This goober is literally doing the "50 bajillion dead, gommunist vuvuzela bad" meme in pretty much every other post. Also this lovely person is a crypto bro because of course they are. The masters of critical thinking over at antiwork are lapping it up but what else can you expect from . :reddit-logo:

  • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Now that we all know r/antiwork was hijacked into a legit op, is it possible to convince more people to discard win it back? We might as well leave drive these weirdos alone in out of their echo chamber, because otherwise that glow aint coming off anytime soon. Internet organizing was a fucking mistake.

    EDIT: Correction - this unironically needs to be done for Reddit as a whole. Definition of "compromised" in literally every corner

    EDIT 2: Actually fuck that. Dont abandon anything, just keep looking for ways to counter left-anticommunist propaganda. It might seem impossible now (hell, does to me) but imagine the catharsis once we finally turn :funny-clown-hammer: and his merry band of wreckers into a laughing stock

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I wish I could stop reading reddit in general but I think I'm too much of a pain pig.

    • Abraxiel
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      2 years ago

      The largest groundswell of people newly disillusioned with capitalism and labor online has been infiltrated and coopted by anticommunists? Better just abandon it.

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly yeah, when you put it that way it does seem like a waste to abandon. In hindsight that was an overreaction, bc I'm struggling to think of a better solution.

        The problem is, how do we deal with this particular kind of astroturf? Lib/chud anticommunists are often easier to handle bc they're attacking socialism from outside - we just need to bring ppl in. But in places like antiwork I notice more "left" anticommunists. It goes without saying, but they're especially tricky bc they try to act from within. They make their "anti-authoritarian," "more democratic" ideas sound like the logical next step to impressionable leftists. There are ways to outsmart them on that, but the biggest issue imo is in talking the indoctrinated back out of it. The kinds of talking points and social norms theyre taught will convince them they're more left-wing than you by default, bc they embraced a Better, More Wholesome Approach to socialism and you didn't. Eventually, instead of rejecting socialism, they mutate it into something completely different and insist they're still socialists. So if you try to reach them, they can assume you're attacking socialism from outside, as a "tankie".

        Like I said, there are definitely effective ways to handle this, and I now realize we can't just ignore them. So if anyones had success doing this, keep it up

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      lol antiwork is not that bad. and the response isn't to just abandon it, otherwise r/chapotraphouse wouldn't have been banned.

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Now that we all know r/antiwork was hijacked into a legit op

      how do we know? (besides the fact that it's reddit)