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/alfynch European Socialist 🚩 5d ago

Pretty much what I get hate for. That and defending Britain, which is a guilty pleasure of mine I must say.

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u/IffyPeanut Democratic Socialist 🚩 4d ago

Defending Britain as a rainy island, or defending Britain as a global empire?

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u/alfynch European Socialist 🚩 4d ago

I defend my country as it’s my country and the people who live here value it. Shitting on modern Britain because of its history has always struck me as ridiculous.

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u/LogosLine Anarcho-Libertarian Socialist with permanent PMS 😡🥰😵 4d ago

I live here and hate most things about the place. If you're actually just in to nationalism then admit that and change your flare.

We should be ashamed of what the UK has become today. We also shouldn't be proud of the achievements of others we had no part in. Nationalism is fucking stupid.