gringosoldier [comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 31st, 2020

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  • Not sure that's true anymore: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/learning/film-club-greta-thunberg-has-given-up-on-politicians.html

    Not sure it was ever true, really. Keep in mind that she likely feels a lot of pressure to be a public face for the concerns of young people and calling for even more militancy is going to garner even more backlash than what she already receives.






  • I'm legitimately looking into immigrating to Canada through my partner with an immigration lawyer this week. I have no doubts that the US wouldn't just bully the fuck out of Canada if things got really bad here, but it's really my only viable move at this point. I could at least live relatively peacefully for a good decade before shit hits the fan there too.

    The only problem is it effectively would mean I've given up. I realize I'm extremely priviledged and very few people have that option, and it genuinely kills me how many people are essentially held hostage here by a lack of means or other reasons.


  • /r/CTH was litearlly 100% of my Reddit usage for about a year pre-ban and I'm a proud leftist that's read theory.

    Yesterday, I spent a few hours expressing my own personal doubts that re-electing Trump would benefit the left. I went to bed around 3AM my time and at that time most of my replies where positively upvoted. When I woke up everything was downvoted harshly.

    I would have lost about 500 karma overnight and likely been shadow banned if this was Reddit. I was met with really sardonic replies that I frankly assumed we reserved for people that weren't allies. I can take whatever you dish, but people dipping their toes here will be almost immediately turned off.

    I've been on Reddit since it started (quite literally) and it went though a lot of the same growing pains. It was an echo chamber at first -- and while we can't know for certain what Reddit does anymore w.r.t. it's algorithm to discourage that -- at the beginning it was at least universally accepted that as long as a Redditor engaged in good faith you would take it in good faith and debate.

    Being unnecessarily sardonic to allies in your own camp is just fucking stupid.