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Dude shut up. It's never gonna be enough for you, is it? "Oh well they picked up some garbage on the side of the road but DIDN'T SOLVE GLOBAL WARMING SO THEY ARE LIB SHITS!"
Oh someone joined a left leaning gun group and might want to start getting more involved? "FUCKEM I'M GONNA GATE KEEP THE REVOLUTION THEY ARE POSEURS THEY SHOULD MAKE THEIR OWN GROUP!"
So sorry some people are new to this or changing their mind and not doing something big and dramatic that looks exciting enough for you, even if they suddenly changed their minds and agreed with you 100% that's not good enough they should've thought this way forever ago.
Freaking hamstringing your own movement because you hate the newbies? Don't want to do the boring long work of permanent change? Just want to sit back and think of a communist commune Israel but don't want to wash the dishes?
Let the people in, be welcoming, show them the ropes. Encourage people to practice with their gun instead of shitting on them. If you're already in these groups, you should want your numbers to grow, not be a gatekeeping twat.
Pull your head out of your ass.
Letting liberals into leftist spaces halts progress. We end up needing to fight with them more than whatever it is we are protesting. All the stuff liberals call leftist infighting is us fending off liberals trying to invade our spaces and control the situation. We do NOT want the same things. Liberals want reform, which does not work.
If you believe in something, and want to fight for it, your first priority should be trying to convince other people it's a good idea. Your attitude does more harm than good; you're incapable of thinking people can change their mind, because you're incapable of changing yours.
It makes more sense to get people to like your idea than pushing them away, unless you think you're going to do it with force.
And alienating people means you wouldn't even be able to do that.
I'm not alienating anyone, i would be willing to work with their organizations, but not to invite them into leftist spaces so they can neutralize our movements.