chapotraphouse

You think that's bad, you should've been there during the early days of the Chapo subreddit

Summer 2017 "Are Native Americans ethnonationalists?" that was the struggle session that nearly destroyed the sub and led to the creation of stupidpol

And the big march 2018 struggle session; when a famous power user claimed Marx is outdated because he "couldn't account for marginal utility theory" and that's why "the future of socialism is marginalism" that shit got hundreds of upvotes believe it or not

Or the summer 2019 struggle session about whether a Palestinian woman living in the West Bank was "racist" for trolling a thirsty Israeli on a dating app, first time I was downvoted into the hundreds for pointing out basic facts about Israel/Palestine and the nature of settler colonialism

I'll take vegan debates and yelling about cats over that shit any day

2020 - mods let me post thigh pics

2025 - mods do not let me post thigh pics

I was here since day one, it took a long time to purge the toxicity. Sometimes I had to log off for a few days because people were being needlessly mean to each other. The current mods are a lot better, the old mod team used to clash with the user base all the time. I got banned for arguing with a mod and that made me think the site was doomed.

It's so much better now. The vibes are a lot nicer, and the purpose of the site has settled on a place for communists and anarchists to talk about silly things and discuss politics with people who aren't thirsty for the blood of workers.

You missed a lot. We found video proof from forgotten USSR vaults that Kubrick faked the moon landing. We don't have it anymore, the dirty owl lent it to a friend and that friend gave it to John Kerry in exchange for the heinz ketchup recipe.

I'm here almost from the beginning and it was always pretty chill.

Been here from the beginning, honestly I feel like the big arguments and drama were mostly for the best. We wouldn't have the community we have today without them.

Wow this is so bullshit. I can't believe you'd support outdoor cats.

Honestly, though, I lived through those times and I don't feel that it was so terrible. Granted I'm old, but one can just like click "read" on a reply and move on with their life.

That said, I do appreciate the "no debate bro" rule/vibe here now. Pedantically arguing small things to death isn't fun. There's probably a few issues that deserve large arguments, but also heaps and heaps that do not.

Not to be a boomer but damn, 5 years?!?! Feels like 2

the first few years were like the way the characters in snowpiercer describe the first few years on the train

It's "chiller" because the number of posters keeps going down.

I drastically preferred the old sub because it was a lively and well-populated leftist space that preferred dunking to scolding.

Here is not that. There just aren't enough posters. I don't think a place like that really exists anymore.

I'm the 6969th user

it was funny