Chapotony Chatano here, internet’s busiest hogposter, and it’s time for another edition of “Let’s Argue”, where we’re on the internet, we accept your hot takes, unpopular opinions, and tough questions, and we struggle sesh over all of them. Leeeeet’s, GO!
Over analysing media is masturbation for bougie college kids
i read theory and i’m about as far from a bougie college kid as you can get
Calling out people you know irl for being racist is hard. I haven’t had any good results from it at all. Just losing friends and making family members like me less. I don’t think it’s made anyone less racist.
It’s worked with people I know online, though. I don’t know why it works online but not irl. Maybe it’s just me.
That’s what I’ve been trying to do, but it hasn’t worked for me. Sometimes they’ll agree with me when I’m calling them out, but then they’ll go right back to saying the same things, like they were only agreeing to get me to stop talking.
Anarchism will always be more popular in america than Communism because Americans have a tremendous distrust of institutions but love rebels/underdog
That’s why I always start by alluding to being an anarchist but then just dump a broad range of theory on them every chance I get. Gotta have a well rounded diet of radicalism.
I tell people I am a KMLMWCC, tell them to read Lenin and Hunger Games, and then do not elaborate further.
Has a 50% winrate so far, in that 1 of 2 people I’ve tried it on haven’t avoided any further contact.
I was actually thinking about the popularity of The Hunger Games as part of my original statement. People like Katniss because she is independent and a fighter; she hates the Capital but doesn’t trust 13 for a second and she is mostly proven right
Yeah I’m a centrist – I think Anarchists and MLs both have plenty of good ideas.
If this website was an actual threat to capital it would have been shut down by now
the idea of a website being a threat to capital is the fucking funniest thing to me. websites don’t change economic systems, fucking PEOPLE do
I think the only frame of reference we have for attempting to shut down a website due to it being a threat to capital would be wikileaks.
This is unbroken ground. I see this as the internet equivalent of starting a newspaper, except the modern newspaper has evolved from Lenin’s time when he wrote about the need to do that and has now become new-media, social media sites being most dominant of all.
I wouldn’t say those were threats to capital-the-system really either. Just the usual threats to money that companies overzealously attacked.
I don’t know if I could ever fully trust an American leftist to care about other countries before their own. I feel the level of America-First brainwashing sticks with you, even if you become a leftist. I’ve seen some shit takes from american leftists about foreign policy for sure.
As a third world leftist, idk why I’m on this site sometimes. This is not a hot take, it’s a top take and it’s fully true. Keep educating them, keep yelling at them to get better etc.
Yeah I try my best to educate. It’s hard cause American history is very simplistic in general, and I find a lot of Americans struggle with more complex histories (like the Balkans, China, etc.) and what to make of it all.
Absolutely true. If you’re a US leftist and your first consideration on candidacy if you still care about that is domestic politics then you’re blind to the fact that US foreign policy A) matters more and B) will affect vastly more people.
The amount of ‘why should I care about x-country, it doesn’t affect me’-takes I’ve seen on this website is way too damn high.
Even if there might be some truth to that statement, it is emblematic of a typically American disinterest in understanding others. The rest of the world certainly cannot afford to be disinterested in the US.
