Not us Chapos specifically, but I see on reddit and fb a shit ton of actual vitriol spewn back and forth between MLs, ancoms, anarchists and others. To the point where they're banning and attacking others they deem too tankie or not woke enough. On here it's pretty dang inclusive. I haven't seen too much infighting, and who doesn't love the sarcastic jab every once in awhile?
The stuff that happened in Kenosha has me pretty dang shook, and it's not over. I have a friend who lives with his brother out in Kenosha, and this was minutes from his house. I live four hours away from Kenosha and I easily can see this going down in any city closeby me.
Right now it feels like the fascists outnumber us. Not only the out-and-out fascists, but there is a LOT of wishy-washy support for civility and police. When it gets down to physical violence and shooting from both sides, people won't distinguish the leftists from the nazis, they'll condemn both and want to go back to normal as quickly as possible.
So the only common struggle that we have is with each other. Socialists and anarchists both want to dismantle the capitalist system and achieve egality. We all want to keep this earth going for awhile, (well, except maybe for you posadists), and we all want to defend ourselves and defeat the fascists. We can only have the numbers high enough to do this if we can reach out, not only intersectionally and inter-ideologically, but in real life and in other social media spaces.
I could see this site getting large enough to have the strength to spread propaganda, infiltrate, and reach out. We should organize and develop strategies here (maybe have a separate community for it?) and try to get our ideals out into the world better. Because right now, it doesn't feel like too many people in the middle are ready to fight with us.
Idk, I just smoked for the first time in a week and this has been on my mind today.
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Somewhat related, but /r/BlackLivesMatter auto-permabans anyone who's posted in /r/conspiracy - which only recently became flooded by Trump supporters.
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With all due respect, I've been reading /r/conspiracy for years, and while there was always an (((Illuminati)))/Soros/aliens/other really dumb shit element, I always found my thoroughly leftist posts upvoted and I'd say the majority of posters just wanted to criticize power and would argue down obvious racists. Like, you'd have both leftist and right-wing takes in the same post. And lots of others who're just there because they're excited for hidden knowledge - who may be swayed either way. Ceding that space to the right would be a mistake.
Now it's gone from 50:50 Right vs. Left to 90:10, but it's still not /r/conservative. It's a more friendly place than /r/neoliberal for sure.
And that goes for the realm of conspiracy theories in general. The most popular conspiracies are about the JFK assassination and 9/11, and then the shit like MKULTRA and Operation Paperclip that are 100% real, but no one ever discusses them except conspiracy theorists.