"The admins of chapo.chat are going on a banning spree for all TERFs and "transphobes" based on if users downvote posts that have anything to do with being trans. I downvoted a comment that said the admins should absolutely ban people based on their voting record lol. And since I didnt have a comment/post history, I'm apparently a Nazi TERF plant sent there to make LGBTs uncomfortable with using the website in an attempt to rid them from the "leftist movement".
It's amusing that everyone there is nostalgic for Stalin and Mao, and cartoonishly voice their full support for them every fucking day, I'm sure they would have fully supported the LGBT movement. I'm never leaving stupidpol again, I love all of you nazi [r-slur]s."
Bonus: "I was unbanned. I apparently only have one downvote left that Im allowed to use. Thank you benevolent moderators of Chapo.Chat. I promise to never downvote again."
This was very much unexpected and not predictable at all.
Edit: the op deleted it :party-sicko:
Edit 2 : It seems the above is fake news and the supidpol mods deleted it for damage control or something idk.
Is THAT what is going on there? I literally posted there for the first time yesterday and could not figure out wtf was going on with the replies.
yea, they're unironic class reductionists. it started chapo-adjacent but they didn't ban reactionary shit so it became a nazi sub in short order.
If you don't come down on reactionaries swiftly and hard they will fucking multiply and push the limits of what they can get away with. Everytime.
That explains a lot.
It was rotten from the start: its two founders, gucci and crab, were the two worst posters on the old sub, and crab in particular would go on like 100+ comment rants furiously defending the honor of Al Franken and the google evopsych manifesto guy. I remember spending entirely too long fighting with both of them over trans issues (also literally everything else, because they were terrible on every issue) back in the day, and it was a good day when Ohmiglob finally banned crab.
Fun fact I actually know one of the evolutionary psychologists who was cited by the google manifesto guy. He was rightly horrified with the way his work was being misused.
It's funny because these chuds like to think they have access to more facts and logic than the mainstream consensus. But it turns out the leading researchers in the field hate their opinions too.
oh, I remember them, I just meant that the two subs had significant overlap for a while. but the influx of reactionary users into stupidpol split the two apart. yeah, it was always shit but CTH was frequently willing to tolerate defenses of the takes in that sub until it became very clear that it was just cover for being a reactionary.
Yeah, it was nice when they finally started the tradition of regular purges of stupidpol posters.
it's time to finish the job :stalin-shining:
It'll never be finished. Thing's will quiet down for a few months, it'll become a problem again, and then it'll be time for another large scale purge.
Fuck, I was just thinking "what if there's a way to socialize people better to break the cycle of needing regular purges" but there's not really a way to do that on social media, since people can just filter in and we can't exactly sit them down and mandate an ethics and political education class or something where they'd at least ostensibly learn better.
I've gone through so many cycles of educating people on trans stuff - I'm very aware. it's neverending.
some of this stuff is cultural, though, and it is getting better slowly. like notice how we have more people talking about how they feel and how their day is going - there's a noticeable decrease in the overwhelming (toxic) masculinity of the space since the days of the sub. pronoun tags have worked, banning sealioning and concern trolling has helped, and the supportive posture of the mod team helps as well.
unfortunately, the thing that would help the most - actual political education - isn't really something this space can enforce, so we have to get a little more clever about what kinds of policies we try.