@citrustwee no yeah online has rendered talking about left theory and policy just utterly pointless.
like it's seven times better here than it is on twitter but still.
everyone has a hair trigger on absolutely vaporizing someone the moment they stumble or haven't read a very specific book or aren't performatively woke enough, it gets fucking ridiculous.
@citrustwee absolutely. and like the worst part of it all is the people swinging barbed-wire bats at whoever stumbles are, nine times out of ten, absolutely -not out there making a difference-. They are -absolutely- armchairing in the least productive ways possible by going after people who by and large have agreed capitalism has to go.
So it's just... fucking infuriating when some ultra-Maoist Jason Unruhe fan climbs out of the woodwork to scream at people.
@citrustwee it's such tremendous horseshit. I've mostly just given up -arguing- about it because like, the people I wanna talk to? They largely -aren't- the people who already have their heads up like five different 100-200 year old economists' asses. Like people just don't give a shit, in short.
So like y'know, it's fine. You don't need to read Marx or Lenin or what the fuck ever to look at someone starving or sick and dying while Jeff Bezos -exists- and go "this isn't right".