Highly upvoted Chapo post refers to several new members of Congress as "socialist." This causes some unrest across the sub as succdems duke it out with antireformist tankies.
1 2019-01-03 by want-dick-in-butt-xd
Note: bolded hyperlinks are drama chains whose last major post was less than 30 minutes ago as of me reading them
As some of you may know and some of you may not, ChapoTrapHouse doesn't really have a single ideological tilt to it. Much of it is succdems but there are tankies as well, and they clash sometimes.
Yesterday afternoon, this post was made. This picture depicts 6 incoming members of Congress, some of whom like to call themselves "socialist," especially AOC. Of course, since they got elected in the United States, they're obviously not socialists. This angers the tankie part of the sub and the succdem brigade comes out to defend their POC slay kweenz.
Drama in the post:
In response, some other posts were made which hit the front page:
Drama in these posts:
156 comments
1 MikeStoklasaAlcohol 2019-01-03
I like this post. It's very well organized.
1 want-dick-in-butt-xd 2019-01-03
i like you bb
1 MikeStoklasaAlcohol 2019-01-03
Life-fuel
1 El_Guero_Alto 2019-01-03
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1 MehmedIIDidNoWrong 2019-01-03
🤮🤮🤮
1 Seattle_Bussy_Lmao 2019-01-03
Agreed.
1 scatmunchies 2019-01-03
If anyone is going to keep the left from being a force in American politics, it’s the left. Good to see the circular firing squad getting warmed up already.
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2019-01-03
As a member of the right who is ready to toss Mitt Romey off a tall building, upon self reflection, we are all super fucked. Mayocide now, just end it.
1 Shalabadoo 2019-01-03
Pretty hilarious for the "dirtbag left" to devolve into the same "yaaas WoC kween slayyy" type shit it was supposedly formed to oppose. Like every single one of those women other than maybe AOC is a straight up Democrat and even AOC isn't socialist, she's a social democrat. Like Pressley (2nd from the left in that picture) is the exactly the same as the Democrat she replaced, Capuano, with the added irony that Capuano was more progressive than her on war and healthcare, he was one of the only people to vote against the Iraq war and he's supported medicare for all for years, she's hawkish on Syria and was shitting on medicare for all in 2016 and "recently came around". But Chapo celebrates it like it's really a victory for socialism because she throws Kaepernick and BLM a bone in speeches, coincidentally things that don't mean shit from a policy standpoint.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Imagine being such a turbo-autist that you care about the distinction.
1 Shalabadoo 2019-01-03
Social democrats are capitalists who want healthcare, socialists want to nationalize everything and have a planned economy. There's a difference
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
The difference doesn’t matter in the real world. Socialists either behave like social democrats because they want to win elections and realize that actual working-class people don’t give a shit about theoretical discussions about capitalism, or else they stay true to their principles and irrelevant.
1 Shalabadoo 2019-01-03
It's the difference between the Nordic model and Venezuela
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Got it
1 Shalabadoo 2019-01-03
One is a failed state and the other is a successful model
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Okay I’ll give you that.
1 Es_ist_Obst_im_Haus 2019-01-03
The difference does matter in every country that isn't the US.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
It doesn’t matter in Canada, it barely matters in France, the UK has essentially a three-party system with radlibs and demsocs fighting over control of Labour (which will force any Labour government to govern as de facto social democrats), in Germany die Linke will never be anything more than a junior coalition partner, and when actual professed class struggle socialists win as in Greece, it takes like a week before their base starts crying betrayal.
1 Kellere31 2019-01-03
Die Linke are a coalition of communist;socialists and social democrats. They are essiantialy the Chapo of Germany. We do have 3 other real succdem Partys, the Greens and the SPD. But the Greens are more interested in Queen Quotes in the Government than actually helping the poor, and the SPD are a sinking ship and the dirty whore of our conservative coalition Government. So succdems actually matter in Germany.
1 error404brain 2019-01-03
There we call the succdem socialists and the socialists commies, like allah intended.
1 Es_ist_Obst_im_Haus 2019-01-03
Inshallah, brother!
1 Sarge_Ward 2019-01-03
Would you have considered Robert M. La Follette socialist?
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Probably, yeah. Definitely Clarence Darrow and Eugene V. Debbs.
1 Fletch71011 2019-01-03
Ah so socialists are just entirely retarded, got it.
1 Shalabadoo 2019-01-03
Yeah
1 10IphonesIcarlyyyyyy 2019-01-03
There is a massive gulf between the two ideologies though
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
And any socialist who is ideologically pure enough to maintain that gulf consistently is doomed to political irrelevance in the modern United States.
1 10IphonesIcarlyyyyyy 2019-01-03
meanwhile democrats just finally elected a bunch of progressive succ dems and Bernie is still the most popular politician in the country
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Because most Americans only pay attention to politics during election season, and last election season Bernie was all the rage.
1 10IphonesIcarlyyyyyy 2019-01-03
I think I misconstrued what you said earlier. When you were referring to “socialist who is ideologically pure enough” I thought you were referring to social Democrats not Democratic socialists
1 Karmaisforsuckers 2019-01-03
The most popular politician is Obama followed by Biden. Sorry to break your S4P bubble.
1 Ugarit 2019-01-03
There literally isn't. It's a delusional separation maintained only by people that care about the """"importance""" of the word socialism.
1 JoeFalchetto 2019-01-03
Saying that capitalism and socialism are the same thing is an amazing level of radical centrism. Congrats.
1 holditsteady 2019-01-03
Considering all the most popular politicians in America that call themselves democratic socialists are actually social democrats the distinctions pretty retarded
1 Ugarit 2019-01-03
"practical activities and theoretical thought must merge into one and thereby lend the spontaneous working-class movement a Social-Democratic character, for 'Social-Democracy is a combination of the working-class movement with socialism.' "
It's a completely arbitrary word. People have used it in all sorts of ways.
1 10IphonesIcarlyyyyyy 2019-01-03
Yeah an 80 year old quote from a madman with a very specific view of socialism isn't a great example for this. Look into European political history regarding political parties, social-democrats and actual socialists have always been differentiated by party
1 Ugarit 2019-01-03
I kind of trust Stalin to tell me the political mainstream of early 20th century radical socialism tbh
I'm aware. Let me (even more) serious post some history, as I understand, it because I'm sick of this misunderstanding and love being boring.
The Bolshevik party used to be Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) officially. In 1918 Lenin changed the name to Communist party because he didn't want people thinking he was like the other girls. This didn't signify any notable change in ideology, it's just a arbitrary cosmetic change to distinguish from other socialist parties of the day that also had a habit of calling themselves the social-democratic whatever. That's why screeds by early Bolsheviks like the quoted are so funny. They just copy the same rants about how the world needs social-democracy then past the word Communism over social-democracy. In 1916 the distinction between Russian Social-Democrat Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) wasn't one of Marxism so much as it was a belief that one could destroy capitalism through the democratic system piecemeal vs anti-parliamentary party full revolution (vanguardism).
Since Lenin's arbitrary name change people have become obsessed with the word Communism. In the wake of the Russian revolution those aligned with Soviet project and violent socialist revolution tended towards calling themselves communist instead of labour, social-democrat, democratic-socialist, etc. European parliamentary socialists called themselves different to distinguish. But this has only ever been a self enforced trend. Even then the word social-democracy only ever meant: moderate socialist. But how moderate or what socialism even means is not defined under this context. So you just don't know based on the label.
Early "social-democrat" socialist believed mostly in eliminating capitalist whole root by reformism. Later, when this didn't happen, the same parties naturally kept going under ever more moderate missions. At the apex of this trend in the 90s and early 00s many of these parties had become so moderate that they imagined themselves completely split from any socialist current and merely capitalists that like welfare, e.g. Blairite labour. Under this a distinction between social-democracy (capitalist welfarism) and democratic-socialism (welfarism but still long term anti-capitalist) was imagined. I used to believe in this distinction and you can too if you want, but I don't think it's useful these days.
In even more recent history the super moderate socialist/social-democrat parties seemed to have crossed an event horizon in drifting economically right. They've gotten massive backlash and have started collapsing as they are no longer distinguishable from other anti-socialist centrist parties. We see this with the collapse of Blairites, Hollande and the Socialist Party, the fall of the Clinton dynasty, etc. and the rise of Corbyn, Syriza, yellow jackets, etc.
The point is there has never been a written formal theory of distinguishing social-democracy = y, socialism = x. There is no mechanism for distinction. Social-democracy has never been a coherent current in politics with its own distinct non-socialist history. If you think otherwise, you are wrong. Because it's just a vague word a social-democrat might be very moderate or very radical depending on who and when you're talking about.
Stop putting your faith in political labels. They are no replacement for substance. You're only confusing yourself and others by trying to understand politics label first.
1 LongPostBot 2019-01-03
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1 Ugarit 2019-01-03
Fight me
1 10IphonesIcarlyyyyyy 2019-01-03
nigga you really typed all of this shit oh my god. You may be right for all I know but if you think I'm reading all of that you're wrong
1 Siverix 2019-01-03
Socialism is just state capitalism with "the people's" pasted over the "the state's".
1 serialflamingo 2019-01-03
Shut the fuck up bitch.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Bernie Sanders is my daddy and I’ll fight you
1 serialflamingo 2019-01-03
Not white enough for me tbh.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Circumcised Jewdick though
1 CulturalYogurt 2019-01-03
✂️
1 LighthouseToLunar 2019-01-03
Imagine knowing what words mean lol, another libtard owned
1 Kellere31 2019-01-03
1 Prysorra2 2019-01-03
OMG there's a turbo setting??
1 MehmedIIDidNoWrong 2019-01-03
The left: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since 1792.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Rosa Luxemburg was a traitorous sow, and I’m glad Friedrich Ebert killed her.
1 Wegwerfkontobelegt 2019-01-03
To be fair, you have to have a very IQ to understand Death of Stalin
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
I thought of it first.
1 TheLordHighExecu 2019-01-03
Daily reminder that social democrats are the real socialists
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
I got permabanned from r/shitliberalssay for calling Lee Kuan Yew a social democrat and praising him as the most effective socialist leader of all time.
1 SexyTaft 2019-01-03
Umm no sweaty Huey Long was the greatest socialist leader of all time
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
The Memefish
1 Kill_All_Bots_ 2019-01-03
This but unironically.
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-01-03
I used to be in a kind of trip-hop band called The Jews of History once
1 Awayfone 2019-01-03
Socialism was nowhere near the jaws of victory
1 supergauntlet 2019-01-03
I surely hope you don't do this.
1 want-dick-in-butt-xd 2019-01-03
1 supergauntlet 2019-01-03
1 cmakk1012 2019-01-03
sniff
1 El_Guero_Alto 2019-01-03
OH GOD YES! SNIFF SNIFF
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1 Kill_All_Bots_ 2019-01-03
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1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
sniff
pure ideology
muh imperialism
muh Rosa
muh liberals
hog
chud
Did I miss any of their inside memes?
1 Quietus42 2019-01-03
That fucking internet one. Umm, extreme online or something?
1 ubermanwolf 2019-01-03
Very Online
1 Quietus42 2019-01-03
Yeah, that stupid shit.
1 KarlMannheim 2019-01-03
Muh jacobins
1 Warbring3r 2019-01-03
I sub there for the laffs and drama.
1 supergauntlet 2019-01-03
look good on you for being so forward about your kinks but don't most paypigs go on like, wallstreetbets or something
1 Warbring3r 2019-01-03
What’s a paypig? Someone with a job?
1 supergauntlet 2019-01-03
1 Warbring3r 2019-01-03
Oh boy there’s a lot to unpack here
1 Quietus42 2019-01-03
I'm one out of two. Will you unpack me, War bby?
1 aalamb 2019-01-03
Yikes, sweaty.
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
fuck me
thanks for your service
1 DistortedLines 2019-01-03
Omg so fucking baste! Surely we will achieve communism by electing female democrats with slightly darker skin tones.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Rosa deserved it.
And imagine actually wanting to achieve communism.
“Nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” is actually a viable, sustainable economic model, and IDGAF if I’m quoting Mussolini here.
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
it went so great every other time let's do it again!!
inb4 le not real communism
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Again: tankies should just admit that they share their economic model with fascism, and that this economic model has its advantages.
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2019-01-03
They might actually be able to recruit the working class with that kind of rhetoric 🤔
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
I've said this many times. The average working-class American is passively fascist in many ways. I don't think fascism is good, but then I don't think the average working-class American is good either. They need to be ruled over, but the ruling class can't rule effectively unless they understand and occasionally exploit the unwashed masses' prejudices and fears.
1 Awayfone 2019-01-03
No one believes that. r/communism had a thread celebrating stalin and the USSR dedication to the cause
1 l3v1athaN_ 2019-01-03
Different audiences. The chapocels and latestagecapitalism are berniebro socialists (whether they admit it or not) while communism and fullcommunism are unapologetic tankies.
1 Adidas_track_suit 2019-01-03
Post hog ergo Procter hog
1 IllegitimateLiteracy 2019-01-03
Its Schrodinger's Communism.
Every nominally socialist or communist state exists in a super position of being both Capitalist and Socialist.
When you test for a "good" thing the state was Socialist.
When you test for a "bad" thing the state was Capitalist.
1 VapeOnYourNape 2019-01-03
inverse this for the medias reporting on vuvazueala and china
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
the fucking backtracking for "wow Ocasio-Cortez can get it"
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
who the fuck TYPES THIS MUCH
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
chapo gets the wall ree
1 scatmunchies 2019-01-03
Don’t do that to the tigers
1 chunk_o 2019-01-03
was that a stupidpol reference desu?
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
uwu
1 THOT-AUDITOR 2019-01-03
It's endemic to leftists for some reason
1 elaie 2019-01-03
look, it's a known flaw that scientists don't know how to condense language. or relate to other people. you know what? you're making it difficult to be autistic here. 😡 you're really just describing the difficulty of being understood when you're trying to actually change people's mind. no one listens, anyone feels justified if they can find a handful of others to back up their story. NO ONE 😪 is gonna listen to that second meme it's just an attention grab with nothing to say. a phat hurrah. well, well done I guess. you dismantled the economy and sowed widespread panic with blind rage and camaraderie. you really have something to be proud of huh.
1 Siverix 2019-01-03
Social "scientists" maybe.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Autism
1 Seattle_Bussy_Lmao 2019-01-03
Lack of poetry in their lives.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Someone needs a map of meaning
1 The_DHC 2019-01-03
Verily, their souls lack more than honey.
1 headasplodes 2019-01-03
Further proof that men who say women are treated like shit are actually projecting
1 CrosbyStillzandSwag 2019-01-03
This is sooo gross. male sexuality needs to be stamped out.
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
1 darkinard 2019-01-03
This. So much this!
1 10IphonesIcarlyyyyyy 2019-01-03
replace 'male sexuality' with white people please honey thanks xxx
1 blyatman12345 2019-01-03
I would hatefuck her into an ancap tbh
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
You aren’t fooling anyone, babyfucker.
1 blyatman12345 2019-01-03
I bought those kids far and square!
1 NormanImmanuel 2019-01-03
It's literally over for chapocels.
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-01-03
cancel chapocels finally
1 rnjbond 2019-01-03
Imagine apologizing that much for finding a woman attractive.
1 SnapshillBot 2019-01-03
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1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-01-03
Another great thread title: "How to make sure the working class will never vote for you."
1 THOT-AUDITOR 2019-01-03
When these types refer to "working class" it's not blue collar types but the underemployed baristas and such working dead-end retail gigs. Who absolutely vote for them.
1 Karmaisforsuckers 2019-01-03
Chapos think that because you work 20 hours a week during the summer for party money while your parents pay all your expenses make you working class for life.
1 RecallRethuglicans 2019-01-03
That is still work
1 TheBrapthorn 2019-01-03
But its not "Oh god do I take my kid to the hospital or try to explain to the landlord that I won't have all the rent" working class.
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2019-01-03
It's also not "I have a full-time job because I have to pay bills in order to not be homeless" a.k.a. working class.
1 TheBrapthorn 2019-01-03
Yep yep yep
1 RecallRethuglicans 2019-01-03
Except if landlord refers to parents and rent refers to allowance.
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2019-01-03
Sorry kid, part-time funemployed isn't working class
1 BASED_from_phone 2019-01-03
It's only work if you've never actually worked before
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2019-01-03
Hot take, the underemployed aren't working class. It's right there in the name
1 ubermanwolf 2019-01-03
Speak truth to
powerthe lazy.1 rnjbond 2019-01-03
That's what I've never understood. The people on there and LSC aren't laid off coal miners, they're part time baristas who are upset making coffee won't pay for a nice apartment in San Francisco or NYC, while complaining they're expected to smile and talk to customers (aka emotional labor)
1 jwil191 2019-01-03
Same as it ever was, prior to WWI, Marx was the middle class chapocels of Paris to discuss over coffee.
1 KarlMannheim 2019-01-03
But Marxist movements of the day worked for the Interests of underprivileged classes. Now it's like a bunch of upper middle class kids bitching about how hard they have had.
1 UmmahSultan 2019-01-03
Marx himself was infiltrating and subverting labor unions to turn them away from the interests of workers and toward his own.
1 KarlMannheim 2019-01-03
Wut. Tell me more about this buddy.
1 CrosbyStillzandSwag 2019-01-03
This is sooo gross. male sexuality needs to be stamped out.
1 ElonMuskar 2019-01-03
Self-claimed socialists who praise people like latino horse mommy are literally the same shit as self-claimed alt-right tards who praise israel.
Honestly, socialist/communist retards who shit on AOC and alt-right autists who want to nuke Israel are miles ahead of these half-assed retards.
1 TabletopOneironaut 2019-01-03
Thank you for introducing me to the phrase latino horse mommy.
1 SNCommand 2019-01-03
What if you support Israel but do not self identify as alt right?
1 ElonMuskar 2019-01-03
i don't know, what if you like horse mommy and aren't a communist?
1 SNCommand 2019-01-03
You find horses attractive?
1 SpiceAndEvNice 2019-01-03
As an Hispanic, I can't get over how these people actively support a system that has proven to be nothing more than a craddle of corruption and failure in Latin America.
1 Kellere31 2019-01-03
Failure and Spaniards are like Commies and purging themselves, inseparable.
1 aqouta 2019-01-03
Retarded is a ideological tilt thay encompasses all these lefties.
1 El_Guero_Alto 2019-01-03
So Chapotraphouse is in fact a group of retarded special ed lolcows fight with one another at recess.
Just as I imagined them
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Of course tankies and social democrats are gonna fight lol. They’re the only people on the left who have actual goals for society and historical accomplishments to boast of.
1 aqouta 2019-01-03
Hiw embarrassing for the non-radical-centrists.
1 dootwthesickness_II 2019-01-03
Do you mean radical non-centrists?
1 le_epic_xd 2019-01-03
Ahhh. Classic political suicide.
1 10IphonesIcarlyyyyyy 2019-01-03
Reminder that the DSA is a clique for 'woke' rich white kids and tranny's that have 0 interest in actually winning or getting anything accomplished, they just want to sit around in their cool kid club and talk about how smart they are for reading marx and shit
1 serialflamingo 2019-01-03
Communism was the chuds we cancelled along the way.
1 Seattle_Bussy_Lmao 2019-01-03
Lotta Brooklyn Jews, too.
1 Quietus42 2019-01-03
I'll give the DSA of my area some credit. They actually came out this last election, played nice with the liberals and neoliberals, and knocked on doors and shit. You know, real fucking praxis.
I have no idea if DSA anywhere else is worth a damn, though.
1 rnjbond 2019-01-03
Great effort post, I hope this stays stickied for a while before lawlz comes in and puts up more garbage
1 want-dick-in-butt-xd 2019-01-03
Let me tell you this-- MasterLawlz is one of the most retarded, autistic, unfunny moderators you'll ever meet, and even as an opponent of eugenics it appalls me that God would allow such a vile, festering "man" to exist.
1 Kellere31 2019-01-03
Snappy Quote pls.
1 Awayfone 2019-01-03
At least finally admitting the left is facist. Baby steps
1 KarlMannheim 2019-01-03
Meh chapocels don't have necessary sanity left to support a decent political movement. A combination of gender dysphoria and harmones is probably driving them nuts.
1 MrGigantic 2019-01-03
No transwomen? Yikes, a bit cis-heteronormative dontcha think?