Message from @JonnyWhatsit

Discord ID: 358471785215426561


2017-09-16 04:00:34 UTC  

Oh.

2017-09-16 04:00:51 UTC  

Thanks, doctor.

2017-09-16 04:01:03 UTC  

call me freud

2017-09-16 04:01:28 UTC  

Brb. Might go grab some alcohol beverages.

2017-09-16 04:01:46 UTC  

alright, i might be leaving in 30 minutes or so

2017-09-16 04:01:53 UTC  

Alright.

2017-09-16 04:01:56 UTC  

Thanks for the chat.

2017-09-16 04:02:00 UTC  

We covered a lot of ground.

2017-09-16 04:02:57 UTC  

are you in other relevant servers?

2017-09-16 04:03:11 UTC  

and what happened to our gorgeous agrarian cause, just noticed?

2017-09-16 04:05:11 UTC  

We lost key investors.

2017-09-16 04:07:44 UTC  

In other words, it was a parody which was born from cynicism with political causes in general, and an experiment to see what it would be like to create a legitimate political ideology from scratch.

2017-09-16 04:07:44 UTC  

Hi kids.

2017-09-16 04:07:47 UTC  

Is this legit?

2017-09-16 04:08:04 UTC  

Turns out it is really easy to convince people you are legit.

2017-09-16 04:09:00 UTC  

I'm really desperate to get involved in 'Murrica. I think I've been here before, but I still have hope.

2017-09-16 04:09:27 UTC  

I'm heading out. Someone else can field this one.

2017-09-16 04:09:33 UTC  

Ciao

2017-09-16 04:10:01 UTC  

Anyway, mainboard leftypol pisses me off how little there seems to be capacity to organize.

2017-09-16 04:38:38 UTC  

What kind of lefty are you first? @JonnyWhatsit

2017-09-16 04:38:53 UTC  

Georgist.

2017-09-16 04:40:12 UTC  

Oh boy.

2017-09-16 04:40:30 UTC  

Is that an issue?

2017-09-16 04:42:14 UTC  

You'd be the first that I know of. I will hold my tongue on the rest.

2017-09-16 04:42:24 UTC  

Yay.

2017-09-16 04:48:13 UTC  

So basically you're just a liberal reformist? @JonnyWhatsit

2017-09-16 04:50:01 UTC  

Still less capitalist than SocDems.

2017-09-16 04:52:08 UTC  

I see establishing the land and its uses as a public resource as extremely radical reform - and acknowledge that it's unlikely to be readily allowed by moneyed interests who profit off of land ownership and exploitation.

2017-09-16 04:52:45 UTC  

I'm still interning in George, but I've read he supported publicizing any private monopolies which managed to form, too.

2017-09-16 04:52:45 UTC  

Were you less pessimistic in the past?

2017-09-16 04:53:43 UTC  

No, actually I'm quite new to Georgism. So this is actually an optimistic turn.

2017-09-16 04:54:45 UTC  

Do you have much exposure to other kinds of Leftism, Marx or Kropotkin?

2017-09-16 04:57:42 UTC  

Nnnope. Very limited. I have "Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State" but I've only touched it barely. I've been party to anarchist communes, and leading up to Georgism I saw myself as a "wannabe anarchist" - IE, I idolized that system but had no real hope of it functioning broadly and only limited hope of it functioning self-sufficiently for production. Also, the communities I was part of, though run by clever people, were full of idpol to the point of masochism.

2017-09-16 04:58:28 UTC  

That's a shame.

2017-09-16 04:59:15 UTC  

There is a lot of content to possibly go through. Are you new to Discord in general?

2017-09-16 04:59:31 UTC  

No, but I don't register this name.

2017-09-16 05:00:24 UTC  

I guess my advice would be to expose yourself to different politics, ask questions and join different Discord servers.

2017-09-16 05:00:38 UTC  

Are there multiple leftypol servers?

2017-09-16 05:00:54 UTC  

Why do you love leftypol so much?

2017-09-16 05:02:36 UTC  

I don't. Leftypol sucks. It's just one of very few relatively large lefty communities where shitting on idpol and pop-sensitivity stuff is smiled upon. and the divisive identity problems in the mainstream (and even less mainstream) American 'left' are acknowledged and criticized.

2017-09-16 05:04:12 UTC  

I'm not really out to read theory on the servers - I *do* read stuff that piques my interest on the board, but I'm more looking here for discussion where I can participate in some form of action not necessarily related to theory. Not antifa either, just some way to physically help out.