military expenditure (all parties in the EU do this).
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 22 hours ago:
Why do you ignore every other conflict in the comment above?
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 22 hours ago:
No need to be rude.
Also: “yes, I support the military budgets because I’m convinced Russia is an imperialist aggressor nation that we need to defend ourselves from” was the justification for Germany entering WW1. Have we learnt nothing from history?
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 22 hours ago:
And who decides which countries are democratic and which are not?
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 22 hours ago:
What if China wants to join? Or Russia? What would be the policy?