Much of the original population of chapo/hexbear were people who were hyped for bernie 10 years ago before witnessing what electoral politics does to the left, and how even mild reforms got ratfucked. That's why this thread exists - it's the same visceral disgust that (I think) lead to the creation of this site.

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

but then again, in this thread we are still discussing the merit of electing democrats. it doesn't seem that there was a broad shift leftward towards more radical/coherent politics.

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

We're discussing the merits of whether it's good leftism to say you'd work with Nazis too!

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago

It was less the chapotraphouse hosts being pro-Bernie and more that in that reddit space I came in contact with communist theory at all and heard comrades (especially from the global south) speak for the first time.

In the end, scientific socialism and dialectical materialism were the only thing that made the world make sense. Not really hope for a fairy godmother swinging her magical electoral wand to make everything good. Even though I still hoped that they it could be.