Bomb cyclone is what my roommate called it when he hotboxed his bedroom with the Dyson bladeless fan on max

Actually legendary bit idea

The United States of America has officially recognized the latest loser of the Venezuelan election as the president-elect

I see too many chuds using this react I don’t want it here

If these are the same people that were saying “Rhodesia will never die” then they should go ask Rhodesia to pay them

New Jersey

Hopefully that entire DPRK military sized NYPD budget went towards missile defense

The editor-in-chief of this magazine is a known anti-China ghoul. Safe to take this news with an ocean full of salt until you see something reputable corroborating it

Why does America want Russia to use nukes so badly?

Which includes their most important trade partner weathering 3 recessions in the same period of time

I think that this then would fall under the points you made earlier about keeping a list of spaces we are actively working on spreading agitprop material, and then having reports back on how they went

A lot of thought went into this idea and I appreciate it. I am not 100% sure how possible that would be/the amount of work it would take, but it is certainly a good idea to help be ready for upcoming events. I will try to look further into this to gauge!

As for timing of [Major Event] Effortpost Megathreads in the future like the one I posted for the election, if it is something that can be anticipated and has a set date, there is no reason to not have that posted preemptively and ready to go. I hadn’t even considered that, so if that thread is one of the directions we decide to go in the future, I will be making sure it is up ahead of time so long as it meets the (TBD) criteria of major event.

I think your diseulogy idea is funny but would have to be very focused on actual analysis and not just shitting on somebody. Maybe an idea for when we are in a period of time of decades that nothing has happened and can give users a good outlet for effortposting and analysis.

Yep, I think im in the same camp regarding a companion post specifically only for deeper discussion of the news Megathread. No need to take away from the good things happening over there.

As for large news events, I suppose it’s a matter of figuring out what that threshold should be. I think any major election anywhere in the world probably fits the bill. Beyond that I have trouble gauging where the line should be drawn for something to be considered major enough because I am so autistic and news-poisoned that everything feels worth discussion

You mean like an archive style collection dedicated to individual topics?

That looks like the perfect amount of green onion for one bowl of egg noodle soup

All good ideas. I think we certainly have the ability to organize non-online action without risking being doxxed or something of the like. Standing good causes like food banks and Zapatista coffee, etc. are all good ideas. We could probably even boost the net amount of aid delivered by dropping a weekly aid request for very simple things like orderable refreshments for strikers on a picket line, which go a very long way and majorly boost morale, though I feel that this is something that belongs more in c/mutual_aid, especially with the part about trying to organize Hexbears to contribute actual labor.

An agitprop crossposting reference is definitely something we should consider. It would be easy to compile a list of left/left-adjacent communities to make sure Hexbear posts get delivered there in higher numbers.

A current events thread running parallel to the news Megathread should also be considered. Agitprop’s effectiveness really drops off if it isn’t being seen when these issues are being discussed in the first place and people are starting to form opinions.

I think your final two points can be combined to work more effectively. The “contest” can essentially be who has taking agitprop content from Hexbear and gotten the most engagement on it elsewhere, which also acts as a report back on its effectiveness and encourages spread of agitprop to wider reaching communities.

I really like the first half of this post and have thought a lot about it in the past. Because of our wealth of amazing users on this site we really do have all of the tools at our disposal to actually produce high quality agitprop for dissemination. My initial thoughts on this are that it’s something that could be run alongside the News Megathread in order to have ready-made agitprop for stories currently in the spotlight (both on Hexbear but also elsewhere)

Regarding AI, I’ll leave that up for community discussion and would like to see things remain civil. It can be a very divisive topic and I tend to find myself on the side of we have real people to produce real intelligence, while AI steals from others doing the same for the benefit of large companies who own the tech.

It’s very frustrating to watch it unfurl in real time when literally it’s so ubiquitous in leftist groups that it’s meme tier tip of the iceberg levels of understanding leftists, AND WE MAKE FUN OF IT ON HERE ALL OF THE TIME!!!