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It still just doesn't seem like a good strategy to me. If they are already getting banned/shouted-down, then there's no need to present this way and if they aren't, that means you must have at least some room to talk, and even if you aren't out there declaring the need for class war, you can still encourage them in a more progressive direction and, if they end up getting banned, you can potentially still talk with them independently and either way at least it'll help prevent blueanon from gaslighting them that they have completely unreasonable stances that everyone rejects, instead of contributing to their isolation.
But of course, since there is some room to talk or else you wouldn't be able to do this to begin with, I still think it's probably a better use of time to try to pull people left even if you need to resort to something like the Socratic method. If these are patreon hive type places, then I think the accelerationist approach is just going to help them cultivate a centrist orthodoxy in their audience, enabling them to do slopaganda with zero internal pushback and having a more consolidated "culture" with which to enculturate new people into their reactionary stances.
Also, if you took the extremely reasonable stance that this seems like too much work or stress for something that isn't very important (there's a reason I've never even looked at the contrapoints subreddit myself), then I probably would just say to avoid this shit instead of functionally contributing to the hegemony of the liberal orthodoxy.
something something communists disdain to hide our views and aims
I agree and I view a commitment to honesty as being easily among the most powerful tools a communist can use, but I felt it was beneath ReadFanon, who I have a great deal of respect for, to address him with that type of argument.
Yeah I do too. He's up there with Cowbee as one of my fav effort posters, which is why it was surprising to hear that from him.
I get why you might try that in maybe some certain circumstances, but I certainly wouldn't and it doesn't feel like it would help our cause overall.