There’s dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that’s not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.
Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that’s still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I’ve seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.
Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.
It is the intersection of two factors. First, Lemmy is a niche social media platform. The only people who know about it, let alone use it, are extremely online to begin with. Second, most Liberals are genuine idealists who believe rhetoric is the primary arena of struggle. They believe that the reason Liberal Democracy is crumbling all around the world because people are being misinformed (not because of the underlying economic failures).
Combine these two factors and you end up with the type of radlib fundamentalists we see on Lemmy, who believe rhetoric on social media is the primary arena of struggle, and that people like us are either a social contagion spreading among ignorant dupes, or malicious foreign state operatives.
Oooh I like this thought. That certainly is a current among people who have never been on the recieving end of the extraordinary political power of pepper spray and batons.
GOOD POST