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 @user-753 
 
 the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
 we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
 (like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from
 a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply
 themselves with a single voice.
 
 community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help
 but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
 open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
 
 community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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 One takeaway I learned is that it is vital that we have strong community
 bonds. Not just a healthy community where you can walk outside and see
 friendly faces, but you have to know people.
 
 Whether that's achieved through some kind of revolutionary vanguard party or
 whatever, or just... being together and learning and growing to sing one
 lifetime of song, either way we need each other.
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 but we, being united in our shared common societal solidarity, as in the
 shared struggles and hopes that we have, perceive each and every things that
 passes through us. Our thoughts. These, we
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 @user-1074 
 
 yeah, workin' on it...
 
 building "community" whatever that means
 
 seems to be important enough to people that they'd consider it necessary prior
 to any "hot" action
 
 which, like, yeah, I get, but what they don't know is that community springs
 up naturally in the presence of shared experience. And if people are suddenly
 tasked with something then they're gonna make friends. They're gonna draw
 allegiances. Basically every alignment we make now is useless because the
 whole point is to force people to govern themselves.
 
 ... why won't you take your liberty, liberals? where's your spirit?
 
 oh yeah you want community first. Right. workin' on it...
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 @user-1074 
 
 gotta start somewhere! and where better to start than here? someplace people
 are familiar with, because "here", while not shared equally or equidistantly,
 is still common enough knowledge that people can feel comfortable with some
 slight, yet incredibly impactful, alterations.
 
 ... though "comfort" in the short-term isn't always the most important thing.
 I do believe it can be useful sometimes. How are you going to get people to
 consent to something if they don't think it helps them, and how can you show
 them that it helps them if it makes them uncomfortable?
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 the art of propaganda is being in the right social media place at the right
 time with the right things to share. Sometimes you have to blend in, that's
 okay. The words are what are important, if you think "huh yeah true, where's
 the lie though" then maybe it'll not be such a betrayal.
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║ socialism doesn't necessarily look like the DSA. It's more like, the bonds you   │
║ share with others. Ideally you can trust your fellow countrymen, but that's      │
║ not always a given. Alas, if only we could see that through cooperation (it is   │
║ the key) we could reach further and build brighter? casting ourselves inward     │
║ is the only other option, which leads to starvation and plight. What's the       │
║ honest opinion, what's the goal of their dominion? Are they true to the heart    │
║ [of the night/light/in their heart]?                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ downside, there's no guarantee that your opposite is doing the same thing you    │
║ are. So to more fairly determine your direction, you should be able to talk to   │
║ them and co-re-align yourselves.                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ is that why they don't let people in jail talk to each other? I mean, like,      │
║ they could keep two people separate, and that way they'd never be able to talk   │
║ to someone who they could trust. Not in a private setting, of course. Wow,       │
║ such ethical confusions, such thoughts we dare to bring to bear - maybe save     │
║ it for after the revolut                                                         │
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 I know it's not like that but I'm intentionally framing it that way to make a
 point about societal exclusion.
 
 nobody should be excluded.
 
 nobody should have to harm their friends to come by making them sacrifice
 their [time/labor/paycheck] in order to bring them along.
 
 we live in a post scarcity society that insists on commodification of
 everything
 
 we don't have to. A better world is within reach. It sits there, twinkling
 like asbestos resting at the base of a snowglobe, while we search and ponder
 and endlessly analyze how society sucks.
 
 there is nothing left to analyze. all that we need is to put our hands to a
 task and our feet to grass.
 
 the rest will come, and it'll come easier with time and focused attention.
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║ it's not about what we can do now, for each other, when we're powerless and      │
║ out of arms.                                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ instead, think about how great we could be together, if our material problems    │
║ were suddenly made vanished.                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ I WOULD HELP SO MANY PEOPLE. Literally just... walking down the street, "hey     │
║ do you need anything?"-ing my way down the street, waiting for something to go   │
║ wrong.                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ but generally, things will go right. Because people aren't stupid, they'll do    │
║ what they've always done. Just, with a new thing here, one fewer thing there,    │
║ etc. All jobs are errands, perhaps with a bit of problem solving here or there.  │
║                                                                                  │
║ everyone's all like "buy guns and ammo" but that's dumb. You should be buying    │
║ kigurumis so the pokemon corps can know who they are.                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... a uniform.                                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ (a kigurumi is sorta like a onesie in that it hides your body and it's shape     │
║ while also allowing for freedom of movement and a type expression for when it    │
║ doesn't matter what kind of extra flair you have because you're a sylveon, or    │
║ a pikachu, or a bulbasaur, or radish...                                          │
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 people seek to manifest their desired results in the principles of the people
 who they are engaged with. that is a reframing of the idea that people engage
 in
 conversation to sway their partner to their side of an argument.
 
 however, when one person is like... way WAY ahead of the other, it's not
 because
 they have more confidence, but rather because they have learned the most
 independent of their partner.
 
 ... wait what was I saying?
 
 oh yeah supreme commander is a GREAT game because it teaches you to handle and
 address multiple different situations or tasks all at once. because no true
 strategist could ever be
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 on our current trajectory, the presidential election is already won.
 
 now we can get back to on-the-ground organizing, the part that actually
 improves life instead of maintaining our current (unethical) state.
 
 As long as our allies (liberals) continue to work, perhaps there may come a
 day when we can stand against them as friendly equals in the ballot box. But
 for now we are best known through friends and community rather than TV.
 
 I am optimistic in a way I haven't been for a while. I know that the more we
 speak, the more we share, the more they falter, the more people we can save
 from their vice grip of despair. There is no better world than the one we
 build together!
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 people gravitate toward other people who are in different situations but who
 feel the same.
 
 it's not always a bad thing to "talk past each other" - sometimes you just
 want to say how you feel.
 
 then again, if nobody can understand wtf you're talking about, then surely you
 are lost.
 
 all good ideas come at the cost of the second-most-favorable-option.
 
 all good ideas come at the cost of the current destination.
 
 [current, flawed,]
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║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility    │
║ deployment stations.                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what      │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at     │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension"                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations     │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any       │
║ social movement.                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing      │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But   │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like      │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are    │
║ generally always getting better...                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ so why should we always assume for the worst?                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold?   │
║ Seriously just... be chill                                                       │
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║ @user-883                                                                        │
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║ the future is what we make for ourselves.                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ there are endless problems to solve, yet hardly anyone around to fix them.       │
║                                                                                  │
║ If only we had a small group of people who could organize and say "hey. I need   │
║ someone to solve this particular problem" to a large group of people with        │
║ nothing to do and no bills to pay, I feel like we could get a lot done.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ alas, the problems that need solving are too specific and complex. Almost by     │
║ design, they've stripped us our capabilities to address the difficulties they    │
║ hoisted upon us. Alas! That we should be so morassed. But time and again our     │
║ ingenuity compels us.                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ I dream of a world where people like you and I have a purpose, something we      │
║ can apply ourselves to and eventually overcome. I subscribe to "grand            │
║ narratives", but frankly they're only of my own design. Does that make them      │
║ any less grand? I think not.                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ If I knew enough people perhaps I could be like that. I could direct and         │
║ organize and administer and manage and apply our guys. But alas I am just a      │
║ noob sigh.                                                                       │
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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 @user-324 @user-325 @user-326 
 
 thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of
 bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical
 processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation
 of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages
 of pain and the incongruencies of our nature.
 
 Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit.
 Perhaps another design is in order?
 
 (oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other
 examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the
 capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical
 resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system
 which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah
 probs, what should we do about it?)
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 when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't
 thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
 
 they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"
 
 they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime
 
 But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them.
 These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling
 society.
 
 what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken
 pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as
 your neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright.
 
 "but I don't have a community!"
 
 ... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on
 the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in
 parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks
 there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your
 feet, and urban when in a car

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 The distance between me and the majority of the rural folks in my state is
 larger than the distance between Seoul and Pyonyang. Kinda makes me think
 about how much of a gulf exists in our communication. If we can't share
 anything, then what separates us from them? Only the gulf of knowledge, the
 canyon that divides our companionship, the rift they use to keep us at odds.
 
 What purpose is there in it? If we're too busy fearing one another, we'll be
 too busy ignoring them to care.
 
 "communication is the essence of our liberation. Without communication, we are
 a failed nation."
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║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also         │
║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without            │
║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
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║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
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║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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 @user-1268 
 
 so true.
 
 I try to focus on uplifting the least privileged
 
 and highlighting the cruelty inherent in having privilege over others
 
 while safeguarding the things we all cherish as "communal privilege" like...
 running water, computers, and culture.
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 we could accomplish so much, but capitalism.
 
 hmmmm, maybe we should identify the highest output members of our team and
 like, reduce or eliminate their worries so they can apply themselves fully and
 completely?
 
 for every shackle we break, the struggle becomes easier. The hardest part is
 the beginning - once the ball is rolling, we may truly shine.
 
 there is no government nor circle of autocrats who may resist the will of an
 impassioned people. So long as the military does not deny us our right to
 organize ourselves as we will, according to the constitution they swore to
 uphold (which is now in peril, I might add), nothing can contain us.
 
 no acts of god nor capital shall prevent our ascension. They will try, and
 it'll be just another thing that we have to handle.
 
 But we can take care of each other. For we are good, and we are kind, and we
 are cooperative. And so, we cannot be overcome.
 
 ... just watch out for those who prey on goodness, kindness, and cooperation.
 They may hamper us.
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