I wonder. I mean, there are tons of stupid e-communists online that are usually middle class white 20-somethings that are taking their first foray into politics, think they know everything, and want to be more “left wing” than other people. Because political identity is so pronounced these days, and the desire (as seen in these same people labeling themselves by their self-diagnosed mental disorders in their bios) for “individualism” that fits into a distinct flavor of “individualism” that they’ve seen and want to use for their identity.

I know this, because I went through a period like this, but I went through it young. I got interested in politics probably too young. Like, in middle school. So by the time I reached high school/college, I was already reading crimethinc. books, and liking their particular brand of anarchism. So I got upset about things in the world not adhering to my worldview, got up in arms over a lot of stuff, and was probably really annoying to be around. By the time I grew into my 20s, I had gone brought that period, but I still grew up reading anarchist literature, adbusters, and eventually learned enough that I know I was probably an insufferable asshole. So now, I’m a 30-something anarchist. But I have a healthy dose of realism attached to my idealism. I know things don’t work the way I want them to work. If you read my comment history, I tend to spout a lot of the same type of stuff I used to. But it’s now been a lifetime of doing it, so I’ve learned to not do it at people. Which, of course, fits into the ideals of my deeply rooted political beliefs. So I think a good amount of the people on lemmy are the types of people like I used to be. It’s the more “terminally online” crowd, honestly. A lot of needlessly combative, overly self-righteous e-communists in that crowd.

But, then again, it is entirely possible that there are some disinformation artists mixed in there. I don’t know if lemmy is a big enough platform to target, honestly. But maybe it’s a sophisticated enough operation that they did end up putting a few people here to really target a specific left-leaning demographic. Would be pretty smart. But fuck both of those countries too. American “communists” defending them because they pretend to believe the same thing the communists in the US pretend to believe is so goddamn stupid. Makes me angry. Like they want to be against the US because the online circles they grew up in were left leaning or conspiracy and they learned to be angry at the US (which is entirely valid), but they just start swallowing the propaganda from the OTHER two superpowers that are just as guilty as the US. lol so dumb