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.
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
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.
