#6281
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is this Socialist Alternative gibbonstrength? i assume so.
#6282
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sounds sAlty to me
#6283
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honestly being a trot sounds fun in some ways. sell newspapers, hang out with other like minded people while selling newspapers, just have a nice neat line on syria that you can tell people about..
#6284
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its pretty easy to have a nice neat line on syria tho. "i stand with the people of syria and their government against isis and al qaeda"
#6285
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I saved a dog from being run over today, which is more than any trot org has ever achieved.
#6286
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Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:

is this Socialist Alternative gibbonstrength? i assume so.



yes but operating under an alias for some reason

#6287
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im tempted by the thought of trying to start my own group, but that also seems like a huge leap in investment of time that might just make me go insane. does anyone have advice for how to STay Involved in the absence of a good local org
#6288
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Very carefully
#6289
Online
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seems like way too often theres people here who are like "wanna join an org, but welp, only trots around here"

Obviously we need to open up rHizzonE cHaptErs with solid anti-imperialist lines worldwide. Donald can go on Chapo and give us a shout out, sending thousands of rose emoji posters into our ranks, where we will teach them about scientific marxism-leninism
#6290
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a good org to join if youre in a remote area is mim prisons. you can help them from your couch. and retyping prisoner letters keeps you in close contact with tHE mAsSEs
#6291
Dont Mess With Sucess
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stegosaurus posted:

a good org to join if youre in a remote area is mim prisons. you can help them from your couch. and retyping prisoner letters keeps you in close contact with tHE mAsSEs

Thanks for the reminder stigo

#6292
UNUSUALY COOL
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stegosaurus posted:

a good org to join if youre in a remote area is mim prisons. you can help them from your couch. and retyping prisoner letters keeps you in close contact with tHE mAsSEs


#6293
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yeah, ive heard you mention typing for them but didnt know what it meant. thats something i can get behind for reals
#6294
UNUSUALY COOL
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also one of the few times i'll still work with anarchos and liberals is helping get prisoners books they want, which is very Marxist especially once you see the books they're trying to get, if you're anywhere within a few counties of a prison there will almost certainly be an organization to do this that you can find easily
#6295
Dont Mess With Sucess
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So i been on a collections drive recently, collecting owed money from all m,y customers who are willing to cough up, and trying to figure out who is a lost cause for chasing down / wrangling down...I had looked into selling debt to a collection agency and the return is so bad it's not worth the effort at our level. BNut what I had never thought of before was small claims court, I just dickin looked at it today and hecko shoot, it would cost me $15-20, plus like $60 more for an employee to go do the filing and represent us in court, and I get to ruin people's lives? just because I'm mad about finances? bc the thing is, if someone walks out on their balance I can jjust write it off on my taxes anyway. It's just more convenient for me at themoment to actually have cash so, I should probably, legally sue the shit out of millions of criminals? Any ethical objections to this?
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#6297
Dont Mess With Sucess
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I'm making like 22k!! this year

For anyone who isnt caught up I work with dogs, so my clients include a large group of people who have no idea what a dog will cost and dont bother to find out until after they owe huge amts to me and various vets and cleaning companies etc

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#6298
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#6299
UNUSUALY COOL
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swampman posted:

So i been on a collections drive recently, collecting owed money from all m,y customers who are willing to cough up, and trying to figure out who is a lost cause for chasing down / wrangling down...I had looked into selling debt to a collection agency and the return is so bad it's not worth the effort at our level. BNut what I had never thought of before was small claims court, I just dickin looked at it today and hecko shoot, it would cost me $15-20, plus like $60 more for an employee to go do the filing and represent us in court, and I get to ruin people's lives? just because I'm mad about finances? bc the thing is, if someone walks out on their balance I can jjust write it off on my taxes anyway. It's just more convenient for me at themoment to actually have cash so, I should probably, legally sue the shit out of millions of criminals? Any ethical objections to this?



imo those third-party debt buyers mostly exist so that team leaders in big corporate structures can report fewer losses per quarter up the chain to their bosses at quarterly meetings, they're not intended to make financial sense, let alone for small businesses

#6300
Dont Mess With Sucess
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toyotathon posted:

wait i read down your post more don't sue ppl and 20k is plenty sorry :weed emoji:

It's not just about me though. We have to pay sales tax at the end of the quarter, we can't just hope a bunch of people decide to pay their balances in time. We have all this other expensive shit t o spend money on. People who owe us $1 can fucking die

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#6302
Dont Mess With Sucess
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roseweird posted:

lead the dogs in revolutionary struggle against the owners


I hate to say this but after several years working among them I'm pretty sure dogs are lumpenproles

#6303
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form an All-Dogs Union
#6304
Online
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hobby lobby is opening their isis museum finally...thinking of checking it out
#6305
mt.real
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til swampman is a dog psychiatrist
#6306
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I applied for a job today! It would be at a gas station. Please wish me luck.
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#6308
UNUSUALY COOL
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platzapS posted:

I applied for a job today! It would be at a gas station. Please wish me luck.



#6309
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i started seeing a new therapist. its been many years since i tried to see someone for talking therapy. he seems good. i felt a rapport with him and that pretty much never happens which is why i havent had great experiences with therapy before. anyway, it made me feel hopeful
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#6311
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i'm at the wwp national conference
#6312
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im about to again start working in a bar again
#6313
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tears posted:

im about to again start working in a bar again


dytd

#6314
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platzapS posted:

applied for a job today! It would be at a gas station. Please wish me luck.


Tried that.

Now I saw cars apart and recycle them.

#6315
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Populares posted:

dytd


#6316
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Per an earlier dream conversation (that was in this thread, right?) the most important thing is trying to write them down. you always dream, you just don't always have a practice of remembering them. keep a little notebook near where you sleep, and write as soon as you can upon waking, tracing any little thing you can remember back and back and back. also, i've noticed that returning my body to the position I wake up in after dreaming vividly helps to reform the memory (blood flow?). After about a week of earnestly trying to remember all your dreams, you will likely have a relatively strong dream relationship. also, everything everyone else said was on point. Wait, are dreams real life?
#6317
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D R E A M S
#6318
UNUSUALY COOL
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tears posted:

im about to again start working in a bar again



congradulations.

#6319
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bit188 posted:

i'm at the wwp national conference



Ah, how was it? I really wanted to go but was busy Saturday + it would be a little more expensive (cause of travel) than I'd like to pay just for Sunday

#6320
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it was good, it’s always good to be around other communists