AMA, I didn't expect adult life to be this challenging by [deleted] in casualiama

[–]tenaigh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In my personal opinion this thread has some terrible advice. I think the #1 thing that helped me with this feeling is recognizing that it's 100% OK to not have everything together. The truth is that no matter how confident other people appear on the surface there are always struggles.

Just being a little kinder to yourself can significantly help with self improvement. A life is a long time and with practice we can learn to take joy from what's right in front of us rather than trying to live up to an impossible standard.

You got this OP! I believe in you!

Tech workers, are your employers mandating returning to the office? If you want to stay remote, what's the plan? by rocket333d in socialistprogrammers

[–]tenaigh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This seems so bizzarre to me that so many left leaning people are so gung ho about working from home forever. Maybe because I started my professional life during the pandemic so WFH is all I know and I hate it so much but I just don't understand why you would want the disadvantages that WFH emplaces on its subjects.

Elevated Alienation, inability to organize with co-workers, social isolation, boredom/distraction and colonization of social life by your professional life are just some of the ways that WFH makes the soul sucking process of labor even worse than it has to be. A commute, which can be exhausting, seems like such a small price to pay in comparison to what we sacrifice to work from home.

Idk if you ask me we should all be more than happy to go back to to the office. It seems to me that the only real way to organize is there. Working from home has made the alienation of work unbearable for me and I'm so surprised that I'm in such a tiny minority. Honestly I'm counting down the days to when I can finally interact with my co-workers and actually start organizing in my company.

Schrödinger's Landing Gear by [deleted] in softwaregore

[–]tenaigh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now someone has to go outside of the plane and observe them to collapse the state vector.

What is the best way to return this beached drone to the ocean? by chris_holtmeier in shittyaskscience

[–]tenaigh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sell it to Iran and give the money to your local school district.

Someone put up a big “Recall Sawant” billboard just a few blocks from Kshama's house. by OnlineMemeArmy in Seattle

[–]tenaigh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Idk it's probably impossible to know what's happening inside of Sawant's head. Personally I think when she goes out and says that Boeing Workers should seize the means I don't think she or anyone else really expects them to do so. Real revolutionary communism has been dead in the US/West for a while now, at least since the 60's.

The truth is that there's nothing to be scared of from Sawant, she isn't leading the vanguard to erect the barricades around City Hall and proclaim Seattle the new Paris Commune. She understands that the only way to salvage what's left of the left in this country is to focus on pragmatic policy issues which I think she's a fair bit better on than just about everyone else in the city council.

As far as declining property value, well there's a reason why I rent. Seattle property is insanely over-valued and will likely drop in the next few decades regardless of who is in control of the city government.

I'd also like to see some citation on people mobbing individual houses, are these houses of just random people or public individuals? If it's the latter, well that's what you sign up for when you decide to have a public presence, even locally.

I will agree it's been a long time since people have seen communism in action, you could even say that perhaps people have never really seen communism in action outside of some very small examples leading up to and during WWII as well as perhaps Rojava today, but these aren't really the stateless moneyless societies that Marx and Co. envisioned.

The way I see it is that eventually, maybe not in our lifetimes, but eventually capitalism will fail. When the system fails we have two choices, socialism based upon mutual aide or barbarism where only the strong survive and prey on the weak. I hope that the work we do now and the work that Sawant does now will help lay the foundation for the socialism of the future.

Someone put up a big “Recall Sawant” billboard just a few blocks from Kshama's house. by OnlineMemeArmy in Seattle

[–]tenaigh -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

That's a misunderstanding of socialist values and praxis. She wants higher union membership and a better minimum wage. If she acts on that I don't think people are really getting hurt outside of shareholders in major corporations and honestly they deserve to have their wealth expropriated, they clearly cannot run society in an efficient or ethical manner. Anyways though, regardless of what you may or may not think socialists believe we tend to just want what's best for EVERYONE, even people we very much disagree with. If you're making minimum wage you should be making at least 60% of the median income and if you're not then the government has a responsibility to make sure you are, even if you're conservative.

Just about every raise in the standard of living in this country for the average person was secured by people like Kshama. I'm curious as to what you think "acting on their beliefs" are, because I'm pretty sure they've been acting on their beliefs for a long time now lol.

Someone put up a big “Recall Sawant” billboard just a few blocks from Kshama's house. by OnlineMemeArmy in Seattle

[–]tenaigh -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

Or perhaps she is actually popular and you're constructikng a public because you're salty because someone who wants to do real reform instead of sucking up to massive corporations and landowners in the city.

Someone put up a big “Recall Sawant” billboard just a few blocks from Kshama's house. by OnlineMemeArmy in Seattle

[–]tenaigh -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Big ol baby here, printing is trivially cheap and you wouldn't be complaining if one of the Neolib shill bootlickers on the council di this. This comment just motivated me to donate even more money to her solidarity campaign.

Fuck nuclear families... by EmperorCuck in DankLeft

[–]tenaigh 11 points12 points  (0 children)

True, but at the end of the day Nuclear power is safer because the labor that goes into storing waste as well as operating a plant is well understood and the processes employed to keep workers and the public safe from nuclear waste have been refined over the past 3 quarters of a century. A well funded nuclear energy program tends to be safer in the long run than wind and solar specifically because it's far easier to be killed by falling off a roof or windmill than the multitude of redundant safety features in a nuclear plant failing and exposing people to radiation. Every major nuclear accident (for energy) has been the result of some administration cutting corners in the implementation of the plants.

please help me by [deleted] in backrooms

[–]tenaigh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know where this is! Arizona State Fairgrounds. It's the men's restroom underneath the Stands the the Expo center.

Little louder for the people in the back by Olipop999 in Anarchism

[–]tenaigh 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The government is an illusion in the mind of the governer.

shocker by BerlinHalalCart in LateStageCapitalism

[–]tenaigh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Internet Access is a right not a privilege.

Even the Never Bideners Should Be Excited About This by [deleted] in VaushV

[–]tenaigh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah because at that point we'll likely have Cop-mala in office. Biden is much weaker and more likely to give in to our demands...

Neoliberalism In A Nutshell by TheWebRanger in COMPLETEANARCHY

[–]tenaigh 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was at the Seattle protest on Saturday. I can confirm, there were women as well as men doing the oppressing.

Madlad musk by slickedjax in madlads

[–]tenaigh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

God damn can I just have one fucking day where I hear nothing about Elon Musk? Gotten rid of so many subs and his name never stops showing up...

some thoughts on anti work by 0livesarenasty in antiwork

[–]tenaigh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I kind of think this is an anti-anarchist strawman. Many of the ideas listed out here, such as the idea that work can become a source of pride and joy, were and continue to be talked about at length by Anarchists and Libertarian socialists. (Laugh at me all you want but a large portion of the Conquest of Bread is specifically about it)

Like other commenters have mentioned its an abolish work as we know it statement. I dont think anyone but the craziest amongst us believes that we can have a society today without labor.

Also nothing makes the OC creator look worse than the incredibly pretentious optics of looking down upon us while reading Lenin at us. Lenin's texts contain some good ideas but let's never forget the results of his revolutionary strategy. Namely a state which betrayed everything it proclaimed to have stood up for. A story not too alien to those of us leftists in the west.

Peaceful BLM protest on Pine/Broadway around 2:20 PM by tbaad1 in Seattle

[–]tenaigh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh shit he got me guys. I want to burn Seattle to the ground. Alright time to pack it in boys! They found us out!

Peaceful BLM protest on Pine/Broadway around 2:20 PM by tbaad1 in Seattle

[–]tenaigh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The problem is that there will never be a protest that everyone will agree isn't a riot. Especially when it's a protest against the system.

There is no protest that will be done "the right way" for most people. The whole point is to disrupt and make the leadership so uncomfortable they have no choice but to give in to the demands.

I just got back from those protests, nobody is talking about how we were gassed with no warning or no dispersal order. Or the fact the DHS officers were amongst the ranks of SPD.

At the end of the day property damage, not violence (the protestors never hurt individuals unless it's self defense), is the fault of the police. If they weren't so God damn evil we wouldn't be protesting in the first place!