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.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, I really didn't like that half of the post. I mean cass was in the fucking trenches fighting transphobia every day and I respect her for that. o7 to a real one.

    But being like "oh and also I made a post and not enough people commented on it, which just goes to show how much you all suck" was, uh not good

      • Parzivus [any]
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        4 years ago

        Evidently long enough to throw the entire website into struggle central lol

    • lilpissbaby [any]
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      4 years ago

      yo, who's cass? is it like the real name of someone who was a poster here or something? im so lost rn

        • lilpissbaby [any]
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          4 years ago

          thank you for the context. i had seen confabulously's post but not any of the drama that happened before it bc i hadn't logged on in like a day or so. now things are starting to make more sense lol