Disclaimer: I love my fellow dirtballs on hexbear, a lot of you are just as remarkable as the people I’m talking about.

Every self identified Marxist Leninist I’ve ever met in this country is the most bohemian, well-read, emotionally intelligent person I’ve ever met. It’s not a large group of people but I am absolutely staggered by the absolute beacons of intelligence these people are. And I do feel like this translates to lemmy.ml. Whereas we still have vestiges of anti-intersectional, reactionary coded thinking of the dirtbag left that has taken over podcasts and the online left, .ml’s for the most part are very much traditionalists when it comes to informed and holistic materialist analysis.

Thank you for not being obsessed over shit like the ‘repercussions of woke 1.0’ or wondering how cool it would be if the entire American left was made up of coal miners from West Virginia.

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Apart from a couple of meme-loving power-users there, yes.

Daily reminder that huge sections of the online left is actively bad for you and for any left-wing aims you want to help make real. That's not to say that the online realm isn't important and isn't intrinsically related to the offline parts of the movement, but oh my, it can be very toxic and disheartening to see the most active or most bot-promoted online people. Seeing how reasonable and smart most offline people here have been, regardless of socialist ideology, is reassuring. (just avoid the cult-y groups, if any are near you.)

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