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I don’t think it’s “most” online leftists; I think it just seems that way because the rest aren’t posting stupid shit.
That may be true but perception is reality. Most Trump voters aren’t buying golden sneakers and scam crypto coins but those are still the ones that come to mind when you picture a Trump voter.
Yeah, I agree with you and Drusas on this. I remember lurking in and sometimes trying to post in, huffing-your-own-farts far left corners of the net like what Boing Boing became just before they took their comments behind a paywall (!).
While the mods and the worst offenders on there constituted a very small part of the group, they did have all the levers and switches, so I think most people gave up and just lurked, or eventually left. I challenge anyone to go read some of their (still public) threads in the later years and tell me that some of the worse examples - that were not taken down, obviously - constitutes any kind of majority in the Democratic Party, or even of the left overall.
It was filled with the type that would pounce if you called any of them liberals. They loved to draw some big delineation between themselves and liberals. A distinction, by the way, that almost no one else would agree with, and certainly no one else but the most online of leftists gives a flying fuck about…
People that, instead of welcoming allies and others joining them in the fight, would rather assign you a list of things to read and groups to join/attend and other tasks as a way to “do the work”, because that’s exactly how you win over people and build a coalition, FFS - give them homework assignments and subject them to purity tests, Jesus.