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I hate to say it but I'm really thinking I need to just move away from the PSL. Our chapter is dead in the water as it is and there was some early drama that threw a wrench in the initial onboarding anyway. I wanted to find someone to step up so I could focus on more hyper-local project. We have situation where our local government is tyring t erase our uhnoused instead of giving them proper help, and we are working on the food co-op and a few other projects. There isn't a lot of us in this group so it's taking a huge effort of all of us together just to do these few things.
I think you might need to unpin the last one. I am not sure how many pinned posts you can have for a comm. I know reddit only allows 2. I'm not sure what our protocol is on locking the old one. I'd say sure since the new one is nice and fresh.
I made this last week because of liberals complaining about the LA riots:
Currently the plan is after my friend talks to the leader of the 50501 group, I'm gonna see how that goes and then either message PSL higher ups and talk about dissolving the chapter or removing the nark. Friend, who is all about direct communication suggested talking to nark and explaining the whole thing and asking their side of the story and I'm considering that but I need to cool off first.
I feel like I wasn't great at vetting people, but also there is a weird dynamic with the anarchist being vocal about PSL(because, I mean they are anarchist and the schools of thought don't jive at time). I don't blame them for expressing their thoughts but I think it chased away someone I was gonna put in charge while I took a step back to focus on the Food co-op project. Now that's also seemingly off the table. I thought I was organizing material but this is really starting to feel like burnout and I don't think I can afford that right now.
At the end of the day, I have a screenshot of the city's PSL chat for leverage since the nark won't be able to bring receipts. I might need to ask if the higher ups are ok with the screenshot. It doesn't have any sensitive info but it's literally like: nark joined May 30th, I posted about removing cop lover June 14th, and that's literally it.
I hate that I'm spending so much energy on something so stupid though.
She's getting that bag.
I actually kind of think this is funny because it's such a self-own for them. Like we get it, you don't actually care about all the mass fuckery that the US does. You just feel mildly inconvenienced since the more fascist person won. Genocide, exploitation of the global south, and climate crisis? Nah, I need a mimosa!
I saw one that said "It's pretty bad when the white cis dude is protesting" or something like that and was like "that's all whites cishets really know how to do tho." Like might as well have a sign that says "I dip my wings in ranch instead of blue cheese."
Pinning is pretty easy. After you make the post, click the 3 dots for the dropdown in the comm feed and you will see "feature in community" toward the bottom.
I don't know where else to post this.
I'm basically organizing between 4 different groups. 3 are local and one is the PSL. One group is essentially an offshoot of the local crowd from the 50501 protest last week, so basically running the gamut between lib and... radlib. Another group is mostly anarchist with me and 1-2 others that identify as Marxist. This group is very much in motion. The 50501 one is trying to figure out direction and currently want to focus on ICE rapid response. I have some tech experience and offered to help. A few of the others from the anarchist group are also involved. It's sort of a coalition, right?
Well, one member of the 50501 group is onboarding for the PSL chapter I started. Another potential member contacted the cops regarding 50501. I freaked and told PSL to no onboard that person because of the current situation with the FBI as it is. For some reason the person already onboarded decided to tell the rest of the 50501 group that I was collecting data from them and reporting it to the PSL. I do not know why they think I'd even be doing this. Why would the PSL even care or need the data? I woke up yesterday am to find that I was removed from the 50501 group and spend all day yesterday piecing together why. What I realized was that the onboarded person didn't seem to understand that since I was the person onboarding for PSL, I already have a list of potential candidates. I don't know how that got lost in communication but I guess it did. They ran off to tell 50501 group that I was collecting data wen it was literally me just saying I don't want to go forward with onboarding this particular person for security purposes.
Well, now I'm kicked from that group and still don't quite know how I feel about it. I was early in planning to do a reading group with a few of the people there to introduce them to Marxism and try to help radicalize them since a 50501 brunch lib protest isn't gonna do shit but let them wave a few flags and yell a bit. In any case, a friend in the anarchist group and I pieced together the whole story and they plan on talking to the person in charge of the 50501 group tomorrow to try and resolve things. And I'm trying to figure out how to talk with the nark that was onboarded to PSL. They literally did exactly what they accused me of doing and it's leaving a bad taste in my mouth since I considered them a friend.
Above all, I hate how high school drama this whole thing feels.
Thanks for reading my wall of text rant. I need a fucking hug.
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For your first one, just follow the crowd with chants and try to network with people to find like-mindedness. If you strike of a convo and find people with similar politics, you've made a connection.
The usual rules are: