Believe it or not, not everyone needs or wants to live the exact same way. We dont need to agree on how to live our lives to have solidarity amongst each other.
It’s not even always a MLM/anarchist split.
I’ve run into some terminally online-dumb shit. Look at my account age and post count for how strong a claim I’m making here:
I’m less terminally online brain poisoned and social media brain rotted than 95% of the people I find in left spaces in California. It’s wild.
It’s not even about real ideology sometimes. I recommended an essay about why being a cop is bullshit by George Orwell and got iced out of a mutual aid project for ‘liking problematic authors’, and that’s not even the dumbest one. I’ve been called ableist about a disability I have for saying reading theory has value.
3.2k over 2 months is numbers I generally attribute to bots/shills. Is that a normal level of online in your spaces?
No, that’s what I’m saying. I am buried in and embalmed with grass compared to most people I’ve met.
There are real problems in organizing, and I too have seen things like you’re describing. I just try not to take part in such petty squabbles. If a group is too wound up with internal politics to get anything done, I just find somewhere else to put my energy.
Yeah. It means I work without other organizers most of the time, bringing people up from total disempowerment. Need to move on pretty often to avoid… excessive regard.
Keep doing what you’re doing ✊
It’s not the easiest way to do things, or the most rewarding. I fail a lot.
