Post-left was always dumb as hell. I could maybe understand falling into it in a moment of weakness and panic after the collapse of the Soviet project and seeming rightward drift of China - but being "post-left" now because you are too cool to be pro-Bernie or associate with cringe "tankies" is absolutely a joke
It seems to me, The post left discourse barely made a blip outside of the bird site. As far as weird insular internet arguments go it was extremely short lived
browsing the red scare sub is crazy because you'll see people try to critique libs from the left and then just repeating a neocon talking point or something lmao
Yes the subreddit is intriguing but infuriating. I hate the pod, but I do like that the subreddit has a heterodox meltingpot vibe similar to /r/cth, but sometimes I have to remember half of them are legitimately very dumb and reactionary - not just being ironic. Like they literally are all Christians and anti-vaxx. I cannot comprehend how dumb you have to be to legit believe those things
yeah, i'm pretty much in the same boat as you. that sub feels very unique and quirky in a good way that no other place seems to capture. very much a guilty pleasure of mine.
90% of the thread concerning the pandemic were mind-boggling infuriating, it's like they got all their talking points from OANN or Fox News or something. i had one person arguing with me and defending TERRAIN THEORY at one point lmao truly surreal stuff
Yeah they also sometimes have extremely reactionary takes on China. Even Cuba became a struggle session for them and they couldn't hold an anti-imperialist line. Which is pretty hilarious because one of their big complaints about the left that they want to distance themselves from is how they are hypocritical imperialists. Which they are. But so are the redscare userbase who can't even stand behind Cuba unflinchingly, like the level 1 intro baby litmus test
Pretty hilarious to see one thread on there mocking Breadtube for acting woke while supporting a US coup, and then in the next thread regurgitating US propaganda. So... it seems like they just wanted to be anti-woke and pretended to be anti-imperialist as a bludgeon and then dropped it when it wasn't useful for attacking SJWs.
"Hypocritical BLM-supporting drone pilots killing Yemeni children"
"Did you hear about the dictator Assad's gas attacks? And the Uighurs!!"
The post left discourse is just a zombie at this point. Red Scare and Terese are open conservatives along with a lot of their following.
Post-left was always dumb as hell. I could maybe understand falling into it in a moment of weakness and panic after the collapse of the Soviet project and seeming rightward drift of China - but being "post-left" now because you are too cool to be pro-Bernie or associate with cringe "tankies" is absolutely a joke
It seems to me, The post left discourse barely made a blip outside of the bird site. As far as weird insular internet arguments go it was extremely short lived
browsing the red scare sub is crazy because you'll see people try to critique libs from the left and then just repeating a neocon talking point or something lmao
Yes the subreddit is intriguing but infuriating. I hate the pod, but I do like that the subreddit has a heterodox meltingpot vibe similar to /r/cth, but sometimes I have to remember half of them are legitimately very dumb and reactionary - not just being ironic. Like they literally are all Christians and anti-vaxx. I cannot comprehend how dumb you have to be to legit believe those things
yeah, i'm pretty much in the same boat as you. that sub feels very unique and quirky in a good way that no other place seems to capture. very much a guilty pleasure of mine.
90% of the thread concerning the pandemic were mind-boggling infuriating, it's like they got all their talking points from OANN or Fox News or something. i had one person arguing with me and defending TERRAIN THEORY at one point lmao truly surreal stuff
Yeah they also sometimes have extremely reactionary takes on China. Even Cuba became a struggle session for them and they couldn't hold an anti-imperialist line. Which is pretty hilarious because one of their big complaints about the left that they want to distance themselves from is how they are hypocritical imperialists. Which they are. But so are the redscare userbase who can't even stand behind Cuba unflinchingly, like the level 1 intro baby litmus test
Pretty hilarious to see one thread on there mocking Breadtube for acting woke while supporting a US coup, and then in the next thread regurgitating US propaganda. So... it seems like they just wanted to be anti-woke and pretended to be anti-imperialist as a bludgeon and then dropped it when it wasn't useful for attacking SJWs.
"Hypocritical BLM-supporting drone pilots killing Yemeni children"
"Did you hear about the dictator Assad's gas attacks? And the Uighurs!!"
Which is it bitches?