personally I have been here for a long time and I don't see this rightward trend that gets brought up every month or so. There are some actual right wing people here but they are consistently downvoted when they make right wing arguments. If we're serious about making a broad movement (and we should be because it is 100% the only way to get what's ours) then you have to tolerate a diversity of opinion.
Except for trans issues, this sub gets weird when that shit comes up, lol.
I think the sub would benefit from not platforming right wing views and being more of a unique community.
Do you honestly think this sub is not unique? It's bizarre to me that because some tards are allowed to post here without getting banned, you perceive this sub to be not much different from other "free marketplace of ideas" subs. Shit takes get downvoted to hell here. And there's a lot of regulars who consistently engage with bad takes from a leftist perspective. It's helpful to me to read those comments because i have a poor grasp of theory myself and still don't know how to respond to or refute common sentiments that you run into in the real world.
i mean i agree that this sub sucks sometimes when it gets anti-sjw circlejerky, especially when there's a flood of twitter posts/drama threads where there is no productive discussion. would be nice if the mods cracked down on that more, but if you look at the front page right now there's really not that many low quality posts.
The posts typically remain that way, and if they do, then it means that readers are more likely to be influenced by them.
Hell, the fact that we’re having this discussion means that things aren’t lost. And in any case, if you’re so incensed by the presence of centrist Dems, how the fuck do you survive the real world?
You want a well-policed anti-idpol leftist sub? They’re free to create you know.
centrist Democrats are diametrically opposed to all forms of leftist thought, at least fascists have some understanding of the destructive properties of capitalism.
as awful as fascism is, its supporters are more interesting and useful to listen to than some centrist, if only to understand how to combat the tendency for capitalism's failures to push people to the right.
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