You're a nerd.
Yes, you.
Chana
joined 7 months ago
Disciplined orgs require reading, at least for cadres. So at some point a person either has to read or be relegated to not having much decision-making power. Even if this is not an explicit rule, many orgs will de facto enforce it by describing certain potential members / general members as undeveloped because they don't read and cannot contribute to discussions at a level that is relevant. So they won't chair committees or lead projects or otherwise change the direction of the org, instead acting more like a member of a front group.
It's true that all by itself a group that reads might be uninteresting for someone that doesn't want to. They could definitely call it nerd shit. But that is why you join it to work and participation, it has to be relevant. And if it isn't relevant, then the theory isn't necessarily something to focus on reading anyways. Choosing works that don't apply to an org's conditions is a common mistake in immature orgs, like having brand new members read some esoteric works of Mao even though almost nothing about his conditions relate to, say, the group's status as an imperial core student group that is, under no circumstances, going to just mass quit college and go to "the countryside". Not that the work shouldn't be ready, but leading with it will be actually and truly pointless if not counterproductive. On the other hand, reading someone like George Jackson or Bevins can be mug more immediately relevant and help steer them away from ineffective means of organizing and unprincipled capitulation.
Anyways, what I mean is that the actual work of the org is the "carrot" to draw in someone that otherwise won't read theory. The reason to read the theory is so that you can constructively criticize past organizing actions or frame your approach to community or choose the next action. The person should join because they want to, say, help organize a rent strike that the org is running, and then read because they are going over capital and rent and strategy, etc.
Anyways it isn't foolproof at all, someone could still decide to bail and not read. But I think that making is tightly coupled to organizing can usually bridge this gap.
There has to be a purpose for reading theory.
Your friend is a little bit right: some people read theory just to know, but they don't do anything with it. Except maybe tell others and make it and ego thing. That's a bit posh.
Theory is relevant to left organizing. If you get your friend doing organizing work, then the people around her will make references she doesn't understand and you can share why things should be done a certain way, what historical precedent there is, etc and she won't understand. Those will be reasons to read. And if it is a good org it will require reading groups.
It's consistent with being a Hasan harasser, someone in the general Destiny and H3 sphere. I don't see any posts or comments by then on that sub, so I would guess they got deleted (for harassment) or it is suggesting they view that subreddit but don't post.
De Cecc-NO! 
:kelly:
They're just 8 Joe Liebermans
They don't really care that much about winning elections. That's one of their main things: losing to unpopular candidates because they chose to run an even worse campaign, hamstringing themselves both by actual gross incompetence and because they serve capital, which contradicts their PR as bleeding hearts (GOP's service of capital is more coherent). And of course, they place plenty of effort into suppressing their left flank of conservative imperialist SocDems even though they are much better at the PR game.
Also every one of these Senators goes to bat against Venezuela. They care way more about that than elections.
The other subs indicate that this is a reactionary that cares way too much about streamers, particularly hating that iDubbbz went woke.
Just looked it up and they're very cute.
Like 75% of what he says about yeast is wrong tho.
The general theme of this article is an essentially fictitious belief that only a true left liberation should be supported and all else condemned. While this itself is a ridiculous error in basic judgment (it is wrong to have even written this and shared it), its specific content and rationales are disorganized, play on racist tropes, misapply European racism to situations where it no longer applies or has the same weight or meaning, seemingly deliberately avoids context, uses actual Zionist logic and propaganda without criticism, implicitly supports Zionism throughout by failing to center occupation and oppression as driving reactions rather than e.g. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and so on. Above all, it is incredibly lazy, and given the seriousness of the topic, this demonstrates how little the author actually cares about any of this. It's self-soothing for an ultra chauvinist that wants to think they are better than that. Hell, it uncritically cites WSWS (Trots) in their false mythologies about the labor movement in Palestine (failing to bring up their false belief in the Zionist working class, i.e what they meant by "dividing" the working class) and litters the document with MEMRI citations, New York Times citations, and Washington Post citations, all wuthoit criticism or engagement, just dumping them as fact in support of their claims.
There's probably even worse in there but I gave up trying to engage with this reactionary and disorganized mess about half way through.
No there's a water and energy shortage because you took a 20 minute shower, greedy.