NOT IN THAT WAY! VOLCEL POLICE!!!

I just finished reading “What Moves The Dead” by T. Kingfisher. It was pretty good and pretty freaky, especially towards the climax.

literally me

I think he finally broke

bump amber whataboutism volcel police

Their album “Euthanasia” as a whole is great as well.

I’m on Mullvad and this happens with every country available except for the UK servers. I usually just use Libredirect though because redlib still works with VPN.

Physical Location? That’s pretty cool, I was actually going to mention the possibility for a community/third space but I don’t think other orgs do that either so it’s not like a standard had been set. Also glad to see they are hosting pride events as well, intersectionality is good to see.

How did I not see that had happened, that’s a lot of people to get in one place for that kind of organized protest effort! I’m looking for information, and of course mainstream media is vague and lib-coded, but it got their attention, so that’s a win. Also:

Does PSL often work with other orgs like DSA and/or FRSO, or do they tend to stick to themselves?

What’s the plan for after the election? I know you clarified that they do other things, and the campaign amplifies those things, but what happens when they no longer have that amplification? How do they plan to keep up the momentum? I hope this (or any of this) doesn’t come off as rude, I’m genuinely curious and I don’t know a lot about how PSL operates.

I know that they probably know they have no chance of winning, but there seems to be so much effort go get on the ballot, which is using resources that (again, my opinion) I feel could be better used otherwise. I believe they have good social media outreach (though I’m not on anything else but Hexbear, so someone correct me if I’m wrong), but they could be doing more with how much it costs to run a campaign and get on the ballot in the first place. Now I won’t pretend I know what else they do, as it’s hard to tell, and no investigation no right to speak, but it really does make me anxious, as history proves that electoral parties tend to de-radicalize in pursuit of votes, and I don’t believe PSL would be an exception, even if it was to spread communist/socialist messages. I may be completely wrong on this, but I only see their electoral campaigning, and I saw them at a protest. Like I said, I’m not on social media, so I don’t know if they try to educate people overall, but their effort right now seems to be on the electoral campaign and getting on the ballots for different states. I have also heard from others that they tend to go to protests, speak on socialism, market their candidates, and then leave. Many people seem to have better experiences with, and prefer, the presence of DSA overall (this did not seem to be dependent on if they were more radical members or not, and how radical the orgs were did not seem to be a factor). Again I am not sure and I have not seen any of this myself, but it does leave an impression on me (and probably others) when I am actively looking into an org to join. This is all based on my own personal experience and research, and as of right now I feel like my time would be much better spent in DSA, as long as my local chapter aren’t straight-up AOC liberals.

I want PSL to succeed, but I have a hard time believing that they will. Pushing themselves as a party to elect seems like an idea that could work in the short term until they fade into obscurity for another 4 years. It’s one that I feel could possibly result in some temporary fame or success, but one that would quickly fall flat as soon as the election ended, and they no longer aggressively pushed messaging with the lack of a platform to do so.

Definetly, local elections can matter and do make a difference for communities. They’re also easier to win, especially in smaller communities. Locally, it’s also possible for a party can gain popular support through other organizing efforts rather than just campaigning and asking people to vote for socialism.

I feel like PSL and FRSO could have some potential, but they seem to have the same political line (not a bad thing) and (in my opinion) PSL leans way too hard into electoral politics (unlike FRSO). It’s expensive to campaign and run a candidate, and I feel like there are better ways to spend that money. I also worry that they could eventually turn into trots or socdems in order to pick up voters, though I would prefer if they could grow without that happening. Maybe one day some sort of coalition could form between a Marxist DSA, PSL, and FRSO (possibly even a merger) but the odds of that happening are so slim with the leftist tendency for orgs to split themselves into oblivion.

They’re pretty damn good at their jobs 😓

How does the U.S. fail in every way to have some sort of strong communist party. Each large one has so many issues and some are just too small or are clones of larger orgs. We’ve reached the point where a consistently red star controlled DSA is the best bet for a communist org, and while that’s not a bad thing, DSA as a whole is still filled with libs.

The fact that a r/neoliberal exists and is popular has to be one of the weirdest things (I know it’s backed by a think tank or smth but still).

Only in Ohio

I would not switch to Opera, or anything else simply because it’s Chinese, the same reason I would’t reccomend against for that reason. Opera is proprietary, meaning the source code is hidden, and it tracks activity by default, selling that info for a profit. Firefox is open source and run by an nonprofit (albeit one with strange financial decisions). It also tracks much less by default, with the potential for it to be completely removed by something like arkenfox. Speeds also don’t matter as much as you may think, Firefox is fast enough, and the Unlock Origin extension can help with browser speed in some cases. If you really want something Opera provides, even Vivaldi is a better option (though I don’t suggest it for similar reasons to Opera).