I’ll start first: at the height of reddit going absolutely mad and frothing at the mouth I heard r/genzedong mentioned a lot as this evil evil tankie place, so I checked it out. Was a bit overly china fanboy-ish for my taste back then but alright overall and leagues more civil than people on other subs. So I started lurking over there to preserve my sanity until it basically became my most frequently viewed sub. I’ve kinda warmed up to the whole idea of socialism during my stay. And then it got quarantined. I’ve heard of lemmygrad even before the quarantine, so I switched to this place instead. As of this moment, lemmygrad remains my primary source of news and entertainment where I dont have to risk running into some flavour of wehraboo.
hakims channel, discovered r/genzedong and the rest is history
Hakim definitely played a huge role in demystifying the USSR for me, which was a huge key to all the rest.
I used to watch Vaush. Then Hakim converted me with his debunking of Vaush’s ‘Lenin and Mao would of voted for Biden theory’. I had to watch it a 2nd time just to get any of Hakim’s arguments since the 1st time was me brainrotting trying to defend Vaush and just trying to find anything attackable.