askchapo

Some starters:

-the Fediverse

-the subreddit

-the Great Vegan Debacle

-The banning of r/chapotraphouse

More obscure:

-The pronoun struggle session

-How the movie nights got started

-How the comms were created

-outdoor cats

-@black_mold_futures

-@TimeCubeEvangelist

Don't go further

-@Beatnik

-@Enver_Hoxha

-@BASED_BALL

I don't know why they hate fun so much. For people who claim to love freedom and individuality they sure hate people expressing themselves in non-conforming ways.

I know they claim its because it's "unnatural" but you don't see them complaining about brunettes bleaching their hair to be blonde. Come to think of it, they don't have a problem with women using plastic surgery to have unnaturally large boobs either (unless they happen to be trans)

Hmmmmm :thinking-about-it:

The most glaring example of that for me would be the 90s movie "PCU." It is an incredibly :LIB: piece of enlightened centrist propaganda, portraying black activism, feminism, veganism, even concern about endangered species as absurd and stupid, at least as bad as the cryptofascist white fratboys that are (of course) in league with the university's leader, who has two last names with a hyphen (the horror!) and had a whooping crane as a mascot (which is supposed to be a punchline as it wanders off and presumably dies off camera).

The chuds I knew back in the 90s loved it and there were moments that, if pressed, I would still grudgingly accept were cleverly written even if they are like peanuts sticking out of a steaming pile of ironically-:LIB: anti-:LIB: propaganda manure.

Lower key than that, the Indiana Jones movies are much harder to watch with all of the "all the girls in the professor's class want to bang him and also he is a lowkey child molester and it's just a quirky plot point."

I've talked about the Mass Effect series before and I'll bring it up again: being an extrajudicial special forces agent that acts above the law and working with (and effectively joining) a cryptofascist human supremacist organization ran by a rich techbro psychopath and it's all seen as sensible enough to have no opt-out, well, fuck that. "Humanity fuck yeah" stories are also tiresome to me.

I don't even mean a bad thing, necessarily. I mean a thing that is made to normalize the status quo, pave over inherent contradictions in late stage neoliberal capitalism, make even the idea of changing society somewhat seem evil or impossible, and have lots of performative gestures that hide the stench of affluent arrogance. :zizek-preference:

I know it came out well before 2020, but I finally got around to seeing Iron Man 2 and I stopped at the instant Tony Stark said "I've successfully privatized world peace." It was bad. Very bad. The original movie was entertaining even if it had some painful deliberate adjustments to the comic book character to make him more like :my-hero: but the sequel played out like Ayn Rand fanfiction, especially the big smart awesome genius giving a speech about how the evil government and the ungrateful moochers were taking the sweat from his brow and so on and so on. :zizek:

The flood of MCU movies wore me out to the point that I stopped watching them and because of that I have only seen maybe half of them by now. Maybe it was a mistake returning to try watching Iron Man 2 because I now have even less interest in seeing anything MCU ever again. :zizek-fuck:

Well, not the same level (conservatives are clearly worse) but the line is increasingly becoming blurred in this day and age. Maybe I am looking at this wrong, but they are far more likely to shit on communism (while calling themselves lefist) and making excuses for the United States

I know "leftist infighting" has been a thing since forever, but it really seems like they're closer to reformed capitalism than anything resembling socialism...

Like wtf this guy was a star of early cinema, feels odd that he was still around long after the Beatles split up.

Would our chimpanzee cousins approve these weapons?

Like it's mainly just an excuse for parents to not expose their kids to political stuff they don't like?

Everyone's always talking about how shoddy it is and how your cabinets will disintegrate if they go through any kind of stress, but all my cheap-ass furniture with a piece or two missing is still going strong after nearly a decade a use. Maybe I'm just lucky and it really is all crap, but I can't shake the feeling that the reason people shit on Ikea is because it's inexpensive.

In so many ways, with a few small content patches like "let's go Brandon" and that infantile "frenworld" thing and turning the OK sign into a dogwhistle, it seems like the online chud playbook is permanently stuck in the Gamergate era, circa 2014-2015.

For those of you that saw that recent edgelord quoting a certain Austrian methhead rage scribblings, note how many times he invoked the same transphobic panic memes that seem to have taken over chud insult dictionaries ever since they lost the culture war against gay marriage and had to dig a new trench.

I really do wonder what it takes for them to get a new edition of their chud playbook. This one's getting long in the tooth and it's full of spaghetti code from too many haphazard content patches.

Mine is SsethTzeentach Youtube videos. Yes, he's an edgelord and yes some of his delivery is chanlord jargon that didn't age well and should be allowed to die, but he often explores games I never thought about before and often presents them in ways that are, in spite of the edgy gloss over everything, clever and funny to me.

I said it before and I'll say it again: it's possible to enjoy something while also accepting criticism of it. With that in mind, SsethTzeentach is my pick for my problematic favorite.

https://youtu.be/4Ow5lGFju1c

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I'd never heard that term until like two weeks ago and now it's hexbear common parlance.

How is it?

I've been thinking a bunch lately about technological increases in productive efficiency, and about some of the different ways that the capitalist pigs scheme to retain control over newfound profits through their manipulation of the means of production.

For example, I remember reading years ago that because of the increase in productivity associated with the modernization of washing machines, modern laundry detergent products are actually way more effective than they need to be (and that their marketing implies). When the bottle tells you to fill up the cap to the marked line, that's actually way more detergent than you need to use for a regular ass load of laundry. Like you literally need somewhere like a third or half of the "recommended" amount of detergent that it says on the bottle lol.

This is because the detergent producers’ profits are tailored to the status quo of their production; if consumption was suddenly halved, the company would have a crisis of overproduction that would eat into their profit margin. obviously this didn't simply happen all at once - but the small increases in efficiency created by the technological boom was not met with an appropriate rise in wages.

I want to start trying to investigate more examples of these situations and products that have been bent to the bourgeoisies' benefit rather than the proles'. I think that trying to become aware of these things is the first step to agitating around concrete ways that people can reclaim value created by these ‘hidden efficiencies,’ as I’ve currently taken to calling them. I'm also very open to suggestions for names that are more clear lol.

What are some hidden efficiencies you’ve noticed in your area of study, profession, or interest?

I had a political science professor talk about working in a campaign with a politician who tried to make a compromise with people for or against the death penalty.

The compromise was that inmates given a life sentence would be offered a lethal pill that they could take at any time. I think he said the idea was that they would have it in their cell to use at any time.

That shit sounded fucking wild to me, but I was like 18 at the time and didn't know why I felt that way.

Looking back now, the psychological torture of being imprisoned for life with a pill like that would be immense and immoral as fuck.

Anyway, that's just one from me. What about the rest of you?

No longer drunk! i went to bed and I’m awake

I notice they will do the "males are evil default", and some of them have conspiracy theory's like artificial wombs are going to replace women.

On the incel side you have conspiracy theory's that think women are trying to "genocide ugly males", and think that women are evil. Both of these groups are copying each other more than they would hate to admit.

Bringing about international socialism by selling school for chiapas coffee to rich old people

I’m talking takes that make them immediately throw out the civility fetish and reach for the most crying wojack buzzwords in their vocabulary

They’re pretty much sold on capitalism = bad and socialism = good but having more resources for that would be appreciated too.

I just checked it for the first time in ages and we've got:

• /r/WinStupidPrizes
• /r/Cringetopia
• /r/JusticeServed
• /r/IdiotsInCars
• /r/facepalm
• /r/PublicFreakout
• /r/TIHI (Thanks I Hate It)
• Some guy celebrating his divorce with a selfie featuring his miserable looking ex wife
• And of course some gaming stuff

At what point did Reddit become so obsessed with finding people to recreationally get mad at? It's like a majority of the front page content. Terrible vibes.

It's not my vibe to get a full on hammer and sickle. I already have a fist holding wheat and roses so I want to try something less explicit

Most wacky conspiracy theories manage to survive by being impossible to either prove or disprove, but Sovereign Citizens love filming themselves trying to talk their way out of being arrested or charged and subsequently eating shit. All the conspiracists these days are downloading their beliefs from YouTube and going wherever the algorithm takes them, so anyone looking at information on Sovereign Citizenery is also seeing the videos of people trying to put it into action and failing miserably.

How do people convince themselves that this is real when there are so many videos of people with similarly melted brains proving that this absolutely never works? I'm genuinely curious about what the rationale is. Do they think all the videos of judges telling Sovereign Citizens to shut the fuck up are fake, or that they didn't follow the script closely enough?