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Despite his allegiance to the NPA, grandenko was one of the more articulate posters on why being pro-poor is good. His absence seems to have allowed the anti-poor people to become more popular.
It's been a while but I do have vague recollections of the Absalon murder since I was vocally against it, however I don't recall gradenko "defending" the NPA. He was only stating that it wasn't in violation of the land mine treaty being that it was a radio detonated IED.
Then again, I'm not privy to all of his posts and he might have sworn support to the NPA or outright defended them that I wasn't aware of. But from the many posts I've read of him (both in Reddit and the SomethingAwful Forums), my take is that he's mostly your typical left-leaning individual that wouldn't categorically shun extremists because underneath all the violence and mafioso tactics of the NPA, they have similar ideologies and "turning against" each other would be in the best interests of the capitalists they're all banding against.
I've been here long enough to understand that politics is complicated and a spectrum. I've even come to begrudgingly "respect" and comprehend the minds of DDS and Marcos loyalists even though I detest them.
Edit: Restored, was editing it but ended up deleting lol
That's fair, what I do know though is that he would fit right in at lemmygrad and hexbear.
He actually ignored all of my attempts to join Lemmy so he's either aware of how it would look like if he joined a community that has a "rep" for being an alleged tankie news aggregation forum or he just doesn't want to. He's not the only mod that didn't move here anyway, lol. The few mods that did either don't post anymore or do it semi-regularly.
TIL. Holy shit. Tbh, i enjoyed his comments. Very observant and articulate. Seemed he didn't let his bias show, now that I know his allegiance.
Is that why he's not a mod there anymore?
He's still a mod as far as I know, but became inactive around the time of the reddit blackout. And yeah, he always defended the NPA when he could, even during that time where they used land mines.
Gotcha. I might not be remembering right since it's been a while since i visited r/philippines.
Damn... Never saw that comment/post but it's hard af to defend using landmines.
I appreciate the answer.