It's true that we dwell on Vaush specifically here a lot. It's also true that Vaush lives in the minds of 285K could-be leftists (more or less going by subscriber count, and that's pretty small in the grand scheme of course). We're all in agreement here that we should combat liberalism, but is posting vaush combating liberalism? Unfortunately not, in fact we can't really do much about vaush (outside of minecraft) aside from spreading the good word outside of chapochat of course. I'd say that those of us who want our slop should also go out and do actual praxis if possible.
So, does posting about Vaush here serve a practical purpose? I'd argue that perhaps it does. In a democratic centralist system of organization, the struggle session is the way to democratically set the party line (good shit!). As a website, however, we only have a vague non-formalized 'line' based on the sum of all posts and what the people upbear and how the people respond to posts. Therefore I'd argue that bringing up common and at times tired talking points is useful for new members who may not yet be in the know.
How course hyper-focusing on Vaush probably isn't the most productive. We should focus on other issues as well, and indeed actual try to do something productive about it if possible. Let us harness the powers of posting, as well as letting us have our slop from time to time.
Is it ever really a "struggle session" though? We all know Vaush is bad, we've all seen these screenshots before, and anyone who defends him gets downvoted.
It has the potential to be a struggle session, but it turns out that the 'line' here on vaush is pretty reasonable. Personally I hadn't seen this screenshot, but that's beside the point.
Let the people have their slop!
Letting Vaush live rent-free in your head is the 69th form of liberalism.
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It's true that we dwell on Vaush specifically here a lot. It's also true that Vaush lives in the minds of 285K could-be leftists (more or less going by subscriber count, and that's pretty small in the grand scheme of course). We're all in agreement here that we should combat liberalism, but is posting vaush combating liberalism? Unfortunately not, in fact we can't really do much about vaush (outside of minecraft) aside from spreading the good word outside of chapochat of course. I'd say that those of us who want our slop should also go out and do actual praxis if possible.
So, does posting about Vaush here serve a practical purpose? I'd argue that perhaps it does. In a democratic centralist system of organization, the struggle session is the way to democratically set the party line (good shit!). As a website, however, we only have a vague non-formalized 'line' based on the sum of all posts and what the people upbear and how the people respond to posts. Therefore I'd argue that bringing up common and at times tired talking points is useful for new members who may not yet be in the know.
How course hyper-focusing on Vaush probably isn't the most productive. We should focus on other issues as well, and indeed actual try to do something productive about it if possible. Let us harness the powers of posting, as well as letting us have our slop from time to time.
Is it ever really a "struggle session" though? We all know Vaush is bad, we've all seen these screenshots before, and anyone who defends him gets downvoted.
It has the potential to be a struggle session, but it turns out that the 'line' here on vaush is pretty reasonable. Personally I hadn't seen this screenshot, but that's beside the point.
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