When a communist is a communist, they tell us to speak to “the Russians”. When a Russian is a communist, its because they “never lived under the USSR”. If they’ve lived in the USSR, its because they were the “elites”. If they weren’t, then they were “brainwashed”. Maybe, just maybe, anti-communism just has no real scientific substance and survives entirely on idpol…

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    If you’re new to that sort of thing, there are quite a lot of leftist videos on Gamergate that will break it down. It might unironically be the most important event in pop culture. People in the global south with no connection to the event even use memes that spawned from it.

    As far as corporations pushing garbage-tier idpol, though, we have to be careful not to allow it to discredit CRT or Intersectionality. That means they win.