Unfortunately all my local orgs are Maoist or worse. So I’ve had to deal with them a lot. It’s frustrating when local liberals are less frothing at the mouth with hatred for China than our supposed “communists”

Though probably a good call to avoid them, especially online. I’ve never had an enlightening or educational conversation with a Maoist, even when I’ve gone in with an open mind and asked for theory and information from them, they don’t see this ideal educational opportunity as a chance to actually educate, rather, they see it as an opportunity to bash me over the head with how much more they know than I do. And god forbid I ever have questions about their theory, you’d think I just asked if it was OK to shoot their dog.

To be fair, I have met some more chill Maoists, but we rarely if ever spoke about theory, so that’s probably why.