This is supposed to be a sort of museumpost, like it can be nice to look back.
China used to be a controversial topic. There were always people who held the Correct Opinion, but it wasn't something that had a general consensus on the site.
Jack's thread
Hexbears malding over pronouns? More likely than you think!
Quillquote, my beloved, making an effortpost about intelligence based insults
Not wanting to date trans women is transphobic
Somebody complaining about tankes getting 90 upbears? Sure!
Hexbears talking bout Uyghurs and trusting the CIA
The vet sesh
Vaushposting
TC69 asks you to read a book
Contraposting
Main rage
Also... fuck, has it been 4+ years this place has been around? My sense of time is turbo fucked...
Back in my days we used to post ppb links and emojis to wreckers and the Silver Legion because we didn't have this new fangled images in comments tech. (we did but for only like the first week or so)
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We'd hide a picture of John Kerry in the pigs ass crack, as was the fashion at the time
I got here about a year after the site was created and as a result I missed all the silver legion stuff and for the longest time I thought the silver legion stuff was a reference to the Silver Legion of America, aka the Silver Shirts, an American esoteric fascist organization that was active in the lead up to ww2.
Oh, yeah I could see the original troll self-aggrandizing in that way (although the original silver shirts are in fact, extremely embarrassing) and then getting turned into a Nate Silver joke.
Most of these are graveyards of deleted comments :(
Would really, really love to read this stuff in it's full proper form...
As someone that was around back then: you really don't want to
Some of it has been archived on the waybackmachine. Don't know why, but sometimes you can find the threads there
Please note that I am in many of these threads and my take is always flawless
Hell yeah, that thread was great. Early chacha was much more like r/cth politically, meaning it was more demsoc and anarchist than the 90% ML space it is today. So I'd say that was an extremely productive struggle session.
Yeah it was fun looking thru those old threads too. Fun to see how the vibe has changed. It must be nice to always have been correct
edit: some things never change though
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"So you're saying you don't think the cultural revolution happened?"
"What??"
:smuglord: "wikipedia.com checkmate tankie"
I got a DM from quillquote some time after he stopped posting, so I think he might be lurking from time to time.
When I stop posting just know I will still be lurking
I expanded the image, tried to click the upbear button image which collapsed it. Then did that again twice before realising what I was doing. Thanks for resharing these, look forward to reading through cos they mainly were from before I joined
Much later. Tried to find some of the lesser known and earlier sessions.
Speaking of which, is the downvote wars and the cha-cha renaming spat would be two fun ones to rediscover
I considered including them, but there wasn't one single large thread I could post.
If you sort by controversial then they show up very quickly
In retrospect I can't believe people were willing to argue about rock pillars
They really wanted to stack rocks. And also argue against the general "take nothing but pictures, leave no traces" approach you're told to have for nature.
Lots of contrarians
Not wanting to date trans women is transphobic
I clicked that and had to scroll down to see a comment not deleted by mod or person commenting. Must have been intense session.
Yeah, I don't remember a lot of it, but I remember some people being big mad
Sometimes I feel like I comment too much, but I can't imagine what goes through the mind of someone who sees a thread like that and thinks "I need to tell them I don't date trans women". Just keep scrolling.
Wow these are like
+ at timesWasn't around for any of it, but I'm glad that it happened, it looks like it made the site a better place.
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Seeing the pronouns thread was a good reminder of why I don't like downvotes, but also
hi I don't have an opinion ill just put my pronouns because even if it makes 1 person slightly happier its worth it
oh yeah
It also wasn't confined to a single thread either
I remember I made a meme on my old account that was one of those threads! I will not say what it was or on which side, because that is funnier. I still stand by it. Or maybe I don't, I don't even remember what was on the meme
is way funnier.
: also Romanov erasure.
