Yeah, seems I made some rash assumptions about what you meant. Since it seems you’ve given this a fair amount of thought, if you ever write up an effortpost on it, I’d be happy to read it.

It was targeted in the sense that the system was automated and the flagging of abusive content was itself targeted. Another invention of the Anti-Evil Team, I believe.

It’s the kind of discussion that could actually make sense within an org who focuses on unhoused activism. The extension of that into Twitter threads is nonsensical.

Now I recognize that paper plates can be a disability tool and if I’m having a rough day and can’t handle cooking I just air fry some tofu and call it a day.

This 100%. When I’m caught up on dishes I use regular stuff. But if I’m having trouble moving and the dishes are piling up, time for paper and plastic

I don’t care what you do with them, but please, call them the unhoused.

Fuck, that is so good

It’s not that militancy doesn’t have a place in the American left. It’s that a militia is not a drop in replacement for a union. There are currently good conditions for forming a union, at least the best there have been in decades. I don’t think the same is true of left-wing militias, at least not among everyday workers. If you’re in an area where you’re treated shittily enough and your local gun culture is amenable to forming a militia in your spare time amongst your coworkers, there’s a good chance that militia is not left-wing anymore. If nothing else, you’d need to identify a prominent social leader and start a strong ideological core with them. There’s a lot of luck involved in the conditions being right.

I wanna be clear that that doesn’t mean people should avoid taking it seriously and considering it as an option. I just don’t think that most people will come to the conclusion that it’s feasible for them.

How much of that applies in practice is going to vary wildly from state to state. A militia marching in downtown Fresno is going to have a very different reaction to a militia marching in the exurbs of Jackson. Also, a truly militant trade union is going to be seen as a threat by the capitalists of any area no matter where you are and dealt with accordingly. Forming a union is a PR battle where your main advantage is the element of surprise. Honestly, if you can organize a bunch of Americans to form a secret militia long enough for that strategy to work, it feels like using it to negotiate for more vacation days is major under kill.

It’s also not unusual in certain school districts. It’s bizarre how much variance there is in teachers’ unions in the United States, but the culture swings wildly, even between school districts that are like ten minutes apart from one another and have similar demographic info.

“We have strict rules about using exclusionary language in organizing committee meetings” will lose you half the room.

“If you wouldn’t say it in church, you don’t say it here” gets near unanimous nodding heads and grunts of approval. If I can get a bunch of middle class white Christians to chastise someone for using bigoted language and all I have to do is not say, “fuck” or “shit” during meetings, I’ll take that trade every time. It’s funny as shit to see.

In my line of work, the office workers who interface with the people working on site are the ones with fat ass fucking paychecks. And as a result, it’s been harder to foster solidarity between them and the low-paid office workers, who are much more numerous. If anything, it should be the opposite, but because we’re under different vice presidents, that communication has designated channels which involve us reporting to our superiors (but for some reason the communication is not happening VP-to-VP, which defeats the purpose of the hierarchy argument). Literally, our communication would have primarily been happening through public channels, so it’s not like they couldn’t have monitored them. But I’m pretty sure what it is is that they don’t want us knowing each other and commiserating and they want to be able to blame the opposite group for their own managerial fuck ups when something goes wrong.

Only 1. She’s currently in the ADHD plane as well. I’ll meet her there soon. See you there.

How you doing?

Someone pull up the news story where American military blueprints got leaked 3 separate times so that some contractors could win a nerdy internet argument about planes.

He suddenly stopped DMing me the other night and I got worried. Dude’s super stressed. Turns out he just fell asleep drunk again. I’m worried about him tbh #TeamTed

Yeah this was a struggle session we had a while back. Detractors say we disabled downvotes “because downvoting a trans person is transphobic”. What actually happened is that several of our more persistent trolls were rabid transphobes who were creating alts specifically to downvote everything that known trans users were posting. And this was among a large struggle around healthy debate norms on the site and how downvotes led to unhealthy incentives during longer comment chains. The stance is basically, “State your grievance or move on.” (And yes, pigpoopballs counts as a grievance, albeit a very intense one)

I know dudes who went to culinary school who were making less than that working at Chipotle

I know a guy who would happily order a Fat Divorced Mess every single night of his life

I don’t remember where it was, but there are areas that have had to legislate that you need to have x miles between dollar stores

Yeah most of this is absolute slop but bojangles is legit good. I didn’t even grow up with it and I normally avoid the money sink that is fast food but when I’m driving down the east coast I always grab some.