I used to lurk it when it was on 8chan, besides the irritating chan culture it seemed ok from what I remembered? I'm not sure what it's like now on bunkerchan though.
They can be spared from the gulags, but only if they write "it is not funny to use slurs" hundreds of times on a chalk board.
If you're not used to imageboards they might seem pretty weird, but some of the best theoryposts I've seen online were on leftypol. I think the imageboard format is better for longer discussions than the reddit style of format. You also get a lot more geographic diversity than here, which is mostly focused on American politics.
It's pretty awful. It's purely stupidpol types that think it's funny and edgy to use slurs
IIRC 8chan was shut down because chuds kept posting their manifestos on the pol board before going to go shoot up mosques and walmarts. What differentiated 8chan from 4chan was that anyone could create and moderate a board, which was how leftypol got to be on there.
Now leftypol is hosted on bunkerchan, which is a leftist imageboard with its own communities (kind of like chapo.chat), including leftypol.
Every time I go on a chan board I can't believe that I used to like that shit. Leftypol may or may not be so bad comparatively speaking but if the internet turns your brain into mush then imageboards are an accelerant to the process.
Honestly, it's good. Out of all leftist spaces I've been to, it's by far the one with the most effortposts, interesting discussion, god tier shitposts etc. The downside though is that considering it broke off from 4chan and later 8chan, it's absolutely filled with typical chan culture like slurs, bigotry, racism etc., so it really depends on whether or not that's something you can handle.
Good things: seem like pretty hardcore lefties. A lot of them seem historically pretty well informed. Chan format seems to attract a lot of people with stem and technical skills, which I think is actually critically important for the left (although a lot of us are obviously turned against it in some way because of Silicon Valley, tech bros, and imperial corruption). Pretty much anonymous with little PII to be tracked or data mined by the state and or enemies.
Bad things: I just really personally hate the Chan layout / format. Chan “culture” is utterly irredeemable. I have lurked there a little bit and it is at the “cum town” level where you cannot tell if certain behaviors that would hurt comrades are ironic or simply normalized. After the cth ban there was actually a thread (not too dissimilar from some of the ones here and on cth discord) pondering how to bring in new members. Let’s just say that certain aspects of the culture manifest as a very serious impasse that would have to be resolved, and the posters in the thread I read through really didn’t have an answer either.
That is my limited experience anyway. It (probably) can’t hurt to go over and check it out
