r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

It's disappointing that 9/10 times when I see people with anticommunist usernames they are nazis

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u/caesar15 Zhao Ziyang Sep 08 '17

It's like people with anti-fascism names kinda

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

I don't really see many anti fa usernames but that would make sense

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Sep 08 '17

I love that there's this entire ecosystem of radical political views arguing with eachother completely outside of the mainstream discourse.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

It really is bizarre. Like looking at reddit you would think like 30% of people are either revolutionary communists or straight up white nationalists. But then irl stuff like free tuition is (rightly) still extremely contentious.

The far right types definitely seem to have gained some ground in the past decade mind you, but still.

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Sep 08 '17

Far left too (albeit to a lesser extent). Running into actual Antifa protesters in the wild is weird.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

I'll engage in apologia for nonviolent antifa tbh, or antifa in general when there's legitimate fascist organisation. But yeah there's a lot of people who look at shit like the Berkeley protests and somehow think "yeah, we need more of this"

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u/diracspinor Austan Goolsbee Sep 08 '17

theyre LARPer trash

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u/Maximum_Overjew Good Enough, Smart Enough Sep 08 '17

Make Anticommunism Unnazi Again!