Real fucking damage being done here. Imagine someone being curious about socialism and went into that fucking place but ended up finding conservative, imperialist MAGA larping as socialist and spew hateful reactionary rhetorics about important social issues that serious socialists are actually in support of, and they ended up thinking “oh no socialists are bad people and untrustworthy!” … Like the poster I was responding to is a lib but what could have been an educative conversation turned into this. I’m not sure if my comment would even reach that person. I’m loosing way too many brain cells over this.
I think this stems from a huge misinterpretation of the situation to be honest.
Reddit at this point is a fascist manipulation machine which actively supports all forms of misinformation supporting fascism and opposing socialism, antiimperialism, etc.
It is absolutely clear that all forms of perversion will be present there and imo there is no chance in hell that we will “win” on reddit.
If I may risk a suggestion, I would actively encourage people to get their information elsewhere wile pointing out the hypocrisy on reddit itself.
I deleted my reddit account because I cant handle loosing braincells all the time and I’m more productive using my skills otherwise to advance the cause. I understand reddit is a battlegroud but it is not a fair one. It’s controlled by fascists and imo we should think about it differently. Maybe we should work on protesting reddit instead of individual discussions. Or we send teams that pose as right wingers to subtly point out contradictions.
I just think one needs to be aware that reddit pretty much is the führerbunker at this point and tactics need to change.