About this, I got into leftism because of shared values and worries, and via fucking memes mostly. The "oh leftists are just gatekeeping nerds" is bullshit, at least to me. Y'all are all really funny and cool and finding this community (leftism) was a fucking big relief, and yeah, some things are hard to "get" coming from the outside having been brainwashed by capitalism and racism since the craddle, but those are not that many.