if you’ll pardon me complaining about this publicly: some of the meanest mfs i’ve met online are internet-poisoned communists. If i weren’t already a marxist-leninist, i would have some very unsavory ideas about what communists are like.

Lemmygrad and Hexbear are very nice places, thank you comrades _ … but elsewhere, even IRL, i’ve met incredibly rude people calling themselves communists and i need to stress this: if you want people on our side, you need to give good impressions of what we’re like. Don’t be hostile or dismissive or just violently anti-social. If you have to explain something for the millionth time to yet another liberal or anarchist… do it [insert Sankara quote], or at least find a nice way of saying you don’t want to. Save your offensive capabilities for people who deserve it. And please, PLEASE, go outside occasionally. IRL interaction is healthy, and will quickly kill any terminally online behaviours you might have. Maybe join an org while you’re at it ;)

i’ll stop stating the obvious now. Have a great day, comrades.

  • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tbh since I stopped using Reddit Ive had no urge to rage at Internet Liberals to their faces and mock their every word. It’s not like “out of sight, out of mind” but when you’re on Reddit, you see the worst, most confrontational takes (from a Marxist perspective, the rest of the globe sees it as normal decent content) and hearing normal people voicing concerns IRL and trying to get ahead of false narratives or godforbid even talk them out of supporting a Nazi/Apartheid/Fascist state really fills me with more hope and joy than giving all the best Pro-AES sources in the world to a right-winger who won’t read what I sent.