Trying Times at RevLeft
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Trying Times at RevLeft
Those of you who browse through RevLeft on occasion may have noticed that the forum has been "temporarily down" for some time now. From what I understand, this apparently has nothing to do with any technical problems, but rather with recent [bold actions] taken by the forum's administration.
Many of those who have been affected by this 'purge' of sorts have moved on to the pitiful RedMarx Forum. There is an ongoing discussion on said forum pertaining to this very matter. The following is a post from that thread:
kkkk wrote:Revleft, was closed down a few days ago, we all are aware of this, why?
Nothing to do with redmarx actually, we'll get to that.
Apparently there has been a longstanding paranoia regarding an online game forum known as "Patton," the revleft BA fears that Patton is housing a bunch of nazi hackers that want to take down revleft, I have no idea if this is true or not.
Through some complicated reasoning, they banned mrmimkal or whatever his name is due to some sort of connections to this, many other have also been banned for this reason.
More here.
http://pastebin.com/WSDVRM30
Why did Broletariat, RED DAVE, and S.Artesian get banned?
Broletariat and CoTR exchanged some PMs and Broletariat had obviously offended CoTR. CoTR has been keeping her eyes on this website for quite some time apparently. Broletariat was banned for "Security Reasons," presumably a facade for CoTR's squibble.
RED DAVE and S.Artesian's bannings are less clear, they did thank the post by Broletariat which so deeply offended CoTR, but they also have a history of stepping on the toes of the administrators and sticking hard and fast to their beliefs. Perhaps it is a combination of all of these.
Revleft BA has the ability to change your accounts password and log into it, and are most likely doing so and going through everybody's PMs.
Revleft's administration is selected not based on theoretical ability, but by loyalty to Malte.
What else?
CoTR is a politician who runs on a small-business campaign platform. This is slightly ambiguous but most likely true.
The external source for Promethean's banning from revleft was here on redmarx, his post about China in the Maoism topic in Learning forum.
If I left anything out, please ask. I'll make a new post if I think of anything else or if anything else rises.
Everything we know for sure
The 'report' linked in the quoted post (entitled My view on the forum games: pasted for backup) effectively underscores just how incompetent and paranoid the administration of RevLeft truly is. But, of course, I cannot fathom how any of the 'collateral damage' could possibly be surprised by this action. The hypersensitivity towards the mere semblance of viewpoints that run contrary to their cosmopolitanism (or other such values) has always expressed itself in such gratuitous ways. The scale of this action on the part of RevLeft's administration, however, is indeed unprecedented and may serve to finally discredit the entire forum. (Such would be a small victory for the revolutionary left.)
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Good hopefully It never gets back up and running and the daft cosmo ideas it haps on about become a thing of the past
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TheocWulf wrote:Good hopefully It never gets back up and running and the daft cosmo ideas it haps on about become a thing of the past
Indeed, LOL RedMarx forum looks like a small child made it.
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It appears as though RevLeft's diaspora are currently exploring a number of 'alternatives'. These include the already mentioned RedMarx forum, as well as LibCom, RevForum, and the newest site being constructed, RedFlag. None of these forums, with the possible exception of LibCom — which is far too ideologically homogeneous to embrace a significant plurality of RevLeft's refugees — appear as though they will amount to anything. As such, it doesn't seem likely that these initiatives will siphon off RevLeft's membership in any meaningful capacity.
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And I bet our site traffic has increased aswell since Rev Left went down.
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So the all powerful revleft was brought down by forum gamers and 4chan-like trolls? How pathetic, but it reflects well the level of the discussion that happened there.
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So the Stalinists decided to ban the hipster cosmopolitans and the RevLeft administrators felt they needed to take the site offline for over a week to deal with the fallout?
One can only hope this is the beginning of the end of that pathetic forum..
One can only hope this is the beginning of the end of that pathetic forum..
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They're a rather paranoid lot...
For people who are against racists, racialism, and anything else that doesn't fit in their little make believe utopia, they are very intolerant.
One could say they are... Fascists?
For people who are against racists, racialism, and anything else that doesn't fit in their little make believe utopia, they are very intolerant.
One could say they are... Fascists?
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Balkan Beast wrote:They're a rather paranoid lot...
For people who are against racists, racialism, and anything else that doesn't fit in their little make believe utopia, they are very intolerant.
One could say they are... Fascists?
Thats why they say Antifa are fascists who hate other fascists for being fascist.
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http://www.revleft.com/vb/so-hell-happenedi-t165963/index3.html
The inevitable fallout post purge
The inevitable fallout post purge
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The funny thing is, the more I learn about left-wing nationalism, the more I realise how many legitimate left-wing nationalists exist on the left. Examples? How about the Soviet Union, Communist Cuba, the Zapatistas, and the People's Republic of China? They supported the interests of their nations and preserved their cultures without trampling on anyone else's. That's what left-wing nationalism is.
So, RevLefters, if you're reading this, in order to prove that we're racists and that nationalism and socialism are incompatible, you'll have to prove that Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Khrushchev, Castro, Subcomandante Marcos, and Guevara were all racists and that none of them were real socialists. But of course you won't read my post.
So, RevLefters, if you're reading this, in order to prove that we're racists and that nationalism and socialism are incompatible, you'll have to prove that Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Khrushchev, Castro, Subcomandante Marcos, and Guevara were all racists and that none of them were real socialists. But of course you won't read my post.
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Well, it appears as though RevLeft has done irreparable harm to itself. It is losing a growing number of active members each day — no doubt because of the loss of many of its most popular members. The quantity and quality of its recent discussions reflect this fact all too well.
Thankfully, no single forum of similar ideological bias has yet arisen to fill the void that the RevLeft purges left. Rather, certain members are gravitating to the aforementioned (small) forums and others are simply not bothering to invest anymore of their time into such sites.
Thankfully, no single forum of similar ideological bias has yet arisen to fill the void that the RevLeft purges left. Rather, certain members are gravitating to the aforementioned (small) forums and others are simply not bothering to invest anymore of their time into such sites.
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Personally I'm not concerned as long as they don't decide to come here permanently.
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Are you kidding? Bring 'em on! They'll either leave or come to see that we're right, and the ensuing debates will only serve to provide solid arguments to any cosmopolitan stopping by.
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Honestly what rhetoric the RevLeft reactionaries do espouse is so easily refutable so bring um on I agree.
I tried to read a thread over there partly for laughs and partly cause I was interested and you can't go two pages without someone accusing someone of being sexist or racist. Being anti-sexist or anti-racist is all fine and dandy but every time they have a disagreement I see "This could be taken in a racist way man!". Absolutely ridiculous.
I tried to read a thread over there partly for laughs and partly cause I was interested and you can't go two pages without someone accusing someone of being sexist or racist. Being anti-sexist or anti-racist is all fine and dandy but every time they have a disagreement I see "This could be taken in a racist way man!". Absolutely ridiculous.
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Looks like they decided to ban our old friend, 'Commissar Rykov', for exposing the fact that RevLeft's primary admin (under the screen name '5 5 5') is a bourgeois politician.
It doesn't get any more amusing than that.
flames and mysogenist BS
It doesn't get any more amusing than that.
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Admin wrote:Looks like they decided to ban our old friend, 'Commissar Rykov', for exposing the fact that RevLeft's primary admin (under the screen name '5 5 5') is a bourgeois politician.
flames and mysogenist BS
It doesn't get any more amusing than that.
Really of what camp?
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TheocWulf wrote:Really of what camp?
I'm not quite sure, as they continue to remove her alleged campaign video. I suppose she is a petit-bourgeois, 'progressive' reformer of some sort.
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So, a typical RevLeft member.
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RevLeft's admin, '5 5 5' (formerly CoTR), is even more self-deluded than I previously thought:
She should consider including that [impressive résumé] in her next campaign video.
5 5 5 wrote:My use of the term, "grow some balls" or what I usually say "Grow a nut sack" means be strong, tough, and take no shit from anyone. And in context to how I said it, was telling IZ if you are going to be hard, big man, its going to take alot more than whining with examples to compete with me. Because anyone who knows me irl, knows I am a tough bitch.
I practice martial arts, own a glock, can argue and debate effectively with the powers that be. My resume of activism is a fucking dream. My tattoos alone shows I am capable of immense pain, notwithstanding enduring a broken back, cancer, and birthing four children. I have championed a hard core drug addiction and crawled out of that abyss to sobriety. I have been homeless. I am just a street kid who realized she had a brilliant mind and a body to match and with those 2 things combined I get what I want.
She should consider including that [impressive résumé] in her next campaign video.
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Admin wrote:RevLeft's admin, '5 5 5' (formerly CoTR), is even more self-deluded than I previously thought:5 5 5 wrote:My use of the term, "grow some balls" or what I usually say "Grow a nut sack" means be strong, tough, and take no shit from anyone. And in context to how I said it, was telling IZ if you are going to be hard, big man, its going to take alot more than whining with examples to compete with me. Because anyone who knows me irl, knows I am a tough bitch.
I practice martial arts, own a glock, can argue and debate effectively with the powers that be. My resume of activism is a fucking dream. My tattoos alone shows I am capable of immense pain, notwithstanding enduring a broken back, cancer, and birthing four children. I have championed a hard core drug addiction and crawled out of that abyss to sobriety. I have been homeless. I am just a street kid who realized she had a brilliant mind and a body to match and with those 2 things combined I get what I want.
She should consider including that [impressive résumé] in her next campaign video.
A brilliant mind and a body to match? Good Lord, what a heavenly creature!
I can't wait to start getting tattoos...perhaps then those around me will understand just how tough I am! And if they don't, the glock I am going to purchase combined with my superior martial art skills will teach them otherwise.
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I wasn't aware that being a junkie was something to be proud of.
It's a shame though that no one has found the campaign video.
It's a shame though that no one has found the campaign video.
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Balkan Beast wrote:I wasn't aware that being a junkie was something to be proud of.
It's a shame though that no one has found the campaign video.
I practice martial arts, own a glock, can argue and debate effectively with the powers that be. My resume of activism is a fucking dream. My tattoos alone shows I am capable of immense pain, notwithstanding enduring a broken back, cancer, and birthing four children. I have championed a hard core drug addiction and crawled out of that abyss to sobriety. I have been homeless. I am just a street kid who realized she had a brilliant mind and a body to match and with those 2 things combined I get what I want.
That is probably her campaign line. At the end she probably says "And I want you to vote for me!"
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RevLeft's active membership has recently fallen below the 1,000 mark (930 and falling). Still waiting for someone to leak the campaign ad of their primary admin (should be amusing).
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