17 libs are mad that I'm right 🤷🏿♂️
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You're just repeating what he said?
The death of 3rd party clients was the final nail in the coffin for me
Your mistake was trying to ask for a reasonable view of Russian government's action. To the average redditoid, nothing Russia does is ever justified in any way. Fighting terrorists? "That's just an excuse to persecute minorities and national liberation!" Fighting Nazis? "Akschually Russia is real Nazis!"
Russian government been doing lot of aping from the west, and these types universally condemn it, without a hint of self reflection. If tomorrow Putin completely withdraws from Ukraine, dissolves the federation and puts pentagon in charge of the Russian military (cough south Korea), they'll still find something to blame.
That Russiagate op really got people believing Russia is the USSR again. Like literally for years it has continuously been demonized just for existing. I'm aware that it's not a worker's state and deserves criticism for its reactionary tendencies, but nuance isn't something that seems to exist when talking about things like geopolitics, which isn't a fucking Marvel movie.
You're not allowed to separate the analytical process from picking a side. If your analysis doesn't confirm that you should unequivocally support the 'good guys', you must've erred in your reasoning.
Unfortunately this logic permeates every Western institution. Analysis is subjugated to liberalism. Coming to conclusions that do not support the status quo is dangerous shit. It puts your livelihood at serious risk.
That, and the lack of any critical self reflection, never raising the question, 'If my analysis keeps leading to conclusions that do not coincide with reality, is reality wrong or my thought process?'
This.
I'm not a citizen of the settler empire, I'm a subject. So to me the illusion was never strong enough for me to vehemently defend it. I never understood the Amerikan worship of itself because they claimed to be #1 and the best...but at what?
I eventually came to realize I had no loyalty for this country that enslaved my people and took our land, and eventually arrived at being an ML when I realized my heroes, the BPP, were also MLs.
I honestly feel like understanding historical materialism is what helped me understand geopolitics the most, but that requires a critical understanding of how things have gone in the past, without the filter of the West to dilute the information.
Reddit sucks, but we also have to resist the impulse to write the masses off and retreat into our own groups. While material conditions are a huge driver of peoples' politics, propaganda works, conversations can change minds, and ultimately we have to bring a lot more people around to socialism before we realize any of the changes we hope to see.
Your pipeline left needs to start where people are, and where people are is shitty corporate social media.
Reddit is not a very good place to start trying to radicalize people. Go outside, talk to real people, they are more receptive than online dibshits most of the time.
I'll let more capable people do that then. I don't have the mental capacity for it anymore, I've been doing this shit since leftbook back in 2016 and just being on social media gives me anxiety.
Don’t let them get you angry. That’s what they want, for you to give up. Take a beat. Breathe. Respond with cogent theory and don’t take their bait. You’re not doing it for the radlibs. You’re doing it for people like me, who lurked on Reddit for years.
Similar story to me. Reddit was part of my political education. I had already got to the point where I thought Marx had something useful to say and that liberalism was a dead end. But then I had so many questions that I couldn't answer or couldn't quite figure out for myself.
I searched for every question on Reddit and read through all the Marxist answers, glossing over and ignoring the trolls and liberals who were clearly misinformed.
It's all right Marx being right but if he didn't have a method for replicating more right answers, he would be no better than liberalism. It was Marxist Redditors who helped me realise that historical and dialectical materialism underpins the conclusions that Marx comes to and allows other Marxists to consistently come to the right answers and, somewhat, predict the future. Non-Marxists occasionally do the same but it's random.
Can't forget the wider audience! (Also, I fully accept the need to rant about the contrarians, though.)
I gave a succinct explanation of the conflict in Ukraine and someone just said "touch grass" without even reading it. Maybe someone else got something out of it but with Reddit hiding anything that gets downvoted the value of what I said was lost.
You can radicalize people IRL too.
The lemmy fediverse seems to be paying attention to us so, i don't think we are completely walling ourselves off.
As soon as the writing and worldbuilding scene matures on Lemmy I'm out of that corporate hellhole. It's literally the only subreddit I still regularly participate in.
I kept thinking about reasons to stay but after realizing that I have none I just deleted the app. I'm so tired. The only thing I might miss are the saved posts but I'll live, I can always get the information here.
You gotta do what’s best for you and your mental health.
I really didn't mean for this to blow up like it did, I was just venting 😔
I think it's a sentiment a lot of us have dealt with. Which is why it blew up, it's relatable.
Fascist <= Liberal => Communist
In this current world, as the situation has become, every body is born almost fascist then some education turns them into liberals that are always susceptible to fascism again whenever the state want. When liberals start educating themselves more they start seeing the truth and lies and perils of current system. And when they are exposed to left they accept it as the only alternative.
Those people (if they are not bots) that you are facing on reddit or any other plateform bashing communism are either paid trolls or fascists that must be laughing when called a liberal.
I may be wrong but this take is from my experiences these days. You're more then welcome to correct.
"Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds."
You have it a little backwards. Liberals are kind of the "default" in capitalist society. Fascism could almost be considered an extension of liberalism. It has the same economic values, and often the same political values, just more "mask off" about them. You're right that a liberal who educates themselves ceases to be a liberal, but most people online are not secret fascists, or at least, not consciously so. Liberals just have a lot of overlap with fascists, that's all.
And while we joke about the paid trolls and three letter agents a lot, the truth is that there are plenty of people willing to do their dirty work for them for free. They don't need to be paid, they do it of their own volition, because they see it as "saving democracy from the evil tankies."
Liberals are drawn to fascism easily because at some point State want them to and they oppose Communism, also because the State want them to.
So the libs are just like some toolset of State to oppose Communism and support fascism when need arises.
I agree that Reddit has more unknowing “Hwell Acktually” types than is good for anyone’s mental health. It doesn’t make discussion any better. But if you proclaim your hate and call people morons you might be part of the problem. If someone is wrong on the internet you could just be doing them a favour by acting like that.
Ah yes it's certainly my fault that when I tried to answer a question I was met with ignorant hostility because people wanna feel good about their positions as if it's a fucking Harry Potter book.
It wasn't even an "Hwell acktually" moment, they just ignored everything I said.
Nothing more disheartening than when you outline your position and why you believe the things you do only for some lib to just accuse you of things you never said and just ignore everything you wrote. "Smug ignorance" might as well be the motto of reddit.
What's worse is that it was in a supposed "leftist" sub. What else am I to do when I lay out my positions in a succinct way, and it's met with that kind of hostility?
Any actually leftist sub gets purged there, Americans think that "liberal" is a left wing perspective. Too many subs are just built around accommodating that instead of actually challenging that kind of toxic behaviour. Though the ones that don't do just end up getting banned or quarantined, so it is probably a bit of selection bias.
Of course someone else’s response isn’t your fault. I’m not saying that you are wrong for disliking it, either. The unfortunate truth is that in every community, you will find people who just don’t know how to argue. That group gets bigger if the community grows. Being angry about it doesn’t help anyone though.
What I meant with the “hwell acktually” comment is maybe the same as you just said but in different words: people who like to be right all the time and feel good bout it.
Yeah...you're right. Honestly I'm just venting. I'm usually fine at arguing these things but I guess I just reached a breaking point with someone who didn't even bother arguing, addressing any points, and just wanted to get a "gotcha" moment with no substance.
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