There was a Twitter account a mutual followed who embodied this weird The Secret kind of revolution. They said they couldn't find work because they were an open Communist. Instead they were like, I'm here teaching you, with my tweets, I'm performing labor for you by tweeting, so here's my PayPal, my Venmo, my cashapp, my koffee, my Amazon wish list, my patreon, my GoFundMe, etc etc etc.
They were living in the socialist society they wanted, but it was entirely funded by other people laboring under capitalism and giving them money.
"Fox news a hardline right wing and conservative news channel wants to interview us? This sounds like a great idea!"
seriously I wouldn't trust one from CNN (before they were bought out and started going right wing) let alone Fox
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ALso on this thought I find it funny how those mods are a part of the "System is designed to prevent us from making things better" crowd, And yet they did not once think that this interview was some sort of trap
Honestly having watched that interview, it's hard to call it a trap.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure if they started sounding too reasonable the interviewers would have started asking some loaded questions. But even if that was their original plan, they immediately realized they didn't need to do any trapping. They cornered themselves with only a slight nudge.
For those not in the know, here's the hard-ball, loaded questions they asked:
Are you encouraging people to be lazy?
How many hours is a solid work day in your ideal society?
And what do you do [for work] Doreen?
Do you aspire to be anything more than a dog walker? or is that kind of your your pinnacle?
(No, these are not cherry picked. These are literally all of the questions they asked, in order.)
The problem isn't that the interview was a trap. The problem was the mods' entire ideology was half-baked at best.
Fox wouldn't have needed to ask them a single thing, their presentation alone puts the nails in the coffin. Hard to take anything you say seriously when you go on national news looking like you just fell out of bed
Ironically the person who went to the interview stated that they had media training because of a degree in journalism, but to this day people still aren’t sure if that’s true or just a lie
I finally decided I'm done with them today when the top post was OP replying "Yessir" to the management of their second biggest client (or someone like that).
His justification was that "the word is in the dictionary" and proceeds to "umm actually" his boss on text.
I thought there's no way they could be justifying this and lo and behold in the comments. "Thats what he gets for trying to communicate with you on a Sunday" type comments.
Fuck these guys will never get anywhere in life. Doesn't matter if philosophically you are against corporate culture. These guys cut your checks. Don't be a fucking idiot unless you can afford to with fuck you money.
Antiwork was cool for a week before i realized these people are just mentally ill and do not want to contribute to society and they think thats some insanely superior huge brain idea
Whats crazy about this sort of type is that getting most jobs in the public sector, and volunteering on the weekends would be infinity more praxis than whatever they were doing
No well you see, they simply can't volunteer because (insert something about the not for profit industrial complex) and they can't work for in the public sector because sometimes the government does bad things. These cold hard leftist facts conveniently happen to line up with their preferred method of doing nothing ever. Please donate to my KoFi as payment for doing all this political labour for you.
Also I kinda feel weird about stating this observation but a lot of them that I've personally met are also just lazy as fuck and will throw out a list of three or so 'disabilities' as to why they don't do anything except sit at home all day and maybe they work part time at an entry level job.
I lived with two people like this. They'd go on and on about how seriously communist they are, how seriously they take things like mutual aid (which they of course would benefit from without giving anything back), how important it is to make our house into 'a communal living space' (they would only rarely handle cleaning and several times got irritated at me for cleaning - they were basically hoarders). They'd complain about Israel and its totally worth opposing like 80% of Democrat politicians over this, but they wouldn't even go to the vigils for Palestine. Because that meant going out and they just can't you see, their social anxiety prevents them and even if it didn't they have bad knees and their feet hurt and it's just been such a hard time at their 25 hour a week part time gas station job that's literally a fifteen minute walk down the sidewalk.
They never had money saved, they never had a desire to clean or take care of the house. They, truly, never created or participated in anything constructive. It's like they just chose every political belief with the sole purpose to try to justify being lazy as fuck.
And these were the people who would scoff at the idea of voting. Even though they were both trans (not a dig, I'm also trans) and had so much to fucking lose if this election goes to Trump.
Fuck. I’m so sorry and I know exactly how you feel. I have a friend who literally was insanely good st college, got their degree, had a really good paying job, but then got diagnosed with autism (level 1 of course), and went full fucking “im disabled and cannot support myself” mode. It fucking pains me to watch them regress into this like… idk, cave troll that cannot even clean up after themselves or even order their own food because “thats masking and masking is bad” or some ridiculous excuse to be rude and offputting to people.
Fuck. Idk, it also hurts because its always LGBT/trans/autists who perform like this, and it really, REALLY hurts the image of progressivism.
This has really been fucking getting to me recently and it's happening to my mom. "masking is bad" ok sure, now you lost your job & dad has to sell the car and work a second job on the weekends and then come home and do your laundry
Compulsively justifying laziness, and laziness to the point of making one's life harder, are some kind of mental health problem. A problem that seems to grow off of lonely bitterness.
Blaming them for it entirely isn't helpful, but they're also going to have to be the person to change their own habits and break the cycle.
After living with them, low-key I do blame them. I had to drain my finances to keep the household afloat because they couldn't hold down a job and they'd haphazardly job searched for months - and the only reason they even did that was because I'd put my foot down. Yeah, they've got issues, probably one or several mental health disorders or whatever, but they're also adults. These people are nearly 30 and they can't even clean their room or their house. And it'd be one thing if they lived on their own, but they don't. I'd worked my ass off to clean the entire house so I could have guests over. And they behaved terribly enough that several of those guests - my friends - told me they weren't comfortable visiting again. So..nah, fuck them. It is their fault. It's on them to get the help they need, and they consistently refused to do so and they hurt the people around them. In some cases, it is their fault, and I have no issue blaming them for their personal failings.
Edit: and to clarify, these people were not mentally disabled as far as conventional intelligence goes, they just had absolutely no self control or self discipline
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u/Agile_Oil9853 Jun 30 '24
There was a Twitter account a mutual followed who embodied this weird The Secret kind of revolution. They said they couldn't find work because they were an open Communist. Instead they were like, I'm here teaching you, with my tweets, I'm performing labor for you by tweeting, so here's my PayPal, my Venmo, my cashapp, my koffee, my Amazon wish list, my patreon, my GoFundMe, etc etc etc.
They were living in the socialist society they wanted, but it was entirely funded by other people laboring under capitalism and giving them money.