if you’ll pardon me complaining about this publicly: some of the meanest mfs i’ve met online are internet-poisoned communists. If i weren’t already a marxist-leninist, i would have some very unsavory ideas about what communists are like.

Lemmygrad and Hexbear are very nice places, thank you comrades _ … but elsewhere, even IRL, i’ve met incredibly rude people calling themselves communists and i need to stress this: if you want people on our side, you need to give good impressions of what we’re like. Don’t be hostile or dismissive or just violently anti-social. If you have to explain something for the millionth time to yet another liberal or anarchist… do it [insert Sankara quote], or at least find a nice way of saying you don’t want to. Save your offensive capabilities for people who deserve it. And please, PLEASE, go outside occasionally. IRL interaction is healthy, and will quickly kill any terminally online behaviours you might have. Maybe join an org while you’re at it ;)

i’ll stop stating the obvious now. Have a great day, comrades.

  • anicius
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    How can they be communists and not know that Castro and Lenin were lawyers?

    The CIA even created a whole booklet about communist lawyers called “Communist Legal Subversion: The Threat of Communist Lawyers”.

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      Damn I forgot that about Castro and I don’t know much about Lenin (yet), that’s wild that they would just ignore that to bully someone online. Pretty much everyone told him it’s a self serving idea. Link it felt insufferable and I wanna read and post that booklet now

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          Huh, looks like all these links are dead. Does anyone know if these sites work since the Reddit changes? maybe this bot needs to be fixed, or the reddit part removed if these sites don’t work anymore.