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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm a habitual lurker on forums, but the few times I've posted/commented here have 100% been better experiences than any other site I've used. It's nice to use a site that doesn't make me feel disconnected from reality for seeing the obvious and daily indignations millions-to-billions are forced to live through just because the currently dominant economic model insists this is justthewayitis. Its really validating knowing i can trust my own eyes. The only other place I've been that is similar is irl organizing, which I've not been able to do for some time now unfortunately (and, long story short, had locally become dominated with very electoral and liberal ideas, which was incredibly disheartening).

It's great browsing a site that can both validate these frequent observations of systemic failure while continuing to challenge my own worldview. Before browsing here and lemmygrad I had felt like an "internationalist," but in the last few years here I've started realizing how big the imperial core blinders really are. I don't necessarily know what to do with that yet, but it's something I'm working on and probably ought to just discuss on here at some point.

Plus, I always appreciate the way federated users are treated when they cruise by to spout bs imperial core takes (usually dressed up as if they're subversive in some way lmao).

I'm trying to post and comment more because yall seem pretty cool, I just usually don't have much to add.