They should make scarves instead

Lmao

I guess I wasnt clear, she doesnt have cancer anymore though idk if she ever got a follow up after surgery. I just dont know if I would’ve tried to talk to her again if it werent for that when I learned about it.

She is just really emotionally fucked up and super unpredictable and when I see her I try not to talk about politics anymore but she HAS to fuckin bring shit up. And I can’t stay quiet, but then it turns to screaming and she doesnt listen, and she WILL fist fight me and beat my ass if I don’t stand down. She’s like a “used to run with Hells Angels and dated the biggest drug dealers in the county” type. And she wasnt around for a lot of my childhood and so I have a bunch of attachment shit so its really hard to think of cutting her off again. Especially if she does get sick again she won’t let me know about it, even if it were terminal I’m sure. But like, I just dont know if I can be around someone who stands for this person she doesnt even know shit about who is so hateful and has stoked so much fucking violence in this country. But I barely have friends or other family so that makes it harder

Thanks dude, I appreciate it. I’ve tried hard to just avoid talking politics as much as I can but she always brings some dumb ass shit up. Wish I could let it slide

I was really hoping she wouldn’t care, but just found out my mom has a fucking “I stand with Charlie Kirk” hat. She’s an apolitical Gen Xer turned conservative that really doesnt understand what the fuck she’s talking about, and I know she doesn’t really stand for what they stand for but her brain is being fucking poisoned and she’s so insanely hard headed and just won’t listen to me no matter what I do.

I went no contact for a while during the George Floyd uprisings because she just would not listen to me no matter how patiently I tried to explain things and engage with her… but my brother told me she had cancer several months later so we started talking again.

I feel so stupid to be fucking crying over a stupid hat but I just know there’s nothing I can do, and I just don’t know if I can have a relationship with her anymore. I try hard to just not bring up politics when I see her but she always has to fucking pick at me so…idk. This really sucks.

Free parking signs??

Holy shit I was on instagram today and a therapist I follow made a post that said “Do leftists hate joy?” because of Mamdani criticisms. There were some people straight up pathologizing and psychoanalyzing leftists. Kinda scary shit

Okay but Sliwa seems like a pretty good stand in for Harry tbh

Thats a quesadilla!!

I have folks that I’m in touch with, but I think everyone is so dispersed because there are like 50 different things going on so there aren’t many people who are focusing their energy on working together to create a cohesive plan and I’m new to the scene so it kind of feels very disorganized.

Definitely, been on signal for a while. I do love the layout of discord but know not to use it

Definitely. And at the time I didn’t really think to dig into Bernie’s positions on particular things. I had done it in the past with other politicians but I was limited in my ability to really find out what I wanted to know so it would take me hours and hours of searching to really figure out my position on politicians. My first election was for Obama’s first term and even then I was like “man all of these candidates are saying a lot of nothing but I GUESS his platform is the best”… So after that, with Bernie’s rhetoric it was easy to ride the wave and not put the effort in since even his milquetoast positions were way more radical

Pls share with the class when you’re done

Oh definitely, I guess I just mean that it was better a failure than a success because it accelerated my political development past electoralism into (striving towards) principled marxism

I had flirted with Marx and felt inspired by socialist movements in Latin America prior, but the Bernie and AOC shit sent me off the rails for sure. I think that if Bernie had won, his mask would’ve slipped eventually and I would have ended up on a similar path, but it would’ve probably taken another 5-10 years for me to get where I am now, which STILL isn’t terribly far.

(not maoist)

Well there’s your problem lol

You did not respond to Chana, you deliberately sidestepped Chana’s question with another question and are claiming victory by being smug, condescending, and pointing fingers and screaming “REDDITOR!!!” at anyone challenging you. Very mature.

Dope I will check that group out that’s perfect. Thanks for that advice. I guess the biggest thing with lowest risk is just to make as much noise as possible. Obviously not always the case but it seems like with even just a large group observing they are less likely to be as violent as they would otherwise

No I totally get where you’re coming from and you are correct. Just feeling very desperate right now and I don’t think this kind of thing is something that our community has really come up against before so I think anyone in organizing circles really knows how to cohesively address everything. I might ask to have the post purged, thanks for being thoughtful about it

lmao thank you for your encouragement

Same here. Started at the hearings office and they have had one or two raids…Now it seems that it’s really starting to escalate and get ugly here.

Yeah, after I made this post I had the thought that maybe it was silly to make it in the first place. Though I’m not necessarily asking for illegal advice.

And yes, I see that other communities have been doing these things rather successfully but how do I learn from them? Just try to read as much news and watch as many instagram reels as I can, I guess?