Some might assume I'd say techbros, and while I do despise them for sure, at a personal level I'm especially put off by the cryptobro subvariety of techbro. Talking to them, offline and in person, feels like talking to them online. They're that online. They're that cognitively insulated. Everything to them is transactional. The person they're talking to only exists as a mark or an obstacle to their ongoing acquisition and trade of planet burning internet tokens. I see it in their eyes. I see the artificial and crude predatory switch-flipping when it's clear that someone they're talking to isn't having it, in much the same way that high level Scientologist registers someone as "fair game" and goes hunter-killer on them. It's creepy for me at a deeply personal level.

  • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Anti-idpol "marxists" (they're chuds in red paint). The ones who fail to show solidarity on certain issues, but especially the ones who "idpol" lives rent free in their heads. They constantly go off about how "idpol" is ruining Marxism and they are always the first to bring it up even when nobody else was talking about it. They'll make threads about it. They'll make speeches about it. They'll cry about it during meetings. They'll try to start a caucus over it in a party setting. They'll do the libs' work for them and point out unfortunate instances of Marx being weirdly racist in the 1800s as "proof" that "idpol doesn't matter to REAL marxists" while ignoring things like Marx congratulating Lincoln on Emancipation, Lenin denouncing antisemitism, Stalin denouncing racial chauvinism, and Mao saying women hold up half the sky. They'll ignore Marxist participation in every Womens' Liberation movement, every anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist movement, every anti-racist struggle. They'll do the libs' work for them and they'll say "none of this stuff is class struggle, only class struggle matters" while ignoring that all these things are absolutely part of the class struggle, and forms of class struggle. They'll whine endlessly about how idpol is "liberal" and taints their movement, and in the process they GIVE LIBS CREDIT for things socialists actually did. Either ignorant or deliberate wreckers. Don't care.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Their "but we need to focus on the majority of workers, not just a small subset" spiel falls apart quickly when you point out the majority of workers are women lol