this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
0 points (NaN% liked)

askchapo

23013 readers
131 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

  1. Posts must ask a question.

  2. If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.

  3. Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.

  4. Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net
replaceable@hexbear.net
VILenin@hexbear.net
EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net
SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net
ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net
khizuo@hexbear.net
Sulvy@hexbear.net
0
Where's the left wing pipeline start these days? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago by Owl@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

My friend went from doing nothing politically to trying to go to a different useless lib protest every week. Which, hey, that's not nothing, great. But I'd like to get her thinking about why none of this does anything and what actually needs to be done, before that burns her out and she goes back to brunch.

Philosophy Tube posts once in a blue moon, Chapo has lost all its cultural relevance, and y'all can't shut up about Stalin. What do I casually recommend to someone these days?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Me trying to explain leftism to an American: ok so imagine slop

You could try a couple movies like Sorry to Bother You, Battle of Algiers, or something like RRR. They're fun and show a different way to do politics that isn't the ballot. Show her Blowback if she likes history (season 3 + watching Parasite and try to incept her into realizing Parasite is about the Korean war and it supports the communists?). I'm a Virgo is a pretty good show that blasts communist propaganda in the viewer's face in a very easily digestible way, it spells out some basic points that can get you started to introduce big ideas, kinda like a treat version of reading Lenin.