I'm gonna be frank here, after years of using this site, I really, really think that a lot of posts on here are some kind of weird op. Sometimes it's more obvious (see the resident hasbarist who, for some reason, hangs around a tiny leftist imageboard posting active zionist talking points and not engaging with anything that contradicts those), but there's a strain of comparatively subtle stuff which creeps me out a bit. I think there has been an active effort to sow misanthropy, distrust, bigotry, and paranoia among online communities, and despite our small size, I think that we're a target, and I also think there's an active effort to shit up this site.
I remember, years ago, when I could still use .org
(I later started getting banned for no discernible reason, and nobody would tell me why it kept happening or what it was over, so I kept getting banned and unbanned and re-banned and the site became unusable), the main arguments against .net were built on screenshots of the catalog, and it always made this site look super reactionary. Since joining, I've realized that, for the most part, very few of the
big, scary, reactionary threads that are posted (and periodically bumped) on this site seem to have very much substance - like, the amount of actual fascists/racists/perverts/whatever who have any actual enthusiasm for whatever they're arguing is pretty low, and even when there seemed to be more of them on this site, there wasn't much user sympathy for them. Today, it seems like these threads have basically no substance and just are kept afloat in order to compete with threads which have actual relevance / contain fully fleshed out ideas and arguments against capitalism and imperialism. It's important,
to someone, that the latest posts on Leftychan.net are weird LLM-generated rants advocating for pedophilia, or bizarre alien-like diatribes against women or black people or transhumanists which read like they were written by someone who only knows about these groups from ragebait memes and idpol propaganda. Usually this stuff goes absolutely nowhere; in fact, like half of the "arguments" presented were tired circa 2016, it just kind of sticks around near the front of the site for a while, which is an easy thing to achieve since this site already has such a small regular userbase. Having been around here for years, I think that a lot of this stuff is only posted/bumped in order to discourage new users by
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