Say what you will about this extremely problematic community but some of them are figuring some things out.
Here's the song which is a mostly accurate critique of our neoliberal economy
He's wrong about how much of the national debt is owed to China. It is mostly owed to Americans.
He's fucking wrong as fuck to call this neoliberal nightmare "Market Socialism".
I disagree strongly. It's easy to dismiss them as a bunch of chuds when they go on to defend apartheid and make posts about doing a neo-colonialism that gets 40 000 upvotes. And this is after the massive influx of new people. Just look at this racist post. Do you see any radicalisation potential here? I don't. I see a bunch of racist and ableist redditors gambling their parents money on the stock market.
How hard have you actually looked? I get why you wouldn't want to wade through all of the garbage, but again, there are 10,000,000 users. The Chapo sub was significantly smaller and explicitly leftist, and racist shit still got posted fairly regularly. Don't forget that /r/stupidpol was birthed from this very community.
Anyway, I'm not arguing that the potential is still there - I'm arguing that we squandered this opportunity, and if we continue to miss these moments then what are we even trying to accomplish? We need to keep an eye out for the next time something like this is bubbling up and be ready to offer a Marxist perspective from the start.