• So much bullshit.

    Right after the Russian invasion on Ukraine some Putin supporters started hanging out at the sub and many had shitty takes but none comes even close to what this dude is saying. Someone mentioned that they might have found a nazbol sub or something but its so fucking weird that this person only mentioned r/genzedong. If they found all this nonsense somewhere else they would have probably cited it along with our sub, but they didn’t.

    Also the trigger warning about suicide(?) coupled with the blatant lies make this feels like a low effort post to gain internet points by saying “Tankies bad”. Either this or it’s straight up only diffamation

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    Yeah I loved the reddit anarchist community when I was still learning /s

    I especially loved all the fragile white dickheads who when asked by a BAME comrade to check their whiteness relating to a post about racism that got down voted, they all went full mask off crying “calling white people crackers is the same thing as saying the gamer word!!” and other infantile bs.

    Conversely one thing I noticed initially when I first jointed gzd back in the day was the zero tolerance policy they had on any form of bigotry which contrasted the fragile white bs and western chauvinism of the anarchist sub.

    I remember nazbols getting banned immediately and despite a general consensus against organised religion, the discourse regarding personal beliefs/religion was very civil if not supportive with perspective.

    It was the safest place on reddit to be myself as even in the main lgbt subs there had undercurrents of biphobia and gaytekeeping amongst other things. Granted it wasn’t exactly systemic but I found it ironic a commie shitposting sub was more welcoming and supportive than reddits main lgbt subs.

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      the discourse regarding personal beliefs/religion was very civil if not supportive with perspective.

      If you’re religious, maybe. Atheism was usually immediately dogpiled and always equalled to fedora libs. And oh boy you clearly never tried to talk about dialictical materialism as core of marxism.

  • @lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
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    Big reason I left the anarchists/demsoc and went to the ML side of Reddit was for its abrasiveness and fun. Reading this post reminded me that. This poor dude just can’t handle something slightly uncomfortable about himself, and preferred going back to this big echoing mental gymnasium where instead of looking at the world, people are constantly trying to reinterpret it to justify their desires and preconceptions.

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      One of the things that made r/genzedong so much fun was the sheer amount of reverse circlejerking, and knowing that the rest of reddit was seething at our existence. So there was a real tendency to dogpile on anything that average redditors tend to go ga-ga over – Japan, for instance. It didn’t go overboard too many times, and the mods usually caught it when it did. But I can see how some weeb-brained liberal might have interpreted it as racism.

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        With Japan he have a point unfortunately, it was routinely going overboard, contrary to things like “gamercide” which was indeed like you say i always had the feel this one is much more serious. Though truly wicked shit like “nuke them more” was usually modhammered.

        Porn issue is serious and always well argumented, it is obvious the guy from OP is just a lib that just skimmed ovr few comments.

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            I’m not really an expert on the issue, the porn industry is incredibly exploitative plus it’s basically rape in most cases. r/GenZedong had many threads about it and in many of them someone did write about it.

            Now that i think of it, r/GenZedong had many, MANY threads about porn and sex, and they were usually among the most active. Damn they are horny as hell.

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          Now that I think back on it, you’re right, there were a lot of over-the-top comments regarding Japan, and sort of a general attitude that every Japanese person is a fascist until proven otherwise. I seem to remember one thread in particular (the mods shut it down, thankfully) where people were referring to the atomic bombings of Japan as “trash taking out the trash.”

  • @CITRUS@lemmygrad.ml
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    They say crazy things like “The sex trade is wrong and exploitative” and “porn is addicting and fucks over everyone involved (except the producers)”

    Also why the trigger warning for suicide, did they even mention suicide or am I skipping a sentence?

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    How is putting the party and the needs of the people above your own life fascist? Seems pretty human to me.

    “I will conquer this oilfield, even if I live twenty years less because of it.”

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      I can’t tell if they are narcissistic or self conscious, or maybe just are too selfish to help people.

    • @roccopun@lemmygrad.ml
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      Fascism/authoritarianism is whenever my needs and wants has to make the slightest of way for the trillions of other lifeforms on this planet. Leftism is when I am allowed, I mean humanity is allowed (but mostly me me me come first of course) to indulge and on whatever I want with zero consequence and consideration as if you are the god king of this world.

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    I have never seen 90% of this stuff in all my time spent in ML spaces, what little I have is from nazbols who get downvoted into oblivion. Also where tf is the suicide even 😤

  • @meticulousPotato@lemmygrad.ml
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    oh no please don’t take my videogames and porn away

    he didn’t even mentioned dialectics, as if getting into a piano convention made you a pianist

    that last part makes me think that they found some nazbol or something

      • @TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml
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        What is wrong with video games? Is it just the inherent propaganda often weaved in, or is there a deeper problem? I’ve just never heard that.

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          Also most gamer communities are incredibly misogynist and toxic, and full of some awful people. Watch the “what its like to game as a woman” series to see what an average gamer is like.

          And yes you’re also right that certain game franchises like call of duty receive more US military funding than movies.

          Besides those legit criticisms, there’s nothing wrong with gaming, its a legitimate art form, and tons of great games are out there. If that’s what floats your boat, enjoy. I personally don’t have time to play them, too busy with organizing, working, and reading.

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              It’s crazy how rotten game industry is. Like exploitation and misogyny are part of almost every game developer day, even in “developed” countries. The most recent big thing was theBlizzard scandal and oh boy that place is full of * like; groping or harras his female co-workers. Full of * are Gamers boys

        • @holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml
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          I think they are a great art form, past time and technical exercise. But the communities around gaming can be very toxic sadly. Why gamers are notorious for it.

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      that last part makes me think that they found some nazbol or something

      There is literally one guy exactly like that out there. I don’t think he’s nazbol though but sitting in the worst depths of hoxhaism.

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        worst depths of hoxhaism

        Speaking as someone whose political journey began there, I can confirm that internet Hoxhaism is really something else.

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    God forbid someone criticize muh porn or muh videogames. People like this refuse to acknowledge and face the facts that some things they like aren’t 100% perfect.

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      Also who watches porn and then feels good about themselves? It’s really see to sad how a whole generation is systemically addicted to porn (and video games but that is nowhere near as important).

    • @cold4nervous@lemmygrad.ml
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      Bread and circus is a expression associated with the use of entertainment; originated in Ancient Rome. He is right with the use of the expression that have be used multiple times by governments when things are getting worse and need to distract the people. (read this two small “articles” for better understanding 1 and 2

      He’s clearly in denial since porn and video games are both addictive and political. Anarchilds…

    • @LeninsCat@lemmygrad.ml
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      panem et circenses is a latin expression that literally means “bread and circus” to indicate that to make the population happy and stop any kind of riot you just need to give them food and entertainment.

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    I feel like this person either stumbled into an ultra or Nazbol sub like r/EuropeanSocialists, because none of the shit except opposing porn and prostitution is stuff we believe.