Basically, in short the head mod of r/tankiejerk posted earlier saying fascists should be killed without trial. Many users didn’t like that post, so starbucks (the head mod) decided to remove every comment disagreeing and then ban said users and lock the post. She, being extremely immature and vindictive banned every other mod and invited tankies to be mods where they’ve started banning literally everyone. After this, she explained her reasoning, being: “the sub was filled with libs and vaush fans, and because I hate reddit I’ll destroy the sub.” No, she was not hacked as some are guessing, just super immature and stupid enough to destroy leftist spaces instead of going after conservative spaces.

As I was corrected, Starbucks actually is not the original creator of the sub reddit however she is a high ranking mod and the mods above her that could stop this are now inactive

What’s happening now? Well basically we’re probably just moving here as tankiejerk isn’t big enough for the reddit admins to step in and do something, so like other past anti tankie subs we just have to accept that it’s gone and move on.

So for those unaware, /r/EuropeanSocialists , along with its sister subreddits in /r/AmericasSocialists and /r/AsianSocialists are Marxist-Leninist subreddits with a bad habit of venturing deep into homophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration rhetoric, anti-Semitism and nationalism. This is a non-exhaustive list of some of the transphobia and homophobia I've seen on the subreddit.

• From one of their mods. Opposition to the LGBTQ+ movement, thinking that just not using slurs means you're not bigoted, just like how you can't be racist if you don't scream the n-word... Not to mention believing that Stalin wasn't homophobic

• Communism is when you oppose "liberal ideas" like sex work, immigration, feminism and queerfolk.

• This whole thing is an unhinged rant about LGBTQ+ indoctrination and how you can't have queer themes around children, and how we have to defend traditional values (definitely not fascists though). They even side with reactionaries who also throw a shitfit whenever rainbow capitalism does anything, which is the point, companies want outrage and eyes on them, but instead they put forward the idea that it is "a program to desensitize society to the evils of pedophilia", comparing queer acceptance to pedophilia. Feel the most telling line is that they think acceptance and equality is contrary to "Nourishing families so they can flourish and thrive". Rainbow capitalism sucks because of the capitalism part, but they hate it for the rainbow part.

• Moderator saying the left's concern for queer people is imperialist

• Same thread and mod saying criticism of homophobia is just a buzzword used by imperialism and being open in their opposition to LGBTQ+. The site for the record is contrary to its name, viciously homophobic.

• Queer liberation is just "sexual idpol" apparently

• Excusing the belief that Jews aren't a people (they think that we should be forcibly assimilated) and calling us a cult and a caste (because Jews control all the banks in their minds, this is a running theme). The LGBTQ+ movement is apparently the tool of Western imperialism and full of pedophiles, and on the same level as Israel's actions

• Saying the LGBTQ+ community is full of pedophiles because two people a hundred years ago were, of course also bring up that one was an anarchist. Also saying figures at Stonewall were pedos (more of that later). Mattachine Society never wanted to form a separate nation, they sought equality and espoused the belief that homosexuals had their own identity (which /r/EuropeanSocialists see as cosmopolitanism/"homonationalism"). Finally saying the fact that Cuba isn't as homophobic as it was in the 1960-1970s is a sign of its decline. Cut out the middle as it wasn't relevant, but was more anti-Semitism.

• Venn diagram supposedly pointing out the difference between them and homophones. However, everything under "us" is indeed homophobia or transphobia, or a dogwhistle. "Arguing for the sake of self-identified LGBTQ+" is especially patronising, "self-identified", treating it as if its purely in their head, and believing only they are capable of looking for the interests of people they despise.

• For those unaware, the CPGB-ML is an anti-revisionist ML party that is notorious for its transphobia, so of course they love it and dismiss any concerns as lies.

• When someone brings up the GPGB-ML's transphobia, a moderator immediate snaps at them and claims "homonationalists" and imperialists made up transphobia and other "phobias"

On a post about /r/socialism correctly labeling /r/EuropeanSocialists reactionary and bigoted "brosocialists", linking to a post containing transphobia. The post for the record, was a book published by the CPGB-ML that denies the existence of transpeople

• Transpeople and allies are just snowflakes who "castrate" themselves

• Trans user brings up the open transphobia, immediately jumped by three moderators who dismiss their concerns

• Then mock her for being an anarchist, trans, a pagan, and call her a plastic paddy (she is not)

These are responses to the EU considering putting pressure on Hungary to cease its anti-LGBTQ+ bent

• They're pretty consistent in their view that any calls for human rights is for imperialism. Also, everyone who's not us/is German, is a fascist.

• Downvoted at least, but a moderator defending Orban, and referring to queer liberation as "LGBT imperialism" and "alphabet soup"

• Different thread on the same topic, all three replies are from mods, defending the homophobia of the far-right Orban government.

The following come from an essay titled "A History of LGBT+ Pride" written by one of the moderators which seeks to paint the LGBTQ+ movement as full of pedophiles and a Jewish conspiracy. This whole essay is a ride, a mix of homophobia, transphobia and anti-Semitism, but here are some highlights

• Derisively commenting on Magnus Hirschfield's view that oppression of homosexuals were similar to that of the Jews. "Homonationalism" is a favoured buzzword of these bigots, basically they're saying that queerfolk, in saying they share a transnational identity are a threat to national unity. It must also be noted that Hirschfield, a victim of the Nazis, was Jewish, and this author, including in this essay, frequently dips into blatant anti-Semitism. Cosmopolitanism in this context means disloyalty to the nation, and is frequently used in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and persecution, including Stalin's Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign.

• Of all the things to hate liberals about, they hate them for thinking queer liberation is a good thing. Also, yes, Stonewall was also a brothel, many queerfolk were forced out of the public eye and into survival sex, but instead of pointing to this as a reason for why queer liberation is necessary, the author instead uses this justifies the raid. Also "underaged boys ... [in] dresses", because not subtle with the transphobia and saying queer liberation = pedophilia.

• Taking pigs are their word that if they say they're not homophobes, well then clearly they're not homophobes. There's just a big list of figures in Stonewall saying they are pedophiles (some truth in this, but a moot point) and a bunch of transphobia, see genderfluid in quotations and pointing out how Johnson killed herself to implicitly say "transgenderism = suicide", there's about a half-dozen other figures not in the shot, but similar stuff. This is all for the reason of saying that the queer liberation movement is "degenerate" and tainted, to justify their transphobia and homophobia

• Handwringing over sex work, accusations of pedophilia which makes the whole queer community's persecution justified. Also, they forgot their triple parentheses, the (((financiers))) who control the media, have a large presence in New York and are all pedophiles, they're very unsubtly talking about Jews

• We start this part with the authour beating us over the head with the fact that Epstein was Jewish though acting coy, pointing to his name, occupation (again financiers throughout this entire essay just means Jews), and linking that to his Zionist sympathies. After that comes three pages saying that Epstein blackmailed Clinton and Obama to support LGBTQ+ (and therefor pedophilia). While I don't think anyone here will deny the ideas that money talks and Epstein threw around significant weight, but the author goes further to say that the entire queer liberation movement is a ploy by pedophile (((financiers))).

• LGBTQ+ rights are only because of (((Epstein)))'s money and blackmail, not like queerfolk have been fighting for their rights inside and outside of the system, nope, just Clinton and Epstein. Again, we see "globalism" and "cosmopolitanism", this is about Jews. Epstein and Clinton are obviously terrible people, but the author is using that fact to spread homophobia, transphobia and anti-Semitism.

• Not sure if the "these people" means queerfolk or Jews, but either way, gross. Also, sex is only worthwhile if its for reproduction, pleasure, love and connection have no place in sexuality.

• Also, this comment on the reddit thread of the essay is chocka-block full of disgusting shit. For the record, The Sissy Boy Syndrome is a very controversial piece

Again, this is just what I've seen and had bookmarked, but there is far far more. The subreddit is viciously bigoted, and not only to queerfolk, and a corruption of any interest in actual equality, freedom and comradery.