Chana

There was fog in so many places. You don't even know.

"The waters" is still a common way among Christian nerds to refer to the deluge, i.e. God's most famous genocide. But only among the worst nerds.

So muddy it makes you think of dinosaurs.

I'm a good writer.

Andor makes her look like an idiot so good job Andor

I know a Maoist "anti-imperialist" group that shows up "in solidarity" with US weapons contractor workers when they go on strike. They just show up and say, "unions are great" and then go home.

I think regular education about mutual aid would be helpful. For example, while anonymity does mean capacity for harm and then reacting meta posts, look at what happens when donating to, e.g., charities: you end up mostly paying for PMC paychecks and tax breaks for corpos. Edit: maybe adding an explainer comment pinned in every mutual aid post would be a good way to implement this.

I do think that having a vouching system is the best way and my understanding is that this is basically the status quo to some extent. You may want to define some kind of unvouching process in cases where there are verifiable issues. I think this will actually increase trust and donations if communication and messaging are on-point.

So re: meta posts, I think there needs to be more process, not just allowing meta posts and comments. This requires more mod intervention, so I'm sorry to be basically volunteering others' time, but I do think it will be beneficial to have meta posts go through a filter and deliberative process and with clear results and strategic messaging. The alternative, i.e. status quo, is likely to be ad hoc discouragement. The coupling of "this is why you should keep helping our comrades" to any meta posts is very important.

Israeli spokespeople were calling it antisemitic before anyone had heard of a manifesto. It's a knee-jerk hasbara.

Hexbear lionization of adventurism isn't allowed until we have sufficiently pathologically sexualized him.

they must run a new placebo-controlled trial after a variant arrives

The dominant variant shifts every 3-6 months.

Nary a one!?

I don't see anything to be conflicted about here. If I had to suggest something, maybe participate more directly in organizing so that you can feel confident that donation money is well-spent. Getting a personal sense for how serious a local party is can be revealing.

Just about every socialist has lived under capitalism. We seek to overthrow the dominant socioeconomic order. Existing socialist projects must still live and develop in capitalistic ways and have different experiments in how they diverge from this. But people there still have/had jobs, retirements, houses.

Which period of the monarchy do you pine for?