How exactly do you expect to grow this place when there are constant posts like “Haha social democrats are fucking losers!!!” I wouldn’t make an account here if I considered myself a socdem. Those are the people you can draw to the board, share ideas with, and radicalize…right? I don’t get the point of shitting on people that are actually really close to getting it.
Idk who this person is but it is understandable that a person from a country being exploited and destroyed by imperialist nations to have a negative view of people who are “helping” build social programs for its people but have just as bad, or nearly as bad to the point of it being materially irrelevant, a track record of supporting imperialist policies towards the global south/poor and maybe express that in a somewhat vitriolic way.
And I think it’s kinda of chauvinist to think we should mollycoddle some westerners over the voice of extremely exploited people who are hurt by those policies.
Now if she’s a westerner or whatever my point still stands that we gotta learn about this stuff eventually.
I was once a western chauvinist socdem until a communist called me out on it, I did self-crit over time and now i see where they were coming from.
I mean, I was still calling myself a liberal when I started using the old sub
sure I didn’t feel welcome at first, so instead I listened, learned and adapted until I was welcomed
on the other hand, I was already used to hanging out in online spaces that were actively hostile to me and my opinions, which may not be true of most people
