i'll leave that up to your state coordinator @Jacob i know nothing about those areas or even your state lol

fair enough

>tfw I *am* the assistant coordinator for Eastern Washington 😳

oh snap

well it's definitely a discussion for the activism server on slack

@Jacob "Its lonely at the top time"....command decisions are the worst.

I'm not a blue name, because I'm still under command of the Washington coordinator, but it's basically my job to plan stuff here since Niko has enough to deal with in Western Washington

It's kinda like how in the Soviet Union there was SSRs and ASSRs

Eastern Washington is an ASSR

we're not as dense down here except for florida and georgia

I'm uncomfortable with any comparison of us to the pinkos but I understand what you mean.

Alright, show of hands: how many IE members were former communists?
(I'll raise my hand)

wtf pinkos?

I know more about Eastern European history than any other so I use it for all my analogies

Former communists, really? I have a whole series of questions now @Salo Saloson

getting a tad late over here for European history

@Salo Saloson A good amount

night everyone

Pinkos- an old cold-war HUAC term for communists.

not me personally, but I've heard of a few

@Goose good night

@Goose buona notte

I'll skip the long personal history lesson for ya Johnny and leave it at this: I got into, and out of, Communism because of arguments about internationalism and labor

Haha even NBCS’ video got heavily downvoted.

@Johnny B. Populus I can answer your questions since I know members like this

Generally the more interested in politics someone is, the more far left/right they are. One thing we have on common is that we both see that there's *something* wrong with the status quo.

@Salo Saloson Gotcha, well I'm glad you're here now at any rate.

@Salo Saloson you were a commie?

it's not that rare lol

I _was_ but never heavily interested in "muh international working class"

Haha I am the working class I get it.

also the _suspicious_ absence of all commies from anything like physical work is a bit hard to ignore

@Salo Saloson no they are present.

Generally, political moderates are people who know nothing about politics, so they just say "eh, the status quo is fine"

The only serious people are either far left or far right

@Jacob I suppose not, I just never met a Comm-vert. (I mean that amicably & not as a personal jibe to any former Marxists)

well sure, but the overwhelming number of Reds I met and ran into weren't interested in factory conditions, labor rights/labor laws, or really anything blue-collar oriented

@Salo Saloson they are a minority but they are very well represented. I am a union memeber.

Also, I don't think we should ever stigmatize an entire political ideology

We should examine all ideologies and take the best parts

I actually suggested we be run like a union

All these pipelines to the dissident right need to be widened

of that I have no doubt, it's just hard to take Comrade Comradovski seriously when he's never _been_ in a factory, much less seen one