For the country being a white supremacist settler-colonist state that’s doing a slow (now fast) genocide on Palestinians. It’s nice to be on the correct side for once, as I used to believe that Israel controlled the USA and not vice-versa, I’ve learned so much more about the world thanks to leftism. Being a reactionary I was seriously ignorant and in the dark, fueled by dumb ass racist thoughts and a baby’s understanding of the world.

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    That must have been a dark time in your life. I do not know what to think of what you just said.

    I was heavily into drinking and posting on 4chan. I bought into racism and antisemitism first ironically, then eventually, unironically and started hating poc and Jewish people. It was indeed a very dark time. It’s wild because I started out as a libertarian and then slowly began adopting fash talking points. But now I’m an MLM so I guess there can be a bridge from libertarianism to it.

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      I see.

      Well, the reason you gave me mixed feelings is that I come from a community that would’ve banned you (I think) for even saying what you just said, but you’re not the same person, clearly, and you’re in a rough spot, from what I can tell, so I… guess I can’t judge.

      I wouldn’t say things like this out loud even if I had ever done anything like this during by pre-Marxist days. Even so, you chose to admit it and I think that was due to profuse guilt on your part.

      I think I need to realize that not every place on the Internet is like my own abode. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong here in how I’m reacting to this situation.

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        It’s probably less here than it used to be on the subreddit, but you’d be surprised how many people back on the subreddit had some 4chan in their history. The sub was one of the few places on reddit where instead of being strangled by liberal civility politics, you could just openly tell fascists and other terrible people to fuck off and die. In hindsight the crossover appeal was pretty obvious, despite the polar opposite politics.

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            r/ChapoTrapHouse. Originally an unofficial fan sub for the podcast of the same name, but it quickly outgrew them and just became a general hive of leftist shitposting and theoryposting. This site was made to replace it after the sub got banned a little over 3 years ago I think.

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              Oh yes, I remember those days.

              People forget that it’s not just former liberals or “disaffected BernieBros” that become communists.

              Also, it was banned, but later, you got people gravitating to /r/communism (which, I think, was already there since 2007) and other versions of Chapo subreddits, which would balloon in activity.

              Now, after /r/GenZedong was suspended of being on the front page of Reddit, a lot of people have gravitated to /r/TheDeprogram, from what I can tell and a few smaller subreddits.

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                TheDeprogram can’t be long for this world imo but I like their vibe. Probably both for the same reason lmao, reddit doesn’t like cool people being cool.

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                  lol I hate both /r/GenZedong and /r/TheDeprogram; the general culture is not good, but /r/TheDeprogram is better than /r/GenZedong was at its height, from what I can tell.

                  Actual discussion, even if not always a friendly atmosphere.

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                    The atmosphere here has absolutely mellowed out compared to the sub and its direct parallels. I for one don’t mind some raucousness and shitposting (I’ve got 4chan in my own history too despite “only” being a dumb lib at worst, so big surprise there) and I’m pretty forgiving of the occasional brainworm when the overall community is saturated with better takes to drown out and eventually replace the brainworms. But I love the chill vibes here too.

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        I’ve shared on here a bunch of times my own journey from being a reactionary to coming around to leftism, I think it was before you joined. But I make no excuses for it, I was bad, I fucked up a lot, but now I have to admit I feel some pride in myself for becoming a better person.