I started following this site from the beginning, but somewhere along the way I just sorta lost interest. The content wasn't that engaging too me after a while. I remember it as being mostly dunking on American politics and culture war stuff.

The war in Ukraine brought me back because I wanted an online space that wasn't in complete denial about the Western role in the conflict and/or deeply reactionary. This site didn't let me down.

I had a very similar story. I joined the subreddit as a lurker in the months before it was banned, joined the lifeboat to the website, and I've checked this place out over the last couple years from time to time (I somehow managed to time it so that I always arrived a week or so after a struggle session) but it felt like we were just kinda in standby mode after 2020, like we were waiting for something to happen to latch onto and in the meantime we were just talking about how shit was getting steadily worse. I kept thinking about how it would be great to inject some more genuine discussion about the state of the world particularly outside America but getting started on that seemed like a rather big goal and I wasn't sure if anybody would even be interested in it.

So when the war hit in 2022 and suddenly things were happening again, and everybody was interested in that again and people were coming back to the site because of the tsunami of propaganda and bullshit flooding everywhere else, it was like, oh shit, maybe there is a niche for these kinds of international discussions.