I'm sure I can find the answers to these questions in google individually, but other people in the fediverse might benefit from having these questions answered as well.
Why is Trump a "Wet Boy"?
Why is a defecating pig a "PBB"?
Why do you, a chapotraphouse discussion forum, only discuss something called "citations needed" instead of the chapo podcast?
How is El Chapo's trap house in any way related to leftism?
Why are your emojis so big?
What's the limit for your big tent left? Maoists? Trotskyites? Demsocs? Socdems? TERF socialists? Progressive Democrats? Monarchist socialists?
To widen the topic of the post, feel free to post any other questions regarding Hexbear as well.
Imma snatch the easiest one, TERFs are not allowed under any circumstance
Why is Trump a "Wet Boy"?
Why is a defecating pig a "PBB"?
It's actually P P B, for Pig Poop Balls. For there is poop on the pigs balls.
Why do you, a chapotraphouse discussion forum, only discuss something called "citations needed" instead of the chapo podcast?
There is no CTH, only CN
Why are your emojis so big?
What's the limit for your big tent left? Maoists? Trotskyites? Demsocs? Socdems? TERF socialists? Progressive Democrats? Monarchist socialists?
You misunderstand, this site is for liberals, and I am the only leftist that uses it.
Why are your emojis so big?
No joke: this is actually the reason. Ask somebody smarter than me why, but it broke the entire site for a day and permanently deleted images older than it.
Why are your emojis so big?
A bug (or perhaps unimplemented feature?) in the general Lemmy UI code not found in Hexbear's is that it does not seem to constrain the display size of emotes, simply displaying them at source size. Some of our emotes which have been derived from vector graphics have large source images but are nonetheless displayed at an appropriate size on Hexbear. Here's a smattering of particularly large emotes followed by a screenshot of how they appear viewed on Hexbear proper:
big honkin' emotes
Show
also want to emphatically reiterate that TERFs are not welcome
Trump is moist. He's soggy. He's dank. He's sopping. Have you ever seen a picture of him? Balmy is an understatement.
What's the limit for your big tent left? Maoists? Trotskyites? Demsocs? Socdems? TERF socialists? Progressive Democrats? Monarchist socialists?
anarchists and Marxists, mainly. I think there's a couple of trots around but they don't post much and I've never seen someone catch a ban for sectarianism for shitting on them or leftcoms. TERFs are fascists, no ifs ands or buts. bigotry of any variety will get you dunked on and banned faster than you can refresh the page.
Why are your emojis so big?
something with the migration from our fork to lemmy proper - svgs got converted to large pngs and our instance knows to rescale them but other instances don't. I think they're planning to fix it, as funny as it is.
the rest are just long-standing jokes that go back to the old subreddit. a lot of us can't stand the pod and it hasn't really come up much in years.
Yeah, Trots are nominally allowed, but the site culture leans pretty heavily ML/something, with Anarchists in a lagging second place followed by everyone else. I'm going to be honest I don't even know what Trotskyies thinking even entails beyond strong disagreements about how Lenin and Stalin handled the early years of the USSR and a lot of stereotypes about Newspapers. We say we're non-sectarian but in practice the ML slant is really strong. I hope we can keep things open. We have to do better than the 20th century did.
So how did you guys fall out with the chapo podcast when you guys were formed as their discussion forum? Did they go liberal? I don't listen to podcasts so I don't know what's going on with your side of the left.
By the time the subreddit was banned, it had already outgrown the podcast and become a general watering hole for leftist shitposting on Reddit. A lot of the cultural references and bits survived. The relationship between the subreddit and the podcast was always tenuous. They shittalked the subreddit a lot, the subreddit shittalked them a lot, but there was never really a split on ideological grounds.
There was a big shift after r/politics had its big socialist ban.
I feel like I got caught up in this without knowing it was a bigger thing and just getting increasingly upset at getting banned over pretexts
they and the old sub were a gateway leftwards for a lot of people but people soured on them when they kept moving left but the pod didn't. personally, I've never been able to listen to a whole episode. it's just not my cup of tea.
A lot of people either forgot or didn’t realize in the first place that CTH was and still is an independent podcast primarily built on armchair media criticism. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but I saw a lot of people projecting onto it like it was supposed to be deeper or more activist than it was. The friction between the subreddit and the pod seemed to be a lot about how the armchair media criticism podcast run by unemployable Twitter posters wasn’t doing more for the cause.
I say the above with affection for all involved. I like the podcast, and I like the community that sprung up around it and has largely moved past it.
I'll engage seriously.
Why is Trump a "Wet Boy"?
I think it was a joke from the Chapo Trap House podcast during the heyday of Trump (and also when they could be said to be good). There's a lot of stuff like that. I think the hosts called themselves the Dry Boys. I guess it was because he always looked so sweaty or something. We also like to call people "large adult sons", the quintessential example being
and the Huckabee sons. It's like a failson except a little more... vapid, I suppose? Like, they're kinda helpless and dependent on their parents or some kind of parental figure (even their friends might count) but not really malicious. And also, of course, large.Why is a defecating pig a "PBB"?
Pig Poop Balls has been a part of the site for a long while, and I at least like to think of it as the "Your argument is so ridiculous that I'm not giving you the courtesy of even pretending that it's worth engaging with. Fuck off." button. It's often humorous to try and get libs to click it while thinking they were going to find something else, like saying "Yeah, here's a detailed article on why you might be mistaken, hope this helps!" and linking to it, or "please see our Posting Policy Bulletin". It's shock humor without being offensive.
Why do you, a chapotraphouse discussion forum, only discuss something called "citations needed" instead of the chapo podcast?
Citations Needed is simply a much better podcast than Chapo Trap House. It's a better critique of issues from the left and is genuinely informative. The hidden joke is that we were initially named after chapotraphouse of course, but many of us didn't actually watch the podcast - it simply became the biggest leftist presence on reddit where people who didn't watch it congregated also. And because CTH isn't really all that explicitly communist, that left community ended up radicalizing past the podcast and listening to some of the hosts' points became irritating. So we were named after the podcast but didn't really want to associate with it (the hosts also hated us back) so we half-seriously, half-jokingly picked a new podcast to associate with, the joke being that we were named after one podcast but actually fans of a different one.
How is El Chapo's trap house in any way related to leftism?
drugs
Why are your emojis so big?
We don't see them like that, the devs borked it up and we'll probably fix it soon
What's the limit for your big tent left? Maoists? Trotskyites? Demsocs? Socdems? TERF socialists? Progressive Democrats? Monarchist socialists?
I think anybody who a) genuinely believes that capitalism is a bad system (not "it's the worst system except for all the rest" nonsense, like actually believe it's an objectively and also comparatively bad system), b) isn't a fascist who wants to bring down capitalism to recreate Capitalism But Even More Racist or monarchy or some other weird shit, and c) is genuinely socially progressive and believes that all of the LGBTQIA+ community, all races, etc are equally good and should all have rights, ought to qualify. They must also not be sectarian themselves. Maoists are fine, Trotskyites are... usually fine but tend to be fairly sectarian so they usually fall afoul of that. Demsocs are fine. Socdems are generally not fine because they don't believe that capitalism is a bad system a lot of the time but there are some socdems who are actually trying to meaningfully improve things (e.g. Lula, AMLO), so while we might dunk on them for X or Y issue, we generally support their efforts. All TERFs are eradicated with extreme prejudice - loving your trans comrades is a prerequisite. Progressive democrats are like socdems in that some who are public figures are alright (not really The Squad anymore, the Ukraine War scratched them to reveal liberals, but I think there's some union leaders who are prog Dems who seem ok?), but most who are mere posters are not. Basically everybody here dunks on the Democrats and Republicans, but whether the Democratic Party is worth some form of support to stop the Republicans in elections or not remains a bit of a debate, but I think by and large the reaction is "I don't give a shit whether you vote or not, don't bother us about it, if you're gonna go vote for Biden or whoever the candidate is then go do it and then talk about literally anything else, if you're not gonna vote then also talk about literally anything else, voting is a tiny insignificant act and not worth valuable computer electricity debating." Monarchist socialists are... what the hell is a monarchist socialist?
It's PPB - Pig Poop Balls
The name derives from the fact that a pig is pooping on his own balls.
Why is Trump a "Wet Boy"?
IDK, probably a CTH reference.
Why is a defecating pig a "PBB"?
PPB stands for pig poop balls.
Why do you, a chapotraphouse discussion forum, only discuss something called "citations needed" instead of the chapo podcast?
The community over time has gotten less interested in CTH and quite unrelated to it. Citations Needed is popular, and it's funny to say chapotraphouse is the discussion forum of an unrelated podcast
How is El Chapo's trap house in any way related to leftism?
IDK, probably deep CTH podcast lore.
Why are your emojis so big?
IDK either, but I heard it'll hopefully get fixed. They are smaller on our end.
What's the limit for your big tent left? Maoists? Trotskyites? Demsocs? Socdems? TERF socialists? Progressive Democrats? Monarchist socialists?
I don't think we have any outspoken Maoists so I can't say. In the past, I think Trotskyists have been defended by the moderators from being dunked on too hard. Demsocs are welcome but I recall a well-known demsoc user getting banned however I cannot remember the reason so someone else please chime in. Socdems regularly get ridiculed, but there's a lot of sympathy for Latin American socdems. TERFs get banned ASAP. Progressive democrats are also ridiculed. The website is too small to attract one of the handful of earnest monarcho-socialists so IDK.
the 'left' wing is literally, explicitly people who wanted to oppose the king! it's the barest, most fundamental left wing thing
the 'left' wing is literally, explicitly people who wanted to oppose the king! it's the barest, most fundamental left wing thing
ayy lmao
Yeah, I heard that you guys had a big TERF purge a while ago. Them and monarcho-socialists were there more as a gauge of how far does left go since it's defined differently for each group. Well, since a lot of hexbearers have anime PFPs, some of you guys could be part of the latter group since the Japanese Communist Party tolerates the emperor currently.
Yeah, I heard that you guys had a big TERF purge a while ago
hard to purge something that was always banned
there was a period where soft transphobia was tolerated. the hard stance followed many struggle sessions. cf the great pronoun wars.
How is El Chapo's trap house in any way related to leftism?
IDK, probably deep CTH podcast lore.
I believe the podcast was called that just because they didn't have a name and Will and Felix "wanted it to sound like a mixtape".
Have you ever seen Trump drink water? That should answer your question. Wettest boy around.
Honestly if you arent a bigot and and are cool with AES its not that hard to fit in regardless of your ideology. Plus you dont have to engage with everything
Oh no. I've been in the wrong community this whole time. I thought this was a site for fans of Trapo's Chaps House.
Aw nuts, aw beans, AW HECK.
I appreciated watching you edit your post in real time to make the bit land correctly. It's good now.
Lemmy rocks.
Trump is a wet boy because he’s always sweating a lot
