https://twitter.com/ThoughtSlime/status/1627029198245359618
Twitter thread continued:
Sometimes people will say "You made me an anarchist" and like... buddy, I don't even think it matters that I myself am an anarchist.
And I regret that that sort of "we're fighting the good fight" mentality has allowed some of the worst grifters on the platform to flourish by manipulating people's passions for their own weird petty reasons.
I think what I do has a lot of value, I'm just saying that what I perceive that value to BE is a lot different than what I thought a few years ago.
Ironically, lot of that work to be done is talking just to neighbors, coworkers etc and not randos online. But those are the types of conversations people have anxiety over.
But even then the thing to do isn’t to go door to door like the mormons sharing the good word of Karl Marx. It’s to use our well developed material analysis skills to take the lay of the land locally and either join up with or start an org that goes about doing the work needed to move the needle and then through that process reach out to your local community to expand your efforts. If you live in your neighborhood you know what it needs and if you give the people what they need they’ll listen to what you have to say. Hunger, housing, and education are almost universally an issue that needs to be addressed in every community. Let’s have the marxists lead the charge rather than the professional NGO lib class that will only make the situation worse or god forbid the right-wing church charity groups that are really just there to hand out jesus stickers while their actual political apparatus dismantles the institutions that would otherwise make their charity unnecessary