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YOU are speaking!

As many are aware, there has been a lot of site drama in the past week or so. This is NOT a post to discuss that, and I ask that you keep all serious discussion about it on the pinned posts it belongs in. What I am looking to do here is ask the community what they would like to see from c/agitprop going forward.

There have been ongoing discussions on Hexbear regarding making more serious posts, having a place for effortposting to get noticed (and thus incentivizing more to be made, nobody likes spending hours working on en effortpost for 5 upbears), and having a more focused place for less casual/more academic discussion. The nature of this comm, or at least what the intended purpose was supposed to be upon its inception, was to give Hexbear users a place to produce and find agitprop for use in everyday discussions. Given these two statements, last week I made an impromptu U.S. Election response/commentary resource Megathread here on c/agitprop. I figured that perhaps this was the place to open up to users for less casual/more serious analysis and discussion regarding the U.S. election, like… for actual traditional agitprop purposes.

The post was a huge success, and the community received tons of high-effort posting from individuals into the Megathread posting their own takes on the U.S. election, many references and direct links to highlight other Hexbear user’s great effortposts elsewhere on this site, and good resources from outside of Hexbear. In my opinion, this post/style of post could be a useful and engaging format for effortpost generation/congregation of larger news events in the future.

Now finally for the purpose of this post: What would you like to see from c/agitprop going forward? Feedback on the U.S. Election response/commentary resource Megathread is of course appreciated, and I’d love to hear any ideas regarding how it went/if you (dis)liked it/holding a similar thread in the future, but please do not limit your input based only on what you have seen so far from this comm. This community is, of course, only what we make it, so any and all feedback is greatly appreciated and goes a long way towards improving everybody’s user experience.

Below I will list a few ideas I have seen floated by the community for c/agitprop in the past. Additionally, I will try to keep this list updated with any ideas that are provided in the comments of this post as well in order to highlight them for discussion.

•Effortpost Megathread for larger news events (frequency/guidelines for “larger” TBD here)

•Agitprop Megathread running parallel to the Weekly News Megathread for more nuanced discussion/analysis to be used both on Hexbear and elsewhere

•Ongoing Agitprop workshop/resource thread to organize the Hexbear community’s many skills and have relevant, ready-to-go agitprop for current events ready for dissemination outside of this site

•Reference guide for left/left-adjacent spaces to crosspost agitprop material to

•Agitprop field report for returning to Hexbear (potentially contest style) and seeing where agitprop is reaching the widest audience and receiving the most engagement

•”Quick Draw” style + up to date archive of good agitprop in order to quickly debunk common talking points

•Keeping on top of current events by preemptively posting Effortpost Megathreads for known upcoming events (Major elections, for example)

•Keeping a calendar of known upcoming events to help prepare agitprop ahead of time

•Highlighting past major events or public figures to conduct a postmortem effortpost analysis

The funniest part about all of this discourse is that I’m still not even sure if this post even belongs here

Chanting protests against a country? I’m sweaty, that’s actually a slur 💅

Protest an entire ethnic group and chant hate speech? Well that’s just a slogan I don’t see why you’d be so upset.

Literally

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The Bar™ is dropping so low that it has reached levels previously believed to be impossible, but it makes me wonder what liberals would consider a bad campaign. Maybe it’s something like losing the Presidency, House, Senate, also participating in a genocide, and still thinking you did nothing wrong?

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YOU are speaking!

Have you made any poignant commentary on the recent election in the U.S.? Do you have a good response to liberals who are upset with the results or process of the election? Have you written or seen something as a comment reply/post that you think has standalone value? Did you see a new take or analysis you hadn’t previously considered?

Whether it’s a long idea with lots of context, or a short and sweet one liner, we want those thoughts aggregated here. This post is intended to be a resource for comrades to draw from when having actual discussions outside of Hexbear both online or IRL regarding the election.

Consider this a mini-effortpost aggregator. This is not for shitposts, but humor is completely acceptable if it helps make the point.

Yeni Kostantiniyye, 1603 — Beylerbey Eriq Pasha al-Adm of Yeni Kostantiniyye has been implicated in a scandal involving the acceptance of bribes from Venetian merchants, sources close to the imperial court confirm.

According to palace officials, Eriq Pasha al-Adm, the prominent Beylerbey of Yeni Kostantiniyye, is accused of secretly accepting lavish tribute from Venetian traders based out of İskenderiye. These merchants, renowned for operation of their silk and spice routes, have connections to many other influential viziers, from whom they also allegedly sought favorable trade routes and contracts. Among the reported tributes Eriq Pasha accepted were: exquisite meals, visits with the Doge, and several shiploads of ducats while campaigning, some of which appear to have been siphoned from the Sultan’s coffers. Eriq Pasha and his envoys were granted freedom of transit through Venetian territory and waters, and priority access to port and accommodation facilities. In exchange for the Venetian generosity, Eriq Pasha allegedly hosted several Venetian envoys in Yeni Kostantiniyye, allowing the merchants to gain a competitive advantage in the bazaar by skirting import taxes. Additionally, the local Venetian embassy and trading guild were granted exemption from building code guidelines.

Viziers have been abuzz with rumors regarding Eriq Pasha for many years. Prior to his promotion to Beylerbey, eyewitnesses claim to have seen Venetian envoys entering al-Adm’s estate several times with supplies over the past several years, using his position as Agha of the Janissaries to gain undue influence in the Sultan’s court. “The supplies were not for the Janissaries, but for al-Adm himself,” said one eunuch, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.

The timing of these allegations are interesting in light of the Sultan recently granting Eriq al-Adm the title of Pasha, particularly due to his reputation as one who is supposed to fight corruption and uphold the law. Despite his assurance that he’d sponsor several grand public works projects and make sweeping efforts to improve the lives of commoners, Eriq Pasha’s tenure as Beylerbey has been mired in stagnancy and broken promises. Though widely unpopular amongst the commoners of the Yeni Kostantiniyye province due to his diversion of public works funding to the Janissaries, many of those adjacent to the royal court had seen Eriq Pasha as a future vizier, or even in line for a grander role in the Sultan’s Divan.

Eriq Pasha has been summoned to the Sublime Porte to answer for these accusations. There, he is expected to face tribunal, which holds the power to strip him of his lands and title as Beylerbey. Meanwhile, Eriq Pasha has vehemently denied all charges. In a statement issued from al-Adm’s administration, the accusations are called “baseless” and “the work of jealous pretenders who seek to undermine Eriq Pasha’s service to the empire while elevating their own.” Eriq Pasha’s administration insists that all dealings with the Most Serene Republic of Venice and its mercantile guilds were in full compliance with imperial order.

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