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badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
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- This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
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Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
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"Nothing ever happens" is more of like a meta-commentary on how the neoliberal order in place since the collapse of the USSR has seemingly been invincible, despite a million different potentially earth-shattering events that happen to it. Each time, it's managed to absorb the change and then spit out more of the same. Given that the very architects of that neoliberal order (the United States) are currently the ones mounting a contest to it, the days of "nothing ever happens" are now solidly in the past. We are, unfortunately, in the time of "things happen."
That said there is a lot of cynicism around the fact that we in the West, and communists/anarchists in particular, have so little agency to effect these outcomes that we are indeed merely spectating. Probably intensified by the fact that this is a shitposting meme forum rather than a place to organise active resistance or community.
You're absolutely right, the nature of this forum doesn't help. Though I will quickly beat the Organizing Happens Offline drum again.
And I agree that we're squarely outside of neoliberalism's ability to metabolize change into more of the same. But among the frustrating parts of being in the US, we are absolutely gonna talk as though we're still in that era. Each new event is going to be met with, "can't wait till the Trump aberration is over!"; internationally, "Why must [The Other] insist on threatening international rules and norms?!"; and the ultimate catch all, "Why can't [currentYear] just end already?"
Political discourse in the United States is forever frozen in 2016. It will always be 2016.