https://twitter.com/DeTahmineh/status/1785036417913000140

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexbear
    115
    20 days ago

    "Don't date in the organization" should be at least the first hour of any orgs on-boarding meeting.

    • itappearsthat [he/him]
      hexbear
      91
      20 days ago

      It's a hard problem. Joining orgs to meet people to sleep with is obvious wrecker behavior but often orgs are where you meet people most compatible with you. Every political party, even mainstream ones, has lots of people sleeping with each other. Humans are gonna catch feelings, especially in leftist orgs where trauma bonding from violent interactions with cops is possible. I don't have the solution really.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        hexbear
        59
        20 days ago

        Word. I don't think there is a solution. People working together for long periods of time, some of them are gonna bang and some of them are going to break up. Idk what to do except try to make sure that no one person is a critical point of failure, and spray-bottle anyone who is serial dating their way through the whole org.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
        hexbear
        46
        20 days ago

        I don't have the solution really.

        ok, hear me out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiety_(kinship)

        In such cases, the community usually has unilineal descent (either patri- or matrilineal) so that any individual belongs to one of the two moiety groups by birth, and all marriages take place between members of opposite moieties.

        the obvious solution is to restrict relationships to being between members of the ancom moiety and the ML moiety. then you're also addressing sectarianism or something.

      • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
        hexbear
        36
        20 days ago

        Joining orgs to meet people to sleep with is obvious wrecker behavior

        joining orgs to advertise your onlyfans is still okay right?

      • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
        hexbear
        27
        20 days ago

        Joining orgs to meet people to sleep with is obvious wrecker behavior

        this is like IASIP episode 2 lol

    • @Sons_of_Ferrix
      hexbear
      71
      20 days ago

      Kinda hard when so many western leftist orgs have fun events meant to attract young people.

      "I can't believe people treat the DSA like a dating club! We made it clear to all the horny young people at our monthly DSA bowling tournament and karaoke mixer that inner party dating is discouraged! Why do they keep wanting to fuck each other after the quarterly bbq???"

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          hexbear
          31
          20 days ago

          Please fill out your C-01 form before making out with the person you've been working on a project with for three months who you've come to know and respect more than any other person during your long hours together.

          There's really nothing for it. At most you try to make sure that institutional knowledge is spread around enough that a breakup can't wreck the org.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
      hexbear
      46
      edit-2
      20 days ago

      I don't think it should be absolutely forbidden, just openly communicated about when it does (inevitably) happen so there are no surprises and the (again, inevitable) drama is minimized. Ain't no way you're gonna get a bunch of young people who work closely together often not to fuck, if you forbid it they're just gonna keep silent about it.

    • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      22
      20 days ago

      I met my long term partner within an org, this attitude is basically just leave the women at home

    • O__O [none/use name]
      hexbear
      21
      20 days ago

      This is absolutely correct. Undercover UK police use sex with female org members to get in with the group. Often even having children with them to maintain the pretence.

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
        hexbear
        7
        20 days ago

        doesn’t this like not really prevent that though? Couldn’t they just find someone they know is a member of an org and do the same thing, then join the org after (and pretend it was organically done because of their partner?)

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
    hexbear
    80
    20 days ago

    “These young folks are too focused on important things instead of mashing their genitals into each other”

    frothingfash

  • d_cagno [he/him]
    hexbear
    73
    20 days ago

    If students WERE having sex at these protests, you'd hear a bunch of complaints about how they're not taking this seriously and it's all just a big party to them.

    parenti

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
    hexbear
    69
    20 days ago

    porky-scared-flipped: "Clean up after yourself? Transparency in communication? Respect one another? Be disciplined!? WHAT ARE WE, A BUNCH OF ASIANS!?!?!?"

    We're so cooked as a country.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
    hexbear
    66
    20 days ago

    The front page of Dunk Tank having not but two posts about Zionists chastising pro-Palestinian protesters for being too chaste says a lot about the Zionist mindset.

  • Gorb [they/them]
    hexbear
    61
    20 days ago

    They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel to try and make the students look wrong.

  • blakeus12 [he/him]
    hexbear
    57
    20 days ago

    don't have sex in the tents at the protests

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD HAMAS DO THIS NOOOOOOOOOO WHYYYYUY

  • jwsmrz [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    48
    edit-2
    20 days ago

    sounds great, too many organizing efforts are ruined by people smashing and then causing drama with one another tbh especially when folks are young

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    45
    20 days ago

    Wash your ass, it's comradery vs washing your ass is privileged bourgeois decadence

  • SkingradGuard [he/him]
    hexbear
    45
    20 days ago

    Is this person really saying people should be fucking in public at a protest????

  • GrumpigPoopBalls [he/him]
    hexbear
    33
    20 days ago

    clean up after yourself and our space; be considerate of hygiene

    up-yours-woke-moralists confirmed Hamas

  • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
    hexbear
    29
    edit-2
    20 days ago

    do they mean you shouldn't have sex at the protest or like... in general?!??? how do you even tell someone who came to the protest has sex regularly? can they smell it or something? it has to just be a "don't fuck at the protest" rule right? it's absolutely absurd to suggest anything else

    • Leon_Frotsky [she/her, undecided]
      hexbear
      13
      20 days ago

      i might be something about avoiding having to deal with the possible fallout of bad break ups between organisers who need to keep working together

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
        hexbear
        7
        20 days ago

        That makes sense, but even then they wouldn’t be able to enforce or prevent people from having sex on their own free time (away from the protest entirely), so it’s not at all what the tweet poster was trying to imply

    • @Sons_of_Ferrix
      hexbear
      10
      20 days ago

      They're in tents. It's pretty easy to hear someone fucking when they're in a tent.

      • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
        hexbear
        6
        20 days ago

        Of course you can tell if someone’s having sex at the fucking (but not literally fucking) protest, but you wouldn’t be able to just… ask people to never have sex Ever, you wouldn’t be able to tell if they had sex at home or whatever

    • GinAndJuche [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      9
      edit-2
      20 days ago

      how dedicated are they to not going back to the dorms? Might be able to smell it. The quad has no showers.

      Not disagreeing with you, just saying. Pretty sure it means "don't give ammo to the zionists by letting them portray it as a sex party or whatever they come up with if they succesfully record tent fucking".