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Breadtube if it didn't suck.

Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

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There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.

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[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One thing I often think about is that many people feel dejected from a system because they don’t even get the bare minimum rewards they’re told they will get if they participate. The American dream specifically is one of those things that you’re told that if you do what you’re supposed to do. You are entitled to a certain package of goods and services and even a little of status.

I genuinely truly believe that a significant amount of new leftists (young and old, black and white, and all the other cliché binaries) simply choose leftist thought because it at very least offers them a truth. An often unpleasant truth, but in a world of lies, it is something of value. Also a true that makes sense on its face and makes more sense the deeper you engage with it.

Leftist thought (just about any leftist -ism) offers an understanding of reality and a possible future. the American dream sells a false past that you can never obtain, and to be more honest its obtainment was at the cost of others not getting it as well.

I also genuinely truly believe that if the American dream were more obtainable, a good amount of people would remain in the neoliberal quadrant. of course neoliberalism can’t deliver this goods and services because it’s built on a lie, and because of that I blame them for creating the conditions of their downfall. I hate the conservative, and I loathe the neoliberal.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm anecdotally, leftist thought makes actual sense to me and has real solutions to problems that make liberals, neocons and others babble incoherently about the econimal or w/e.

Lib explaining why not everyone is allowed to have homes: morshupls

Marxist analysis (and all the lil Marxist successor schools of thought) seem to be the only analysis that makes any kind of sense. It's like lifting the veil, or putting on the shades, glasses-on it's horrible and touching grass hurts now cause western "society" is so fucked, but it's better to know than just live in a vague fog of "shit sucks". At least I know there are potential solutions now, xi-plz

Marxist analysis (and all the lil Marxist successor schools of thought) seem to be the only analysis that makes any kind of sense. It's like lifting the veil, or putting on the shades, it's horrible

Exactly! You feel me