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Yeah, this is probably one of the best online communities I've ever participated in

Much better than ceaselessly arguing about which Fallout game was the best

100%.

When I'm forced to spend any amount of social time with liberals, especially the more reptilian ones you encounter in academia and managers, especially if they have an explicitly perverted ideology of neoliberalism, and even when they are suposedly best friends, I recognize after not much time that they actually don't like eachother. They hate eachother. They are jealous, petty and envious. They are all insecure. Their understanding of generosity and sympathy is absolutely reducible to a market relation of exchange for profit in purely inhuman sense, and not even in a progressive social sense of reciprocity. They often dontunderstand that friendship can be good in and of itself, perhaps because they are so alienated and toxic that they've forgotten what actual friendship is, and that love is not reducible to material or economic dependence (fantastic scene which shows this in season 3 of Succession, in Italy between Tom and Greg).

I've had many ex-liberal friends become communists just because they were so alienated by their liberal friends that they started hanging out more with communists and were like "oh damn these people actually like eachother and don't try to demean eachother".

Almost all the communists I know who come to hate eachother do so cos of theoretical and practical political beefs.

is praxis.

I'm thinking about making a alternate on another instance so I can go downvote libs.

I've not received a single downvote here. Not one.

...we, uh, disabled downvotes a long time ago... Don't worry, downvotes are clearly expressed in words or images should that be needed lol. Welcome, though!

Many years ago, before I had even discovered /r/chapotraphouse, I used to post on /r/geopolitics. Of course as you can imagine the self-important nerds there would accuse people left and right of being Chinese/Russian bots. I once asked why the fuck the MSS or FSB or whatever would spend their time shitposting on a sub with like a thousand users and they claimed that "real international relations experts post here regularly" and then I got banned.

Worth it.

It wasn't fun at the time, but I'm glad we had the pronouns struggle session long before federation.

The OAS has determined there were upvote anomalies

lmao for real, we operating at half power and still winning