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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.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
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.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.
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there are a significant number of people, not all western, who at least claim to have read theory but use "bourgeois" and "proletarian" entirely incorrectly
if this hypothetical person who has not read any theory at all is "corrected" by one of these people how are they to know that what they are being told is incorrect?
A good tipoff is when the alleged theory-enjoyer starts out with, "so first of all, wiping your ass is bourgeois, so write that one down..."
...but yeah, there's some really fucking bad signal-to-noise ratio out there once you factor in social media (e.g., Twitch streamers, a good chunk of BreadTube, etc.) and people who consume it as gospel.
Virtually all of so-called BreadTube is trash and the remainder that isn't doesn't really deal all that much with political theory in any unified manner (e.g. Shaun).
It's an expected result of using a capitalist media platform to criticize capitalism and capitalist media
Which is another reason that people need to READ for themselves, lol.
Also lol @ OOP with the "I studied law and I don't read, and telling AmeriKKKan$ to read is undeconstructed ivory tower elitism ackshually" schtick. If my unmedicated ADHD multiple-time-college-dropout ass can handle Graeber and Cockshott, I don't have all that much sympathy. Obviously no one (well, maybe one or two posters here) means "go out and read all three volumes of Capital in the original German in one sitting," but good fucking God, outside of a very small handful of internet personalities (Luna Oi! comes to mind), there aren't that many trustworthy content creators/presenters/whatever you want to call them.
I often wonder why people feel comfortable saying such things out loud, lol. Bordering on "literacy is bourgeois" here.
UwU?
OwO *notices How the World Works*
Thank you!
I'm gonna co...ntinue reading
Yeah, this is why people should read theory.