Hey, what's up? Hopefully, I can keep this post up. I'm not looking to argue anyone's beliefs. Everyone's got their beliefs, that's fine.

I was wondering if there is a need here though for any niche hobby stuff, or 'fun' communities like monkey paw or shitty super powers stuff like that, on this instance?

Looking to help possibly provide the variety but wasn't sure if I'd be wasting my time creating communities no one wants to see.

Anyway,

Thank you

I've been seeing a lot of posts for communities in languages I don't know (German being the most common). Well I'm sure these are perfectly fine communities and have no problem with them being around, I don't speak the languages - just English - and having to play whack-a-mole for every single new one that pops up is getting pretty tedious. Is there a way to filter all that out in one fell swoop?

Im working class, and have worked a lot of industrial construction jobs most people are too scared to do.

My coworkers are invariably all subhuman bigoted orcs that are literally dumber than the "people" from the movie Idiocracy.

After arguing with 3 coworkers who all believed that trans people shit in litterboxes i think that i have decided that the working class isnt worth anything. They all just hate all my friends anyway. Id rather have a society of gay landlords oppressing these subhumans.

I cursed them out, which does nothing but get me in trouble. They reported me to HR for harassing them. I hate the working class. I hate straight people.

Do i want to feel this way? No - ive dedicated a lot of my life to socialist organizing. Im a massive hypocrite. I hate myself, dont worry.

The amount of conflicts going on in the world is mindbonggling. Truly decades happening in weeks like Lenin said. Right now Biden's trying really hard to link the Palestinian resistence and "terrorism" with Iran in his tweets and statements, which brings back memories of Bush doing the same thing about Iraq after 9/11. Like Goebells said, repeat something enough and it becomes true.

As a result, it looks like the US may very well go to war with Iran in the close future. We're already proxy warring Russia in Ukraine, but US aid is starting to run dry (correct me if I'm wrong) and it seems like the US will eventually get bored of Ukraine.

The problem here is that Republicans are warhawking for proxy war with China over Taiwan, and some of them are talking about invading Mexico as well. If Biden starts a war with Iran the Republicans will probably be on board. Americans are getting sick of sleepy Biden running their country, and it seems like in the 2024 elections Republicans have a strong chance of winning. If they hold true to their promises, the US could be involved in 3 wars at once, which would be an enormous hit to the economy. The only way I see this playing out is the US shifting to a war economy like Nazi Germany did to prevent the already fragile and heavily indebted economy from collapsing. The US could become even more fascist than it already is, reaching Nazi levels of insanity.

My mind's running a bit on this one, so someone please tell me any more insights on this or any mistakes I have made.

First post even though I've had an account for months. So basically I have ADHD and am autistic, on top of that I've always struggled with self discipline and motivation. All of this has been made worse by a traumatic event causing me severe depression that I can't seem to get out of. I genuinely want to read theory to become a better Marxist but I can barely manage a few pages at a time before giving up. Any ideas?

I am currently undergoing my formal education as a teacher of English and German as a second language, but I've been a full-time private tutor for 5 years. I'm not supposed to teach in a school yet, but due to the state of the education system in my country, there was a lack of teachers and I got invited to teach in my former high school. I teach a group of 11 thirteen-year-olds 6x45 minutes on Mondays and Tuesdays.

I felt like I was doing quite well, but today devastated me. We had our second lesson in the canteen (due to lack of available classrooms) and it was a disaster. I try my best to plan engaging, exciting lessons, so after a short vocabulary test they were due to write, I asked them to go around the classroom and ask each other some questions related to our new unit, I even made and printed them a spreadhseet with their names that they could fill out. They started asking each other for the information in our native language, no matter how many times I asked them to speak in English, and after the time was up, I could not, for the life of me, get them to settle. Half of them were shouting and chatting, the other half were eyeing me, waiting for my response. They are generally quite lively, but today was the first time I could not get them to settle.

Now, I never yell. I do my absolute best to respect everyone, just like I promised them the first time we met. However, I asked for their respect and cooperation in return and I can see that faltering. They got used to me, got bored with me, I don't know.

Initially I thought I would have more problems with the boys, but they are okay. It's the girls, they mature faster so they are already these moody teenagers. I can't get them all to do their homework, even by giving them bad grades for it, can't get them to engage, put away their phones, nothing. I tried interesting debates, topics, but it doesn't work for more than 5 minutes. Nothing I've seen in movies, experienced as a student myself works anymore. They don't have the attention span. They are under- and overstimulated at the same time and cannot sit still, but cannot do a stand-up activity in an organised manner, it turns into chaos.

Academically, they are bright and have a very good level of English thanks to video games and movies. They do fairly well in tests, but they won't improve unless I manage to get through to them. I have some rules in place and I stick to them, so I have given them a few bad grades, etc. but I don't feel like it's enough.

For information, I'm barely taller than them and I'm a 25-year-old, younger looking girl so I'm not very intimidating. I'm also not mean-spirited and never talk down to any of my students, but I realised I need a modified approach to teaching in a group compared to teaching privately.

I would appreciate any insight or tips on how to achieve a calm and disciplined environment in which I can actually use the fun stuff I work hard to prepare.

I'm writing some critical notes on a socdem book (Taplin's MFBT), and at one point it mentions GamerGate while exploring the rise of the internet fascists.

Now, I know what GamerGate was, I even watched a lot of it as it unfolded, but I can't find a way to properly characterise it. It doesn't help that, with some hindsight I can see both how a lot of the "leaders" of the movement became barely relevant but a lot of their tactics were adopted or further developed by the more mainstream fascists. Besides that the whole structure of it looks very fishy considering all the known astroturfing strategies used nowadays.

A lot of the resources I've read on it is the typical lib idealist mass psychoanalysis (Innuendo Studios comes to mind), so I was wondering if y'all had some more critical resources about that.

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