There are only so many more braindead, agenda-fueled smug remarks I can deal with at this point and I’ve lost all hope of changing most of these people. Just this evening I commented a one sentence defense of China’s foreign policy on reddit only to get every single one of my comments from the past week bombarded by a guy spamming Taiwan emojis and calling me a “CCP slave girl who should go to the Xinjiang rape camps”. It’s tiring
This is the only “social media” site I use. I learn a lot from comrades even though it is an echo chamber in some regards, there’s almost nothing I feel I can learn from the libernet regardless of how hard I search. I genuinely think the feds have an iron grip on the pulse of much of the internet, even the supposedly “leftist” side of it. Not to say that everyone who responds negatively is a CIA bot or agent, just that the misinformation war is slanted pretty hard in their favor. It’s much more worthwhile to educate people IRL who aren’t terminally online. When we’re the most intentionally isolated political tendency, it makes perfect sense that we gravitate towards each other even if what we’re doing here isn’t inherently revolutionary, just shooting the shit or whatever
I think we should stay clear of reddit and discord, they really are the cesspits of the internet. I’m trying to depoliticise my TikTok algorithm as well so this ends up being my only outlet for political discussion and I don’t lose any more will to live. Marxism really makes you believe that shitpost “tolerant left” meme conservatives use on a whole other level - I don’t think I’ve ever commented on r/worldnews without either a rape threat in the DMs or being called Kremlin propaganda
People in real life are definitely much more rational and easier to explain things to than their online counterparts. The internet makes people so aggressive, maybe it’s the anonymity idk
I think it absolutely is. Nobody is going to say that shit in real life. I still don’t understand it, though, because the internet literally is just another form of communication. Why can’t people just treat it like that? It’s so weird that people’s knee-jerk response is toxicity and being braindead.
It amazes me when people use Facebook to spew the most vile shit imaginable, when they’re using their real name, pictures of themselves and their kids, with their location easily accessible. I’m surprised the murder rate over Facebook fights isn’t astronomically high. I used to act like that when I was 17, but I know 30-60 year olds who are playing with absolute fire on there, without any anonymity. They’re also mostly fine seeming IRL, even though their inner, fascist demons are on full display online.