I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

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    1 year ago

    Ain’t that the truth! I will say during my tenure on reddit, I heard of CTH and thought to myself, “I ultimately support a similar vision for our future, how bad can it be?” I was shocked to find one of the most exclusionary, bigoted dens of filth I’d seen outside of places like r/T_D

    Ableist and bigoted language abounded, it was impossible to engage because they’d immediately bristle when anyone they perceived as beneath them wandered in.

    I see a lot of the same things here. It’s really disappointing to us leftists who actually want to effect change. No one will listen to people like that. Hopefully they’re just kids who grow out of … whatever this is.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t recognise the acronym CTH, and by the sounds of it, I am lucky to have not stumbled across the subreddits you speak of.

      You mean kids growing out of being horrible people? Yeah, that’s the hope.

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        1 year ago

        r/ChapoTrapHouse on reddit

        It got banned around the same time as r/The_Donald, and its users migrated here and founded Hexbear

        (I’m embarrassed that I know so much about this, but I was in another subreddit that discussed it a bit when it happened)

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          1 year ago

          Oh, I’ve seen some of their shit. Fucking degens.