I get that organizing is important, but I still don't actually know what that entails. Like what am I supposed to do? It's kind of like telling a straight guy who wants to get a girlfriend to just "be himself." So when I see someone complain about the hellworld we live in and a common response is "organize," it feels kinda condescending. Same with "join an org." What org? How do I know which one is good?

Like for real, why isn't there some sort of organizing guide or FAQ on here? There's a recommended routine for body weight fitness and there's even a 14 day primer on getting started (https://old.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/kofo8l/bwf_primer_buildup_community_event_day_1_happy/). So where is the organizing primer? I mean it can start with something really simple, i.e. "on Day 1, say hi to a neighbor if you see them out walking (no need to get into a convo unless it just happens)." Like tbh how about a 14 Day Primer for organizing? Even the radlibs on the Bernie campaign had training sessions before having volunteers do stuff like call, text, or canvass. Even pick-up-artist idiots have training programs (e.g. day 1 talk to a random stranger and ask them directions, just say your phone is dead, etc.). We should have one too.

    • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      On a serious note Lenin's most respected member of the Foreign Bureau Y A Zhitomirsky, entrusted with the most confidential operations, was a spy. He was Lenins favourite orator...And was a fed.

      Didn't stop the 1917 revolution or Lenin giving Zhitomirsky the old :pika-pickaxe:

      Che also had to shoot a double agent

      You just gotta suck it up tbh and understand that they'll be feds in orgs and try and give them the most work

      UK is so infiltrated that they send spies into rape women in badger culling groups and the amount of times I've heard that the"DDR was a police state" while this shit goes on here. Literal spies in your bed.

      You just gotta understand if you wish to organise in any capacity that you'll be going in a feds file. T he NSA was putting Americans on lists for going to Linux forums and UK is literally sending in spies to rape and father children on women.

      Anyone remotely interested in socialism/communism or anarchism and I'd bet any visit to this site already has you in a fed file on the NSAs XKeyscore program.

      Just be aware of that if you're in an org

      • Goluboy [none/use name]
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        Но будьте добры, задумайтесь над этим вопросом: Что бы делало добро, если бы зло не существовало, и как бы выглядела земля, если бы все тени исчезли? В конце концов, тени отбрасывают вещи и люди. Вот тень от моего меча. Но тени также исходят от деревьев и живых существ. Ты хочешь лишить землю всех деревьев и живых существ только потому. из-за твоей фантазии наслаждаться голым светом? Ты глуп.

        I am gonna ask you the same thing, are you Russian? You seem to posture like an expert on Russia so i assumed you were one. If not, Oh so you’re like every other expert on Russia: don’t understand the language, culture, or politics but then lash out when a Russian person tells you that you are wrong. interesting tendency imo

        doctor_sociology

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That's just doing the feds job for them. They don't even have to infiltrate anything if no one joins anything because everyone is paranoid about infiltration.