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The Iowa caucus was a hell of a megathread, with SHADOW, the math errors, all that shit. :pete: great way to lose the last of your attachment to electoralism. :kropotkin-shining:
Weren’t there CTH users running data analytics on Iowa showing the caucuses were suspicious?
plus the dems outright said that they can't fix a obvious mathematical error once it's been signed off on. so the people running each caucus site basically have free reign to "make mistakes". ridiculous un-democratic system
And the video of the guy changing the result of the coin toss to take a delegate away from Bernie
That was my first day on the sub, shit was WILD for lil ol' lib me
I liked the debate megathreads.
Also the :lenin-shining: posting after electoralism fails
I had gone back and forth on electoralism for years. It would fail me, I would give it another chance the next cycle. I was diehard for Bernie twice like we all were. Went to rallies, donated triple digits. I remember it so clearly, the night of super tuesday, the leninposting. "Back to me."
I haven't gone back again. That really was the moment that permanently and irrevocably radicalized me.
I gotta say the "and where did that bring you" posting was truly radicalizing and then when blm kicked off I brought the :lenin-shining: to the streets
You tried serious posting, where did that bring you? back to memes
before the subreddit's quarantine, i loved that we could tag reddit users in comments of posts that were dunking on them, and dunk on them EVEN MORE
god i miss that
CTH being a bastion of good in a sea of shit is the missing X factor that this site doesn’t have. The siege mentality might not have been healthy for the USSR but it made CTH great
ok i tuk yur advic & invtd r/breadtube, r/pcrmemes, & r/neoliberal her they r comin thnk u
LImbaugh died after the ban, but we did celebrate his terminal diagnosis in the subreddit.
When I first got on the sub back in like 2017, it was the only place I knew of on the internet that was talking about how much shit Hillary ate in losing to Donald fucking Trump. The rest of politics adjacent internet was heavy into Russiagate but the old sub was rightfully calling it out for the crock of shit that it was.
Someone on r/politics mentioned r/chapotraphouse to me around the time of AOC's primary victory and the mix of impoliteness + hardcore giving a shit about the world's most vulnerable people was a major breath of fresh air.
A big reason leftist ideas spread is that they explain the world better than your mainstream liberal or conservative ideologies.
I first found r/cth around the time there was a reading group for the conquest of bread.
They were the largest leftist subreddit that was active. Something new every time i come back. Justifiably angry over real (and dumb) shit. And a perfect counter to both the liberalism of reddit and the shadow of the donald looming over the front page of r/all.
I was weary, because how could people have politics that actually align with reality? I was more comfortable going further left because i no longer felt alone.
i was at a point of having pretty much given up on leftism altogether for the longest time, like there was a dark time when the iraq war movement had spectacularly failed and id aged out of the university left, and all that remained was a handful of sad dead-enders constantly tearing themselves apart with sectarianism and i couldnt do it any more. so i consoled myself with electoralism and reformism and putting faith in the australian greens lol for the longest time while pretending i was still a leftist in my heart (spoiler: i really wasnt). so on reddit id follow all these r/politics threads about russiagate etc with the thought that a big enough scandal might be enough of a shock to the system to trigger real reform (lmao, i know) but could not shake the feeling of what the absolute fuck is wrong with these fucking pod people, these are not my people....surely?
and then i often saw posts from r/cth on all and i didnt know what a chapotraphouse was so i assumed it was some anime or some shit, but yeah then one day i clicked on one and holy shit it was a breath of fresh air, this was the sort of radical liberalism i could get behind
i 100% have the sub to thank for bringing me back into the warm embrace, and im considerably more left now than when i was 20 so suck shit winston churchill
this was the sort of radical liberalism i could get behind
:chefs-kiss:
My best memory was when I was on vacation. Drunkenly squinting through one eye like a pirate, stumbling through an unfamiliar town, I made the dumbest post I could think of.
Liquor store near me
Liquor store near me open
Trilly stickied the damn thing and I woke up with a flood of replies in my inbox.
More generally that place (and this place continues to) beat the liberalism out of me and force me to have more coherent politics. I had vague notions of what was wrong and what I wanted the world to be like but I had never really been forced to sit down and say "okay, so how do we get from A to B"
Love ya turds
I knew Hexbear was the true Chapo successor when we had a week long struggle session during the first month or so of the site about outdoor cats. By far my favorite memory of Hexbear so far besides Jhn Krry lol.
May he fuck off forever
lmfao i luv that they wrot a deeply unwel manifesto w/ low jpeg scrnshots of som totly unrdble discord fury shit and thot “yes this wil mak us the heroes let us pst this with slurs”. so fcked up.
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The first chud to actually post hog lol. It was glorious. Imagine being so owned on :reddit-logo: by a bunch of dirtbag left sickos that you post an actual picture of your penis. Incredible scenes
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There was some incredible energy in the megathreads during the BLM protests last year. Really loved to see it.
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That time we brigaded a bunch of SWERF and chud subreddits that were trying to doxx/extort sex workers and spammed them with :PIGPOOPBALLS: and copypastas until they shut down. Also that time we did the same to some homophobic religious subreddit, I think @Fakename_Bill was involved in that.
Now transitioning to this site, glorious hexbear.net
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The le epic outdoor cats struggle session, concluded with photos of people hunting cats.
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The whole Dave saga thanks to @Shitbird, our comrade there. Fuck Dave fuck all bosses o7
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The best bit accounts ever, from @LeftistJoeBiden to @JuanGuaido and @KamalaHarris and now @neera_tanden. Also who can forget the amazing @VolcelPolice for keeping us in check.
Thank you for the recognition, but we would like to once again reiterate that we are not a bit account
Never have been a bit. Volcel stuff is serious business
Also that time we did the same to some homophobic religious subreddit
Do you mean arr slash Clerical Fascism? cause that was me >;D
That and a few other subs lol. o7 to our brave online troops shutting down :reddit-logo: fash everywhere
that was when I first discovered brigading lmao, just went from fash sub to fash sub with the comrades postin hanging nazis :sicko-biker:
The one I went after was some tradcath sub
"Hrrrrng Jesus, I'm trying to pray,, but I'm Dummy Thicc, and the clap from my ass cheeks keeps distractingt the priests!"
Lmaooo, there's the immortal copypasta. Pure gold
:gold-antifa:
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Where were you when chapo die
I was at house posting when phone ring
Chapo is kill
No
Bullying a nazi into posting his dick
I want to fuck the Bunny Cop OP
We’re really out here fam. I found /r/CTH about the time of Charlottesville because it was the only place on the internet with a real understanding of what happened and actually aligned with the people who showed up to face down the Nazis
I remember after the 2016 election, SRD got super saturated with neoliberals, I checked them out (I was a Sanders :LIB: at best) but they did not pass the vibe check. I found /r/CTH almost by accident. I think I heard chapo first, then looked for the subreddit in 2017.
