Dirtbag to me always just meant adopt the same sort of behaviors that fash adjacent people find funny and effective, the whole bullying, demeaning behavior against people you don’t like ie don’t self censor or pay too much attention to verbalized ableism, racism, misogyny, homophobia etc.

But you can’t really be a ‘dirtbag’ and a leftist. Someone can write it out better than I can but, like, they want to evoke images of ‘real communism’, what the hard nosed Soviet Union supposedly represented. But lost in all their bravado was strength and power. Not verbal bullying and that’s all that dirtbag is, calling someone an ugly hard r and essentially running in the same spaces as most right wingers.

I'm legit scared this whole "woke 1 " discourse will have the opposite effect and make them more openly chauvinist. In an ideal world, it would exclusively call out the liberalism and lack of class consciousness in the last decade's identity politics, but it will predictably turn into stabbing trans people in the back, disavowing BLM and saying that "abolish ICE" is too radical and we should instead focus on getting ICE agents into cop unions.