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Take a look at my babies:
Cute!
I’m in Guatemala.
Cool
There’s some sort of constant anger caused by turning communist that I can’t really seem to deal with. I feel like I can’t always channel it into positive energy for organizing and it sometimes burns me out.
Municipality elections will be in three weeks and we have a good chance of winning in my city. Polls have us at 25% of the votes. So even though organizing feels painfully slow, we do have the figures to show us it is working.
“we have a good chance of winning in my city.”
That’s great! And yeah, organizing is always painfully slow, in my book.
Anger burns you out.
Every. Time.
It doesn’t drive you; it does the opposite. It’s not a drive, but a bumper.
I’m also worried about winning the election and getting in a possible position of power.
My main reason is that we will never get >50% and we will have to form a coalition with socdems, greens and possibly christian democrats at best. I’ve voiced my concerns about this on several occasions but I never got a clear answer for the tactics behind a coalition like that. I’m all for building a party and I understand that in this system we need to make concessions. But it’s another thing to ask your marxist members to defend electoral politics and possible bad takes you will have when governing. The point I’m trying to make is that I’m not wanting to become the thing we are currently fighting against. And the party’s vagueness isn’t helping with that.
Another thing I’m concerned about is the naivety when it comes to defending yourself against counter attacks from the neolibs and the far right. And I don’t mean just through the media either. We are talking about the second largest city in the country which is the home to the second largest port in Europe and the second largest port for petrochemical production/transportation in the world. It is an absolutely crucial city in terms of global supply chains. There is no way in hell our capitalist class and those of other countries are going to let a marxist party govern a city like that. And while I’m sure we can put up a good fight against media campaigns against us, I’m still a bit worried things might get out of hand, possibly even physical seeing how the far right already has militias ready to go.
Yeah, being prepared for a position of power is… something.
What about “parallel” organizing? There are other means of building political power the party could focus on or support. Union organizing, tenants unions, strikes, protests, etc. Building power outside the government could help create the pressure needed to push changes within it.
Inside-outside strategy always works, imho
You need to fire on all cylinders.
Support your candidate, but also, help unions and the needy.
Indeed, I think a party should have both a parliamentary and an extraparliamentary wing that can strengthen and control eachother. As long as the party is involved in the streets revisionism at the parliamentary level is less likely. Just look at Graz in Austria, where the communist party is governing together with Greens and SocDems and they still have a lot of support and still stay true to their ideals.
That’s awesome, I hadn’t heard of Graz before.
Sure, and I hope a thing like that will happen. I guess every communist party at one point has to ask themselves these questions when they have a chance of getting in power. But at the same time being pragmatic should only go to a certain length before you start dropping your ideals and I hope we can prevent that.
Even if they manage to destroy the airforce (something Russia didn’t do to Ukraine) the U.S. will just lend them or bomb by themselves
That will force the US to engage in a way they did not want to, right now they are able to have the lease plausable of plausable denyabilities, once they engage all of that is out of the window, and they cannot claim the defender roll
Ugh. Definitely possible, although that would be a change from the current US position of pretending it’s restraining “israel” to being directly involved.
Is there some way to just subscribe to all the communities (or see the posts as such) from another instance? I want to move my acc to Hexbear for the better emojis (and seeing things as local, tbh it’d be really nice if one could set more than one instance as viewed in locals, idk)
Yea, I also moved to Hexbear to view everything on local, and the emojies. I don’t really use Lemmygrad anymore.
Is there some way to just subscribe to all the communities
There might be.
long technical explanation
If you export your settings, edit the file such that “followed_communities” has all communities you want to be subscribed to, then (wait so it doesn’t give you an error, then) import the edited file, it should have you subscribed to all the communities you added.
To get all communities I’d use the api, i.e. https://hexbear.net/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&limit=50&page=1, then copy the raw text into https://regexr.com/, make the regex
"actor_id":"(.*?)"and use the List tool with"$1",(see screenshot), copy the output into a text file, open the next page on the api and go on like that until the api returns blank.screenshot
Thanks, I’ll try that later!
gonna be honest i only wear a mask when i go to densely populated places like a supermarket, most of the time i dont wear a mask. My job is open air (in agriculture) so i dont wear a mask most of the time.
As someone who lives in hell (suburbia) I feel you. I’ve actually pretty much never seen heavily populated places except school and China.
I found out about the struggle session during the aftermath and made me feel guilty lol but not everyone lives in the same conditions.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
opo
Hope you do as well :)
innuendo spoiler
Cute ass!
But in all seriousness, incredibly cute donkey. And what expressive ears!
I 2 want funny video from Oppo, otherwise how am I going to have a nie swiek?
Am I never allowed to have a Meh week, some weeks I just want a Meh week
Meh week? Not possible now 😆
:D
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That’s pretty much my kid’s energy all day!
You too oppo :D
U2
Umm… That’s clearly a dog
Beautiful! Where is that?
Does anybody else think that Dan Osborn sounds suspiciously like a protofascist?
At first he seems okay: he is a labor union leader with some proletarian experience, he supports a minimum wage, accessible abortions, is critical of corporations, he opposes a Republican candidate, and he is even interested in protecting some undocumented workers. So far, so good.
Then looking into his policies, that was when I started worrying: he supports small businesses, he favors stricter border control, and he brags about his military background. Although he does not appear to own a business, his wife works as a general manager of a bar and grill in Omaha. There is also this:
When I learn that somebody has a military background, it tends to concern me but it is not necessarily a major obstacle to cooperation either. When somebody has a military background and misrepresents small business as an alternative to big business, that is when my alarm bells go off. I know that Osborn seems moderate or innocent now, but I’ll be unsurprised if his politics evolve the same way that Oswald Mosley’s did. Call me paranoid if you must.
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Have a good week
You too :D
Thank you Oppo
You too, Oppo!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
