larping will always be a problem in political forums, but taking away the "you're gonna get banned" incentive to act like a reasonable person is only going to lead to incredible insufferable larping, and it's already trended in that direction.
any version of leftism that is not primarily centered around empathy is useless and will lead to nothing positive. unfortunately in isolated internet communities too many peoples' version of leftism is about extreme edge and fantasizing about violence
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If we just talk to the fascists, we can peacefully come to a compromise 😊
"Empathy is important" and "fascists must be crushed" are statements that can coexist.
Most inclinations towards violence you see here are not out of a belief that such things are necessary to bring justice and pursue egalitarian goals, they're just out of pure anger. You can see so many throughout history committing great violence because they wanted to and for no other reason. They always have a justification, but this isn't the real reason they did it. They simply had an inclination towards violence and then they created a justification for it so they could pursue their inclination. If you're not constantly introspecting into what the actual best strategy is in each certain scenario, you will just succumb to your emotional inclinations, rather than positively furthering justice.
Will violence be necessary at some point to genuinely transform our society? Probably. However, the best way to further leftism today is to build solidarity, help working people, and support unions. Going out and killing bill gates won't do anything, and posting on a forum for 5 hours a day about going out and killing bill gates certainly won't either.
Another unfortunate quality of internet leftist forum users is that they tend to stray away from making arguments as to why things are bad and wrong and go more towards arguing how things do not fit within the in group. This is a perfect example. What is the fundamental reason that leftism should not be centered around empathy? You do not care to argue it. You only say "it's not marxist," in an attempt to paint yourself as being in the realm of what people who post to chapo.chat are supposed to believe, and myself as not being within that realm. Marx isn't automatically correct about everything. Maybe you think he's correct on this issue. So you should say what he argues, if you agree. But instead you say "marx doesn't agree, therefore you must be wrong," without providing any kind of evidence. It's a pretty helpful case study as to why people stay stuck within their in groups, never learning anything or converting anoyone new.
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