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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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Eye-opening read, thanks! I'm way too ignorant to comment on the main thrust, so -
I found it useful (if a big bummer, far from my first) to learn about Orwell. I only read him as a kid, could never have noticed all that, and honestly would have likely just reread uncritically, given the impact those books made on me as a youth. Cryptofascist pig, and that's just for starters, neat!
And then the stuff summed up by this pair of lines, woof. Finally helped me understand something I've noticed forever, seen discussed plenty too, but could never quite put my finger on, causally (and I certainly attributed the phenomena and my confusion to some vague, hand-wavy "brainwashing", as per the essay). Probably needs the preceding material to be impactful/explanatory:
Can't wait to hammer friends and family with that shit at Thanksgiving! (tongue-in-cheek, I promise, I didn't entirely miss the point lol)