This is a joke because this analysis is exactly right. The thing about wreckers is that they have more experience wrecking than you have experience building so they will *find* the wrecker button.
You have to keep wreckers out. Once they’re in, they’re very hard to get out.
One of the easiest ways to push out wreckers is just to tell them "sorry, around here we express our disagreements with respect. If you can't practice respect, then you need to take your disagreement elsewhere." They self-destruct or leave nearly 100% of the time.
Most leftists are drawn to the left because they have been damaged by institutions, government, and social structures and it gives you a language with which to analyze the world.
The problem is when it becomes a grievance method rather than framework for connecting with others.
as someone who has built a sizable and approachable left community online, the secret sauce is routinely purging narcissistic woke scolds who deploy emancipatory language when they want to center their immediate desires selfishly as a separate convo is taking place. it’s also caused a lot of grief from ppl who see out of context clips, but nevertheless boundaries must be drawn.
@longstorychort I am certain that is a meaningful distinction to the people of Iran.
“Oh your branch just achieved the air superiority that facilitated the strike so we don’t hold it against you”
here’s your reminder that it’s “manly” to hate fascism. It’s “manly” to protect and stand up for the least protected in society. It’s “manly” to give a fuck about other people and no one will ever convince me being a boot licker is the “manly” position