I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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    I honestly wouldn’t give those people the dignity of calling them leftists. They’re too concerned about cosplaying as activists and dunking on people to actually give a shit about advancing the rights of real people or trying to protect anything good.

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      Seriously the number of people who defend DPRK and Pol Pot claiming they were socialists is shocking.

      Edit: the “they” refers to the nation states not the posters

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        Can you link any of those posts? Because Pol Pot sympathizers are banned on the instances everyone loves to complain about.

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        I feel like those posters aren’t really socialists either. There’s a point which just claiming a worldview isn’t enough to justify the accuracy of that label while holding all the opposing positions to its values.