I've tired tried that before :) i get heavy FOMO though, and always turn it back on, though. Even just displaying the total votes and hiding the downvotes/upvotes is FOMO to me lol.

I guess it's easier for a blåhaj user, though

Why not both ¯\_0_/¯ I've learned not to poke either anymore, but in this case we're talking about LW; and they are incredibly hard to talk to about socialism/anti-imperialism. Usually you immediately get shut down by their already assumed prejudices/opinions of them.

I'd normally not mind much, but since they're the huge majority, so you have almost no choice but to discuss politics with them, specifically. At least with ML i can just avoid it easily (ymmv)

In my experience with dealing with authoritarian or state communists, they act like their communism is the only communism. They believe that state violence is necessary to achieve freedom and equality, among other things, and that anybody who believes different is naive.

Yeah, new deal with chinese characteristics/gottasuckstalinsdicksohardimsafefromthepurges is cringe, but they've been pretty stable. The libs are changing.

I fucking know, irs like the polycrisis of information/death of truth/sundering of civil society that they can't actually acknowledge because it would involve admitting they were never the good guys/bloody legacy of edward bernays/not killing enough of the bad guys when they forced us to go to war/rather-be-happy-than-right en masse all kinda... Smushed tigether and dropped us into the ending of 'echopraxia', somebody please fucking stab me in the face already.

If you want to be less sad: might i recommend drugs?

Of course not, honey. Of course not.

"centre-left" in the US of course meaning "vaguely remembers being told nazis aren't good" in the rest of the world