General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 14
Not a bad idea, I still need to finish Women Race and Class by Angela Davis.
Fair, fair. I only went with that because the orgs I've worked with in the past, IRL, whether it's, FoodNotBombs, or putting out fridges and food and stuff, they've all been very explicitly, yeah, we're anarchists. Which, which is cool, but limiting, to say the least. Fractured and limited. (We need a Vanguard)
I feel like dating apps have set this weird precedent where you meet someone and you immediately have to decide whether they're someone you want to date/ ave a relationship with or if they're someone that you want to be friends with but in my experience the people that I've dated have typically been people I was friends with and then it kind of naturally just becomes a little more romantic and a little less platonic.
I can't help but feel like that was how it was before online dating became the norm.. You know, you become friends with a woman/man, and then maybe it becomes a little more than that, and if it doesn't, I don't see why you still can't be friends. Just make it very clear that if one party isn't interested in the same way as the other party, it's up to that other party to come to terms with that, and as long as that other party can come to terms with that and move on and not be like, "well, you know, you're the only one for me", then I don't see what's wrong with this logic.
I only post on r/trueanon but i think I'm shadowbanned. Shadowbanning is so insidious
Asked this in my group chat, figured I ask it here as well. Why don't any of these parties apply anarchist tactics within the party frame work to build dual power and do praxis? My experience with organizing IRL is mostly stuff like Food Not Bombs Things like tactical urbanism
I see this a lot in my neighborhood, most of the bus stops lack shade or a place to sit, so you'll have old and disabled ppl forced to stand. Saw a old lady with a walker having to wait like that. Tactical urbanism would be getting together and building benches for those bus stops no cross walks in my neighborhood, we could fix that
communists tend to be more educated than average, we could be helping people get their GEDs, holding classes funded and organized by the party, this appeals directly to the masses, you help someone get their GED? You'll have a loyal comrade.
I have a friend who is a school teacher, a science teacher. She has four classes of students, each with about 30 kids in it. She's given $300 at the start of the school year to buy all of her supplies. Not only would it be an incredible propaganda win to go, Hey, look, the Communist Party is supplying schoolteachers with the supplies to teach your kids. Because the current regime won't provide for your kids. You see what I'm saying? We have to build that dual power. We have to improve the material conditions of the working class.
I mean, this could range from anything from helping the homeless have food in their belly, setting up mobile libraries, setting up coat drives, cooling centers, building bus benches, running workshops, building impromptu third spaces, guerrilla gardening, lot cleanup, Alleyway restoration. Like, if a party has numbers and has people paying dues, those people should be being put to work, and those dues should be being spent building the dual power and improving the work that can be done.
To me, if I join a party, that's what I want to be doing. I want to be put to work. I want to be with a leadership that is trying to get work done. I'm trying to stack W's, and my concern is that I'll join one of these parties, and we'll just be selling newspapers, which is, I guess, important. I mean, I run a blog, but I want to do things that I couldn't do alone and have zero interest in reformist electoralism within this settler state. Maybe they do these things already and I'm just ignorant.
What's a good follow up to Settlers? Incredibly blackpilling book, surely, but surely there's a follow up discussing things that can be done.
You would be better off using 4chan, at least you don't need an account. It's the same type of posts.
Check your stories, and see who's viewing them. I've done this type of thing before, and you'll notice that you'll have a lot of people who you don't follow start watching your stories.
Completely out of touch with how the majority of Americans spend their money. Most of us don't even have savings! Why would I bother with savings when the $1000 Dave Ramsey suggests is actually $300 in real money? Imma buy the damn PS5
Think about this, we will never get told that we're in a recession, or that inflation is a runaway, but we're in a convenience store. Typical working-class tradition is you get your snack and your drink for the day at a convenience store. Packs of peanuts are usually two for a dollar, or one for 59 cents. They've been this price for such a long time that I'm kind of flabbergasted they changed it. Those same packs of peanuts? One for $1.59, or two for $3.00. Let me get this straight, there's no inflation, there's no recession, but also your money goes one-third the way it used to. Keep in mind these are prices from from like 2016, not even 10 years ago.. One dollar in 2016 feels like 30 cents today.
How in the absolute fuck am I going to plan for my future in a country where the money is losing value at such a rapid pace? As far as I'm concerned, if you're saving money, that's dumb, because your money's losing value. You're never going to beat the "real"l inflation rates. I haven't even been in the workforce for 10 years, and I can tell you one thing, things aren't going to get any better.
I have a feeling that the government doesn't want us to think, "hey, yeah, we don't need to be saving money because it's going to lose value faster than it'll accrue it, so we need to be spending, spending, spending" because I'm pretty sure that's what causes hyperinflation. I'm not an economist, I'm just some guy, though, and hyperinflation tends to kill your country, your empire, so we'll see.
There won't ever be a recession so long as certain goods that are put into the consumer price index keep it going down. It's like, sure, you can't afford your groceries, you can't afford to eat, but you can go buy a new TV for cheaper than you could ten years ago. So inflation is technically non-existent. But you can't eat TVs, you can eat the rich.
See this, with Israel, this is like collective cuckoldery. It's like we're all collectively, as Americans, sitting and watching our wife get fucked, and going, well, you can do it better than me anyway, so it's all good. Motherfuckers in Israel got universal health care, they got a child care stipend, you know, the same one that they repealed for us not too long ago, yeah, they got that, they got free college, you know, all types of stuff that we are always told we can't afford. So these people would rather their, rather Israel's kids have a future than America's kids. You ain't gotta be a communist to think that that's fucked up. You ain't gotta be a socialist to go, hey, why do you want, why do you want the bull's kids to have a future, but not your own kids, you fucking cuck?
30k to give birth in America, Free in Israel. Our taxes.
I start a new job within the next three weeks of just getting trained up and getting licensed. My concern went from, I'm not going to be able to pay my rent, to this job is going to make me more money than I've ever made in my life and potentially break the cycle of poverty before me, going back as far as my family can remember. I'm kind of weighing that. It's not like a DOD thing, I'm not contributing to that, but, you know.
There's that idea of, am I a class traitor for making this money or trying to make this money? Which is not the goal, you know, of course. Like, I sell t-shirts online with art on them and stuff, but I wouldn't consider myself petite bourgeoisie because I don't own the means to produce those shirts. I mean, I make like 200 bucks a month just to help cover rent, you know. Hell I try to give away profits when I can, friends need healthcare. So, it's just... Trying not to moralize my place as an individual within the system, I mean, I got out of tech because basically every tech company is complicit with this genocide, and even the ones that are removed Not like I worked for Raytheon or something, but still. So, just trying to not betray my own principles while paying my rent, you know.
I know communism isn't a cult of poverty but being from.that background, and then becoming a Marxist, it can feel like it on a personal level.
Cope + boulder is not rolling itself
3 months deep into unemployment, I feel like I'm going crazy, stuck in the house, no cash, lots of noodles and ham sandwiches. I think I've eaten more ham sandwiches in the last month than I have my entire life.
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Panama Canal closure followed by organizes strikes across various ports in the US combined with failing infrastructure?
Fuck it let's make it Hurricane season too. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Yeah, you might see two different articles on the same website. One's talking about Israel colonizing Palestine and the horrors that come with that, and the other one's talking about how America is going to build a moon base, we're going to colonize the moon for all that sweet, sweet rocket fuel. These are not the same thing. The same thing is not happening in that context whatsoever. Now, obviously there is an argument to be made about the sacredness of celestial bodies. I don't think we should be burying people on the moon, for example, or putting people's ashes on the moon, shit like that, or having personal monuments. But that's a different thing. That's not colonization. We're not displacing native people. We're not going to the moon and we're not putting the moonites in a concentration camp. We are doing that right now in Palestine. The same words should not be used to describe both of those situations. And I honestly think the use of colonization in a space context is, a legacy of that Anglo mindset.
Read about the situationalists
also detournement counters capitalist realism (to an extent)
This might sound a little bit metaphysical, but I think that the concept of a sigil, as it relates to chaos magic, can be a very powerful concept to understand if you are trying to do propaganda. If you do propaganda, you should probably understand how symbols work in a linguistic sense, and I personally don't see necessarily anything inherently metaphysical with the concept of a sigil. Graham Morrison says it pretty much better than I ever could. McDonald's, that logo, that Golden Arches logo is a sigil. You'll notice that they turned their logo upside down after the boycott started. It's because they're trying to change their sigil, trying to modify their sigil, because the average person isn't familiar with the McDonald's logo turned upside down. They see those Golden Arches, and we're getting into where that sigil is no longer associated with cheap fast food, American excess, quantity. It's instead associated with death, despair, child murder, and genocide. We are modifying their own sigils as we attempt to take the power back. And the same can be said, our sigils can serve as lines of flight away from the status quo. Ostensibly, my brand, the name, Dini is a sigil. It symbolizes the miracle escape. It symbolizes someone breaking the chain. It symbolizes someone who is able to control the spectacle. And it's not innately political, but we can make it so. At least I believe we could. Think about this. A brand named Lenin, in all caps, is going to come off completely different than a brand named Houdini, in all caps. Even if the root goal of the Houdini brand is to instill and normalize communist thought and support the working class, support working class artists, go against corporate algorithms, break free from all that, it still does not have the connotation that the sigil, the word, Lenin does, simply because Lenin is more connected to the communist subculture. It's more connected to direct revolution. You see what I'm saying? I think an understanding of linguistic sigils and symbols and how words and icons and pictographs incur their meaning on a collective level is important, even if it sounds like some metaphysical shit. But it's not. I don't think there's anything inherently metaphysical about chaos magic.
I dislike the use of the world colonization in relation to space because it only serves to lower the impact of the concept and horrors it brought and continues to bring.
Your first part is kind of why they've become known as anarchist tactics though, because it seems to me, and this might come off some type of way, that anarchists are the ones who are willing to take that kind of risk. And sometimes you just gotta take that risk, I feel. I mean, it's putting benches up. You can make them with wood, and you could probably do a bunch in the afternoon. And maybe they get taken away, but you just build new ones. I mean, hell, in LA there was a group of people who were doing crosswalks, and the city started removing them, and it caused a bunch of problems in the media, because people were like, why are you removing these crosswalks? Why didn't you build them in the first place? And then it became a propaganda win, which is what we need.
I'm also really glad that you guys are doing that GED stuff. I think that that is a winning strategy, a winning move. You know, I think about my own father, who had to get his GED when he was like 23. And, you know, he's kind of like an apathetic Gen X conservative, and I wonder if that could have been, way back then, a kind of starting point to make him not that.
Lets not get hung up on semantics though!