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There’s this news article over here about a woman who was working at a supermarket in town for over 16 years. Due to the company’s decision to change into a franchise model (which has sparked many, many, maaaany strikes already) she decided to finally quit. As a goodbye present to the company, she has now organized one final strike lmao. She said: ‘I wanted to hurt the company once more’.
Omega based
Just about to finish reading ‘Survival of the richest by douglas rushkoff’, it’s a decent contemporary tech critique but oh boy i have to put down the book sometimes because of the cringe idealist comments made by the author. Really makes me appreciate Lenin writing style more and more.
because of the cringe idealist comments made by the author
Any bangers?
He mentions capitalism a lot during the book (also some subtle anti-china rethoric like any self respecting liberal of course) but he not once mentions anything related about relations of production, he just criticizes the infinite growth property of capitalism and ties it a lot with the contemporary tech industry. The usual shallow criticism coming from libs who know about capitalism just from the osmosis of living on it and haven’t really made any real study of it.
This paragraph is just peak pseudo-intellectual liberalism lmao, not technically his take but there is no debunking of the comment later which makes me think he actually believes it
- Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead thought cybernetics would prevent fascism. For where fascism depends on the fragmenting of knowledge and oversimplified direction from above, cybernetics would engender holism and serve as “a kind of vaccination against fragmentation.” - 💀
Thanks!
DDR born Gen Xer hot takes from today:
Gorby was actually alright cause he let the people vote for “none of the above.”
DDR bad cause your bachelor’s thesis topic was assigned to you and you couldn’t choose where you worked.
Watched Barbie. Sort of radical, capitalist washing ending though. I had fun.
A bunch of really valuable young workers are quitting at my employer because the owners flat out refuse to respect us workers. With the way things at this place have already been falling apart with a handful of good people on board I’m really excited about what the future brings.
Organise them!
I’m carefully dropping breadcrumbs. It’s just tricky because the owners are physically present and obviously vehemently anti-worker, and due to some, let’s say familial relationships in the company, me obviously leading a union drive could backfire into my personal life.
So did hexbear federate with us or what?
I think they plan to federate within a few days
If anyone didn’t know (and probably to no one’s surprise), the soft drink leninade is not made by a company with any kind of radical politics, it’s just a gimmick
It is a canon event every baby leftist has to go through.
Are you calling me a baby
It’s not an insult, it just means someone who is relatively new to radical politics. All they’re saying is it’s a sort of rite of passage to find out leninade or something like that exists and be let down that they aren’t actually based, just as all spider-people’s pig dads die.
Its a canon event 🗿
Never heard of Leninade before, the fact that it exists is hilarious
I’ve had stalinade, but not leninade. I didn’t expect it to be more than a gimmick.
GoW Ragnorok calling out the shitlibs
Whenever someone types stfu think of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, I know I will
(Settlers excerpt)
I hope you all have a nice week :D
why are you a phone?
Can anyone give me the z library link, if they have it?
Gonna give you a better one
So I started my job at the Union this week. So far I’m liking it. It is a weird mix of being a progressive org while at the same time being stuck in the 80s it seems.
being stuck in the 80s it seems.
In what way?
