like i said i'm taking a different tack. i'm bothered by the reactionary stuff in this comm but i'm taking the approach i'm taking from a place of constructiveness. i do not admin on this instance, but on anarchist nexus.

what… the fuck are they talking about!?

my thing is that this is a case where the rule itself is power trippy. yeah you broke it, so technically YDI but spiritually PTB

fwiw that stuff is waaay more caffeinated than the stuff you make yourself

oh absolutely. my statement was not an endorsement. half a can of that stuff will give you severe jitters

signs of colonization on a map:

1. static borders (humans intermingle naturally)
2. unnatural borders (straight lines)
3. pockets (as in on population is slowly surrounding and eleminating another population)
4. as you pointed out, the names of stuff are bonkers

we need more bus access

all of my friends from post soviet states share the opinion that current day US feels just like how they remember the USSR

https://threadiverse.link/...

https://insight.bibliotech.us/...

this is not the best write up about these studies but i'm out right now. it still stands as an example of how the people saying "i won't let terrorists influence my behavior" are the most influenced by terrorists as they intensify the surveilance state and the terrorism against people different from themselves

i actually have the opposite problem with social democrats. they're out in the streets agitating that they need to found a union and they don't have time to join unpopular positions like fighting ICE because they're too focused on purist marxist theory to bother with dealing with issues of race.

meanwhile: the workplace they're trying to unionize already has a union and the only workers at that workplace who aren't in the union are the democratic socialists who refuse to join because the union supports resisting ICE because ICE makes their workplace more dangerous.

in conclusion: here have an upvote anyway. fuck these nerds

thank you for learning me a new thing today even if i couldn't prove to cloudflare i'm not a bot and had to read up on this somewhere else

i recommend everyone learn to recognize colonization on a map. it's a really great skill to have when you're trying to figure out what the truth is in a heavily propagandized media environment

To build on this, no matter who you are, or who your leftist fave is, they have problems. There are aspects of revolutionary thought where they are failing their comrades either through having a biased blindspot or through experiencing some trauma that makes it hard for them to trust.

Me for example, I have trouble trusting and will occasionally take an ungracious approach to someone because when you spend your whole life fighting for the survival of your community, you lose patience sometimes. It's something I take effort to ensure I'm being constructive, but sometimes I fail. And as for my lefty fave, he believed that all people's morality needed to be rooted in religious faith and denounced agnostics through most of his life up until his later years when he started making more room in his heart for them.

The key isn't to look for perfect figures to idolize, but instead to look for people who did their level best to defy the status quo in their time. Because the thing to realize to is that somewhere out there is someone you could inspire to action through your defiance of your own status quo. Because that's the thing I've learned about leftist organizing in my time on this earth: all of us are someone else's hero, we just don't realize it. So instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, highlight the positive aspects and present the issues and failures.

For example, for all of their talk of class consciousness, the ML Union organizers of the 1930s threw out a lot of the prior 50 years of racial consciousness that the US labor movement had built, making the unions long term more fragile. They were correct that they needed to get all the laborers on side to succeed, particularly in the southern coal fields, however they failed to realize that they couldn't do this by recruiting the Klan to terrorize Black people into joining the union. A mere 30 years later, and the union was no longer advocating for workers rights, and was instead was disrupting laborers from organizing to gain more rights and protections (such as respirators to prevent the proliferation of black lung that was associated with the proliferation of mechanized drilling).

In conclusion: was George Orwell perfect? No. But we don't waste that much time talking about Karl Marx being a sex pest, now, do we?

department of pathetic little losers whose dads never told them they were proud of them

or entirely absent

Is someone far right far left just because they hate my oppressor?

I think it's because when people are looking for a BIFL product they're looking to replace a pattern of behavior (disposables) or something they broke. Water bottles are one of the most disposed of items (it's truly shocking that selling water which should be free is a ~300 billion dollar industry), and experience a lot of drops and abuse in the form of getting tossed in the dishwasher. So I think what we mostly see when people present, or ask for their water bottles is basically real world experience with "Hey! This is my thing, this is the longest I've had one of these thing. It's doing pretty good I think!" or "Hey, I broke my thing. Do y'all have suggestions for thing that has lasted a long time"

I'd say 20 year old stanley mug is a GREAT endorsement for stanley mug.

If you want efficient moderation, do your part, read the rules and report accordingly

this is why i was asking you to help me understand how jankforlife and bubblybubbles were posting "truth nukes" because it all looked like rule 5 & 6 violations to me. but to see some of the most egregious of it getting endorsed by the head mod makes it hard to bother putting in the effort to report when so many of those reports get dismissed, and some of them even get a greenshield big thumbs up

Contigo is in such a funny spot. It's overrepresented in non-BIFL spaces but also underrepresented in BIFL spaces. Like it's not my preference, but you can't argue with that they genuinely seem to last good. Like a hydroflask or klean kanteen travel mug is probably more durable, especially if you put a bottle boot on them, but if you want a travel mug you can open and close one handed... Contigo is kinda it