Like let's give them an opportunity to study theory and apply doctrine in reeducation camps before committing them to a life of exile or death. Everyone will either come around, or they won't. Simple as that.
I say rip it off like a band-aid. Explain why it's for the greater good. I think there's clearly a problem with messaging in just criticizing capitalism without advocating for the alternative.
It's really easy to kick over sandcastles, but it's hard to build one with such limited tools. So let's unveil the castle in its full glory. Let's go mask off and make this a reality.
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everywhere, politics is radicalizing. whether to the left or the right, the way things are today is no longer stable. so people go looking for answers, for comfort, for community with others and they do so in places that are already familiar to them. for this community, that place was reddit. I doubt many people came here without first spending time on reddit and becoming frustrated with its reactionary politics. moreover, that's why our userbase is so demographically homogenous relative to the whole population.
what free marketplace?
I'm not sure what the "it" is here but generally, this community holds certain lines partially because we've fought over them so many times and have found a few positions we can all definitely agree on, and partially because we know what the consequence of allowing certain lines to slip will be, eventually -- this place becomes indifferentiable from reddit.