TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]

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Cake day: January 31st, 2023

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  • Something I haven’t seen mentioned. Roasting assholes can be a great entrance to leftist thought. Imagine I’m a vaguely left individual. I think Dems suck. I hate Republicans. Ive never read even the most basic of theory. I probably don’t know theory exists. I see a wacky Twitter Nazi getting roasted in a dredge thread. Awesome. Then you follow that and see more etc etc. eventually you may actually start engaging in leftist ideas more seriously because the roasts do often hint at or explicitly call out actual theory.

    If instead the only option is some 5 paragraph effort post dissecting said Nazi via a Marxist lens… Well probably ain’t reading that shit.

    Honestly glib roasts seem like they’d be more useful or atleast as useful as more complex posts in having offline impact. Which is kinda what the mods seem to think hexbear oughta do.

    The edits do seem to indicate that perhaps not all posts to these new coms need huge effort but as is the other major complaint… It’s not actually clear. At all.

    Anyway I shouldn’t even be online right now so I should stop reading this thread and just see what happens.