Nagarjuna [he/him] @ Nagarjuna @hexbear.net

We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.

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A teamsters is a truck driver, a stevador is someone who loads and unloads cargo off ships who's stationed at a port, and a merchant marine is someone who loads and unloads cargo but is stationed on a ship.

Did you mean to write stevadore?

Two things: if a post is doing well, give it a vote even if you wouldn't normally, let's boost our presence in the fediverse and lure in more libs.

Second: mods, give us more time to engage the libs before you ban them. It's no fun if they're banned before they can get throughly ppb'd

The regulations are so bad because the landlords buisness owners smashed the unions and the organized left.

The only way we're going to unfuck the situation is by building up those institutions. So contact CWA and organize your IT job, and join the DSA. It's how we won the minimum wage in the first place, its how we're gonna win a living wage, paid sick leave, universal Healthcare, and more.

Because good regulations aren't handed down by congress, they're forced on it by the grassroots.

Something that feels illegal but you can buy it in a gas station.

Super excited that my box of whippits just federated with your kratom

We're at the stage in humor where instead of telling jokes, we're conditioning ourselves to laugh at an increasingly horrifying reality.

It was a throw-away gag riffing on "socially liberal, economically conservative" not an accurate assessment of this site's opinions lol.

This forum after years of struggle is fairly ideologically consistent: Socially anarchist, Economically Dengist.

Let's put it this way: the parks in Portland are nice, but they will never compare to the nature immediately outside of Bellingham. Like, a bike polo court and some trees is nice, but when I lived in a place where I could drive to the north cascades it was just better. There's something about immersion in nature that is life changing.

This is an argument for federative organizing for sure, although, kind of atypically for an anarchist I'm centralization-agnostic.

But in the land reform example, it says that after you do land reform, the peasants no longer have a reason to follow the vanguard because they can produce for themselves.

Imo this isn't an argument against vanguardism, it's just an argument for being careful about how you do land reform and the importance of setting up institutions of collective self management in the process.

Like, centralization can help us win, especially if we need to strike a coordinated blow. There's a reason anarchists of the early 20th century called for "one big union."

To draw on Graeber and Wengrow maybe central vs federal isn't as important as the flexibility to switch between the two as you need.