larping will always be a problem in political forums, but taking away the "you're gonna get banned" incentive to act like a reasonable person is only going to lead to incredible insufferable larping, and it's already trended in that direction.

any version of leftism that is not primarily centered around empathy is useless and will lead to nothing positive. unfortunately in isolated internet communities too many peoples' version of leftism is about extreme edge and fantasizing about violence

    • ttt [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      do you not see how this retort is completely useless? there are very few people in the world who can claim to be "experts" about revolutionary politics, and even they dont have many or even a significant amount of definitive answers. im just a guy with a philosophy degree who thinks a lot. my credentials dont matter. im making a claim. if you dont give a shit about me you can ignore my claim. but saying im not enough of an "expert" to make that claim is just a waste of time and discourse. just dispute the claim.

      • InternetLefty [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You prescribe action based on axioms like "any version of leftism that is not primarily centered around empathy is useless and will lead to nothing positive" - but you don't actually make an argument for why. It's grandstanding, it's not useful. It comes off as self righteous.

        • ttt [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I make the argument pretty heavily in my comments. If you aren't operating with the idea "All people are defined by their circumstances. Nobody deserves to suffer. Nobody deserves to die" in mind, I believe you will come to flawed decisions.