So, Facebook just made my partner the sole head of a group with more than a few thousand DemSocs in it
What steps should we take to achieve some actual radicalization among these potential recruits?
I mean, in addition to suggesting they join HexBear of course
Rule 2: Normalize saying "Stalin did nothing wrong"
We may laugh, but at a social center I was active in, a comrade once basically opened with "Stalin did nothing wrong" when a new person walked in. I never saw that new person come back.
Twist: that new person really resents that Stalin stopped at Berlin.
Have you done outreach to the politically uncommitted masses, or at least to strangers?
I mean that 100% as a joke. I just like imagining a person walking into a room, hearing "STALIN DID NOTHING WRONG", and immediately leaving muttering "liberal" under their breath.
And I'm telling you that I've had an actual experience of that mental image.
It was kinda funny in a way though.