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aka Post Irony Jim

same here the last few years. don’t have much to add except it stinks. lot of people out there (not excluding myself from this or putting myself above it) have a lot of inner hurts that make it hard to build something stable. and i think that’s getting exacerbated by declining material conditions and increased atomization.

hang in there friend

hexbare metaposts mostly for a bit but kinda got over it. switched over to reading/watching/listening to spooky media

oh hell yeah!! looks like is heavily involved with the coalition.

given all the (understandable) Zohran discourse around here, I know a ton of yall live in NYC - this would be a great step for comrades to get more deeply involved in the struggle!

so uh. what have you all been up to over here (in the general mega)??

reported for polyphobia AND soyphobia >:(

no! i don’t wanna!!

(jokes aside once i’m through candidacy classes with my org i probably will start to cycle in some theory with my fiction in my free time, so probably earlyish next year)

ah this is genuinely good to know, thanks! i wonder how widely known that is around here

Removed by mod

re: mod removal and reason for it, is there a dedicated meta comm, though? what other recourse do people have?

this fucking website………

maybe in a chiller comm once the struggle session dies down it was mostly gonna be some basic marxism 101 about how base-superstructure operates

if they were trying their best, they would take seriously the many, many concerns people have had about a lack of accountability, transparency, and community input over the past year. instead they continue to make decisions in a black box matrix server where they shittalk the userbase - the people that actually make this site worthwhile despite its many, deep problems - and run cover for abusive members of the community if those people are their personal friends or they find them funny enough or they align on some pet issue. i’m not mad at your comment to be clear, i’ve agreed with your analysis across this whole struggle sesh and am pointing out what i think the real core issue here is.

shit, i wanted to find the right time/place to make a nerdy effortpost about how people are operating on an oversimplified view of what a “vassal state” is, how there’s a base superstructure feedback loop here where US imperialism is the root cause, but belief in Zionism w/in the ruling class takes on a life of its own and informs the base, but that’s not worth it right now because it’s clear people’s analyses on israel aren’t the issue and neither is antisemitism. it’s site management refusing to take an L, self crit, change site processes, and then continuing to cudgel the userbase with their radlib liberal zionist brainworms they refuse to grow on. (and to be just slightly conciliatory, yes, mods are not a monolith - when i say “the mods, the admins, site management” i mean admins and the powermods they allow the most sway over the community).

third eye opened. next time some nerd tells me to read theory, they’re friggin in for it

nope sorry, that’s performative male tendencies. (that is to say, ableistly performing your superior attention span on my adhd ass)

(god i wish my brain would let me read outside of a hyperbolic chamber… )

comment from them right in this thread about wanting to beat people upvoting these threads with a tire iron, too. wild that we’re redoing this struggle session and the mods haven’t learned a thing.

dawg go grillpill with your brother, if some users on this site rallied a current and former mod on their matrix server or discord server or whatever they’ve got going on to make multiple vagueposts about a (i’m guessing because its hexbear) mischaracterization of something i said instead of just explaining why they think my analysis is wrong i’d prob just dip from the site. this shit isn’t worth the mental strain.

oof that sucks. way way back in the day when i had roommates i had a similar situation (same needy af cute af POS cat too, i’ve had her a while), had to beg them to let us have a second litter outside my room because i was on the brink. good luck to you friend, hope you find a solution

yup, and HR also does way more labor discipline shit and covering for upper management than just maintaining the meat grinder of job applications. they’re pretty much the cops of office settings, working class but very clearly servants of capital/porky. there’s a reason they’re almost never allowed into labor unions.