timfitz.manapool.nyc
dev, sysadmin, no gods no kings no masters, fan of magic pools, lover of being a dad.
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Rich people aren't leaving NYC and it's truly sad that New Yorkers think there's anything to that idea. The draw isn't rich people, it's everyone else. It's New Yorkers past and present that have made NYC the greatest city on Earth. Rich people will be willing to pay to be a part of it forevermore
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Lander is dece, worth putting #2
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Ranking did not put Adams in office. He would have won on the first ballot without it
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That sounds fun! Maybe so. I think I will probably scan it all to start with so that everyone can decide what they may want to do with it. A lot of this stuff was purged from the web shortly after this time and isn’t online, which has always super bothered me
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Did we actually *do* war? Seldom. We were often *very* sheltered, liberal, & privileged in our execution when it came to our activism. But we also were looking to all of the right places to find out how to grow. And many of us really really did. It would have been so fire to see what happened next.
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It’s not make or break, but everywhere Occupy was they could have used a few dozen more deeply sincere anarchist contributors, and certainly the same goes for every relevant moment since then. And like I said we never fucked with the liberal version of what we were doing. We always meant war.
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Instead, YRUU’s premature demolition meant my generation of UU kids was the last to come up knowing how to operate like anarchists, w/ coherent intersectional analyses, a habit of creative emergence, a literally religious commitment to universality. There could have been hundreds more in every city.
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The reason I consider it such an L, beyond the loss of a priceless but exclusive space: it is unquestionable to me that if YRUU had still existed in 2011, it would’ve contributed core pieces to movement infrastructure and culture. And would have helped provide continuity between movement moments.
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Now, looking back, after my subsequent experiences during Occupy Wall Street, and in other instances of what I like to call “magic pool” spaces — where conditions emerge explosions of creativity and empowerment — I’m tempted to consider a deeper explanation: they just didn’t realize what they had.
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Those last two shots are actually of a piece I wrote, which sums up the state of things towards what wound up being the end of the road for YRUU. I really lean into the “official”, surface-level explanations here, but later concluded the real reasons YRUU’s rug got pulled were political & cultural.
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Back to Synapse: This was either the last or 2nd-to-last year Synapse was published, before the UUA yanked funding & support for YRUU & all of its cultural products. Today UUism entirely lacks a cohesive youth movement and some of the leaders we fought have expressed regrets. Massive L for the libs.
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This binder was one of the primary things I was looking for. I expect to also find a lot of evidence of how we fought & failed to defend YRUU, a decades-old essentially anarchist youth religious movement that we hid in the rafters of UUism, from the very same rich liberals. So it’s a mixed bag.
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In fact, this is also from 2003! Volume XXI of the YRUU magazine, Synapse. “Gender pronouns”, “the power of language”. Also, “School of the Americas Watch”. To us, class and race and gender were never oppositional fights, they were all alive for us. Never let them tell you we made anybody choose.
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This hulking thing wants to open to this page: the UUA’s 2003 “statement of conscience” about “economic globalization.” Proof that all along America’s legacy host of wealthy left-liberalism was vocal in opposition to neoliberalism — to deaf ears who now love to accuse the left of alienating workers.
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For starters: tons of paperwork from my 1 year stint on the Unitarian Universalist Association Board of Trustees, from when I was 20 years old. Hoo boy. What a time that was. By its conclusion, I had been deeply disillusioned about UUism and rich liberals more broadly. An important experience.
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"A democratic lawmaker who has done a lot of work to protect trans rights and abortion access in her state was just assassinated by a rabidly anti-trans right-wing christian with a list of dem politicians and planned parenthood sites. What are dems doing to moderate their rhetoric?" Peak @npr.org
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Yeah, wtf?
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And no, Iran can't have peace because it has the misfortune of sharing a region with Israel, who is the worst neighbor of all fucking time. It's like having a next-door neighbor who is constantly trying to figure out how to burn down your house. Iran's government sucks ass; Israel helps entrench it
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"Which happens in all wars" is blather you're using to hand-wave away atrocities. Science isn't a crime, & if you want to try to convince me that they only targeted military scientists, that's still self-defeating. When will yall realize that an excess of force doesn't end wars, it perpetuates them?
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Maybe one of these things won't happen. But I'm pretty sure almost all of them will.
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Though he's about half as harsh about it as he should be. The Gaza policy isn't "ugly". That's an insultingly weak description. It's mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing at least, genocide if you want to be unflinching. Friedman seems to get it, but he's not yet really saying it, and he should.
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I -- me personally -- am fucking tired of people in power condescending to me, my community, my family, my friends, and everyone I don't know and have nothing to do with, all of whom have functioning hearts and brains.
Let Democrats shock us all by calling bullshit with no apology.
Lol. Right.
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We are sick & tired of Democrats complying with insane lies that alienate the United States and its people from the rest of the world.
We are sick & tired of Democrats being too selfish and cowardly to speak unpopular truths, instead choosing to sow seeds of future confusion and disorientation.
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If there’s one thing we need it’s another liberal to represent us by doing whatever benefits them politically
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And, like, there have been plenty of people setting up nonprofits the entire time. There is a reason none of them became a mass social movement. Vanguardism will not work, & top-down control kills a movement. The thing you want doesn’t exist because it cannot exist.
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100% disagree. First, leaderless doesn’t mean out of control, it means that control is distributed. And secondly, there is a reason it’s the dominant form and it’s that leaderless movements are the most accessible and most resistant to suppression and co-optation.
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that is, at some point. thinking more about upcoming moments, like this weekend, when the liberals show up and there's going to be a lot of complexity to navigate. there is no implied criticism of anything up to this point here
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Ask him if he considers Fauci responsible for delayed learning and some other bullshit, and then when he says yes ask him if he feels responsible for all the kids who have and will get sick and die while he, a genius, denies them the care recommended by a unanimous consensus of medical experts
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OK. I think you’re way overthinking this, and that people will align for or against this based on long held priors, not any of this. But I’ll grant you that Bouie’s response is good, as always.
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Sure, it flows directly from “I’m human, you are not, therefore everything is simple” which is at the core of all of their thinking
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The Federal Government has torn up the social contract. The only rational next step for ANY person is to get into the streets and refuse to move until a legitimate government is installed. That’s what we literally all are entitled to do at this time. TCW prefers post-Constitution fascism.
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It’s also a garbage analysis because it totally ignores causality. If democracy was functioning, we wouldn’t need to go to such an extent to force the government to be responsive. You cannot operate in the undemocratic way this country’s politics do and then say hey why are you blocking the freeway.
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I don’t see a difference. TCW’s argument that democracy can’t function if people are free to disrupt business as usual is the same as saying it can’t function if people are free to protest. Both are forms of speech, and the forces trying to suppress each are the same, as are the reasons for each.
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Jake Tapper retweeting it also. Just absolutely disgraceful
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No, and I never said they did. I said that things like it happened under their watch. We need to take responsibility for assessing the rot beyond just the Republican Party. This is the example I personally am connected to, there are many others www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/n...