TL;DR, feel free to go pull the lever and get the sticker, but please avoid perpetuating the idea that we're doing anything more than taking some time to wander down and see how the old church hall, school gym, courthouse, etc is getting on.

Also most of the 'violent takeovers,' fascist in name or just in deed, historically did so in contravention of the local election results, didn't they?

Business Plot and Civil War are feeling a bit slighted.

Also by virtue of the system itself for the last ever years the 2 party bias for our electoral system and the virtually unrestricted protectionism, cronyism, and moneyed interest of those two parties (Of which there is very little real oversight or attention paid to, especially for non-presidential elections) we are presented with only the candidates approved by those groups, and not the people themselves. The dichotomies given the most attention are performative and false. Oh the people giving the speeches are very impassioned and may even themselves feel that they are making a difference, but their presence and influence is accounted for and counted as "acceptable protest".

The system itself is the problem, and no one at all is going to make the necessary changes from within that system. They can't and their very willingness to engage within it shows their limits of desire to. They're there to add an air of legitimacy and illusion of choice.

No shit that's why they're in an arms race against us.

They wouldn't let you select your own answers? "These bullshit questions", "This bullshit propaganda class", and "This bullshit clown college alumni meeting posing as school administration" seems like it should be on the list.

State administered negging, happy times.

Coming back to say I got a second job.

.... yaaay....

Maybe I can stop needing to go to food banks in a month or two.

That's the question, in physical spaces it usually takes some kind of organization and shared values of the locals and simply outlasting the influx of people until they get bored and move on, but does it do any good to want to hold/control a spot? The closest analogy I can think of to equate this or other online spaces would be squatter or houseless camps. The spot itself is 'valueless' in itself as they simply exist on it, not attempting to pull anything from it besides making use of it's natural features such as privacy, (un)desirability, (in)accessibility, and proximity to resources.

The analogy breaks down immediately though because none of those factors are relevant in an online space, and due to the nature of it's underlying technology the online space is a hierarchical structure by default, as only one person or group controls the existence of and access to the location, and has to pay others for accessibility to/from other locations, and the only way to 'keep' it is to employ those structures, and layer other ones on top of those to keep 'others' out or from overwhelming the place.

IDK. I keep trying to equate it to a real world environment but it's not. It takes resources simply to exist, and someone can come along to block or take up all those resources and knock it out of existence very easily. Everything else is basically secondary to that concern.

Nothing fancy, it's just a way of saying "helping people out occasionally" that helps trigger one side and drag in the other side. Hospital/med/food bank runs, free store help/labor, occasional showing up to lend a body where bodies are needed.

The big thing I was trying that I had to pause for a while was zine/book distribution, stuff like organizing how-tos and the occasional spicier thing. I'll get back to that soon. If I find a spot in here I'll dump my free zine links but I think you all already have the ones I've found.

The whole year's been a damn blur for all of us, it feels like. I had to step way back from a lot of my mutual aid activities and activism and try to concentrate on making bills. Thankfully it was my mutual aid connections and network that have saved my ass a lot more than I would have expected this year, and the people have done more to reach out to help, support, and refer me to stuff more than any other group. It really helps cement the need for these types of groups and building some kind of community with like-minded folx, and I wish I'd learned about all kinds of things much earlier in life, and I wish I was more intelligent to know how to spread it more. It really showed me why there's such a concerted effort to attack anarchism, non-state communism, and all the other boogeyman -isms.

How bout you, what's been driving your days together?

oh shit tomorrow is friday

schools upgrading computers might be a good place. Small businesses as well, like plumbing shops or places with multiple office workers that aren't tech based. Like you could probably just call places down the road following google maps to ask if they have any old machines stuffed in a closet they want to get rid of. IDK if it's still like that, but I was able to get some decent(ish) hardware that way in the 2000s. Generic dell/hp boxes and shit like that.

I come from a line of people who drop off the grid and run off into the woods or out to sea. Once I'm free of the commitments I have I want to run off to live in a van down by the river and get by doing odd welding jobs or computer work.

Foresty Forest on youtube is my current hero.

Uncle on Mom's side ran off for a few decades had the spot before that, came back quite a bit more chill.

My father who ran off to live in a 30ft sailboat somewhere near Olympia after mom passed is another. I think he's still alive.

Alas, Gard. I think I've run out of amusement potential with you. You jumped through all my little hoops with almost no effort and dangit, we got you right up to the edge before we had to jete back. It's okay though.

Do you have any other strange things you'd like to claim knowledge on before I block you? Guess we'll never know.

Bye!

that's true that's true, I don't want to know where you live Gard. Good call, thanks.

Good work! Which town?

Now you're imitating me, I love it. My mastery over you is nearly complete. Still waiting on an answer for that pizza delivery driver. Call your nearby dominoes and let me know which one answers you so I can corroborate your statement. Hurry hurry!

LOL weak dodge pick a place at random in your town and tell me, dingbat! Give me a name of a place and the wage they quoted and I'll shut up and you will have won the internet. Hurry, I'm getting bored again.

watch out, I have an HP running debian that pushed a 'security update' firmware through my repo that briefly locked out my ability to boot, the UEFI was set to ignore legacy boot partitions and 'unsecure' UEFI entries. Unfortunately linux distros aside from the biggies like RH/Fedora don't pay the UEFI license fees so they're not 'official'...

So, long story short, don't blindly install firmware updates from your manufacturer like I did. MS is getting too tight with the chip/system manufacturers and trying to make laptops just as bad as smartphones.

Poor dodge! What's a hamburger cooker? Do you know what a short order chef is, Gard? Have you ever cooked? Can you cook? Have you got thumbs? SHOW US YOUR FUCKING THUMBS GARD!

How much do pizza delivery drivers make where you live, Gard?

Oh, and '*you're'. Careful there buddy, you're slipping again!

How much do pizza delivery drivers make, Gard?

How much do pizza delivery drivers make, Gard?

Not dodging, right here buddy! But that's okay, I can come here too. How much do pizza delivery drivers make, Gard?

TBH Gard I'm not reading all that, you keep saying the same stuff and the only thing that changes is your coherence. Thanks for tightening up that spelling though, that's making it much easier for me to believe you're not having a stroke.

Whenever you want to try to come to a point let us know, eh buddy?

Uh yeah, that's what I'm saying there bubba. The pay rate on their listing is a lie, an 'approximation' based on what they say an average drivers tips 'can be'. Capitalists lie, ya know, just like their apologists and simps. Say.... do you think that might be why YOU'RE lying?

It's a new thread, buddy! You fell out of the original. New thread equals new subject! I know, difficult keeping up with the minutia when you're being all big-brain and questioning our adherence to anarchism or whatever little bullshit you were spouting there.