HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them]

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  • I wonder how sustainable it is when the person in the position only acts in self-interest. The paradox there is that the chair is not the actual position of power past a certain extent. It’s also a burden because its existence relies on service to the class, not one participant of the class. So being self-interested gets you there with the promises of opportunities to enrich yourself but you get stuck because it necessitates enriching others as well. Someone like Trump can’t do that. Therefore it’s not a stable arrangement. He can end terms but he won’t last long anyways.

    You really need an Obama to make no term limits work. Someone who plays for the team and navigate that fine line between the class and their own vanity.











  • I started using reddit around 2013-2014. I pretty much immediately gravitated to places like r/top_minds as I still had a bit of the deboonking spirit in me from the early aughts. I also liked the other reddit critique subs. I never got into the podcast when it started, I avoided it. I also avoided the sub. It wasn’t until 2019 that I started actually listening to the podcast. Of course the sub got removed. I was part of a CTH discord that sucked pretty bad and I wanted a new place. Reddit sucked. I heard about chapo.chat about a month after it started.

    I stayed because it was a great reddit replacement and I felt way more comfortable posting here than anywhere else. I have gotten to watch the site grow and change. I have changed a bit too.






  • I’ve seen toxicity on places like reddit because reddit is a place where you’re not allowed to draw a connection between the state of the world and capitalism. You are allowed to blame it on individuals being too stupid or too poor. I’ve also seen the biggest dunk cultures in the trans and vegan communities here. And you know what? It’s good. Being poor or disenfranchised doesn’t give you license to be a bigot or a murderer. In fact, this is like the vegan struggle session where we were told that veganism for rich white people who make fun of poor indigenous peoples for basic survival.

    The toxicity thing doesn’t happen when people correctly draw conclusions that there is an organizational problem with society and while it’s not the fault of individual randos, they sure as shit don’t get to exist in a vacuum at the expense of vulnerable people.