Edit: yeah after spending awhile in that sub, idk wtf I was thinking. There’s “authleft” users complaining about tankies and shitting on Mao, while labeling right wing talking points as based. I think all of the “left” users are just nazi sock puppets. I’m leaving this post up as a mark of shame.
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PCM is starting to get riled up about “genocide deniers” and damn, there is zero room for disagreement on this subject. Even though we haven’t seen any evidence aside from some ambiguous photographs and hoax twitter accounts.
This tbh. Your mental health will thank you. The amount of casual racism and propaganda is too damn high.
That’s an earnest response, thanks bud. I truly was radicalized by /r/chapo, though. I never would’ve picked up Lenin or Marx without the sub. I didn’t even realize being a socialist was an actual option before that.
I’m in the death throes of my redditposting. Since the big ban, I don’t have fun on it anymore, but I’m still lonely so I go on there to comment sometimes.
That’s sound advice, thank you. I live in the Midwest and I’ve managed to alienate most of my family since I’ve become radicalized, so shit’s been lonely. Reading theory has brought a lot of comfort and direction, but I’m still working through my depression and introversion to get out of the house and do some IRL praxis.
To give my shitty ass doodoo perspective, Chapo actually kept me in the loop pretty well. I would LOVE to say that Chapo going offline got me reading more news & more theory but I can’t say that’s the case, if anything the opposite. To be a part of an online community where theory is discussed makes you want to engage with an informed opinion. ESPECIALLY when I got downvoted to shit.
I truly hope I’m a minority in what an uncommitted leftist I am. If that’s true please send directions to Gulag.
If you were a lib and suddenly started posting guillotine memes, it wasn’t the reddit that did it. It was you changing your own mind.
It was me changing my own mind after being exposed to other ideas, largely (though not entirely) through cth. This seems like a weird stance to take tbh. Like, I’m not going to claim that I wasn’t already leaning left, and I’m not going to claim that OP isn’t wasting his time on pcm, but it seems like you’re basing your entire idea of radicalization on whether it works to turn people who start from an entirely-opposed position, rather than taking people who are sympathetic and giving them and outlet and resources to turn further left.
It seems weird to recognize the material effect propaganda can have and then try to claim that cth was incapable of radicalizing anyone.
No disagreement there because that sub is brigades by Nazis.
Fuck PCM why do you even browse that shit? How are you cool with hanging out around fascist enablers?
I just started browsing a few days ago. I heard we were gonna try to take it over, so I thought I’d check it out.
Eh, dont bother there’s too many of them. Basically this sub is pseudo leftists sympathizing with fascists, a fuck ton of actual fascists and pedo libertarians and dumb centrists who think politics is a game. Really, Reddit is generally not worth your attention, but this sub is particularly not
