• 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The purity tests usually come from leftist adjacent groups that actually have nothing to do with left wing ideology. Read Tankies and some extremely small groups of vegans (Most are fine). They for some reason love telling you “Lefties who aren’t [INSERT THING HERE] are hypocritical and not real leftists”

    Really it’s a huge nothing burger complaining about silly people on twitter and Reddit who ultimately do not matter.

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        8 months ago

        Being loud and given attention, they can be the only example of “leftists” some people knowingly interact with.

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      8 months ago

      They do matter. If they didn’t countries like Russia wouldn’t spend so much targetting them with propaganda and pushing them not to vote or vote against admittedly flawed left of centre parties.