can i remind you all what this place is? it's a website that spawned from a subreddit about a podcast. that is it. and we still have so many people in the streets!!! im ready to bet that this 10k niche community has more people organizing and shit than most fucking subreddits 20 times bigger than us. cos that's wha we are, at the end of the day, a fucking subreddit. dont get me wrong, i love this place, but really, is this where you are expecting some great movement to start? we dont have offices, we dont have any type of local unity, we barely pay the mods of this place 400 dollars a month, we are just a bunch of dumbasses sharing memes and newspaper articles on a website.
and the thing is, there is a fuckton of people here in comparison to other places; now, im talking about the subreddit that had 12 times more people at the time of the ban, but we had a huge fucking part of our community volounteer and donate for Bernie, which ok, pretty cringe in retrospect, but we still mobilized quite a lot. but we still have people daily talking about helping the homeless, organizing communities, joining RAs, and all the jazz, something you just dont see anywhere else.
and also, jesus, some people simply cant or wont organize. that's it. you cant force those. so just let them have a place to post, talk about topics, get informed and chill out. i personally have way too much anxiety and i am not even sure of what to do in my own country that counts as organizing, so i use this place to rant about my life sometimes, something i wouldnt be able to do if this place was, idk, the DSA or something. idk what the DSA is actually. uh. will this bring any leftist project into actuation? no, and we are all painfully aware of that, and we tell off anyone who thinks otherwise. but so far, we have loads of people who organize, to the point where it is actually commendable, instead of shaming the empty half of the bottle.
I think of "go outside" as more of a shorthand for " stop expending effort and attention on unimportant shit that doesn't affect material conditions"
Most of us are aware that organizing is much more difficult during a pandemic. Still is a waste of time to focus on disputes between Twitter/podcast personalities. Masturbating is a far more productive use of your time than getting caught up arguing over the Jimmy Dore shit.
Organize however much you can in these times, but even if you are inside doing nothing productive, focusing on stupid drama is still a waste of time.
My biggest criticism of this community is how dunk-centric we are. I don't give a fuck about shit views out in the wild, and I come here specifically not to see them. I want dank left-wing image macros, theory, and links to organizing opportunities, not an endless highlight reel on how stupid the libs are.
this post was in response to cass's.
i enjoy dunking on libs. after all we are all here cos we dislike the capitalists, so we cant really stop dunking those.
Idk who cass is, nor do I think I've seen the post, but I'm definitely not saying to never dunk on the libs. I enjoy it too.
My issue is that a huge proportion of our content is just twitter/reddit screenshots of bad takes.
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