So, historical materialism time: certain other banned subreddits with lemmy forks had issues early on rooting out racists and transphobes. There was a lot of pushback from the aggressively white/masc subset community for what they considered overreactions to microaggressions. But when push came to shove, they would often show their whole ass and post the most vitriolic and honestly boomer chud shit to grace the modlogs.
Please keep your minority comrades in mind when posting and moderating your communities. We are service workers, factory workers, and low-level clerks in this together with everyone else, and we would like to believe that socialists care about us too. This is not to say I doubt this community at all, but just wanted to convey lessons from the past.
Trans issues, pronouns, and race issues also make a great litmus tests for weeding out Maupin-type “nationalists” who are mainly self interested.
Hoping to see great things from this community, and nice to meet you all! (っ_)っ
He wrote an entire antisemitic book “Satan at the Fountainhead” and constantly dog whistles about “bankers” this dude is not a leftist. He had a conference with Dugin where he talked about how he wasn’t a leftist but a populist. He certainly is educated about history at least which is more than I can say about breadtubers but c’mon our standards can’t be that low.
Not to mention his anti-vax Jimmy Dore Dick riding, these people who support China and their covid response but then rail against lockdowns demonstrate massive amounts of cognitive dissonance.
None of this is anti-Semitic. Railing against “bankers” is not anti-Semitic, unless you view it idealistically and removed from the reality that Caleb is an anti-capitalist and communist.
When he calls himself not a leftist, I’d argue that no genzedonger is a leftist either, because he is most likely referring to what actually exists as the “left”, which is really just fascism.
So no, relative to what “leftist” means today in the mainstream, none of us are leftists. We are communists in that sense.
I have no idea how we got to the vaccine now. But also, being against the mandates in the imperial core and being pro China’s response with lockdowns is not cognitive dissonance.
One is being carried out by a bloodthirsty regime (US) and one is being carried about by a Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
The mandates in the US are designed to protect corporate profits, the laws in China are meant to benefit the people.