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@thragg @Terry @KekistaniWanderer I'm just saying don't say you're going to take all their stuff when you're not going to, since people have been saying for years they're going to take all their stuff and never have.

The successful movements like that always have significant backing. But it's been Soros who's been backing them for the other team. For the rest of us, the productive option is to do what the Mennonites, Hutterites, Amish have done. Piss off to your own spot and try to draw as little attention as possible.

@thragg @Terry @KekistaniWanderer No, it's not appealing at all. It's boring, takes hundreds of years, everyone shits on you for running away, and you get to enjoy none of the payoff. But the Hutterites et al are much closer to inheriting the world, or at least their world, than you or I. They have land, money, resources, population growth, so it works. Conquering also works, but requires having more power and resources than the other side, which is currently lacking. So if the option is to win, and not just feel good, it requires the long game.

@parker @KekistaniWanderer @Terry This is what their kids are like, a bunch of people who can't function without leeching and calling it "continued existence". Hilarious unintentional read from the Discord class with a side of college Marxist theory and it's some of the most postmodern writing I've ever seen:
https://archive.fo/ysZHB

Some gems:

"She wakes at one-forty-five. You hear her in the bedroom. She makes a small sound which is the sound she makes when she is up. You go to her. She holds her arms up like a child. You lift her into a hug and she cries for a few minutes into your shoulder about a dream she had in which her mother was disappointed in her. You stroke her hair. You tell her she is safe. You make her toast. You make her tea. You take her laptop out of the bedroom because the night before she had asked you to take it away from her so that she wouldn’t scroll. She has not done any work today. She is not expected to. The polycule has agreed that her freelance graphic design work is impossible right now because of her dysphoria, and so until further notice she is “in a resting period.” It has been fourteen months."

"She is the softest member of the polycule. The softness is the armor. To raise your voice around her is to be cruel to a puppy. To leave the room when she is crying is to abandon her. To ask her to do the dishes is to misunderstand her sensory issues. To ask her to make a phone call is to misunderstand her anxiety. To ask her to pay her share of the rent is to misunderstand the dysphoria that makes work impossible for her. Each request becomes, by virtue of being made of her, a small cruelty against a small girl, and the polycule has agreed in advance that small cruelties against small girls are the thing the polycule exists to prevent. The room arranges itself around her capacity. Everyone else’s capacity is figured as abundance.

Your other partner says, often, “She’s so brave for being as soft as she is.” Your other partner says it with tenderness in her voice. Your other partner is not wrong to feel the tenderness. The tenderness is the apparatus. Someone in the polycule Discord, in response to one of her late-night posts, writes “you are loved, you are precious, the world doesn’t deserve you.” Twelve other people heart it. She screenshots the comment. She sends the screenshot to you. She writes underneath it: “look how loved I am, baby.” You heart the screenshot. You do not say what you are thinking, which is that the people in the Discord do not have to do her dishes."

"The remainder is surplus labor. The rate of surplus-value s/v in this polycule is thirty-two over five, or six hundred and forty per cent. Marx’s English textile workers, in the worst documented years of the 1860s, ran rates of one to two hundred per cent. The polycule clears them by a factor of three."