:reddit-logo: having a normal one. Some comrades in the trenches giving good pushback but otherwise that thread is full of :brainworms: :zenz:
In a literal sense, too, considering how part of growing through adolescence is figuring out your identity, which often involves going thru phases of different identities and outwardly signaling one’s chosen identity to see how others react.
Ha! Not if you were shy and tried to everyone to ignore you and really hated when someone commented on anything of your look. Checkmate libs
Reddit socialism and anarchism subs are literally all co-opted. You can’t convince me otherwise. It’s the least the US would do against growing socialism and chinese sympathy within its borders. And seeing they all parot literal state propaganda makes it even more sus.
I talk about the same shit we talk about on here but in person at work with anyone any chance I get, and I gotta say it’s just deeply culturally ingrained. It’s not even an op at this point (though it is the result of decades of shit like COINTELPRO). Americans by and large repeat and perpetuate anti-communist bullshit completely unaware and uncaring of its origins. We are so deeply indoctrinated that they don’t even need to run active psyops.
but but i was told this was only a phenomenon in terminaly online “leftists” and not irl and it doesnt matter cause it doesnt represent large scale real life trends in thinking among the “left”
My favorite was a self proclaimed Trotskyist who also thought Lenin was too “violent” lol. Very very very few people in the US have anything close to resembling a coherent political worldview.
One of the most important factors in me becoming a leftist was my weird obsession with Austro-Hungaria and the Byzantine Empire. No, I’m, not kidding. I learned about how much Russia sucked under the Czars as compared to other monarchies, so without even questioning or doubting US propaganda, I came to the conclusion Russians and other Eastern European people were better off, or at least just as well off, under communism(as I was told it was at the time) as they were before. I also was aware that the US was just in a better area resources and crop wise, so it made sense we were materially better off. I got made fun of in history classes for pointing this out, but no one could ever actually address my arguments. A bunch of other things happened too, but the underpinnings of the most basic propaganda not making sense historically or materially was vital.
Reading threads like that one makes me believe there isn’t a single actual anarchist or communist left on reddit, it’s all just libs and socdems who call themselves AnComs because they bought an Anti-Flag album 15 years ago.
I generally like GenZ but I’m glad this place exist. For all the struggles we’ve been through on this site. It didn’t turn out too bad.
Hey guys antifa here. Fascism is bad, but you know what else is bad? Every single socialist project
Every single socialist project
Western chauvinists: “uhhh those attempts at national liberation and decolonization are not REAL socialism, real socialism is when you’re a pretentious British reptile who rambles about art and culture on their podcast”
“We are anti red fash too look in the rules lmao”
“China is fascist because [list urfascism characteristics bending over backwards to fit chinese things to it]”
It’s a bunch of immense dorks that should be trolled
Abandon ideas of Anglo-centric revolution. You’ll be slightly happier.
I’ve been in the comments and now I’m 19,17% more tankie AMA
Really that thread need some chapo humor to cleanse all those dorks
I’ve been in the comments and now I’m 19,17% more tankie AMA
How much is 19,17% more tankie in kilostalins?
