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A reminder that posting is mandatory until we have more posters. That is all
Have you started a small business using pell grant funds on an even numbered day while the sky is overcast? If not, I'm afraid you don't qualify
I feel like i have now seen forbidden knowledge, you're not like, a talking snake right?
Apparently this site is a tankie bastion and failing (despite us being open six days).
Does anyone know where exactly radlibs found the term red fascist because I have exclusively seen it on that subreddit and it's pretty amusing to call pretty much the de facto communist ideology "red fascism". I hate sectarianism and pretty much everyone I watch on breadtube is an anarchist and I am genuinely confused on where they are being taught to rally against MLs more than capitalists. I legit am starting to believe that breadtube has fallen for aesthetics over theory and it saddens me. Cant wait for c/videos enough because somehow chapo is the only place that doesn't result in sectarianism unless you count calling everyone a lib sectarian.
Spoilers anarkiddies and tankies alike, we all want the same fucking thing. Arguing with each other on how we should get there instead of arguing with libs on why we should get there accomplishes zilch.
Yep breadtube has gone full redscare at this point having banned three of my accounts for literally just asking for sources not connected to HRW or Adrian Zenz (never got a source btw) when it came to that new China bad last week tonight episode
Idk I think at this point the tankies are slightly ahead because they literally had nowhere else to go besides /r/GenZedong but that could just be confirmation bias. Maybe there are a bunch of ancoms who like tankie memeing which skews the stats. Not that it really matters. We all get along here and EVERYONE is expected to back up their claims so blatantly false circle jerks don't really propagate. That's why we aren't China bad like other leftist spaces, people here are expected to read.
I mean people totally still circlejerky a lot of the time here tbh. Like "china good" or "dprk unironically good" is a circlejerk post.
I feel there's a difference between circle jerking that tankies are red fash and aren't true leftists and saying China good and be willing to argue why China good. Nobody here arrived at the China good stance without reading a lot of China bad articles but the only reason radlibs say red fash is cuz their parasocial best friend vaush said so.
Obv I'm very fucking biased so take this with a grain of salt! Just know that as long as you ain't a radlib you are worthy comrade of mine.
Sure, I agree that China is far better than the US, and if this want a leftist forum I'd keep my mouth shut, but they have some serious flaws that really should keep them out of the "good" category unless you're shitposting imo
MLs are almost entirely too doomerpilled to effort post. There's a reason /r/GenZedong is so circlejerky
We mostly just see China as obv not as bad as the west, we realize literally no reddit poster will positively effect any CCP policy and at best will lead to more red scare, and we realize that 80% of the radlibs freaking out about China live in an actual fascist imperialist nightmare, maybe they should worry about that instead.
There's plenty to criticize China for but criticizing China will do literally zero good for the left.
Criticizing china can definitely do some good if it's in the correct venue (communists talking to other communists). I'd never hammer it home on reddit (even on the old sub), but as long as it's clear that one is not making criticisms from a liberal point of view, and the discussion isn't taking place in front of a large amount of liberals (e.g. chapo.chat, for now) then it's fair game imo. We can't allow institutions that we consider socialist to operate free of criticism. A big reason that China is worth discussing is to understand what and why they are doing certain things, and what actions a future socialist movement in another part of the world could take.
Eh, there’s a lot of unironic China good posting (not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing)
There's also that bunkerchan place, but I never liked the chan layout, personally, and they also still use certain "chan language" which is really really not great.
Yeah but whenever a China discussion starts there MLs get noisy. They're mostly correct, but it's uncomfortable for a lot of libs who might read it, not buy-in and then go tell their lib buddies how terrible they are for being neutral or pro China.
It’s not like we’re /r/FULL_COMMUNISM, /r/moretankiechapo or /r/sino. Most of the stuff so far is pretty tame.
Now, if you really wanna see something spicy, we could start Tiananmen Movement discourse.
I got called a tankie on r/gamingcirclejerk for defending Cuba and Im still butthurt about it.
For sure, I'm an Ancom but dividing the left is lame AF. Same goes for lame CIA propaganda influenced "criticisms" of successful communist countries, especially one as sustainable and controversy free as Cuba.
have you considered not being a tankie maybe it could work
If defending Cuba is "tankie" now then the word has lost all meaning so becoming one isn't possible
im just giving you a hard time. cuba is probably pretty nice
I think that on a subconscious level Americans actively want to suffer under the yoke of capitalism bc of a combination of protestantism (damn you Jean Calvin) and the knowledge that the prosperity of American society is literally and figuratively built on an Indian burial ground. The genocide of the natives haunts and will haunt the psyche of this nation and the people living here until the end of the earth.
The notion of suffering giving meaning to existence is absolutely related to protestantism and you're 100% that it has given almost all Americans brain worms. If you haven't already you should read the Protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism by max Weber. He's a lib in general but it's a short book and he viciously dunks on the stupidity of the exact bourgeois mindset we're talking about
If we Americans wont get class consciousness, then maybe the balkanized remains will.
Class consciousness is not spontaneous, we all knew that. Cultural struggle is the key.
Ever since r/cth was banned and I have to post my leftism on the rest of Reddit I get downvoted for pointing out the most basic of things like the democrats are collaborators that have had ample chances to change the country for the better they just chose not to, Barack Obama is not a nice guy, Joe Biden is not progressive, Nancy Pelosi is not a progressive. All I get are downvotes. Even r/dank left is full of neoliberal scum. Where did my posting war comrades go? You left me in neoliberal hellworld and a neoliberal matrix.
Oh man it's so nice to have found this place! After the diaspora I've been wandering thru places on reddit I haven't been to in a while, desperately (and unsuccessfully) searching for something not shitty
I...god help me I spent time on r/all
Now I just have to figure out how shit works on this site. I'll still never post tho, posting is Western decadence
It's all of our duty to post more than normal until we bump up the numbers.
COMRADES!
The posting wars require that you, yes you, post at least one comment or topic in non-c/main subs for every comment or topic you post in c/main!
I don't make the rules, I (and Comrade Hexbear) just enforce them!
This is the only way to bring true posting equality to the masses!
it will be good to have only one account on lemmy and not three like i had on the sub for cycles of ban evasion
greetings
o7 the posting wars have begun. Judging by the 8000 bans I see I imagine we are getting mega brigaded by the alt right/libs. I'll make sure to snitch when I can Comrade.
There was also that kerry thing going on, but as others pointed out, I don't think a chud or classic lib would be ... familiar ... enough to choose that over any other persona (or outright hateful stuff). It seems like a jilted poster thing, right?
I have been wracking my brain thinking about who it could have been or what caused it. I mean, we've done kerry bits in the past, and it could have been funny if it was organic (obamaposting) or like a one-off. Who among us.
I'm really enjoying being Owl instead of my actual fucking name like I was on reddit.
the owls are not what they seem
but that's totally cool so w/e
Owls are fucking scary man I watched an alien movie featuring owls as a kid and it fucked me up good
I got bored and started reading the drama thread and now I'm mad that people are arguing over something so stupid
Here is the most unsarcastic thing I'll ever post: Its nice to wake up and see a chapo megathread again.
me trashign someone for their awful fucking take: hmm. yes, good
me getting trashed for my awful fucking take: What the fuck. What the fuck
