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I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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[–] Millie@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I honestly wouldn't give those people the dignity of calling them leftists. They're too concerned about cosplaying as activists and dunking on people to actually give a shit about advancing the rights of real people or trying to protect anything good.

[–] gowan@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Seriously the number of people who defend DPRK and Pol Pot claiming they were socialists is shocking.

Edit: the "they" refers to the nation states not the posters

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like those posters aren't really socialists either. There's a point which just claiming a worldview isn't enough to justify the accuracy of that label while holding all the opposing positions to its values.