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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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Hell yeah. Buy the dip! Reddit atheism comeback! “Lol fedora” won’t work this time!
In all seriousness, I am hoping we lay down some ground rules:
No islamophobia. Don’t do the CIA’s job for them.
Actually build a community around this beyond dunking on chuds. These MFs are pipelineable. (I mean duh, socialism was mentioned.)
Relentlessly mock chuds and call them stupid. Don’t bother with pointing out their cruelty because people like cruel. Debunk some of this bullshit on your own channels and platforms in the most dunking way, and work to reduce hogs to little more than a caricature.
Please, can we actually do some more good of our own this time around? Yeah, some of the r/atheism donations back in the early 2010s were kind of cringe, but that cringe was worth it to actually use this movement for good.
A lot of people don't like cruelty. I think only talking about cruelty is not really a winning battle, but it's still worth pointing out here and there, e.g. how abortion bans don't really lower the number of abortions of viable fetuses, they just cause women immense suffering and sometimes death because people seek out backalley abortions or aren't able to get proper medical attention for ectopic pregnancies, etc.
There are also sickos who love cruelty, but don't let their loudness make you think they hold a monopoly on public opinion. There really are people who tell themselves that people aren't being abused or don't comprehend the real magnitude of suffering or, in some cases, genuinely are just misinformed, and it's worth trying to help those people.
Incidentally, I don't think it's terribly important to do outreach to genuine sickos (which includes every reactionary public figure), but we should also encourage the more bog-standard reactionaries to develop a better outlook, which usually requires some level of empathy with the actual problems they face even as we firmly reject absurd narratives they parrot (e.g. "Do you think trans people are the reason your rent is too high?"). A lot of people on this site used to be chuds, and at least in some cases having people actually talk to them and not only abuse them was helpful in reforming.