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Sincere post, if you dare. What has this site and the people on it meant to you

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[โ€“] asante@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this site made the world make sense. there's so much doublespeak that i hadn't wrapped my head around:

  • the West is historically extremely awful & the West is amazing and civilised
  • Western democracy is broken af & Western democracy is the only democracy
  • racism is minimal and actively combated against & racism is endemic
  • non-socialist anti-imperialist states actively free people & non-socialist anti-imperialist states actively oppress/colonise people

there are so many more examples, but being exposed to this site showed me there was a way out of the imperialist core. this site to me is a blessing heart-sickle