i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said “your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising” one of the tags responding said “this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome” like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There’s a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn’t getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There’s a difference between whom you’re helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you’re choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don’t have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don’t like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you’re serious about leftist organizing.
Shoutout to that time someone posted this on one of my servers and multiple people were going “this is exclusionary to people who don’t drink/are allergic to dogs, also it is ableist to expect me to understand the concept of an analogy”
Like yes ok I would definitely have neither 2 beers with you nor leave a puppy with any of you
this is a Nazca ceramic vessel from the ica region of Peru made anywhere between 200 bce and 600 ce but don’t you feel like you could log on to any website today and see this face as someone’s avatar. pre-Columbian rantsona
I just looked this up. Nazca pottery is just Like That.
These are just all the most Tumblr-ass webcomic characters ever and they’re all from 800BC
once I did an Americorps position & I won’t get into exact details but two months in my one other coworker & I were rly frustrated bc we weren’t doing anything in our job description or the contract we signed whatsoever & instead we were basically being used as extremely underpaid retail staff and slowly the ppl in charge of us were cornering us more and more into that until I was finally like okay….what the hell? I opened up the work contract I signed and realized I hadn’t done a single thing listed in my role so I sent a long (professionally worded) complaint email to Americorps and they called me an hour later in total outrage because it turned out the work we were being made to do was explicitly prohibited by the program and we were being 100% exploited for cheap labor and the very next day we got a new supervisor and spent the rest of our year doing what we signed up to do and it rocked.
*lying at a job interview voice* yeah i can sing all of the lyrics of American Pie by Don McLean. WITHOUT slipping into the weird al version. easy
did you write the book of love and do you have faith in God above? If the Bible tells you soooo and did you see him hitting on the queen though he’s just – FUCK
i get the idea of wanting more characters who are 30+ because of the media’s obsession with youth, particularly in regards to women, but also like, I’m only 31 and I’m already so fuckin tired, y’all. let the 20-somethings go on life-and-death adventures and find themselves. their knees still work. they can handle it.
this isn’t even just for action-adventure plots, either. i couldn’t be in a romcom because the most will-they-won’t-they I’m capable of these days is “will I get off the couch and go to bed or won’t I just fall asleep with the tv on?” if I left the house long enough to have a meet-cute with a charming man who’s afraid of commitment because of his tragic part, I simply would not text him back. not even because i’m smarter and wiser now, but because I simply do not have the energy for that sort of shenaniganary any more.
amhrancas 