trinicorn [comrade/them]

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Cake day: January 16th, 2025

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  • I want to believe the Bernie supporters are over here with me on the actual left now, not just pining for brunch and normalcy during a genocide.

    eh statistically there’s probably more of the latter. One guy I know who could genuinely be described as a gamer bernie bro is still vaguely on the left, very pro-union, pro-palestine (but not very noisy about it, he’s mostly touching grass by which I mean working and smoking weed), but he’s also super pro ukraine and he’s sent me videos from rantsona NAFO freaks so I think the contradictions will have to resolve themselves one way or another eventually and I’m not 100% confident he wouldn’t land at fascist if that’s the way the wind was blowing and the radicalizing circumstances were right.

    Zorhan new bestie

    I wish him luck and all but nah. if I was in NYC maybe I’d feel differently but I’m done stanning US politicians.




  • I read the first 30 or so pages. It seems promising. It’s setting the stage for sort of an anthropological study of class based on interviews with a large number of working class people, exploring their feelings about upward mobility and exploitation and the sort of sense of inadequacy many feel about being of low status or education or origin in a society dominated by the “well to do” accultured few…

    It started off with a brief outline of the evolving lives and views of two former communists, which was interesting, and I’m very curious to see if and how it circles back to them. There’s an examination of whether/why American workers lack revolutionary potential, and seems to show significant criticism of the purely economic explanations that a lot of people on both the left and right hold, the idea that it just boils down to bread and circuses and some small measure of economic stability. It seems like they’re trying to thread the needle and examine social forces that act on working class people , without completely collapsing into individualistic nonsense.

    There’s also a CW: SA needed within the first 2 pages of the introduction