I think this really is it. A sex worker (to use one example )can become part of a mass movement, but if they do so outside of literal armed conflict their participation doesn’t actively compromise the system. They can, by joining an organization, perhaps participate in solidarity and eventually acts of praxis and violence, but opposed to workers shutting down factories it really is night and day.

If every sex worker were organized it would be a better world. But compared to organizing every McDonald’s worker (where their mass withholding of labor would be noticeable at scale and strike terror in the heart of the average burger lander), it’s less potent organizing when you’re talking about destroying the system.

I should be clear - this is not to be the Taylor Lorenz straw man about disabled people. Instead, it’s a recognition that to capitalism, the disabled (when without work) are not “worth” what a productive worker is. They can provide visibility, solidarity, and participate in violence, but they don’t ever have the potential to threaten the system the way an organized working class can. If every disabled person marched tomorrow there might be headlines, but absent solidarity from labor nothing would fundamentally change

It’s the hexbear flag

Same. I’ll admit, I bungled 3.

Just want to say: my partner’s mother makes ponche, and I fucking love it. It’s truly exceptionally delicious.

The Fastpass thing is so interesting - originally a great innovation (increases ride thorouput/efficiency and guest experience), and then eventually just enshittified/paywalled to oblivion.

Amazing stuff really - it’s funny they built the technology to uhhh… kill people?

Not quite - Defunctland is always good on explaining the Disney hagiography is exaggerated (one of his videos is about the drunken debauchery/sexism of early Disney, and he recognizes the theme parks as a direct response to unionization - timestamp).

It’s also more about the shift from animatronics to this other “living characters” thing and reanimation (the previous 1.5 hr video lol). It’s really good, but you gotta be into things like mechanical turks and such.

Yeah some of those applications were insane. It’s funny how the technology kinda peaks with Turtle Talk with Crush - it’s a genuinely effective show, tries to build awareness about the oceans a bit, and is fun “magic”. The room also has AC, so it’s superior to the Walt Fest.

I really like how he explains how the work of R&D to create this cool stuff gets devoured/diminished by “operations” and their desire to turn a profit. Talking Mickey costs 4 cast members, let’s just do the silent one that needs 2.

I love the deep dive into a topic that’s very niche.

The same reason I love “The King of Kong”

It’s a “Both and” situation for sure, but labor organizing allows for real resistance as well - as just an example, if Mamdani builds a vanguard of union members, he can leverage their labor as another tool of power (e.g. strikes in resistance to federal incursion is actually probably the only way to resist the violence of the state).

I will say, more unions need to coordinate though. I’m lucky to be at a workplace with other unions (including teamsters), and getting rid of no-sympathy-strike clauses and building cross-union solidarity is obviously another important avenue for building power.

I really hate it. It would be like watching Pulp Fiction out of order - there’s a REASON that the final act (and final scenes in the diner) take place chronologically BEFORE the middle of the movie. We hear Vincent’s speeches to Jules in a different light knowing he will die.

Release order is the only choice, I really don’t understand why you’d want to watch things “chronologically” when release order always works - sometimes the only reason a prequel is good is because you know what happens (dramatic irony…).

I saw some insane chart about Tenchi once, where there’s an additional wrinkle where there’s 3 timelines based on the different creators/authors involved. There you might make some small adjustments to “release order”, but it’s literally because once you have different directors/creators, then you’re starting a “new” release product.

I was under the impression the YPG was socialist but I guess I am not as educated on this as I thought

Remember that brace actually joined armed struggle in Syria.

I think he can have some podcaster money as a treat.

They’re comrades, but use a lot of irony.

Remember that brace actually joined armed struggle in Syria.

I think he can have some podcaster money as a treat.

They’re comrades, but use a lot of irony.

Manga: The 100 Girlfriends who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You - the most recent kanojo is a great addition, the slice of chapters remain amazing, and don’t forget, we’re getting season 3 of the anime.

Spoilers for Anime-only watchers.

Anime: Finishing up New Panty and Stocking. Just watched the F F land episode, great shit.

Hexbear won’t like it though

Comrade, I’m SHAFT’s number one fedaykin here. Though obviously you gotta CW the fact that their work is almost always unapologetically horny, Shinbo Style (though the best example is Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei) is always a visual treat. The Hitagi Crab arc is great, though the final of the original broadcast (the one with the “date” to the field) is my favorite stand out episode.

If there is, I’m not in it lol. We’re a pretty small and quiet comm.

That would be how I’d envision it as well. Starting from a “first principle” is always good. It’s a bit long/dense, but god, I just started re-reading and it remains so good.

As soon as the native begins to pull on his moorings, and to cause anxiety to the settler, he is handed over to well-meaning souls who in cultural congresses point out to him the specificity and wealth of Western values. But every time Western values are mentioned they produce in the native a sort of stiffening or muscular lockjaw. During the period of decolonization, the natives’s reason is appealed to. He is offered definite values, he is told frequently that decolonization need not mean regression, and that he must put his trust in qualities which are welltried, solid, and highly esteemed. But it so happens that when the native hears a speech about Western culture he pulls out his knife–or at least he makes sure it is within reach. The violence with which the supremacy of white values is affirmed and the aggressiveness which has permeated the victory of these values over the ways of life and of thought of the native mean that, in revenge, the native laughs in mockery when Western values are mentioned in front of him.

I actually might have the power to make you a mod, I’m going to try now.

It seems it worked. Enjoy your mod powers here, and just be sure to moderate the anti-sectarian rules since I think that’s the real key.

Pinned this for now.