Yep. You just wrote out all my feelings about CTH for the past few months. I definitely had that feeling when posters like you and fatpollo (holy shit, this person is flat out the best poster on that sub) were eating chauvinists and radlibs for breakfast.

I was a fairly new ML leaning leftist (was a lib/socdem not too long before) just last year, the Hong Kong discourse was insufferable as you well know. But the tankie struggle sessions on there really pulled the sub back IMO and basically solidified my belief in ML.