Do you speak in other political forums?

[Delenda Carthago]

And I dont mean other communist/ anarchist political forums, but other political forums that attract people of all kinds of ideologies. And if so, what are those?

[Quail]

I've had a browse through a few in the past, but I've never bothered to sign up. A lot of them are just really reactionary and I imagine posting there would just be like arguing with a brick wall all day.

[Delenda Carthago]

Here in Greece, political forums are like, SO heated up. I just wonder how they look like in other countries.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

I have never seen a single Political forum which has not had most of it's debates devolve into name-calling and shit-slinging, this one included.

[the Left™]

I sometimes post on debatepolitics

Some kid from here and myself made an epic thread called "time to make a libertarian socialist society" and mauled like dozens of neo-cons and reactionaries daily lol

[TheRedAnarchist23]

like arguing with a brick wall all day.

Which is not much different from what you already have in revleft.

[Quail]

Which is not much different from what you already have in revleft.
But at least there is some common ground. At least we don't tolerate sexist/homophobic/racist shit here, which is more than can be said for an awful lot of places.

[smellincoffee]

The off-topic section of Civilization Fanatics Forum is active, with discussion from people all around the world. We've got everyone from ardent Communists to libertarian southern nationalists still fighting the American Civil War. I participate more in discussions as the years wear on, but I tend to avoid long, drawn-out arguments. Life is short, internet discussions are fruitless.

[Ravachol]

Life is short, internet discussions are fruitless.

Life is short, most discussions are fruitless.

[Bronco]

There's a couple of other forums I'm on where I post in the politics section/threads, they're not specifically politics forums though and most of the people are pretty frustrating to try and debate with

[campesino]

usually browse /pol/ on 4chan.

[Rugged Collectivist]

Used to post on a monarchist forum. I stopped because they don't have an OI section and one of the people there almost reported a guy to the feds because he wanted to join the army, but wanted to lie during the pledge (he couldn't swear allegiance to a republic). I can't really say I miss it.

I used to post on Yahoo! answers when I was a liberal. After I went red I returned for a bit but I realized how horrible that sight really is and stopped for good.

I browse the site that shall not be named occasionally and I used to browse a libertarian forum but that one bored and angered me.

[#FF0000]

I guess the SA D&D forum sorta counts. I don't post much tho. LF was better.

What happened to the LF folks we had come over here?

[Ostrinski]

What happens to all people that come here. Seriously, it's like people just post an introduction and disappear. Are we are not fun to be around?

[Red Commissar]

I used to be on several forums before I was on revleft. I still have memberships there but I'm slowly phasing out of those. Problem with being a socialist of our type(s) is that we're really out there, beyond the normal political viewpoints a lot of communities have. I've put two such ones below

forums.filefront.com
http://facepunch.com/

Most of my old communities were gaming related. Most internet communities'll generally have a subforum for "serious" content, ie politics and religion, and inevitably most people drift into those forums. In the case of that first forum, that there was a pretty even split between the generic liberal and the generic conservative. "Debates" were heated though, I remember in those days the Iraq War was always popular to talk about. We had the internet tough guys who were uberpatriotic and the anti-war crowd going at it, we had a lot of yelling in the 2004 elections (though a good chunk of us weren't even old enough to vote then :laugh: ). Most users were either from the United States or Western Europe, and by and large white and male.

For better or worse I owed much of my political growth to that forum, but as I started to get more into socialism I couldn't get along with people there any more. The conservative crowd used to like me there, but I began to drift away as I got more cynical about the wars and I realized that most of the dits didn't share my views on helping out society as a whole, rather than the old "hard work" adage. Liberals thought I was too pessimistic. Interestingly most of the liberals started to disappear and all that was left were the conservatives that morphed into tea baggers. The European users left were by and large the right-wing populist shits who are racist as fuck but deny it left and right claiming they were "progressive" in all their views but trying to defend their secular institutions against sharia law and what not. Amusingly because of my seniority there I ended up becoming a moderator nearly three years back, but it came too late- I don't give a shit about the site anymore. Slowly disengaging myself from it, don't want to make it seem like a rage-quit.

Looking at it now, and most of the tolerable progressives had long gone inactive and we're left with a zany right wing presence now of either lolbertarians or free market lovers of some sort; dying slowly, all in all. I look at the thread about the US elections to see how it is- right winger rants about the Libya consulate attack and the other users chew him out for it rightfully. Following the trends internationally, seems most of the foreign users preferred Obama over Romney but mostly because the latter and Republicans in general look dumb in the media I guess.

Because you are Greek and you mention Greece, let's see what these bright gents have to say about Greece because some dit brought it up, and you take a guess why I don't hang out there anymore:


You want to know where we are headed...look on the news at Greece. People rioting in the streets because the government promised and gave free stuff. It then went broke because a majority of the population do not work and is collecting... Does this sound familiar..... We are close to that tipping point. The Democrats promise and give all this wonderful free stuff...problem is you need people in private sector working to pay taxes for it....and with the deficits we are obviously at a point where more are collecting than people paying in....Go ahead tax the rich at 100% and take all the money...it would pay for 4-5 months of the freebies and then we have no job creation and no money for any more stuff....
The working people caused it. The Greeks voted for deficit spending until the deficit killed their economy. Now politicians are trying to cut spending down and the working people aren't happy. Even though the services they receive now are being paid by the rest of the EU.
"x" is right about that the mentality regarding that is already suicidal in Greece. People have no grip of economical realities and think they can just keep most of their benefits and have money growing in trees.

Sadly, Greece and soon the other indebt countries would need a Stalin-style leader accouncing a 5 year plan to fix the economy. It's impossible to fix the situation in a democracy if the voters irresponsible and delusional.Yeah, and I can dig deeper to show some other shit about Muslims, immigrants, the poor, etc.

The second link there is more active, and you'll see a "news" subforum that is pretty active. People are going on and on about things, but it's again the split between the generic liberal and conservative (in the American sense) with the spatterings of lolbertarians, nearly non-existent presence from other viewpoints. More of a liberal slant I guess, but racism is pretty much there regardless.

Only thing I've found consistent in the internet forums I've been on is the stance on religion from users. Most users generally didn't talk about it, and when they did they were either lax or atheist. Hardcore religious folk didn't get along very well in either of the forums I listed above and I suspect this is the case for many communities with the obvious exception of religious-friendly ones.

I've also noted that there's an elitist streak too- be it the bashing towards "rednecks", the working poor, the general populace, etc., which tends for these people to be supportive of bureaucrats and technocrats because people are dumb. Just distrustful of "democracy" in general, be it our proletarian kind or the bourgeois republican one..

[Os Cangaceiros]

Used to post on the Internet Movie Database forums, in the "Politics" and "Horror" sections. Eventually I just stuck to the horror board...I'd strongly recommend against people posting or even browsing on the IMDb Politics board. Does more to harm the brain than sustained hard drug use.

[Geiseric]

What happens to all people that come here. Seriously, it's like people just post an introduction and disappear. Are we are not fun to be around?

Radical leftism is probably the most fun political ideology. The only conservatives i've met are assholes. By the way your rep is growing out of proportion.

[Anarchocommunaltoad]

What happens to all people that come here. Seriously, it's like people just post an introduction and disappear. Are we are not fun to be around?

I thought they all get banned?

[Nox]

I frequently troll Stormfront. Most of their regular posters know my name and instantly associate me with my 50+ previous troll accounts.

[doesn't even make sense]

usually browse /pol/ on 4chan.

ron paul 5 ever

[Yuppie Grinder]

usually browse /pol/ on 4chan.

holy shit why

I've posted on some revleft offshoots, but they never have enough activity to hold my attention.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Currently I have accounts on a Satanic forum, and two gay oriented forums. While the satanic forum wasn't horrible in terms of politics the people that were active I simply didn't enjoy too often but more importantly there was hardly any discussion about Modern Satanism; it was a small forum and never had a lot of members. The first gay forum I joined was a gay teen support site which while I greatly enjoyed for a while, and was a moderator for some time, due to conflict with the reactionary BA and frustration over how the site, and my own participation, was handled I left cursing them to hell.The third forum was a gay gamer forum where queer nerds gathered. I still pop in there every once in a while, though I don't post in the "serious" section, but as with the other forums it was a small forum so due to its small membership there wasn't a lot of conversations to be had.I was also on a different gay teen forum but left there because it was pretty much just organized trolling; the discussions were truly horrid despite the fact it didn't matter what the topic was (politics were particularly bad).While on that forum I had some good flame wars with some reactionaries most of the time there was for promotion and I began to understand that the membership there simply couldn't handle anything beyond a 9th grade level discussion. So I left not really caring what became of them; of all the other forums I visited I would say this secondary gay youth forum was the most active but that simply added to the chaos since it was a very rude and unsupportative forum-I remember that more than once a member from there would wind up in the first gay teen support forum as a kind of refugee; members in this second forum were not there to help their peers overcome problems.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I'd be interested in taking a look at that satanic forum, just out of curiosity. What's it called.