this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
42 points (97.7% liked)

chat

8613 readers
243 users here now

Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.

As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.

Thank you and happy chatting!

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Every american I've met has been willing to kill for something, or willing to die for something.

But not a single one of them is willing to be inconvenienced in the slightest. That's our sickness.

So i spent a long time ruminating on that and now i'm even more depressed than I was and shit is getting bad again. Sorry for the livejournal post, I haven't made one in a while. Still around.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

If i made that clear I was bad at writing, I feel you represented my case well but I was totally the customer. I didnt talk radical shit while they were behind the counter or anything. Just after years of friendly chit chat while getting groceries or whatever, I would get to know people and then I'd often catch them on breaks, usually the people I got along with were also work friends amongst themselves, so we could talk more freely in those times. After that I just give em email addresses for my friends on the labor board and for the local IWW chapter to use as resources with issues at work. After a bit of that, it handles itself. This is a process that takes years. It wasn't like, a plan or anything, I just have the mindset that I should be friends with the workers in places I shop all the time.