This pretty much covers all my reasons for thinking this is a good site. For me, the potential of being able to discuss non-leftist-specific topics (current events, theory, history, etc.), like hobbies, pop culture, gender, life advice, etc., in a place where I know people are coming from roughly the same place I am is really refreshing. As you said, here we dont deal with the sophistry of debate-me CHUDs in our inboxes because they get banned. Also in other forums people who aren't CHUDs but aren't leftists can speak in ways that are subtly racist, transphobic, sexist, etc. which really gets on my nerves and exhausts me, but here we downbear the worst cases of that and people delete their comment, have it deleted by mods, or just get torn into by angry commenters which sets a kind of standard for speech that makes me very comfortable here and I'm sure others can relate.