The goal of the name change is that people who come here won't take the podcast as seriously ("oh this is just that podcast nobody likes. They even changed the name of the site, see?"). It'll also be harder to find this site if "chapo" is not in the name.

You can already see the campaign to discredit the podcast on its way. They go for easy targets like the less serious episodes or anything with Amber, which preys on your internalised misogyny.

People making this post into a copypasta are also CIA btw.

  • Audeamus [any]
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    4 years ago

    There's actually a serious effort to change the name? If the name changes, I'm 99% leaving.

    "Chapo" stands for something, a real world thing. Even if the podcast has problems - it's an anchor to the real world. CTH is a group of people committed to a leftist set of principles, connected to lots of other leftists who can hold their feet to the fire. The memory of CTH the subreddit represents how popular a leftist community can be.

    What is this site? The property of a bunch of unelected, unvetted anonymous individuals? I mean, they have to be anonymous, that's understandable - but why should anyone trust them who doesn't know them personally? What are their goals, what are their politics? Who the fuck can know for sure?

    Chapo is an idea worthy of trust, which is something that's lacking on the Internet. A site without a connection to something worthy of trust is gonna go bust. You'd be trying to attract people to a dark alleyway saying "would you like some communism".

    If you want to set up a revolutionary cell - don't make it public. If you're running a public site - don't entirely disconnect it from the real world.