socii [none/use name,any]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020

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  • I'll pretend this was in good faith.

    he organized unions, led labor actions, and fought for the rights of the working class. these actions had a tangible improvement on the lives of Chicagoans. he was arrested many times for the (accurate) suspicion of being a communist during the 1st red scare.

    maybe you should spend less time shaming people for a thing humans have been doing since the dawn of humanity, and more time organizing. perhaps then people will see socialism as a valid workers movement rather than a collection of people who spend all their time arguing over shit like this that the majority of people don't give a fuck about.


  • whenever I hear people say all leftists should be vegan I'm reminded of my great-grandfather, who was a communist labor organizer in Chicago that worked as a meat packer for half his life, and then half as a butcher, who hunted on the weekends.

    coincidentally, he almost certainly did more to advance socialism than all the moralizing vegans on this site







  • title of the mega thread made me think of this quote:

    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam That's here. That's home. That's us