The comments are even better

We’ve got

Casual transphobia

Outright revisionism and denial

and Zionist cringe

Ngl I regret getting my reddit account banned because this would have been prime material for both r/ShitLiberalsSay and r/shitfascistssay

  • SmithrunHills [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    I initially thought this subreddit was just a bunch of religious libs, but upon looking closer, they’re definitely crypto-fascists. It’s kinda funny, because the sub is a hodgepodge of far-right religious extremists and liberals branding themselves left while being fervently anti-Communist and anti-tankie(and even anti-Anarchists), and it shows. Most of the posters there usually display heavy queerphobic sentiments(especially transphobia from what I was able to glean) while a select minority try to go “oh this anti-theist position from a queer person is such a bad look for the community” in a fauxgressive, tone-policing manner.

    The same also applies for Pro-Palestine advocacy: most seem to at least show sympathy to the Palestinians and show rightful anger at atheists who reduce the genocide to “religious conflict and barbarity” and correctly call out Zionists, but then there’s also a sizeable chunk of liberal Zionists in there who run defense for their apartheid state like in the screenshot above.

    I wanted to highlight this sub because there’s a shitload of incredible contradictions afoot amongst the users. And there’s also equally incredible slop to be found.

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        The West is bad but that doesn’t mean everyone else is good

        The CIA doesn’t give a fuck if you hate America, as long as you hate every alternative more. They know that whitewashing the US in the eyes of Americans is a fool’s errand, because it contradicts their lived experiences. So they rely on vilifying their foreign enemies, which Americans never visit. Then smug left-liberals and right-liberals will laugh at you when you push back against those ridiculous portrayals even a little, while fancying themselves immune to propaganda in the process, because they know “the US is bad” too (as if that were subversive).

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          I keep looking deeper and holy shit it keeps getting better

          Sometimes they have better geopolitical takes than 90% of mainstream reddit subs, interspersed with takes like these

          They’re incredibly dogmatic with their religiosity which leads to predictable reactionary politics, no different from how reddit atheists are dogmatic in their anti-theism and chauvinism.