It seems someone has created a /c/trotskyists community. I believe this community should be removed for what I think are obvious reasons.

  • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    idk drowning it in memes and shitposts until the administration shuts it down feels like the easy road. That’s no slight: it’s entertaining reading that community currently and I’ve participated in the snark elsewhere in this thread.

    Just feels wasteful and there might be opportunity in the non-obvious courses of action, so maybe more dicussion about what those alternatives might be before we put the whole thing on ice.

  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    It should be taken over by an admin and locked from new posts with the only post left up being an icepick image meme.

  • CommisarChowdahead@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I’m on the fence. On the one hand, deeply committed Trots are wreckers and ultimately reactionary, but I was brought into Marxism by well-intentioned but poorly informed Trots: there is hope for some of them. Maybe we leave it there but make it more of a community to try to pull online Trots out of their ideological dead end. I don’t know what that process would be, maybe forcing them to allow historically accurate content to contrast their claims.

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      2 years ago

      Just fill it with all the arguments against Trotsky, his crimes, etc. Use it to show everyone what a piece of shit he was.

    • EnchantedWhetstones@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      That’s an interesting idea.

      You know I see people posting WSWS all the time and they manage to catch a lot of people who don’t notice them like, denouncing the party doing a strike they’re covering positively as “deceiving the workers” in the article they shared, don’t know about their anti-“cancel culture” shit where they root for Harvey Weinstein and shit.

      /c/Trotskyism could just become a repository of deranged and COINTELPRO trot behavior, history, etcetera.