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"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985


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[–] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I got perma banned for telling an ICE pig to kill himself

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

braver than the troops kim-salute

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 days ago
[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you're not banned on reddit, can you even call yourself a socialist?

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)
  • Novice tier: Banned from lib subs
  • Journeyman tier: Banned from r/Communism101 and r/Communism
  • Master tier: Banned from big tent subs, noticing "Marxist theory"flair users are full of shit
  • Ascended tier: Banned from Reddit.
  • 'grad tier: Posting here.
[–] i_c_b_m@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I took the supermeatboy approach to reddit. My favorite instant permaban was during an AMA with a CIA ghoul everyone was fawning over and I asked if many of the Nazis the CIA recruited had brain damage or was it only him.

[–] yunqihao@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 days ago

That reminds me of my favorite reddit thread I ever saw. The Rushan Abbas AMA, a Guantanamo bay interrogator larping as a Uyghur activist. Even the libs of main reddit were calling her on her clear bullshit.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My entire reddit career was just moving from one sub to another as they were either banned by reddit or taken over by ultras and banned me. I never even posted anything on lib or chud subs so i'm not even banned overall lol.

Funniest moment was when GenZedong had a thread celebrating croaking of Gonzalo and this pissed ultras so much that everyone with GZ post history got blanket ban on r/communism and all affiliated subs.

[–] HerSocialist@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What are big tent subs? r/politics?

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

r/shitliberalssay, r/socialism for example.

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you were never on Reddit to begin with, what would you be? The one true socialist or the fakest liberal of them all?

[–] yunqihao@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 4 days ago

Clearly not pushing back hard enough if its not a permanent ban. Goodluck on reaching that prize.

[–] pongo1231@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I told some neocon ragebaiter what I think should happen to them and got my acc permabanned. Good riddance.

[–] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

I've strangely never been perma banned from a sub, probably because i just don't interact with many libs beyond leftist subs that act as gateways into more radical politics like LSC. I've been heavily down voted before and was almost banned from LSC for telling a fascist to walk into traffic but the mod unbanned and just advised that I'm not as explicit next time, but that I should be all good.

I probably get into the most arguments on the California sub, LSC (though oddly enough it's usually with other Marxists who are just not engaging with materialism), and the Bernie sub. The last I mainly just comment for the sake of catching a few baby leftists into anti-imperialist politics. While the first I'd just me argueing with neolibs and trying to agitate for people to expand their political consciousness.

LSC is honestly the one I comment on the most where I'll sneak some good posts by comrades here on grad that I feel explain Marxist concepts well. I've found that I'm best at educating people sympathetic to socialism but don't quite understand what Marxism is or why Communists operate in the way that we do. Interlinking concepts together from around the world is probably what I am best able to communicate, getting people to answer a question they were asking by themselves.

To put it short, I like to yap and lecture, and am pretty good at enthralling people who were willing to ask for input.

Though I'm always trying to improve. I think my main blindspot comes from dispelling why socialist state structures are qualitatively different from capitalist ones. Especially in a way that sounds appealing. For me it was enough to just show the material improvements compared to what cake before and what was around them but for a lot of people that's just not something they hold stock in for whatever reason.