I’ve spent years arguing with people online and really have nothing to show for it aside from my own education and amusement. I was radicalized by discovering r/chapotraphouse back in 2018 I think. Nobody argued with me there, I just lurked, loved the memes, thought it was the funniest place online, then started reading theory because so many people there talked about it. Even though liberals are obviously ignorant about communism, their ignorance is willful: they never thank us for educating them, they always get angry and double-down. (In real life, it’s much easier to embarrass them and get them to shut up.) Still, I admit that it’s possible to change someone’s mind in an online debate, I just haven’t seen it happen when it comes to communism (libs on r/changemyview can change their minds about lib shit). Have you ever seen a lib admit that they were wrong about communism?
Well I’ve never admitted it anywhere but I was convinced in part by you people that I need to research communism properly and read theory instead of repeating everything I read from some Reddit meme somewhere.
Debunking one lie after another it became very clear to me that my former
brain was in large part not formed by facts but by the subtle and not so subtle ways that every person in a capitalist society gets molded to think that capitalism is the only way forward and that communism is a failed experiment.
The mix of “eat your landlord” meme dessert and theorypost veggies is a potent combo and it’s why reddit had to get rid of us