I look better as a girl than I ever did as a guy. I was a cargo shorts wearing skinnyfat jawlet weirdo with in-grown facial hair and disheveled head hair. Now Im attractive enough that I attracted a man who is an amateur athlete who has visible muscles and a strong jawline. I was never able to be a man like him, so now I have to be a sex toy to these men.
I think it's a stupid SA joke (iirc most of Chapo are ex-goons) that people used to post to piss the mods off - something along the lines of 'wow there's a frontpage?'.
That's not surprising, the only guy I know who used to browse SA is insufferable as hell and acted like SA was some secret place that only elite members of the internet knew about when an account cost like $5
Any forum with a buy-in immediately becomes some weird-ass secret club. I'd say it keeps dumbasses to a minimum, but given that SA is filled with dumbasses paying to give each other red text titles over stupid drama...
Pretty much, save SA raiding Reddit until the mods finally realized that pedoshit on their boards is dumb. SRS also gets cumskins shaking at the mere mention.
And even if that's not the case, between the various members, you have them making rape jokes(including, on one occasion, making a rape joke about a specific person's rape, directly to that person, and not only never apologizing but flat out lying about it), semi-frequent racism(Including going after a black DSA elected rep for not calling out racism politely enough), homophobia, ableism, regular mysoginistic comments, they pal around with TERFs and sexual abusers&Harassers, they pal around with actual fuckin' nazis(and, fun fats, one of their besties from the sister podcast Cumtown is mates with Weev), declaring that all disabled DSA members are wreckers and cops(Ironically, while badly misusing a section of a socialist essay about popular comrades often being held up above good, hardworking comrades, often at the latter's expense), used other people's mental health to try and discredit and defame them, written columns about how you shouldn't get racists fired because it's bad class solidarity and you should politely pull them aside and have a quiet, polite talk to them about it, hosted Neo-Nazi open Mic nights so they could rub shoulders with quasi-celebrities. And that's just what I can remember off the top of my head, there's still more.
It's just a bunch of rich, privileged white kids, who came from wealth and privilege and have never known anything but, growing richer by being edgy reactionary dickheads with a psudeo-socialist twist. They are absolute peak Capital-W White Social Justice, in a way that puts other White Social justice luminaries like Lena Dunham or Amy Schumer to shame.
They're also the prime example that Ghazi - and many other left-wing spaces - will put up with literally any bigoted and stupid shit you do and still hold you up as a champion of social justice, as long as you're popular and tell them what they want to hear.
Holy shit. I cannot imagine caring this much about a dumb left podcast.
Later on in the thread:
I don't think they drag her down(or that she drags them up, presumably kicking and screaming) but I also think Natalie needs to put a bit more thought into who she pals around with. When it was just Jessie Singal, I could shrug and go "hey, she's just taking advantage of his platform, but she's clearly learned from the backlash not to have any truck with people like that" - but this kinda shows she didn't.
If it was wrong, I think that's a murkier discussion. I think it's a poor choice, I would have refused in her position, but I'm hardly the Grand Arbiter of choices. I don't like it - but I'm not going to say absolutely that it was wrong. Personally, I'm writing this one down as "Criticize the mistake, remember it as the second time she's done something like this, see how the situation goes in future." I'm not going to stop watching her videos, or start decrying her as a content creator, but I'm definitely thinking that the next time something like this happens, I'll have to reconsider.
That said - I maintain that I've lost some respect for her over this. Their problematic behavior is well known, and trivial to find out about. I don't know, I just expect more of her than palling around with those kinds of asshole. Especially when she's shown herself to be quite aware of the problematic behavior on the left, and how it needs to be called out.
Everyone on the left talks like this now and it makes me want to put a nail gun to my head.
Sub was obviously started for the podcast, then became a refuge for more level headed left leaning folk (when people were getting banned left and right for catgirls, ableism, etc. you know the drill). Never really paid much attention to it so no idea how it got so shit.
Thank God. I've been seeing so much positive shit CTH here and other places on the internet lately and I felt like I was taking crazy pills. Chapo is the definition of privileged white kids leveraging a popular cause for $$$. I listened to a few episodes and found it baffling that so many people think their kind of smug, glib cynicism is somehow important or revolutionary.
I do most days, but I take the occasional break. As much as I want to wring Ghazi's collective neck on a semi-regular basis for the dumb shit we sometimes(okay, regularly) do, there's good people here, and the sub generally pushes in the right direction. Plus, I've learned a lot here, and I like to think even taught some other people stuff, unlikely as it is.
It's like a chef's salad, like most large groups of people in social justice circles - there's some good, some bad, all mixed in together all with dressing of collective anger and hopefulness. You can't really separate them out to only have the one, gotta take the good with the bad, I suppose.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-11-20
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1 iansmith223 2018-11-20
Who's contrapoints?
1 LittleBittyBigJohn 2018-11-20
Irrelevant left wing youtuber
1 leva549 2018-11-20
Are there any relevant ones?
1 LittleBittyBigJohn 2018-11-20
only relevant youtube content is gopro death videos ripped from liveleak
1 Snowayne2 2018-11-20
With the most centrist takes of any political youtuber tbf.
1 Maltese_Knight 2018-11-20
A tranny with the most irritating attempt at sounding like a woman.
1 transgirltradwife 2018-11-20
Well unlike me, she actually tries lol.
1 gumble212 2018-11-20
That's gonna be a yikes from me dawg
1 transgirltradwife 2018-11-20
"a yikes from me dawg"
1 gumble212 2018-11-20
disheveledmanindress.jpeg
1 transgirltradwife 2018-11-20
I look better as a girl than I ever did as a guy. I was a cargo shorts wearing skinnyfat jawlet weirdo with in-grown facial hair and disheveled head hair. Now Im attractive enough that I attracted a man who is an amateur athlete who has visible muscles and a strong jawline. I was never able to be a man like him, so now I have to be a sex toy to these men.
1 gumble212 2018-11-20
ok
1 definibusmalorum 2018-11-20
Where did you find this? I love it.
1 RyuunDragon 2018-11-20
It's okay, she's one of the few cool trannies on reddit.
1 Inceltiers 2018-11-20
Pls don’t bully them
They still haven’t posted bussy
1 Maltese_Knight 2018-11-20
gross.
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1 wisty 2018-11-20
Imagine a left-wing Jordan Peterson drunk, in drag.
1 pickyypicnic 2018-11-20
think the majority of people on CTH share this sentiment
1 JayrassicPark 2018-11-20
I think it's a stupid SA joke (iirc most of Chapo are ex-goons) that people used to post to piss the mods off - something along the lines of 'wow there's a frontpage?'.
1 knigpin 2018-11-20
That's not surprising, the only guy I know who used to browse SA is insufferable as hell and acted like SA was some secret place that only elite members of the internet knew about when an account cost like $5
1 JayrassicPark 2018-11-20
Any forum with a buy-in immediately becomes some weird-ass secret club. I'd say it keeps dumbasses to a minimum, but given that SA is filled with dumbasses paying to give each other red text titles over stupid drama...
1 kokkelis32145 2018-11-20
a trivial paygate does filter people, yes, but SA is exactly what you get when you filter for people who would unironically pay for an internet forum
1 NormanImmanuel 2018-11-20
>iirc most of Chapo are ex-goons
Can every single bad internet thing be traced back to goons?
1 JayrassicPark 2018-11-20
Pretty much, save SA raiding Reddit until the mods finally realized that pedoshit on their boards is dumb. SRS also gets cumskins shaking at the mere mention.
1 NormanImmanuel 2018-11-20
Mayos shake at the mere mention of anything, fragility is in their nature.
SRS is still a net negative, even if it contributed to the creation of drama.
1 pickyypicnic 2018-11-20
puts on they live glasses
1 headasplodes 2018-11-20
I really just hate the way ghazi talks. I hate it so much
1 brocioli 2018-11-20
This is good, and it’s good sweaty
1 expesh 2018-11-20
Let's unpack this
1 westofthetracks 2018-11-20
if only this were still true
1 seshfan2 2018-11-20
Holy shit. I cannot imagine caring this much about a dumb left podcast.
Later on in the thread:
Everyone on the left talks like this now and it makes me want to put a nail gun to my head.
1 LongPostBot 2018-11-20
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1 ToasterParodyAccount 2018-11-20
I was just going to quote that comment. Pal around with TERFs lmao. Chapo is the most performatively anti-TERF sub on reddit. More than AskTrans.
1 itsCaffeine 2018-11-20
Can’t say I disagree.
1 transgirltradwife 2018-11-20
OMG Ghazi is making me side with fucking CTH on this holy shit.
1 OnePercentOfMonster 2018-11-20
what year is it
these sad ass 30 year old boomers still talking about milo and shit, fucking hell
1 leva549 2018-11-20
I actually listened to this podcast. It was surprisingly normal. I wonder why the subreddit is so retarded.
1 Stopwatch064 2018-11-20
Sub was obviously started for the podcast, then became a refuge for more level headed left leaning folk (when people were getting banned left and right for catgirls, ableism, etc. you know the drill). Never really paid much attention to it so no idea how it got so shit.
1 Watermark03 2018-11-20
You can say retard there
Its probably the only specifically left wing sub where that's allowed
1 MAMStoic 2018-11-20
I guess but depending on the thread you'll get pilloried for using "ableist slur" and downvoted heavily.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-11-20
You actually can't really say retard they're unless you want a shit storm to happen. You won't get banned though, you are right.
1 westofthetracks 2018-11-20
i mean this is all the more reason as far as im concerned
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-11-20
For you and me, absolutely agreed.
1 captainpriapism 2018-11-20
lol look at a photo of the guys that do the podcast
1 ToasterParodyAccount 2018-11-20
Poor Jesse, no matter how many times you chanted "TERFs are awful" you still couldn't prevent becoming TERF #1.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-11-20
Put that on their tombstone
1 Inceltiers 2018-11-20
Fucking hell anyone that thinks LE DIRT BAG LEFTIST is gunna be a chapotard
1 jewdanksdad 2018-11-20
Lol, they believe their sub has good people...