From my perspective it’s pretty healthy. It’s just very insular and inward focussed. Checkout n-gate which does a great job of pointing out the inherent contradictions here. My only other criticism is that moderation tries too hard to make this place “of great minds discussing ideas” outside of material conditions. Lots of nasty stuff gets a pass for being academically delivered.

I do find it funny that a lot of posters find this place left leaning. I guess I could see it as such if you take left wing as Democratic neoliberalism but from a lefty European perspective it’s the same uninspired, technocratic guff we get from our mainstream right wing parties.