Close main and real main (cth) too so we can really kick off something fun

Not only is the dunk tank a term that has racist origins

Honestly after I saw that post, good decision from the mods.

Jesus god Damn Christ, you insufferable fucking dip shits.

huh?

Additionally, I would prefer to not abandon all pretense of being a left-unity site. Why become a Lemmygrad clone? There's a reason our user base is bigger. Focusing on education is INHERENTLY going to become sectarian in nature.

Sitewide or community changes come from proposals put forth from the mod team, discussed, and voted on by the mod team.

Back when we were deciding who to federate or defederate with, these changes were put to a vote by the userbase, not the mod team.

When did that change?

Good on the name changes and the intent behind the change of content, but this presumes that the user base uses this site for education on political theory and understanding and executing political activism, and not a refuge for levity and catharsis.

I didn't really engage in those forums, and I think the existence of those communities did diminish the content and cathartic, insightful, and resolutions that insight can provide. r/chapotraphouse had those types of posts. But things have changed. Since those days where people , young people especially, needed levity and perspective, now there is only a future of impotent rage and alienation where we pursue our philosophies more so as an affirmation of our humanity than hopes that we can succeed in creating change or even a better future.

I made a post about a year go "you used to post better" under a different account, Zodiark, and was told by the users of this site that the megathreads had become the heart and soul of the website, and the rest of the forums and communities were meant to drive user engagement and for levity.

I think the frustration in this thread is that there is a genuine struggle to formulate thoughts, insights, catharses, preparations, and analyses outside of memetic format or recycled axioms, truisms, and insider knowledge. Trying to divine this knowledge from the internet is definitely not the answer. Outside of also reading, a lived experience of being an activist should inform your world view.

Speaking of socialism's resurgence in the West, it's been 9 years since Bernie rehabilitating socialism as a concept, Trump's candidacy, and Obama's presidency of liberal failure.

The insight gained there has stalled, and no one has really written What is to be done because what is to be done is the same as ever: educate, agitate, organize, blockade, strike, protest, obstruct, and build community. And since the state knows this too, the state then disrupts all of those efforts to delay a meaningful counter balance. Everyone's set two steps behind as soon as they start.

So we post here, in the rebranded shitliberalssay forums, to ask ourselves how to cope in a reality where evil is living, dynamic, adaptive, and omnipresent.

dork behavior

bad, imo