"Ex-Leftists" on Reddit

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Do these people even understand what Marx was trying to say? I felt like they were the edgy communists who liked the symbolism and that's about it. Never even read a book. Fucking cucks.

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Why were you on reddit?

They opened a thread with a Stalin picture. How is that a question?

It's important to monitor reddit so that you can stay abreast of the latest pro-capitalist propaganda campaigns. Most shill organizations focus their efforts on that site. For example over the last week there have been at least 3 anti-communist threads repeating the old "USSR didn't have grocery" canard on TIL that have made it to the front page.

That sub seems to be full of Clinton supporters, bernie supporters, soc dems and dem socs

they hate the radical left

There's only one OP of this thread

go to the containment thread

They has been in casual use as a gender neutral singular for a VERY long time now.

I've been meeting these types my entire life.

Usually it just means that back in college they liked music that promoted left-wing ideas and that they would ask things like "instead of wasting billions on new jets why not just feed the poor?" but they'd never really look deep into the reasons why the injustices of the world happen, choosing instead to stay in a surface, moralistic level.

Then eventually they get jobs, they have to pay taxes and bills, they start wanting as few people "leeching off" of them as possible, and they enter the pseudo-realist phase of thinking things are perfect and hey that's just the way it is.

can't imagine the kind of mental gymnastics it would take to be an unironic socialist/commie in 2017

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Well, we know you are not one, you fascist fuckhead

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Holy Christ I think you found the worst subreddit.

Everyone in that thread is saying they used to be socialists in highschool before they "grew out of it." While some people might self-identify as socialist in highschool I highly doubt that they actually had a good understanding of what it mean.

I have a much greater interest in politics then most people and I would say I didn't really read theory until my early 20's. I may have self-identified with the far left in highschool, but it was exactly that an identity not a well reasoned conclusion. I feel like most "I used to be a socialist then I grew up" types are just sheep attaching themselves to political beliefs with no real thought.

There was also that "before the Soviet Union invaded, women had more rights" post that got tens of thousands of upvotes.

I think agencies are starting to become fully conscious of the danger that anti-capitalist sentiment is posing.

*in Afghanistan

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These are people who wore a Che shirt in high school or college, thinking they were edgy, but never read a lick of theory or got involved in radical organizing.

WTF IS THIS SHIT GULA GULAG GULAG EVERYBODY IS GETTING 100 MILLION YEARS GULAG REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Ok, now I'm really mad.

These people are shills and were never Communists. They never even had a Che T-shirt.

Do you really think there are girls on leftypol? Because they are, but they are Hoochie and Rachel, and OP is none of them. Polite sage for off-topic shitpost.

Real communists would never identify with Che to begin with. Castro was far superior.

go back to reddit

Those other two comments I cited were just stupid, but that slander of Rosa legitimately made me fucking fume.

These people identified as a 'communist' at they age of 13 because "everyone should be equal an sheeit".

Their understanding of communism hasn't improved now that they're 14.

Yeah that post made my fucking blood boil. Trying to insinuate that the soviets were responsible for the regression of Women status in Afghanistan (which they had gained thanks to commies in the first place) while no mention of saudi/paki/us imperialism.

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ahh yes the "if you're not a socialist when you're a teenager, you're heartless but if you're still a socialist when you're an adult, you're brainless" type.

Kill yourself.

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would waging jihad against them be permissible?

What an original and clever joke.

What an original and clever joke.

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That sub seems to be full of Clinton supporters, Trump supporters, Trump supporters and Trump supporters

Fixed. Most of these people are just pretending to have defected from the left. They were never on the left and they need to be called on it. Go through their post histories if you need to.

no you kill yourself right-sjw faggot shitposter

And now that article about FDR's "Second Bill of Rights" got removed from the front page.

Is it safe to say that reddit is now directly under the control of alphabet agencies?

This is what happens when you don't read books.

there's no such thing as an ex leftist.

I hate that fucking phrase. In fact, as I became older and had to work, I became more socialist.

This and only this


Most of them are ex-liberals utterly repulsed by the current liberal movement. Less than 1% of the population on either side knows what we mean by leftism.

Reddit is so petty and cliquey it's disgusting

I fucking hate it

that part triggered me so hard that I'm glad we're all gonna die to global warming

why is linking to reddit not a bannable offense yet?

come on leftypol, even pol doesn't do that

Being serious here has anything good ever come out of that site?

this is what happens when you join the nearest degenerated leninist/ otherwise reformist party rather than reading up on theory first tbh. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them fell for Richard Wolff's economic democracy meme as well. It's a shame, really.

so who is gonna set up a proper Holla Forums clone with moderators who don't work for the deep state?

They were just liberals. They got jobs and became right-wing. You're projecting too much.

perhaps you're right.