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That was what helped me realize how ridiculous the sub was. That they considered it a victory for the workers every time some disphit techbro bragged about doubling his salary by changing his cakewalk job. It just looked like a hug box / sneer club to me. As I said before: a place for liberals to get their dopamine hits + use that moral outrage to think of themselves as radical despite not being part of any political project.

It’s not the same as being in person. It’s time-asynchronous, you aren’t using body language or tonality to communicate, and your level of investment is significantly lower. Compare going to hang out a neighbor’s house vs. texting them on social media. One of those is a bigger investment than the other, and people feel it.

If you enjoy living like this, whatever. It seems to be the new normal they want for us. But with the ‘ease’ of communication comes a drawback imo: i don’t think we care the same for someone we’ve only met online. For working together? It’ll be fine. For recruiting them into a risky political project? I doubt it will be very effective.

The 'inflation is good' stance around here drives me bananas. Like yeah, bread and gasoline and entertainment is now WAY more expensive and my wages haven't gone up but, conceptually, some investment banker is sweating because his APY% changed slightly. I've heard that rent is 21% more expensive since the pandemic -- it frustrates me to hear people talk about inflation like it's a good thing that benefits me.

I take a very dim view of online-only political work. Maybe those workers did feel good when reading examples of small victories. But there's no next level -- all they're doing is feeling good and righteous from reading stories, some of which were probably fake.

What's the alternative? In-person stuff: tenants unions are something I'm impressed by right now -- stuff that gets you moving and meeting people in real life with real stakes. You could argue 'well we can do both' but I don't see the online stuff as leading anywhere.

To me, it's like the belief that, "Oh, canvassing for politicians is useful because it teaches people social / organizational skills!" But the situation of asking someone to vote for Bernie Sanders are much different than asking them to participate in a rent strike or direct action. Antiwork is similar to my mind, as would be campaigning for Bernie Sanders. You'd probably even hear the same sort arguments from its advocates: "Maybe this won't get us up the hill, specifically, but we're building the possibility of something in the future."

Fierce disagree. Putting aside the almost inevitable fact it would be overrun by feds / liberals (assuming it wasn't from the get-go!), I don't see value in a bunch of atomized people logging onto a surveilled website and getting their dopamine hits by reading about how much it sucks to work at Walmart.

It had quite a lot of smug libs who boasted about making $80k - $200k+ for their do-nothing jobs -- people who are a billion times more likely to support a rightwing project than a leftwing one. It's a loss in the sense that Warren ending her campaign was a loss, imo.

I haven't really hung out there but

Any leftwing cause that makes its home on reddit is lost from its very first moment.

It was purely a place where liberals could read dunks and then feel like they're revolutionaries for upvoting them. Any leftwing cause that makes its home on reddit is lost from its very first moment.

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Lol @ everyone who thought that lockdowns would lead to a baby boom

There’s always rules for thee

It is a fundamentally new thing. It’s a super machine that can sniff every interaction every person has on one of the most-used communication platforms. And it can robo-police all media with minimal human input and maximum effect on the downstream — that’s dystopian enough for me to call it a new thing even if media has been censored in the past.

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The stimulus dried up and unemployment ran out and the only message coming from the top was, “Back to work, you! Oh but get a vaccine we’re all in this together :avoheart:”

Gas prices, rent prices, food prices are all distressingly high. I predict it will be trivially easy for Republicans to say “all this bad stuff is happening because Dems went woke!” And Dems won’t have a thing to say except “No, we hate that woke stuff too!”

They squandered their first 100 days ‘negotiating’ with a bad-faith actor who only told them no and would, as a rule, give them 20% of whatever they asked for.

It made them look irredeemably weak. Now, people are suffering and there’s a very clear group to blame: the Democrats who couldn’t deliver results with a fucking trifecta.

The comfie libs won’t hear it; their income properties continue to appreciate and I understand most of them got raises. But it’s a lousy place to be if you are trying to run on the D ticket in 2022.

I think the Democrats split the bill. Infrastructure bill passed, investing an amount of money that’s less than 1/3rd of California’s GDP for a single year then making the entire country draw from that pool over the course of ten years.

The Infrastructure Bill will widen highways and probably stuff pork in a lot of pockets. But the Build Back Better Bill was where they put all their aspirational stuff then got humiliated for months by Manchin as he told them, “No, mothers and children must starve because of the deficit.” They licked boot and compromised and demeaned themselves and now they’ll get nothing.

Quelle surprise

“imagine being so ashamed of your history you make it illegal to teach it to your own children.” - someone on twitter

I’m saying the concern might be felt honestly, but why does the person feel that way?

Did they have a bad experience on public transit, or maybe they had several bad experiences that drove them away? Sometimes. Mostly, the people who tell me how bad the public transit are people who haven’t taken it in years.

Around here, only poor / lower income workers take public transit. I’m told about the most heinous shit that I never see in all my days of riding by the people who wouldn’t take a bus as a last resort. For these reasons, I feel that the concern over public transit is a way of disciplining poor people and calling them criminals.