Raskolnikov38 posted:

tbf its not even that good a costume, it looks like a cape and one of those old timey hat christian women in the 1800s would wear

Matt Zerella posted:

I;m thinking about thos memes

docbeard posted:

Man, those hippies sure dress weird, what could they possibly ever accomplish

docbeard posted:

Man, those hippies sure dress weird, what could they possibly ever accomplish

docbeard posted:

Man, those hippies sure dress weird, what could they possibly ever accomplish

Scent of Worf posted:

they'll accomplish about as much as obama

Al! posted:

get themselves into positions of wealth power and influence then kick away every possible ladder???

Dreylad posted:

i really like this article

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/new-working-class-precarity-race-gender-democrats

quote:

OUR ACCOUNTS OF HEROIC social movements tend to begin at the moment of insurgency, when the cameras show up. The years of bitter, lonely, and seemingly futile struggle get the Ken Burns treatment less often. Even of the heroic age of SNCC in Mississippi, the historian Charles Payne writes, “Field reports are filled with stories of spending day after day dragging from house to house without a single positive response to show for it. Most people were simply afraid and confused but reluctant to admit it.” One organizer reported in 1962 that for every hundred people they spoke to, ten agreed to register to vote, three showed up, “and those three were frightened away from the courthouse by the sheriff.” This is not the epic narrative we are taught. But it is the marrow of movement work.

Here’s another story. In the wake of the First Red Scare of 1919–20, the unions were ruined. Their militants were arrested, blacklisted, and deported. Labor’s most prominent political leader, Eugene Debs, was imprisoned for political crime — opposing the war — only a few years after receiving 6 percent of the vote in a presidential election; he ran for President in 1920 from his Georgia cell. The coal miners of West Virginia were gunned down and bombed from the air in 1921. For those who kept the faith in the factories, mills, and mines, fifteen years of ostracism followed. They had no hint that a moment was coming like the 1930s, when small cells of old believers across the country led millions of workers — many of whom had spent years shunning them — to victory.
To keep your wits about you through this kind of process takes, above all, memory. Memory perhaps once resided in the gemeinschaftlich wisdom of the integrated working-class community. On the Lower East Side, or in Back of the Yards, where everyone on the block had basically the same job and the same daily routine and experience, marching in sync to the factory whistle, collective experience needed less formal incorporation to survive. In the steel and coal towns of Pennsylvania, Eastern European workers referred to company police as “Cossacks.” They remembered across generations well enough on their own.

The organic integration of the working-class social world is gone. To remember, and keep remembering, now happens only on purpose. Memory looks like an office, with file cabinets and framed pictures from past victories. It smells like printer ink and sounds like bitter narratives of defeat often repeated, with lessons learned. It costs money to keep, and it takes sustained and uninterrupted time to accumulate. To remember and renew is itself an act of defiance: each dollar in dues money, each hour spent in some interminable meeting, passes the tradition on, despite constant efforts to extinguish it.

Just because a political project is difficult, in other words, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re doing it wrong. It could just be that it’s hard — that the opposition is fearsome and you haven’t cracked it yet. Some kinds of success are bought with a dozen or a hundred failures. The key is to be there for the next round, and to know a chance when you see it.

zegermans posted:

actually it's about ethics in handmaids tale costume design

zegermans posted:

Condiv posted:

why are resisters larping now?

https://twitter.com/jessicalawyer2/status/880088669922701313

Dreylad posted:

clinton apparently even identifies them as african-american in her book, maybe, it's sort of not clear

punk rebel ecks posted:

So they are dressing the part as slave owners now?

Frijolero posted:

Delete your facebooks you big dumb morons

docbeard posted:

I really try not to be one of those "I DON'T HAVE A FACEBOOK CHECK ME OUT I AM MORALLY AND CULTURALLY SUPERIOR" assholes. I really do, because really the only reason I never set up an account is laziness.

I may not try so hard today.

consumed by normies posted:

i have a fb account to show pics of me traveling to my grandma and chat with a few people. zuck making a few bucks a month of My Data doesnt really concern me. otoh his robot legions melting me down in the coming Food Wars does

deadgoon posted:

i don't like the handmaiden's tale cosplay because it's not sexy

protestors should cosplay the leggy space witches from power rangers

zegermans posted:

Handmaids Tale costumes are kinda silly but this thread is worst when it's sniping and bickering at people literally trying to do anything other that post in the most hated thread on the most hated subforum of a bad message board.

MaxxBot posted:

If you want sexy, cosplay as Jeb!

zegermans posted:

Handmaids Tale costumes are kinda silly but this thread is worst when it's sniping and bickering at people literally trying to do anything other that post in the most hated thread on the most hated subforum of a bad message board.

fits my needs posted:

what in the gently caress is this

Zoran posted:

most hated thread has to be the pre-election dems thread and it's not close

loquacius posted:

If I had to guess it's race-fetish porn with politician faces shopped in

Dreylad posted:

well drat

zegermans posted:

Handmaids Tale costumes are kinda silly but this thread is worst when it's sniping and bickering at people literally trying to do anything other that post in the most hated thread on the most hated subforum of a bad message board.

The Muppets On PCP posted:

it gets even better: the hillary cultists began reflexively defending it by claiming it gave the prison slaves valuable work experience they could use on their resumes when they got out

but they were citing a separate program which had been abolished by the federal courts nearly a decade earlier due to gross human rights violations

Oh Snapple! posted:

no it was the bernie thread,

and i assume there's a large amount of crossover between the people who hated that thread and the ones that hate this one

fits my needs posted:

they're all white though wtf. the hoodies?

Venom Snake posted:

drat these people for getting out there and trying to affect positive change in a costume I don't like!!!

fits my needs posted:

they're all white though wtf. the hoodies?

Serf posted:

let he who was not shook cast the first corncob

Frijolero posted:

You're doing great Dems!

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/880142875354308608