I resonate with this sentiment, I mostly lurk because most comments and posts radiate a very foul energy of pessimism, hopelessness and thinly veiled hostility. It’s mentally taxing just to look at what other people are talking about, I can only imagine what it would be like to regularly engage with this site’s discourse. The vibes are rancid.

Most of the user base of this site is North American and it really shows in how traffic on comms about special interests is dwarfed by tired ranting, despair, doomscroll material, toxic irony, post-postmodern humor ( ) and people generally looking to pick a fight.

What if there was a fakenews comm, but the fake news posted was literally just current news headlines but reversed?

“American bombers drop bunker busters on Iran”

could become:

“Iranian bombers bomb the United States” (reversal of actors)

“American bombers don’t bomb Iran” (simple negation)

“America signs non-aggression pact with Iran to not drop bombs on Iran” (completely opposed to reality while adding an element of irony)

I say it would be quite hilarious, imagine seeing a headline on a post like: “The USS Nimitz is still afloat and operational in the Persian Gulf” Then looking in horror to see on what comm it was posted. Bonus points if the comm icon is a black and white picture of an American politician looking at a newspaper and the comm name is something like “newsn’t”.

Today I have learned what a “bombardino crocodilo” is.

I have tried every solution but no matter what I do it seems that modern day “brainrot culture” is inescapable, also the fact that bombardino crocodilo’s lore is that it is an IDF superweapon against children does nothing to slow down my descent into madness.

Now that phrase captures it perfectly, “revolutionary optimism”, I firmly believe that such a mindset is what socialists need if we were to get anywhere and sway more people to our ideas. We are firmly dominated by the ‘organic ideology’ of our capitalist leadership, if we ourselves are not convinced by the vision of a better world being possible, how could anyone else?

Beautiful edit, thank you for trying to preserve it.

I accidentally posted without the link at first, oops.

Glad to provide something worth checking out, tovarish.