You know, the ones that aren’t trolls, but still wind up banned for being awful to be around

    • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This. There is no one set of rules for being a leftist. It starts with "capitalism is bad" and fractures into all sorts of ways of thinking from there. I don't think forcing a narrow viewpoint is going to advance the cause. To some extent, we need to be "medium to big tent" leftists. Let's not make the same mistake "big tent Democrats" make, but you're going to turn a lot of people off by railroading groupthink. Whom'st among us didn't have bad opinions at one point until we were allowed to exist in leftist spaces and learn?

      • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It’s definitely a balance. “Big tent” can very easily wind up being shorthand for “tolerating bigotry”. If privileged people tolerate that, then they’re fine using the rights of others as bargaining chips

        Now someone bring a purely electoralist lib is whatever, I dgaf about that tbh

        • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Right. That's one of many places Dems go wrong. They let anyone in if they can trojan horse their way in. I don't want to see that here, I just think the bar for entry is "capitalism bad, fascism bad". Obviously there is plenty of room to figure out more nuanced versions of that

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        There is no one set of rules for being a leftist

        wrong the rule is when you agree with me the one true leftist you are a leftist but when you disagree you are a revisionist splitter