I don't say this enough, but I am so fucking happy this website exists. My reddit browsing has gone down to a minimum (me_irl, notion sub, and that one art sub I mod are the only things keeping me there). It's been great to be able to talk to comrades and not be constantly mad when I access the internet.
I wish this was just a fucking Vbulletin instead of this half-arsed reddit thing
there are some pros and cons, but the worst thing about traditional forums is that there's no sub-threading, so you have to scroll through 20+ pages of a thread to see 8 back-and-forth replies
where else am I going to tell people what kind of garbage pc I have in the least readable way possible?
(sigs on crew)
I'd like to believe that zoomers are capable of figuring out the superior method of posting. They just haven't had the chance imo.
I am too used to reddit to mind the difference in format, all my experiences with bulletin forums were not pleasant, tbh.
I finally went through my reddit multis and made one with just the handful of subs I still care about, instead of going to all like a pigeon. So the existence of this site has actually managed to make reddit better for me too.
Also /r/hybridanimals just had weevil week and it was really cool.
that's what I ought to do. Make me_irl and a bunch of other meme multis and all my art resources into one. So I never have to see anything else.
me_irl and art comms should be a right, not a privilege. we need a revolution in the way that the chapo.mods fund new comms :yes:
fair. id offer but...
big box of excuses
for real id make a shit mod, and not just cause given the power of :ban-hammer: everybody looking like nails
:sadness: sorry
I'll happily mod the art comm, I got podcasts, resources, image packs and discussion posts I'd like to share, and i saw that the discord had plenty of active artists. I think me_irl would be nice. My one big question is if I won't be adding to the problem of "more inactive comms". I think one of the challenges we have to overcome is what's causing possible inactivity in various comms and how to increase that.
Have ya'll thought of adding "extra hard upvotes" similar to what reddit gold does? Instead of money, perhaps have a daily cooldown, so you can only "extra upvote" one or two threads a day?
I think a heavier weight in the sorting algorithm would be nice since most feature threads seem to have important community info, we don't wanna override that with Based_ball bits (no offense based).
I've been a fan of this perspective for a while, and I think it fits neatly into a kind of ontic structural realism.
irreversible processes, the motion of objects, heat exchange, friction, expansion under specific circumstances, which cannot be undone
Technically it can be reversed if you're a god who can put all the little pieces of dust in the right place.
Can we do two months of a pissed off and disinterested Trump while COVID is at it's worst?
They’re ahead sending people away from the hospitals in North Dakota to die at home.
Two weeks since the vet said my cat was "slightly overweight" and needed to go on a diet. She's now learned how to open bags with chip clips on them - I woke up to her eating my Fritos.
i had to get child locks for all my cabinets. one of my cats was opening them and eating whole loaves of bread.
then i had to get a different kind of child lock as he figured out how to open that too :|
I feel your pain, my cat can open my cabinets too. Really bad combo with her new skill... Just ordered child locks, hopefully they are sturdy enough for my little demon. She basically tries to crawl into any small space she can find - the dishwasher, the refrigerator, the washing machine - and it causes me endless anxiety.
the vet ended up putting mine on anxiety meds. he refused to allow closed doors and that included cabinet doors lol. he's doing way better now
The 'New Left' (70s-80s generation post-Nixon Democrats) looked back on the era of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's reign with an accute disgust. They should have recognized him as the hero he was. The man who rescued Captialism from itself, and put the empire on the path to mitigating the Communist threat for another 75 years. Bernie had the chance to serve this role a second time. To save the Capitalist system from its worst excesses and carry it through another century. But they were too shortsighted to see the deal that was being offered to them. They were so scared of losing a handful of privileges that they gambled their heads.
I find it ironic that contrapoints is saying that "you know what follows in your revolution scenario, it's a civil war" and, like, lady the only thing that has moved the ticker towards Biden is covid, and the toll has been roughly a third of the civil war casualties so far. Literally hundreds of thousands of people had to die before a significant number of voters even considered Biden.
The civil war never even ended, ask George Floyd or Breonna Taylor or Fred Hampton. Armed struggle is here, we're just losing and it doesnt affect everyone equally.
Completely outside of Biden bullshit...every fucking revolution requires violence, because the oppressors will never give up their power willingly and nonviolently. Idealism doesn't help anyone at the end of the day, it's better to understand the reality that revolution is violent, always has been and always will be.
“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.” - Frederick Douglass
you know what follows civil war? Fuck off you absolutely don't.
That's the better argument IMO. Especially with a disorganized and weak left.
Someone asked me (after saying how much they hated california for being liberal) if I was liberal. I just answered "no".
Yeah lol. Was not in the mood to argue about the sweet science of marxism
tahiti is not just some codeword they used in your comicbook superhero media programs for being dead or whatever, you know? its a real place, and its still saturday.
how dare you disguise this timezone colonialism by presenting unfiltered truths about joe biden being a rapist.
i am appalled, appalled i tell you
Why would you people recommend The Shock Doctrine? This is horrifying, I don't want to be conscious of this kind of evil in the world.
Edit: The Milton Friedman Chicago School of Economics stuff is some real Grade-A ghoulery. How do these people not die from their own shame every single morning?
Even there it's still the common grunt taking on the majority of the psychological trauma. Milton Friedman gets awards heaped upon him and lives to be 94 years old and is never haunted by the screams of his victims while arguably being more responsible than the guy that got handed the job of burying some poor sod alive in a Chilean desert.
I wonder if the same statistics exist in post soviet nations for ex-socialist alphabet agency agents or if it's different..
because being unaware of it does nothing to stop it, while stopping it requires people be aware of it
Chris Hedges really is leftist doomerism. I listen to his speeches all the time and I sometimes think "Hey c'mon, gimme some hope." Never. Not a shred. In an interview I've heard him say that if you want a false sense of hope you should go watch advertising.
damn, that's so based tho. Hedges: "The reality is bleak, I will not lie for your comfort, comrade..if you desire this seek a liberal." I think he's brilliant but misses some positive aspects that would bring us hope..or I and other comrades I follow are wrong on some things, he's def doomer af tho
The last big Hedges fan I met in real life was pretty fashy, and his neurotic obsession with the coming collapse was frightening; my group had to cut him off because we didn't feel safe. I honestly don't think that kind of stuff is terribly healthy for one's outlook to consume constantly even if it's accurate. Mix in some accurate positive shit once in a while.
I think Hedges sees his place on the left purely as a journalist reporting on the dark underbelly of American society. It can come across as intensely depressing.
the left needs to stop deconstructing everything
literally the definition of Marxism but ok
rejecting spirituality
Idealistic spooks are fake, google 'superstructure'
Reducing spiritual experiences to idealistic spooks probably won't help all that much in either understanding them as phenomena or connecting/organizing with people who have them.
For me this raises the question: How exactly can Marxism be synthesized with spirituality? Like, what is spirituality if not ultimately an exercise in idealism. I know that is extremely reductionist but still...
I remember the ML Youtuber Hakim explaining how his faith and Marxism are not in direct contradiction with one another. While this is encouraging in the aim of utilizing religion as another tool for Marxists to perhaps nurture a sense of community and interconnectedness, I'm not entirely convinced.
I'm with you. I don't think you need a full understanding of dialectical materialism to be sympathetic to revolutionary goals...but the core flaw with many of the arguments against Marxism is idealism. People want things to be a certain way that they aren't.
I'd love to learn more though. I need to look into liberation theology.
Yeah Hedges may actually in fact have some problems with PTSD. I never considered that. From his time as a war correspondent. He covered some heavy stuff.
I listen to his speeches all the time and I sometimes think “Hey c’mon, gimme some hope.” Never. Not a shred
(Insert Lenin quote)
Wassup, I'm new to this place but I used to be in the old Chapo daily threads heavy. Good Morning rom Detroit
Stumbled into South Park by accident, and they're equating people who want the Washington Football team to change their name with ISIS. Were Matt and Trey always this CHUD?
from what i've seen they position themselves exactly between the GOP and the democrats, they think this makes them enlightened, neutral, and above politics instead of just reactionary fools
Kind of. Earlier in the series they were more Free Speech (TM) Warriors, but the outlook of Southpark has often been Nihilistic in the sense that "Both activist sides are stupid, so nothing should ever change."
Kill me. Book of Mormon is so funny too. Guess their humor stops at religion is weird for me. Libertarian nonsense doesn't jive with me.
