Poor little piggies think everyone is out to get them, imagine being so self-absorbed that you think a barista with two kids to feed getting paid $8.25/hr would put her tampon in your coffee

Yeah and it's also worth pointing out echo chambers have kind of been a feature of the internet from the very beginning, they were just a lot smaller back then so not as big of a deal. Before the rise of social media sites like digg, reddit, Facebook etc subject-specific forums, message boards and email lists were much more common.

I think it's fine. Reddit itself already encourages the formation of echo chambers, but even so, each of us can choose to participate on reddit (or any other not-specifically-leftist space) if we want to.

Furthermore having our own community gives us the ability to have full control over the moderation and content of the site and largely removes the risk of another ban splitting up the community again. And I think it's important to build solidarity among all leftist tendencies, as we already have a habit of compartmentalizing ourselves not just as leftists but as anarchists, MLs, Maoists etc. I think this forum can help do that.

Kill your masters

Bruh the point literally sailed 10ft over his head.

Just link that study that showed black people get pulled over at a higher frequency during the daytime (when cops can see them) vs at night when the rates are more even. I'ma see if I can find it rq

Here's an article on the study

Hell yeah. I'm terrible at usernames but being able to get a cool three letter namegrab was pretty sweet

Well said... America has a problem with expecting the police, a state-sanctioned violent gang, to mediate everything from domestic violence disputes to mentally unstable, suicidal or drug addicted people who need help. Instead of being helped, they get ignored, beaten, shot, or thrown in jail.

We need to reimagine what our emergency response services should look like beyond police, fire and medical. Imagine if we replaced police with a variety of response specialists, such as for example, psychological crisis response specialists to respond to mental breakdowns and suicidal behavior. Addiction response specialists to offer resources and access to counselling/rehab for drug addicts. DV specialists who are equipped to offer support and remove the victim from the situation if they want to get out. And for violent situations, the responders should be trained in deescalation and non-lethal subjugation tactics, so that lethal force is only ever an absolute last resort.

I know all these problems are a lot more complicated than I'm making it seem, but this would still be a huge improvement from what we currently have. Police are good at taking a bad situation and either doing nothing or making it worse.

Imagine not snagging a 3 letter username for yourself in anticipation of lording it over people 5 years from now

libs

Just another example of how corporate media is doing its best to keep us pitted against each other. "Look it's those greedy boomers who are benefitting while you suffer; it's all their fault!" All the while the capitalist pigs are robbing us blind.

Wish boomers as a group weren't so brainwashed to hate leftism though

Yeah definitely agree with you on both points. I'm still gonna be hanging around in the discord in any case

Agree I do like the discord in the slower chats but I couldn't do the main megachat. That shit moves at like 200mph at peak hours

shroomery.org is another site like that. Pretty sure it hasn't changed since at least 2005

Lmao me too. It was really weird for me getting sober only to see Trump getting elected and wondering what happened. It didn't make a lot of sense from a lib point of view. Looking from a leftist perspective now has made it a lot clearer whats actually going on.

I mean there is nothing Dems are better at than snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Im not too confident Trump will lose and even if he does, I wonder if all his bitching about "mail-in voting fraud" isn't him setting himself up to contest the results. I could see the police and military backing him up.

Yep for sure, only downside for me is i'm used to being able to browse reddit using RIF on my phone. But the mobile site for chapochat is far from the worst I've ever had to use. The devs are doing a great job.

I think r/alltheleft got started recently in the wake of Chapo getting b&, intended as a space for all leftist tendencies, but while it's good to have it hasnt got the same size or energy that CTH did. But we're here now!