I made the mistake of going to her Twitter to see the actual tweet but I couldn’t find it in the fucking ocean of anti-trans shit she is tweeting and retweeting.

Including the Communist Party of Great Britain too when they put out an anti-trans statement. She has completely lost her mind.

This is another reason why you shouldn’t have billionaires. Now that they don’t gotta work, all they do is tweet (see also Elon).

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      This completely blew over me I've been embedded in culture war shit that sucked out my soul for months. What happend to RFB?

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          This writeup of the causes sums up what I mean about their exemplary work, this is exceptionally well written. Such an incredible shame, I will stand by their theory work over the years as having been a cut above every other party. Perhaps that was because of the lack of physical organising due to inexperience driving them to debate too much and turn to written works, but it was a visible strength that caused people to take notice of them. They consistently improved their physical presence and organising over the years and I do believe they would have improved further.

          Guess I'll have to keep an eye out for the next one, the issues that caused RFB to form haven't gone away so I expect to see another. For the time being I guess "terf island" has absolutely no exceptions.

          What seems to be missing in this writeup however is a set of actionable changes in approach that would have prevented this from occurring.

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            What seems to be missing in this writeup however is a set of actionable changes in approach that would have prevented this from occurring.

            i could give them a couple of tips having interacted with some members
            answer emails from people who aren't baby faced uni kids and actually have experience organising
            not being radioactively middle class

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              I think the class issue is likely because most recruitment was coming from predominantly online, likely as a result of the large number of trans people that started it having an affinity to the internet like most trans people do who turn to tech and the internet to hide themselves away.

              I'm more talking about fundamental organisational changes though. Structure or positions that would be simple for the org to change when an error occurs and protect the wider org from collapse.

              The main problem appears to have been 1 person having too much control of critical infrastructure though, I suspect this person's control of the infrastructure was likely what paralysed them from acting but it's unclear.

                • Awoo [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  My conspiracy theory will be that the accused is a fed

                  I also went to this thought with the way it played out. They built critical infrastructure to the party and inserted themselves as crucial to it, ensuring their permanent presence in important circles. We know for a fact that feds have joined obscure marxist reading groups as small as 5 people here in the UK, which then went on to become the spy pregnancy scandal when members of that group went on to start a climate group.

                  It is a tactic to get into things very VERY early on where trust is extremely high due to being early. I wouldn't put it past them to build the infrastructure as a means of tying their presence and influence to it. You get a very strong method of keeping your presence around and if shit hits the fan you can blow everything up.

                  The disappointing thing here is that nobody thought they could rebuild it.

                    • Awoo [she/her]
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                      2 years ago

                      Yeah completely collapse of morale is probably a big factor here. Lack of motivation to get back up and push on. I understand but like... I've been doing this too fucking long now to not just keep on going. It's the only way. You just keep going. Every single day is another day of work for it all and we just have to keep going forwards.

                      These events are emotional and building the fortitude to keep going after they occur is a necessary part of our work too.