This is just a vent post. I don’t really use reddit much, but I’m getting increasingly tired of the anti-materialist perspectives and obsessive purists who refused to engage with the actual lives of people whom they supposedly seek the emancipation of.
This was just sorta sparked by yet another ignorant post about Venezuela that I’m honestly getting too tired to debate over, but it’s just been a culmination of different factors.
I’m just glad the Grad is willing to have mutual respect amongst eachother. As well as the fact that it’s not filled with as many vague posters or utterly pigheaded people.
Again this is just a stream of consciousness vent. Obviously reddit is gonna be filled with the most excruciatingly annoying people on earth but I was at least hoping an ostensibly ML sub would be able to fucking take into consideration that the pedophile genocide regime has no qualms about butchering thousands. I’m well aware of the funked situation Venezuela is in and how stomach turning it is to see all the concessions they are making.
However how is it that so many redditors can’t see the fact that the US was ready to do to Venezuela 10x what it’s doing to Iran? Has my brain just been fried by the images of corpses these past few months, let alone years, to where I want to avert the possibility of seeing more? I really can’t tell why it’s so unclear to them. The images of death across Iran, across Palestine, across Sudan, I can’t get them out of my head when I think about Venezuela’s potential fate, and I’m not sure if it’s impeding my ability to see these other Communists perspectives.
Apologies for the vent post, I’ll probably just sleep this off by tomorrow. Hopefully with some more better news on the Iran War thread, whatever that may be.


Social media is designed to elicit the worst tendencies of people. Needless antagonism, faceless openents who can’t be hurt, distorted information. The end result is an unproductive space that prizes engagement and dopamine over any actual progress, either personal or communal. Honestly, getting banned from reddit was a godsend.
As an aside I’m also mostly an advocate of the strategic retreat position but I have some doubts, particularly around the normalisation or relations with Israel.