Jesus fucking christ you guys make the original subreddit look like the fucking red army. I have never met a group of people more contemptible than you online in my life. it's like all of the worst posters from the subreddit teamed up to make the worst forum humanly possible. you have no sense of humor, you can't post for shit, all of your attempts at memes are pathetic. this place is so toxic, none of you guys like anything, the only things you people "like" you like because it pisses other people off. we're running out of left communities online and you just fucked up one of the few ones left. all of the admins are worms. Imagine if the worst mods on reddit were also admins. to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee chapo chat!
and no, it's not just because the pronoun thing, but that was the last straw. I've hated this lame-ass place for months, but having the last bit of autonomy here (posting in this hellhole without some infantilizing bullshit next to my name) forcibly stripped from me just made me say, fuck this, I deserve better than you monsters. I wanted a continuation on /r/chapotraphouse and this godforsaken place is not like that at all. even compared to it's awful final months it pales in comparison. so seeya, guess I'll have to find another place to post, or actually do something in real life. bye!
It's funny how we have no qualms saying ACAB, with some of the common lines being "they're an occupying force in our own country" (true), "the profession attracts bad people" (also true) and "even if not every individual cop is personally bad, the duties inherent of being a police officer necessitates enforcing systems of violence and oppression" (also true as well). But for some leftists, being an occupying force in someone else's country is just A-OK with them! It doesn't matter if they enforced US-Imperialism in the most literal sense possible, we got to get them on our side guise! The people who bomb villages to get a Camero need to be on our side!
You might say that soldiers flipping allegiance turned the tides in the Russian revolution, but those soldiers were in the same positions as the revolutionaries, only they were conscripted into the army, mistreated, underpaid, and pissed off that they were being forced to fight in a pointless war. Modern day troops chose to kill and imperialize for money, most of them are going to be against us. And don't say a god damn thing about "oh they had to do it so they could acheive a good standard of living", because a) it's not their only option, b) valuing your own self interests over the lives of others is the least socialist thing you could do, and c) the economic incentives also apply to cops, even more so in fact. that doesn't excuse what they do.
TLDR: If ACAB, ATAB, and ACAB.