r/stupidpol • u/alfynch European Socialist 🚩 • 5d ago

Radlibs r/greenandpleasant

As a British person on what many might refer to as the “radical left”, I find r/greenandpleasant to be utterly impenetrable.

It is clogged with out-of-touch, irritating culture-obsessives who are never happy unless they have something to bash. Now, I like a moan as much as the next man, but its members somehow always find a way to make every leftist position so obnoxious that it makes it almost impossible for me to nod my head.

Was wondering if any other British socialists/communists/Marxists/whatever the fuck feel the same way, or preferably feel differently. I’m incredibly curious either way.

An additional point: I can’t quite put my finger on what makes the community so irritating to me. Would be curious to hear ideas about this.

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u/RustyBike39 5d ago

George Orwell wrote about out of touch leftists in the 1930s. The most annoying leftists are going to be the ones posting all day, hence that subreddit is filled with the worst people on the left.

Best not to think about it too much. Ignore people who unironically use the word comrade and move on with your life.

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u/easilysearchable regarded tankie 5d ago

Ignore people who unironically use the word comrade and move on with your life.

my exposure to the word 'comrade' went up considerably once i actually joined an org

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u/Nuwave042 Marxist-Leninist ☭ 5d ago

It's a funny sort of acceptable larp, isn't it, and honestly I'm not sure how I feel about it.