kutalik.bsky.social
Comdad, Director of Communications, organizer, game designer and writer of books both serious and seriously weird.
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But also I'm very bad at it in a zoom meeting. Inevitably I forget halfway through.
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After five years of having to do as staff over and over again in meetings my brain just feels singed.
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Love this.
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I have done that exactly once in the many times I've played that game and it looks like you took a similar road (though I was cozier with the KPD). All my wins hinged on obsessively fundraise/building the party org. It's funny/sad that the Marxist center is basically dead wrong in game.
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Walking into the highway shutdowns and thousands here Sunday felt like walking right back into those moments in the streets—and I felt hope. 2/2
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It’s also why “that’s why we should only do economic populism” is hollow as a magic bullet. Like the task is much harder and more about we have to do some very difficult deep and mass organizing to move millions out of this brain space.
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I have heard almost the same exact sentiment from my friends deep in immigrant workers organizing (and well from my trans daughter). I always felt like “we protect ourselves” is a bit glib but we have to now.
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In other words it's the same kind of stupid neoliberal austerity that inevitably fails and kills people. And one that just will get worse with Trumpian authoritarian chaos. 3/3
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- DCA current staff work 10 hour days often for six days a week.
- Last week Trump instituted a nationwide hiring freeze for air traffic controllers, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Comm, and at the behest of fellow governing oligarch Elon Mush fired the head of the FAA. 2/3
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I’ve been running SUD for the kids recently. Isaac’s first time playing. It feels like I’m running someone else’s adventure that’s how long it’s been.
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How many deaths that’s the real question?
I’ve had a few giant in-person games since moving to LA. I kind of love the chaos. But I would.
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Like why is Arizona with massive GOTV money and field as a hot swing state at -3% turnout—and votes both Trump and Ruben Gallego? (I know a few reasons but it still mystifies me overall.)
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Good point. Depressed compared to total turnout in some places in 2020 which had relatively high turnout. It just interests me the millions who opted to not vote or undervoted/split at the top.
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And Trump won with fewer voters than he lost with in 2020. Turnout was depressed for the most part nationwide which points to some different lessons.
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Interestingly enough the Democrats also have one of the smallest defeats (in percentage terms) too in this context.
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Ten year anniversary!