[local_crmdgeon]

I yearn for the day when Communists are seen the same way as (normal) people see Nazis. The European mass death counts are similar, without counting the Asian atrocities of the Great Leap Forward, Khmer Rouge, etc.

The Swastika and the Hammer and Sickle both represent bankrupt ideologies. I would use a Communist website just as soon as I would use a Nazi website.

I assume that's not going to be a popular opinion on the modern internet though.

[croutonwagon]

I dont really have an issue with ones political leanings. On that site or otherwise. No doubt I have conversed and even debated with some that are Communist or Socialist, both on the internet and in real life. I was just in Vietnam for 3 weeks with one of my good friends who has a LOT of family over there and some of them, many of them embrace socialism. Talking to many of those folks over drinks was very interesting.

Its when it becomes a core portion of your identity and you are throwing it others faces or using it as a pedestal for elitism that it rubs me wrong. And that is the feeling I get on that site. Heck they even had a thread on the very topic the other day [1]

Again I am not saying its bad. Just it gives a very weird vibe and it will depend on how the new users play into that and affect it.

[1]: https://beehaw.org/post/443376?scrollToComments=true