The Weak LeftistDiscussions: :wojak-nooo: I disagree with what you're saying, but I respect your right to say it, now tell us your social security number and address, ignore the flower van outside your house and tell us about your plans to protest
The Strong HexBear: :PIGPOOPBALLS:
No no no, they are unironically vaushites, the entry questions answer section is priceless.
I was at a farm recently and I kept returning to the pig... I didn't want to miss it pooping on its own balls. I knew it wasn't going to happen - if it had happened before then surely I would have received a picture - but I just kept on waiting for it, circling those giant balls like a vulture. That's the part of communism that nobody warns you about.
yeah let me give my take on the USSR and the PRC in one fucking sentence. I'm a fucking leftist for crying out loud, I need four fucking books if you want my opinion.
If I had the patience to run something like this, I wouldn't give a shit what people's takes were as long as their response is in wall-of-text leftist meme format.
:geordi-no: China good.
:geordi-no: China bad. (also a very boring take)
:geordi-yes: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity …
You don't need a wall of text to write "the exact opposite of everything the Epoch Times says" though
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show, don't tell. Set the scene for the reader. Make them feel like they were in the maternity ward on that warm august day in 1997. They had just eaten a big mac while they wait outside the delivery room their girlfriend is in. Limp Bizkit is on the radio and they have to occupy their time with a Reader's Digest from the week of January 13, 1992. One of the stories is about a guy who encountered a family of grizzly bears hiking in Idaho and lived to talk about it.
Maybe I'm just old as fuck, but Discord seems like a medium that's literally impossible to have a discussion on. It might as well be an endless auto-generated scroll.
It depends on the size of the discord, ~20 people seems to be about the maximum the format can handle.
I'm at least one person using it that way, the Discord I hang out on for a league is like that. Going on like "youtube e-celeb official" is pretty much impossible to follow any sort of conversation.
Fair enough. As an old fucker I don't play games online, talk to people via discord, so most of my interaction with it has been as a 'perk' for independent media or tech communities.
I suppose it's the inherent internet company issue of being a useful tool for small amounts of individuals but to monatise you have to scale it and it doesn't well.
As an Old, I agree. I tried and it honestly feels like a step backwards. I think Yahoo chat rooms had more meaningful discussions.
It freaks me out... too much sensory input at once. I miss the pre-Reddit era of niche messageboards.
I have that feeling looking at Twitch chat sometimes and I'm a zoomer lol
Twitch chat is purely decorative, like all of the scrolling news tickers on TV news channels. It's not supposed to be carefully read and understood, it's supposed to feel exciting and dynamic to the mass audience.
am also a crumbling ruin
discord is good for instant communication between friends, or small-ish servers built around a purpose
i refuse to engage in high-traffic channels in larger servers because it's a hellscape of a million different conversations at onceDiscord seems like a medium that’s literally impossible to have a discussion on
Just feels like old school IRC to me. You pop in and out of the conversation like you would an actual in-person conversation.
GenZedong discord also requires you to write a fkn essay fuck that
Imagine if right-wing discords demanded you to recite the 14 words before they allowed you in lmao, i get that we don't want fash around but how much more open the right is to people who aren't part of it yet than the left is is kind of a problem
the essay selects for college students, academics, and current/recent schoolchildren
also why i never bothered to apply for a mod position here tbh, despite having moderation experienceImagine if right-wing discords demanded you to recite the 14 words before they allowed you in lmao
Instead of just rattling off breakfast cereals while a couple of other guys punch you?
One of the especially cursed aspects of American politics is how liberals get to pretend they're "leftists".
Conservatives think John McCain is half-communist.
Liberals think they're DemSuccs, because they once voted for a guy who said he liked Medicare.
DemSuccs think they're Revolutionary Socialists, because they once block-walked for a woman who said she wanted to Defund the Police.
Socialists think they're doing Communism, because they once split the check at lunch.
Communists think everyone they know is a reactionary who is just trying to play it cool until the next counter-revolution, and that any kind of organizing is just an invitation to be arrested or killed.
