I’ve worked 13 hours straight and had to organize a push to get us fed dinner.

There’s a good chance I’m stuck here for 2 more hours, meaning I get 0 time to do anything except sleep and do this again.

I want to quit so badly, but I’m basically forced to be here because this job market is such shit that it took a year to get this job. And I consider myself lucky to have this.

There’s a thread on lemmygrad from someone that’s also exhausted around the discourse about the American “left”. Yes we suck, yes we are privileged compared to a lot of people, yes our organizing is tame and not effective, yes my material conditions mean I’m not doing adventurism and neither are my comrades.

BUT don’t claim we’re not trying. I know people working two jobs. I technically have 2 jobs and am maybe able to get back on my feet financially in a few months. We still do what we can and it’s not enough but we’re not at that point. Yeah that’s privileged if you call being scared shitless of being homeless and being abused by literally every other human here…

I’m tired

  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    One dude is not equivalent to arguably the world’s strongest economic superpower. They could say “no more Labubus” and shut off half our economy with sanctions overnight. I pick up a gun and become Swiss cheese before stepping foot in wherever I am trying to adventure. Don’t be silly.

    • SickSemper [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      You keep maximizing “pick up a gun” “adventurism” nobody’s suggesting that, obviously, it’s just a fact that American political activism hasn’t developed beyond going to marches. That’s partially due to people in your situation, too tired and beaten down to act, but don’t pretend anyone asking for more out of the imperial proletariat is telling you to go out like Van Spronsen

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        There’s a lot more than that going on. Part of the reason you don’t hear about it is the small scale, and mainstream media ain’t gonna tell you what local left groups are doing.

        And I can’t talk about it for op sec reasons.