Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
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Join the matrix room for some real-time discussion.
No joke, but how do you start? At this point I need a guide, walkthrough for community building. Literally, how do we even start if people are fucking trapped in their day to day responsibilities to survive capitalism. Looks like nobody got time for that. I feel we are all NPCs following our daily routines, unable to break character.
Loaf of bread, pb, J. Slap some sandos together and walk em down the road, offering them to hungry people.
Go to trivia night and tell the host you're doing a clothing donation drive and would it be OK to rock the mic between rounds tonight?
Take a large box w a sign you've taped to it over to the local brewery and ask of they'd be cool with setting it up for 2 weeks if you promise to swing by a few times to keep it from overflowing.
Ask same brewery if you are allowed to do some tabling. Hang out with a sign or banner and qr code and ask for donations/volunteers
Crock pot rice and beans, bake some tots and show up to the basketball court every Sunday at 10am and feed people hot food until it runs out. My group has gone from doing this in our apartment kitchens and feeding 15 (4 yrs ago) to having a relationship w a church (none of us are even members of said church) and using their kitchen to feed 100+
Do you know bike repair? hair trimming? Car-less foraging in urban environments? A sign and a table out on the sidewalk will get the attention of people who want to talk to you about it and this shit grows in no time once a single person just... Begins
You're right that it's hard, and that it's kind of a "put on your own mask before helping others" scenario. If you're just barely holding on, you're right, you may not be well-positioned to provide help. And in that case, the critical priority for you should be to get out of that situation first. Easier said than done, I know.
But, take heart! There are skills and habits and such you can build along the way that play to your own strengths and which will be useful if things get truly gnarly. Starting on them several years ago would have been better than starting on them today, but starting today is better than starting tomorrow.
I had this big exhaustive list (in a Lemmy comment thread) of things to pick and choose from to try to slowly get better at - it's since been deleted! I'm working on tracking that down so I can provide it here, it was seriously useful (and heartening, in the way it shows how we can all contribute due to the wide range of things needed).
I've never had a conversation with an anarchist that didn't end in them shitting on me for not being as anarchist as they are.
Radical unity is not a common virtue. Regular unity isn't either.
I've never shat on anyone for not being radical enough. Typically it's the opposite with libs shitting on me for not being as electoral brained or "realistic" as they are.
I heard a quote recently from that Mendicus Moldbug shitbird.
It's easy to convince someone of the truth. But to make them believe a falsehood is useful because they can then wear their belief as a uniform. This is how you build an army. [sic idgaf]
So I know Luigi probably did it. But I believe he is innocent.
We just need more people. According to one of the speakers from the Mayday protest, we only need 3% of the population for the politicians to care and do something. As of right now, only 1% are currently active in this movement. It's not bad since we just started this movement a couple months ago, but if we keep growing at this rate, there won't be any changes till the end of the year.
Which still isn't too bad, and if he gets impeached and leaves office next year, I'll win my $10 bet with one of my friends.
I dont like this way of thinking because its the wromg way around. The very popular study believes, that non violent movements needed around 3% active participation to reach their goal. These movements did not set out with this number in mind.
Starting a movement with this specific number in mind will result in shortcuts that the movements in the study did not take.
Its like saying "healthy" people eat lots of vitamins and instead of doing all the stuff these people do/eat, you just take multivitamins and hope to have the same result.
It can work, but its a very one sided approach that leaves out so many other important aspects.
I understand your perspective, but it just gave me encouragement to do more and wanted to share. That is all.