We Are Standing Still: Well because there’s more than zero who are there and the more dedicated & serious ML groups are so tiny as to be rounding errors of rounding errors when talking about the American polity. I have a certain amount of respect for spitting against the wind that hard, but there aren’t many of them.

the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.

this basically serves the same purpose as QAnon shit on the right. it projects itself as an aggressive form of political engagement, but it’s really just a retreat into fantasy and nihilism

The difference is that Q Anon has numbers in the street and the Stalin people are just really good at drawing political class attention to themselves online. I cannot stress how much you can ignore them. You go to a big DSA meeting and there are maybe 2 of those dudes there. They represent nothing.

...Why would you expect to find "Stalin people" at a DSA meeting?

Well because there’s more than zero who are there and the more dedicated & serious ML groups are so tiny as to be rounding errors of rounding errors when talking about the American polity. I have a certain amount of respect for spitting against the wind that hard, but there aren’t many of them.

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