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Some cultural questions for Hexbear (lemmygrad.ml)
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I'm sure I can find the answers to these questions in google individually, but other people in the fediverse might benefit from having these questions answered as well.

Why is Trump a "Wet Boy"?

Why is a defecating pig a "PBB"?

Why do you, a chapotraphouse discussion forum, only discuss something called "citations needed" instead of the chapo podcast?

How is El Chapo's trap house in any way related to leftism?

Why are your emojis so big?

What's the limit for your big tent left? Maoists? Trotskyites? Demsocs? Socdems? TERF socialists? Progressive Democrats? Monarchist socialists?

To widen the topic of the post, feel free to post any other questions regarding Hexbear as well.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

A lot of people either forgot or didn’t realize in the first place that CTH was and still is an independent podcast primarily built on armchair media criticism. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but I saw a lot of people projecting onto it like it was supposed to be deeper or more activist than it was. The friction between the subreddit and the pod seemed to be a lot about how the armchair media criticism podcast run by unemployable Twitter posters wasn’t doing more for the cause.

I say the above with affection for all involved. I like the podcast, and I like the community that sprung up around it and has largely moved past it.