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It was the green party and the libertarian party I thibk

First of all, I am not uncritical of any "side". And there's a lot of different propaganda coming from a lot of different sources. To be honest I at least partially agree with your reasoning, and I think that reason is sufficient enough to form opinions. However, I object to the characterization that someone is a bot because they disagree with a particular narrative, for example the mainstream narrative of the democratic party who is responsible for pushing this bot paranoia, and making up a lot of the hysteria leading up to it.

Like just because something exists, doesn't mean that someone who disagrees is a bot. Wasn't long ago Democrats were saying that calling for a cease fire in Gaza was a Russian narrative. even if it was, that doesn't make it wrong to speak out about.

Probably less than I'd like to think. I'm afraid by the time I made the mental switch from "wow there sure are a bunch of these squirrels" to "if I'm going to survive this I'm going to have to stomp all these murderous little fuckers" it will have already been too late

You're pretty sure, you just don't have evidence of it now that a traunch of evidence is has been uncovered. Its not even confirmation bias because there's nothing to confirm these claims

dialectics

YouTube can make sure not to target certain people with certain content but also they have no control over it sending me tons of far right wing stochastic terror influencers like Ben Shapiro and matt walsh

So true

Interesting how all these paid actors are right wingers, to believe Lemmy Russian bot hawks, the bot accounts are all fake leftists and tankies

I know a guy who was a child in east Berlin, he is a Trotskyist

Being an asshole doesn't put you at a disadvantage though. You can not be an ass and also not deadname people. Theres not a contradiction here.

Are you arguing that assholes dead name? If so then we are in total agreement.

Aw crap they tricked us with money again

it sounds like you hate human nature not communism. Anyway that sounds terrible, I wish you were able to give me more details so that I could try and learn from your friend's family's experience. I wouldn't try to doxx you, I don't have that kind of free time or energy, but I def understand the hesitation.

I guess I would argue that calling something communism doesn't make it so, and there's all different strains of communism too. For example, I've often found myself working with Trotskyists who explicitly reject forming "communes" that could become cults, and guerilla groups to seize power through violence. Even if its good for the people to form militias, trots tend to believe it isn't where the energy of the "vanguard" should be directed, and that instead people should seize political power and smash the state via those means. There's no history I'm aware of of what you're describing happening with Trotskyists, in fact there's sort of a nasty history of trotskyists getting rounded up and killed by the sort of groups you are against.

You can be a socialist and recognize the need to change the social order away from capitalism while still being suspicious of communism. Just because a guerilla group did something awful doesn't mean capitalism is good (which you don't say, you seem to have some anti imperialist critiques of capitalism yourself) or even that there is no alternative to capitalism. If this is the best system possible, the planet, all people are fucked. Something, someone has to fight against it. Capitalism can't be reformed.

Its interesting that your misanthropy seems to be directed at a system that has never existed rather than the system that actually exists. But I don't know you so maybe that's an unfair generalization. Anyway, thanks for your response, maybe next time we can have a more detailed discussion.

Edited some clarity and tone