• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    11·
    17 hours ago

    Oh, good catch!

    I sure do love being treated like I’m a part of a hivemind, and that everyone on Hexbear is interchangeable with no individual characteristics… 🫠 /s

    Seriously though, I thought that was an odd statement, but that makes sense.

    • dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      16 hours ago

      Yup, that was me. Sorry for mixing you up. I guess you spoke to me like a human there first, that’s why your name stuck.

      I feel it still doesn’t take away too much from my argument. While OP’s post is outright malicious and is meant to start a fight, I wasn’t doing that on what I thought was a proper place for discussion.

      Again, I don’t want to jump to conclusions, and I did make a mistake, but don’t you see what I’m trying to get at?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        10·
        16 hours ago

        Personally, I try my best to adhere to the principle of “no investigation, no right to speak.” I’m not perfect at that, but I do my best. Someone who has a strong stance on a subject without doing the due dilligence to justify that strong stance muddies the water. I believe you were guilty of it over in that thread, and I believe OP is guilty of it here. Does that make sense?

        • dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          16 hours ago

          Goodness, does it ever.

          But my problem was that the group put me in a box. Nobody wanted to know my level of education, just if I read this or that book on communism.

          It is a totally fair reason not to engage in argument. It’s just… How can I put it…? Just because I didn’t read a book, I can’t be knowledgable on a subject?

          My guesses are that your community is so exposed to bad faith arguments, so you cannot give everyone the time of day. I haven’t gone back to reread the thread, but you can probably see how I was basically backing into a corner through the whole thread.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            6·
            16 hours ago

            It’s a combination of Hexbear having a higher population of well-read communists and anarchists than most instances, and your guess that there are so many bad-faith responses that they are quickly shut down. Hexbear also doesn’t have downvotes, so people are forced to actually reply if they want to express why they disagree.

            As I said in the other comment, once you stepped back and clarified your position more, you were treated better.