I think it might just be latent anxiety about all the "left the left" grifters that exist. It's hard not to feel like some sort of elder god of right wing thought is waiting to hit everyone who turns 40 with an evil stick.
Part of that is survivor's bias. Something else that plays into it is how we often don't keep ties to leftist or left-leaning elders. But they're certainly there.
Yeah, what am I going to do, like landlords? Feel good about imperialist violence? Sign an epic pro-Israel pledge?
"I gotta be honest comrades, I had a sick ass bahn mi from a food truck. Since it was privately owned it made me think that market forces are actually... le good!"
I might get annoyed enough to stop posting, but it's not like I'll ever watch a Beanis Shabibo video instead.
I honestly think the most likely way that the kind of person who posts here becomes more liberal is if they make enough money to be comfortable and settle with a SO who's a lib. So as long as we keep up our volcel pledges I think we're in the clear.
Yeah lol one day I just forget dialectics. Which makes me wonder, what the hell is going on with all the Trots turned neocons? Did they just... forget everything?
well a lot of the original trots left the USSR for the USA, where they made hating the USSR their whole deal. so you can imagine the kinds of friends they ended up making there.
you're probably fine if it's a one-off thing that you apologize for and self-crit. The biggest mistake people make is trying to post their way out of it.
There's a huge gulf of space between being wrong about something (not going to get you banned) and deciding to die on a hill and turning into a corncob.(can get you banned)
Pm_me_your_Foucaults spent like 2-3 hours doubling and tripling down in the mod chat after the other person left the chat room. A ton of other people tried to de-escalate or smooth things over, Foucaults absolutely was not having any of it. They never do, and they regularly seek out arguments.
If they do some self-crit (the bar is on the floor) and want to come back, they're more than welcome to do so.
There's a huge gulf of space between being wrong about something (not going to get you banned) and deciding to die on a hill and turning into a corncob.(can get you banned)
Honestly, I don't understand why people double down, you know. It's like this quote says...
What profits {them} to bleed? Shall the dust praise {them}? Shall the worms declare {their} truth?
"Never stop posting! Never stop posting!" the Hexbear yelled, being buried alive in more and more sand in the morning struggle session after the Revolutionary Red Guard found their bad take stash.
If you're talking about Bureaucrat specifically the account was deleted by one of the users because someone else kept getting into arguments with people or making weird comments that were catching bans from various comms.