I dunno, I don't see this space as a healing space, I think it's a combative one, and I think that's good - IMO it was the Chapo subreddit's willingness to be combative to the point of abusing transphobes and chuds and dumbshit racists that made trans and minority allies feel safe there. Maybe more selfishly, the willingness to fight was certainly part of the draw for me, after being faced with countless examples of extremely feckless and cucked democrats. I think that introducing a healing space to a combative one creates a dialectical process that makes something new and tbh I don't want something new, I like it how it is, especially when a healing space like that already exists.
Ya, I mostly agree. The 'dirtbag left' has always been, and will always be, at the heart of what chapo is as a community.
But I also think we have this big new space in which to stretch our arms, and we can do a lot more than we could on reddit.
We can have our own subs/communities, with their own energies. We can have spaces reserved for being caring, kind, and wholesome; that doesn't have to take away from the glorgious dirtbaggery going on in /c/main and, well, most other places on the site hahaha
Like I would love to see a /c/menslib here, because I think it's a really important movement, and I don't trust it to be left in the filthy lib hands of reddit. Even if r/menslib is really great... we can do better. And I think we should :)
I dunno, I don't see this space as a healing space, I think it's a combative one, and I think that's good - IMO it was the Chapo subreddit's willingness to be combative to the point of abusing transphobes and chuds and dumbshit racists that made trans and minority allies feel safe there. Maybe more selfishly, the willingness to fight was certainly part of the draw for me, after being faced with countless examples of extremely feckless and cucked democrats. I think that introducing a healing space to a combative one creates a dialectical process that makes something new and tbh I don't want something new, I like it how it is, especially when a healing space like that already exists.
Ya, I mostly agree. The 'dirtbag left' has always been, and will always be, at the heart of what chapo is as a community.
But I also think we have this big new space in which to stretch our arms, and we can do a lot more than we could on reddit.
We can have our own subs/communities, with their own energies. We can have spaces reserved for being caring, kind, and wholesome; that doesn't have to take away from the glorgious dirtbaggery going on in /c/main and, well, most other places on the site hahaha
Like I would love to see a /c/menslib here, because I think it's a really important movement, and I don't trust it to be left in the filthy lib hands of reddit. Even if r/menslib is really great... we can do better. And I think we should :)