I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down

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    Safe space for teens cos playing as communists, where they can be nasty to outsiders.

    I like the politics, but it’s filled with truly obnoxious children try to out-communist each other

    the philosopher Bertrand Russell warned of the dangers of communisms tendency to become a religious cult and he was right.

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      Bertrand Russell’s Political understanding was poor to say the least. He was in no way an expert and seemed to have only skimmed summaries and a handful of short texts when it came to Marx, sounding more like Jordan Peterson fixating on terms. For example, I think at one point he spent several paragraphs fixated on “nothing to lose but our chains” without understanding the basic thesis. His criticisms were, therefore, basically a series of errors and misunderstandings rather than insight. And beneath it all, a distressingly consistent current of chauvinism and racism, even with his anti-war stance.

      Russell is good for math, logic, and some analytic philosophy, though.