r/antifastonetoss - It's just all aesthetics, no beliefs
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:reddit-logo: having a normal one. Some comrades in the trenches giving good pushback but otherwise that thread is full of :brainworms: :zenz:

  • Koa_lala [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Reddit socialism and anarchism subs are literally all co-opted. You can't convince me otherwise. It's the least the US would do against growing socialism and chinese sympathy within its borders. And seeing they all parot literal state propaganda makes it even more sus.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I talk about the same shit we talk about on here but in person at work with anyone any chance I get, and I gotta say it's just deeply culturally ingrained. It's not even an op at this point (though it is the result of decades of shit like COINTELPRO). Americans by and large repeat and perpetuate anti-communist bullshit completely unaware and uncaring of its origins. We are so deeply indoctrinated that they don't even need to run active psyops.

      • Gkalaitza [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        but but i was told this was only a phenomenon in terminaly online "leftists" and not irl and it doesnt matter cause it doesnt represent large scale real life trends in thinking among the "left"

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          My favorite was a self proclaimed Trotskyist who also thought Lenin was too "violent" lol. Very very very few people in the US have anything close to resembling a coherent political worldview.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        One of the most important factors in me becoming a leftist was my weird obsession with Austro-Hungaria and the Byzantine Empire. No, I'm, not kidding. I learned about how much Russia sucked under the Czars as compared to other monarchies, so without even questioning or doubting US propaganda, I came to the conclusion Russians and other Eastern European people were better off, or at least just as well off, under communism(as I was told it was at the time) as they were before. I also was aware that the US was just in a better area resources and crop wise, so it made sense we were materially better off. I got made fun of in history classes for pointing this out, but no one could ever actually address my arguments. A bunch of other things happened too, but the underpinnings of the most basic propaganda not making sense historically or materially was vital.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Reading threads like that one makes me believe there isn't a single actual anarchist or communist left on reddit, it's all just libs and socdems who call themselves AnComs because they bought an Anti-Flag album 15 years ago.

      • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yes. Any dedicated anarchist organizer would see a handful of reddit posts and realize that it's not for them.

        • Koa_lala [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I generally like GenZ but I'm glad this place exist. For all the struggles we've been through on this site. It didn't turn out too bad.

            • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Hexbear does not provide nearly enough Sopranos memes for my needs.

            • yune [comrade/them, any]
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              3 years ago

              I usually use it just for hobby subreddits these days, but I'm still subbed to a bunch of "leftist" subreddits that I was subbed to before chapo got banned. Most of them pivoted so fast to being "anti-tankie" it's kind of disgusting.

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          That's a big cringe on their behalf