I know it was originally a spin off of the chapotraphouse subreddit but I don’t know much else. Is it it still affiliated with the podcast? How has it grown etc? Why was the subreddit closed etc.
Give me the lore, baby
i absolutely did not think we were gonna get banned until we did. I was making john brown post and saying BAN US YOU COWARDS. and then they DID.
One upon a time Vladimir Lenin made love to a bear from the deepth of Siberia’s forest. Nine months later a bear cub was born but this was no ordinary bear, this was the hexagonal bear promised in many prophecies, the bear who will lead the vanguard of posters to victory in the coming great proletarian revolution.
I woke up, I found her, that’s all I know.
You forgot the part where beatnick made the post that called the discord server the literal vanguard lmao
Discord had some rows and people got antsy, beatnik made a post where the only thing I remember was calling the discord ark after the reddit ban the literal vanguard and something like comparing this to bolsheviki in exile or something, quite the exaggeration and it coincided with banning what would later become the Kerryposters I think
In the beggining there was a dope ass bear
The sub started as an unofficial sub for the pod. Over time it became a focal point for the " dirtbag left", unapologetically hostile and uncivil leftists who wnated to name names and apply blame where it belonged instead of playing the normal civility politics game. It was initially boosted by hope for the bernie campaign and then became a kind of maladaptive group therapy thing.
The sub culture was “all posting is good posting” and we posted a lot. We were the second or third most active sub by post velocity, in roughly the same bracket as the nba sub with millions of members. That made the sub extremely visible beyond it’s membership numbers. We also gained a notorious reputation for being bernie bros when the dems were going hard on discrediting bernie’s street level movement.
And when people would come on to the sub to complain at us we’d bully them ruthlessly.
All of this was embarassing to reddit. One of the far and away most active subs were a bunch of cruel leftist assholes who loudly supported bernie and were mean to everyone. Spez is a nazi, reddit is a psyop, and libs and fash alike are delicate in the face of critique, so we became the specter haunting reddit.
Seriously people were so fucking mad the subexisted. We were constantly accused of brigading although i don’t think we did much. The usual tactic was to @ shitheads to lure them in to the cth sub and then crucify them.
Evetually the admins quarantined the sub on some bullshit excuse, along with most of the other left subs. But that wasn’t enough to stop the red and black menace, so when /r/thedonald finally did enough terrorism to force reddit’s hand they banned all the left subs at the same time on bs pretenses.
That’s what eventually spurred the creation of this site.
so when /r/thedonald finally did enough terrorism to force reddit’s hand they banned all the left subs at the same time on bs pretenses.
IIRC; The Donald was closed months before that by the TheDonald mods, since they moved to their own Reddit spinoff. You could only view posts, but not publish anything. So it was the opposite, they closed the lefty subs and then closed the inactive TheDonald to look evenhanded.
