I’m confused because I disagree with you guys on a lot, and I don’t understand how you’ve come to believe in what you believe. Also you guys use a lot of slang I don’t understand lol.
So anyway I’ve just been commenting on hexbear posts occasionally to interact
Lots of use come from disaffected backgrounds, like we grew up poor, or we’re LGBTQ, maybe we simply had nerdy interests, or general loneliness. I’m also summarizing people I’ve met at local communist groups, lots of people with a great deal of frustration where the promise of western liberal capitalist society didn’t reach us. So we looked for other answers.
That’s how anyone comes to their beliefs. They either fit into the society they’re from and believe in the standard ideology, or they’re different somehow and search out alternate ideology. Trans people I’ve met have been the most consistently leftist people I’ve known (with some exceptions) and that’s reflected in the userbase here. Trans people experience one of the most profound breaks from the world they’re instructed about and the world they experience, and it starts at that structural critique of gender, which leads into structural criticism of all society.
So that’s where we ended up, we all have something that lead us to make broad structural criticisms. And then we found Marx, or Kropotkin, or maybe just a random socialist person in our lives who helped focus how we feel. We also very distrustful of western imperialism. And this website sometimes has a pessimistic attitude, but not always. Lots of people are here from all sorts of backgrounds.
The slang stuff I can sympathize with, although most of it is rearranged leftist Twitter jargon honestly. I see leftist Facebook and TikTok etc using similar slang. Other parts of the slang surprisingly come from one specific guy, the speaking habits of Chapo host Matt Christman (treats, free real estate, chuds, just wanna grill)
tldr: we experienced being poor/gay/trans/oppressed or we sympathized with that oppression, we tried to figure out where that comes from, and that led us to believe communism/anarchism is the way out of it
Thanks for the detailed summarization, it definitely answered a number of my questions. I suppose you also explained why I feel different from you all on the subject, given I’m your standard straight white guy in middle class America. The system hasn’t treated me poorly yet.
What are you confused about? (This is in good faith)
We’re just kind of normal communists with an insular sarcastic meme culture
I’m confused because I disagree with you guys on a lot, and I don’t understand how you’ve come to believe in what you believe. Also you guys use a lot of slang I don’t understand lol.
So anyway I’ve just been commenting on hexbear posts occasionally to interact
Lots of use come from disaffected backgrounds, like we grew up poor, or we’re LGBTQ, maybe we simply had nerdy interests, or general loneliness. I’m also summarizing people I’ve met at local communist groups, lots of people with a great deal of frustration where the promise of western liberal capitalist society didn’t reach us. So we looked for other answers.
That’s how anyone comes to their beliefs. They either fit into the society they’re from and believe in the standard ideology, or they’re different somehow and search out alternate ideology. Trans people I’ve met have been the most consistently leftist people I’ve known (with some exceptions) and that’s reflected in the userbase here. Trans people experience one of the most profound breaks from the world they’re instructed about and the world they experience, and it starts at that structural critique of gender, which leads into structural criticism of all society.
So that’s where we ended up, we all have something that lead us to make broad structural criticisms. And then we found Marx, or Kropotkin, or maybe just a random socialist person in our lives who helped focus how we feel. We also very distrustful of western imperialism. And this website sometimes has a pessimistic attitude, but not always. Lots of people are here from all sorts of backgrounds.
The slang stuff I can sympathize with, although most of it is rearranged leftist Twitter jargon honestly. I see leftist Facebook and TikTok etc using similar slang. Other parts of the slang surprisingly come from one specific guy, the speaking habits of Chapo host Matt Christman (treats, free real estate, chuds, just wanna grill)
tldr: we experienced being poor/gay/trans/oppressed or we sympathized with that oppression, we tried to figure out where that comes from, and that led us to believe communism/anarchism is the way out of it
Thanks for the detailed summarization, it definitely answered a number of my questions. I suppose you also explained why I feel different from you all on the subject, given I’m your standard straight white guy in middle class America. The system hasn’t treated me poorly yet.