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Reply to Social Democracy’s Breaking Point by Moonside
This is an old piece that slipped through the cracks for me the first time around.
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A cool post. Appreciated.
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Reply to comment by 500poundsofnothing in Controversial Opinion: The Pickle Rick episode is actually good by Moonside
Tbh I think gen z is the biggest demo into it but I could be wrong. The Simpsons is millennial humor to me.
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Reply to comment by nomorepie in One block of frozen chestnut puree by nomorepie
Please spill some more beans.
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in One block of frozen chestnut puree by nomorepie
It's the one place without blight.
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I thought first you were thinking about leaf latter. That should stay lol.
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Reply to comment by ___ in every post that mentions srs, reddit, or the fempire is dealing me psychological damage by devtesla
If we had a caste system you'd be one level above me.
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Reply to comment by cowloom in I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
I actually think the circle jerk part was fine. One sub for dunking and nothing else? If the targets were bad enough whatever.
The rest of the fempire could have been in better faith and lose the reading lists. (Reading lists for online groups are self flagellation and came out of the liberal feminists shakesville scene, which was basically a blog cult.)
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Reply to comment by cute_spider in I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
Was dril on srs? TIL gentle sir.
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
You could have actual substantive discussion on /r/chapo which was good. The combination of being relatively lax and not trying to establish orthodoxy and not giving trolls and bad faith right wingers anything they wanted broadly worked. It avoided fiascos like /r/antiwork and socialist cat girls.
I'm only on niche hobbyist, academic and bdsm subreddits, of which the latter kinda suck - there's a lot of easy moralism there. Small enough groups and you can drift to your favorites over time. The wider culture is either mundane or bad.
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
Oakreef rings a bell.
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Reply to comment by neku in I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
I wonder if anyone was involved in the gamergate.
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Reply to comment by Moonside in I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
That said, later I moved in Dirtbag Twitter and Reddit circles like /r/chapotraphouse. Didn't care for the podcast at all nor (the occasionally floated idea) that we should relax about slurs and such lest we alienate the working classes. It was definitely a reaction to moralistic libs and Clinton fanatics. It just seemed like a space where people could laugh at themselves. Alas, this too devolved into silliness over time and some Medicare for All Only people turned reactionary. /r/stupidpol and such were terrible. Made two comments there and some lib scold posted me on their blog.
/r/chapotraphouse really was the best leftist subreddit before being banned, the only place where progressives, demsocs, socdems, anarchists, left libertarians and marxists commingled. And once again, not too self serious.
Anyways posting isn't that important for left-wing goals like 2020 taught us. Things seem difficult but at least we can learn what hasn't worked.
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Reply to I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
I always took the Fempire in jest and had good humor about it. I never mistook dunking and posting for activism. To an extent I got to live the moralistic online social justice posting before it spread elsewhere in like 2014-2018 era and later started to fizzle out. I myself never got into the moralism of it but didn't see it as problematic back then. Now I do.
Imo the good novel thing was advancing trans rights in the mainstream, the bad things have been left behind for the most part. Rising stakes has forced things to evolve, that representation is much less important than material gains and access to transition and formal rights are pretty good too, even if insufficient.
I got to read a lot about many different social justice topics. I remember this user - like liltiger or something - who posted loads of effort threads with readings and I took many samplings. The brearth of exposure was good for later development even if nothing went hard-core into praxis, history or sociology or other theory.
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Reply to comment by devtesla in I miss the old days of SRS by cowloom
Honestly I only know of one who was apparently alrady notorious before SRS and she didn't stay long.
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Reply to Daily Takane #41: Innermost Forest Region by nitori
Very delightful.
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Reply to comment by neku in No, heritability will not tell you anything about education policy by Moonside
Imo he's one of the "M4A, hates Clintons" crowd that haven't achieved much and aren't good on queer liberation, racial equity, immigration and drug and carceral issues so I don't particularly care to align myself with him.
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Reply to What's your favorite type of potato? by flabberghaster
The Swedish fingerling is excellent when roasted or stewed. They are almond shaped so they have crispy skins.
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Reply to waow. Taylor Swift is maybe going to be a paragraph in an AP US History text book in 20 years by twovests
What now? Did she assassinate Trump?
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Reply to comment by twovests in Yo what the fuck is up with the recent two vests post. by 500poundsofnothing
The Queer Community(tm)(?) seems to have started using "amab" and "afab" entirely in the same way people uses "boy" and "girl" 100 years ago. It's the same gender binary. (Also, reference to the same person before.) ("Erm... What the sigma?" is a new quote the younguns are saying)
Lmao yes. People just want to make gender into a taxonomy.
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Reply to comment by cute_spider in Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent by Moonside
What a pleasantly devilish mind!
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Reply to "Post" and "posting" do not have wikipedia articles. Not because they are obscure, but because they are so foundational a concept that it goes overlooked by the encyclopediamasters. Remember to Just Post today by twovests
Posting is a form of everyday resistance that goes beyond the calls for overt resistance - such as the heroic if undercut acts if John Brown - and thus comes with the ability to steadily accumulate the coral reef that will one day breach the bottom of the ship of status quo as it is understood today.