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You're probably right, but I think that in his specific case a lot of it seems to come from a genuine breeder fetish and megalomania. He genuinely seems to mail women his semen more often than he has sex with them.

15. Hope Never Dies by Andrew Schaffer

The Wave is kind of dumb, but from what I've heard the worst thing about it is that it kind of papers over the whole "mass child abuse" thing. Now, that might seem like a low bar, but there's a German Netflix film, "Wir sind die Welle" ("We are the Wave"), which uses the name but really doesn't share any similarity at all except that its about students becoming fixated on their clique of what they view as radical politics. Here's the thing: In "The Wave," just like in the original Third Wave "experiment," it's really explicitly about fascism, Nazism most especially. In the German Netflix caricature, the students are all progressives who are either direct victims of things like racial/gender discrimination or are concerned about the environment or war-profiteering, and the antagonist is a student who wants to blow up some facility belonging to an arms dealer who is illegally running guns to [I think it's implied to be Sudan?], before the other student leader thwarts the plot and defeats the arms dealer peacefully.

How fucking audacious do you need to be as Germans to take a story that is [purportedly] about Nazism and elements leading to its popularization, and then make it into a screed against radical progressives? You're literally the last country in the world with any right to do such a thing, and I'm even including America in that list, because your whole thing is "being an Ally" in the now-common craven liberal fashion, but on the level of an entire nation-state. I know their true "whole thing" is financial imperialism, but I mean their whole thing in terms of their cultural posture.

I have complete confidence that you care and want to make things better, I just wanted to mention it while I was thinking about it.

I think it would be really cool if you made a memoir or a satire or something about this, and I think the world would be a better place for having more works like that. You could help kids feel reassured that it doesn't need to be this way and help the rest of society understand what goes on in some of these reactionary bubbles.

The owner also has an admin sidekick who was basically their parrot, though idk if that person is still around.

What's really weird, as has been demonstrated in some screenshots, is how they bait post so fucking much but then seem so upset and play victim when people take the bait. They are like a child who acts out for attention by deliberately trying to rile people and then cries when someone yells at them for it.

Edit: Regarding your question, I think they have a personal beef with local communists. iirc they are Greek and view the local communist party as a counterproductive relic of the past.

They certainly come across as trying to use their anarchism to minoritize themselves by talking about persecution from teh tankies as though they have any connection to the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War or other historical incidents. Why? I can't really say.

Yeah, I've even seen some apologists identify the conflict as starting with the capture of a communications building but with no context as to why it was being captured, as though it was some sort of Spanish anarchist "shot heard round the world," when it really was just that the anarchists were sabotaging Republican communications in the midst of the war against Franco, so the Republicans took the building over with the help of the communists. You get all sorts of people (revealingly, Trotsky included) waxing poetic about how unforgivable it is for the communists to be working with the Republicans instead of trying to immediately overthrow them while fascists were at the gates, but people still tend to not mention the sabotage by the anarchists. To be fair, the first time that I did see it, it was from an anarchist who defended it, so credit to them for being transparent and at least minimally informed, even if their priorities are terrible.

Edit: I should further clarify that I am sure many anarchists today disagree with the decision to sabotage the Republicans, even though I've never personally seen one say so. I think most of them would either change their mind if they knew more about it or would at least drop it as a talking point because they understand how bad it looks (though for someone like db, it might be more of a "can't use it here because the crowd got wise but still uses it elsewhere" kind of thing) (but most people aren't db).

They put alot of work into this, okay?

Let me preface this by saying that, from what I have seen in screenshots, there was no ableism against db, db was just not taking care of themself by compulsively replying and getting mad at people replying to their replies, like it's "ableism" to not let someone have the last word.

Which makes it really gross that they are taking the real complaints hexbears have had about the broader HB culture and cynically weaponized it by distorting the very concept of ableism. The real complaints that I've seen are almost the inverse, which are that certain comrades, particularly ones on a certain part of the spectrum, get labeled as "debate bros" and otherwise disparaged, getting comments deleted, sometimes even getting banned, when basically what happened was that they disagreed and were failing to let it go. There is such a thing as a "debate bro," and we encounter them here often enough, but it can also effectively become a progressive-sounding way of saying "this autist keeps participating in this argument and I don't feel like either engaging in good faith or ignoring it, so I'm going to just say they are a (white?) male chauvinist who is obliged to give me the last word."

I've seen this complaint from at least three or four different people, though I think most of them aren't around anymore.

This is the first time I've seen people push back on the Spain thing, because our friend there is right that the way db0 characterizes it as some "stabbed in the back" story is truly ridiculous. Like, there are no shortage of stories around the world of much more credible transgressions by communists against anarchists, and the communications building in Spain is not one of them.

“Whilst the images used in the campaign were intended solely to highlight the contrast between the different colors available for the PSP, we recognize that the subject matter of one specific image may have caused concern in some countries not directly affected by the advertising,” Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe said in a statement at the time.

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