[dude with glasses in a communist t-shirt, arguing] I’m the only leftist here, your opinions are TRASH
[dude holding a theory book on smug, arguing] Read theory you losers, you’re all WRONG
[dude in an anarchist hoodie, arguing] Nuh-uh, I’m the only leftist here, you’re SHITLIBS
[the three dudes are now caught in a cartoon fight, glasses gone flying, punches everywhere, while a firing squad of nazis are targeting them with rifles]
[a confused nazi asks] Why… why are they still arguing?
I have literally never run into anyone in real life who says any of these as any form of communist, other than ‘communist’ parties full of pensioners or maga communists.
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I have run into people saying things like this:
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Anarchism has never been tried successfully
Anarchists are all children who don’t know better
and I’ll push back on it, but it’s not a monolith, Marxists with decent enough social skills to not insult allies do exist
Animal farm is propaganda, by a social democrat with a clear agenda.
Believe it or not, these are almost never relevant to actual organizing work:
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They never said RL. That is a very specific and self aware cop-out. You know as well as we do, the ml servers are known for this for good reason.
Being fully transparent .world has their shit heads too. As do most other servers. However to the best of my knowledge they tend not to be administrators etc. 🤷♂️
My original comment at the start of this thread was:
This is in a thread about getting murdered IRL by fascists while bickering. I think real life is relevant.
I then get the litany of online behaviors that people engage in, including a lot of stuff that has no basis in reality outside of trolls and crypto-fascists.
The shit I get from some people because of what instance I happen to use is literally the thing depicted in the comic though:
At some point actually fighting fascism requires realizing that it’s a lot easier to work with communists and anarchists despite whatever disagreements you have, because as different ideologically as we may be, that distinction doesn’t matter to our enemies.
First I agree that marxists are generally chill it’s the hyphenated ones that typically are not. And because we can agree on that. I think we should be able to agree that they aren’t who is being pictured above in the comic.
Perhaps it was misunderstanding, perhaps it was talking past each other. Either way fair enough.
Others get the same treatment. I can count plenty of times where I’ve been told similar because I post from a .world domain. The difference being, of course correct me if I am wrong. That our administrators don’t tend to be as problematic. It isn’t 2019 anymore. ML isn’t the only server. If you are focused on organization and outreach. Maybe it’s worth considering finding a new instance that would would help in fostering that.
As I syndicist I absolutely gave some thought about joining an instance that better reflected my sensibilities. Though some recent events have definitely made me reconsider on that. I honestly think I’m happy an a much more diverse platform. Even if on the fediverse our diversity is pretty homogenic.
I’m not trying to be glib, I don’t think any instances are good for that, I use other platforms with more reach for that sort of thing.
I come here because I can see what other anarchists and Marxists are saying about the news and shoot the shit with them. Plus I can access the largest trans instances from here, I don’t really have any ambitions beyond that.
Fair enough. I can do that as well. Just without all the domain baggage. And if it is something that bothers you. It’s something to look at. Something I saw you actually cop to elsewhere on the topic.
I mean while it is annoying getting called a red fascist out of pure tribal reaction, I’m also pretty stubborn when it comes to peer pressure
Heh I think that describes most of us on the fediverse and why we are the way we are.
Yeah, certainly no baggage on .world…
Oop we got an example of the comic here all triggered LOL
“you’re TRIGGERED lol!”
Modern democrats really are just the Republicans of ten years ago.
You are wrong, one hundred percent wrong. But you already know that the administrators of .world are Zionist liberals, but you don’t care because you agree with them.
Real life marxists tend to be okay, I don’t mind them. But, online those people literally try to dominate ALL discourse in leftism to the point where every single contact people have with leftists is someone who believes those things unironically.
No, you’re just strawmanning