Nagarjuna

joined 4 years ago
[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

anti-work is right. Working (or volunteering) should not be a prerequisite to being in community. Even if you're getting all your surplus value. Shirking work under capitalism is a great way to keep yourself sane and healthy. That said, if you want to organize effectively, you've got to get people's respect, and that often means working hard.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Networking is another great case of "be normal." A lot of marxist orgs do it really badly. SAlt is a great example. They'll come up to you agitating on an issue and then pitch joining SAlt or coming to a SAlt-members-only rally. If you push them outside of their rapport structure they'll try to steer you back into it and it feels like you're talking to a salesman. Or like, a lot of Marxist orgs will just ask you to join or hand you a leaflet or newspaper and by the end of most protests I've got a stack of socialist pamphlets to throw away.

I think the best way to do it is "if you're interested in organizing on this particular issue, we're the folks to do it with" or "if you want to use this particular approach, come talk to us"

Protests aren't just networking events, they're also a show of power. If you're also organizing, the a protest is a way to say "these are all the people we can mobilize to fuck with you."

If you're doing direct action, a protest can be a way to do it en masse as propaganda of the deed. The anarchists who organized protests during the UC strikes and then took over buildings and erected blockades are a great example. By the end of the strike, many non anarchists were using the same tactics (much to the picket Marshall's dismay)

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

We can use ethnographic records to estimate hours worked. We can use N-15 content in bones to estimate protein intake. We can use teeth to estimate lifespan. Archaeologists are actually quit good at this stuff

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

My partner found a salt lamp on a dumpster run and was speculating that it wasn't really salt and just a pretty rock.

I did the natural thing and licked it to test.

I liked the dumpster rock.

It was in fact salt.

My aura's feeling cleansed AF rn.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

kwesa-dillah

You can not convince me anyone says this.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Everywhere with migrants has those.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (10 children)

This strikes me as mean spirited and targeted at the wrong people. Like, Zelensky, Putin, than Azov battalion are fair to joke about, but this feels like crossing a line.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'd watch this capeshit.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Latin, Yiddish or Hebrew, right? Maybe even French or German?

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Weed is still kinda taboo for people over 45 or so. We know different boomers lol

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

My liberal parents are like "television news is all propaganda" but also "so I was listening to NPR and..."

"Our local paper takes the side of big business" but also "the NYT and WaPo are the last bastions of democracy in this age of division"

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Now we know the answer to the question: could god create a wrestler so good she could pin god?

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