Missing those days of the old subreddit when I was just getting engaged in lefty politics. That sub was so uplifting. So many detailed analyses that I wish I saved. So many hilarious posts that always filled me with joy. Before I found the old sub I thought leftists were humorless assholes but r/cth really brought me along and cemented myself as a leftist.
I can’t exactly pin what’s different here but the whole vibe is off. I really wish it could capture the spirit of the old place but I’m not so sure. I know I’m not the most prolific poster but I’ve given this place 6-7 months and I’m not certain whether I want to continue or not. I’ll admit, I got caught up in the GME hype. Maybe because I seriously thought my life would materially improve at least slightly. I’m done with that stocks shit for right now. The split that happened on the site as a result of it was pretty bad. I really hope we can all do better, especially at lashing out at each other.
If you’re from the old sub who’s been along for the ride I thank you from the bottom of my heart. My life is much richer thanks to you all of you.
We had hope that electoralism could work and there was a golden path that led to president sanders and a better world.
We aren’t the same people and twitter isn’t the same river.
do you view the sanders campaign as “being the last off-ramp to fascism” now in retrospect?
I’ve only been a member of the community after the sub was banned so I’m asking out of curiosity. most comrades here/now see Bernie as being a lib who is to be respected, but I saw him as something much more back then. now with all the AOC good/bad posts, idk how you people see lib politicians anymore.
I think I’ve certainly gotten more aware of the cons of reforming a corrupt system since then. like it might iron out the insane contradictions, but it also might give more life to an empire that’s a net negative for the world.
shit does look bleak tho.
I think my own perception is that the highway itself is fascist, and Bernie was the last off-ramp in sight, and now we’re in the car trapped going in a direction that we all know will end in disaster but we can’t turn around.
the whole vibe is off.
pretty much how I’ve felt about everything in life since last March
Yeah, looking through the memes I had saved from the sub, I can say that the current bits are higher quality on average. The sub was mostly just bernie posting at the end.
Bernie posting with some “Where did this bring you, back to me :lenin-pensive:” posting every time Bernie got ratfucked or did something liberal. I think that the sub was starting to get better after Corbyn lost but then again we might have just been seeing electoralists become doomers (and doomerism is liberalism). I don’t think we should write this project off just because it will never be like the old sub, that was probably never an option.
Yeah, there definitely is something missing here. Not really sure what, but it’s a different vibe for sure.
The missing bit is fun. There just isn’t as much fun to be had here as there was on the old sub. That being said, the fun factor has increased ever since the start of the site.
Oh hell yeah.
I remember getting a one week sitewide suspension from r*ddit for asking some random chud that wandered into CTH “Who hurt you? Wanna talk about it?”
You can’t get that kind of entertainment on here.
i think one of the biggest reasons we can’t do that is because when chuds come here they’re not here to engage in the same way they did back on r*ddit. they come here specifically to annoy us and be the terrible people that they are. at least back on r*ddit there were ones who didn’t have a clue what they were getting into, or the ones that were proselytizing at us (lol) or arguing
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