Like, I remember it just being a bernie sub or something, now its all pro-ivermectin, antivax, CHINA BAD etc etc, while still kinda being anti-imperialist (sorta?) and pro labor
One of the most recent posts is "Babylon Bee on point as usual" and other babylon bee shit
Im so confused, what happened?
Majority of actual supporters probably also stopped posting there and yeah it was definitely taken over by chuds and libs
Not taken over, it's just a space for the spooks that founded the place to speak freely.
:brak: Sounds like the perfect spot for my newest expose!
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Edit: just submitted. Go find it in new and up-a-doot. Direct links don’t count votes.
o7
Maybe make a post in !memes@hexbear.net on hexbear so we can all go over to Reddit to upvote it? The chuds the last post brought in were well worth it lol.
oh wow. this shows the power of a sarcastic title, powermod Fthumb is eating it up
I love the words "libs" here because they don't realizing it's talking about them, it's amazing
I honed my powers with the chuds and now I’m aiming for the radlibs.
Dirtbag leftists who dropped the "leftist" part when Bernie's political project cratered. They are just dirtbags now.
there's still nominally pro-socialism stuff too, which makes it weirder than if just chuds had taken over
:brainworms: i guess
They're the kind of chuds who are trying to lure leftists to the right.
Stupidpol is filled with social democrats, chauvinists and middle class left coms who all have vague reactionary social grievances.
WotB is filled with cranks, hippies, conspiracists and poorer liberals who are angry but have never read theory.
While they may seem superficially similar, it's actually 2 different tendencies. Stupidpol is more Kautsky/Orwell-vibe, while WotB is more of an Oliver Stone/Tulsi vibe.
social democrats, chauvinists and middle class left coms
Kautsky/Orwell-vibe
Holy shit just reading this fuckin spiked my blood pressure.
But yeah, you're right. Stupidpol do sometimes read, they just have reactionary, shitty opinions. That WotB shit is a goddamn incoherent mess.
There's a small but loud subset of the left that's just like that (see: Jimmy Dore going on Joe Rogan to hype up Ivermectin, or any weirdo on Twitter with a 🌺 in their name).
I guess everyone else moved on and they took over the sub.
It matches up with what I saw in rl after the campaign ended. Some people who traveled and volunteered and everything ended up on the Trump train, others went back to normal scattershot american politics, and some folded back into the party. I think in general things are way more fluid than it seems, if MTG runs you'll probably have a lot of think pieces about how wild it is she's attracting people who voted for Obama and Bernie.
IIRC it happens basically every election cycle. People are politically incoherent, especially Americans.
I had to think on who MTG meant for a sec, yeah i would expect to see "populist as a criticism" trope really leaned into by the media if she ran. Havent actually heard much about what she's up to lately for like a month. Hopefully something funny
it's half-overrun with antivaxxers who have been posting chud sources that push horse paste
It's like an even weirder version of /r/stupidpol aka really really bad