Like many of you, I came to hexbear from the r/chapotraphouse days. I feel almost like there's some oral history here we stand a risk of losing, maybe it's been retold in some megathread somewhere of how much shitposting went down, or a meme archive somewhere (link me!).

Leans back in rocking chair Oh, those were the glory days!! I fall backwards out of chair and die

For all its flaws, the election shitpost fuckery on r/CTH was some of the most fun I've ever had on the goddamn internet. And I've been around, ye post-dialup whipper-snappers.

I did not know jack or shit about leftist ideology beforehand, found CTH via some insane post that made it to r/all, and had a grand fucking time dunking on the relentless deluge of dumbass hillary-stan types and watching the other dunks. Plus I learned a lot. All the dumbass rhetoric that does not hold up under simple scrutiny would keep showing up & get utterly destroyed. It was so goddamn cathartic.

Is there anywhere that seems likely to happen again in the fall? Even in a lesser form? With reddit stomping on the "main" leftist subreddit I feel like dems & leftists come into direct contact a lot less on the internet. Twitter squabbles just don't cut it the way an extended back-and-forth would. Even over here in the lemmy verse, defederation reduces contact & thus fun garbage fights. Sighs wistfully

I have a friend who is a good person overall but really buys into the "real life is becoming Idiocracy" bit. I was frustrated, because I'm not the best real-time arguer so I don't think I did a good job of expressing why the movie is disgusting trash.

I attempted to talk about how it blames people instead of systems, and how it's an awful eugenics narrative. But we quickly got into a rabbit hole about whether intelligence can be passed on genetically or not and if that matters, and other dumb topics that went nowhere.

What's a concise and offline-compatible way of explaining why Idiocracy is bad & decent people should find it gross?