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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I hope you all have a nice week :D
Stay safe, keep your heads held high, and keep at it. Development happens in zig-zags, life doesn't always progress the way we think it will.
As always, communism will win.
We really need to be prepared for when these events happen so we can seize the opportunity.
Coasting through work on the bare minimal effort required to do so as I can't be arsed to have even one cortisol spike during my last weeks. It feels good to be able to speak freely because what are they going to do? Fire me? Lol.
I wish you all a great week comrades!
Recently managed to introduce my queer-plat partner so theory! It was a great experience ^^
Keep your heads up high, don't let despair take you. Communism will win
Fischia il vento for your ears' pleasure
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Update on the r/TankieTheDeprogram drama: The ACP mods have been kicked out! Their offensive didn't even last 24 hours against the Tankies. We are yet to hear from the head mod u/Alexitine about this failed infiltration attempt.
I barely interacted with the reddit, did something happen? All I know is 2 people were made mods as soon as they joined in
Holy terminally online ACP
Mashallah, the situation seems ok now. The traitor being the founder is a bad hit tho
It seems Alexitine has been inactive on reddit for the last 8 months. There is high chance of his account being compromised by a third party.
not to be like Dont organize w psl (also why would u listen to me about that) but is it true that they still maintain china is revisionist/capitalist? prolewiki says this view was reaffirmed in 2023 (among other information about PSL failures on ground with things like sexual abuses :/ ) i still have a primarily positive view of them and organizing with them, i'm simply curious
that is not correct. PSL maintains that China is socialist. I think the prolewiki article is a bit of a misrepresentation
that's good!
Main issue with orgs related to or following the same strategy as PSL is the form of their organizing, not necessarily the stances they take ideologically. They're NGOs doing recruitment drives, not mass movements. There is a reason why they ultimately try to form a coalition with democrats! They're rebranded progressives/US Green Partiers
I haven't seen the PSL form a coalition with Democrats. Do you have references?
also finding out ACP was founded 2024. this is just an influencer project innit
Their main thing is aggressing on influencer social democrat projects (in a way I would argue is mutualistic) and baiting ESL speakers in the global south. You can tell they're some kind of operation because the algorithm doesn't just allow them, they get mentions in the New York Times.
again, not like i have a horse in the race but can someone in usa just tell me out of sheer interest what it's like organizing? CPUSA, PSL, otherwise. i'm also interested if anyone knows anyone in WWP?
Not a full member of an org yet (working on it), but from what I've heard from organizers it's a lot like herding cats. It varies from org to org, but a lot of the time it's trying to convince people to not just stay at home for a weekend and instead get out, regularly.
I have some experience with PSL, but it really depends on the place in the US. Mostly its mobilizing for protests, getting people into unions and doing smaller awareness raising events / campaigns.
ACP? Deprogram? What? Eh, fuck it, that subreddit was annoying anyway I'm just gonna get off of reddit
People who are selling kids the idea of becoming a content creator for ideology are overall no good. The only good "podcasts" have people like Adnan Husain. Reddit is a large website, inhabited by many Redditors.
True, but we still need to use bourgeois platforms for matters of agitation and propaganda. We need to get people there away from it, otherwise the platform will just become a right wing echo chamber.
Every once in a while, I have the thought of starting a substack. But I don't know what I would put on it with any kind of consistency. My tendency in the past with blog-like things has been to make one, maybe publish one post, and then promptly forget about it.
Part of what holds me back these days is I don't want to be a position where I feel like I'm forcing analysis that I can't actually back up well. And part of it's my longstanding tension between tendencies toward crafts that relate to having an audience and the immediate urge to pull back when I am actually seen. So I guess posting the occasional thread on the grad when I have the itch is a satisfying enough between place for now, since it's more casual but I'm also not screaming into the void.
just start writing. it's still great to put thoughts into words. later you can analyze and reflect.
I don't use ai a lot, for basically anything, but honestly it's a really great search tool. All the search engines nowadays are either filled with ads or kinds just suck, so being able to go to deepseek and be like "hey there was this game that had xyz what was that?" And get an answer is really nice.
Still doesn't work all the time, had to ask around the internet to find Empire of the Fading Suns, but it's still helpful
Forgive me if I write this here, since I need somewhere to put this. I just wanted to write somewhere about my dad dying since he's been in the hospital now for a while.
cw: grief/death/alcoholism
My dad is dying due to his drinking. He had a fall last week in the shower but he was "okay", he fell on his side. However for the last few months he has trouble moving and had another fall in janurary where firefighters needed to help him. And after the shower, he had trouble moving and it got very bad. Anyways he was brought to the hospital and he has been there for a while now and he pretty much just dying. His liver is failing and who god knows what else is wrong. I really hate alcohol. I really hate how my parents didn't try to take care of themselves more. Since it's almost been three years now since my mom died, and now he's dying too.
At least this time around, family and my friends are there for me unlike when my mom died. It's also sad that my grandma going to outlive my dad. At least I got to say I love him when he was still mentally there, because the last visit, he's just, not there. He has only been getting worse since he brought to the hospital, and there talk of him being brought to hospice.
I don't know what I'm going to do, especially since I been living with him since I didn't want to abandon him and tried to do what I can to take care of him. Now he's dying. Where do I even go after this?
I really need to get out of this place, but can't do that since, on top of my dad not bothering to take better care of himself, had left a lot of things unfixed! For example, I can't drive his car since it now has a flat fucking tire! He did warn me about this and mentioned this a few times in the last few months that the tire might go flat. He had some time to get it fixed, but didn't... much like a few other things inside this place.
I just want to get outside, and just, get away from things for a moment. But can't! All the while, relying on family to bring me to the hospital to see him, but I'm tired of going to that god damn fucking hospital. I hate going there, I hate going to the same floor where my mom died. I hate seeing him like this. I hate alcohol, and why couldn't he just bother to get help instead of constantly refusing it. It shouldn't have gotten to this point, but no matter what he kept refusing to get any sort of help. I don't understand why.
Genuinely what I see after working on hw for several hours straight
Trump: The art of peace
start a war with no plan
uhhhh
the dow is over 50 thou
Europe: the art of the deal
give the US whatever it wants
uhhh
RuZZia
trvth
What's happening
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing...
My stats professor is a stupid old bastard. 汉奸先生自汉奸国
I can't believe im taking out student loans to get demeaned by this guy twice a week. He's so lucky I can't drop him now
An attempt at a more dialectical (and somewhat cheeky) take on the saying "it is what it is":
It is what it is, until what it is contradicts what it is to a qualitative degree, creating the conditions for what it is to become what it isn't.
If news broke out that BenGvir indeed got got, that would be the best day in my last 3 years not even lying. I know it doesn't change anything at all but there is hardly anyone i geniunely hate more than that freak and Bibi of course.
I have a friend that seems to be falling down this self help, business, start up world bullshit thinking that her company will be different than others. "I will create 1000s of jobs" she says, jesus... No amount of talking could get her away from the thinking "I want to have so much money no one tells me what to do". Kind of just gave up and switched the conversation at that point.
Then on the other side I met someone who lives at home, doesn't have a job and refuses to have one, yet has so many comments on how things should be run. Is there a definition for this type of person?
the last company i worked for was started by the guy who used to run Google's security team, after he sold his company to Google, and then was handed almost $30 million by VCs to come up with another company.
he didn't make it. the company couldn't make it past 50 employees and is now down to about 10 as they seem to be preparing to sell off whatever remains 7 years later.
people are so delusional
