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The Left Needs to Have More Fun
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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While I absolutely agree with the premise of the article (communities need things to bind them), 100 years ago people were bored and eager to have things to do. Go stand in a crowd under a hot tent to listen to guys read their best posts? Grill up some corn and squeeze some lemons, cuz that's a party in 1926.
You're not getting me out of the house for that nowadays. I know it'll just be me standing around while clipboard holders ask me to sign their petitions. We're atomized as fuck and are embracing it because so many social interactions with strangers are thinly veiled sales pitches that force me to uncomfortably disengage from.
Unions need to fill this void, as they've done in the past. But I don't want to see my co-workers on my off days.
I think the way to go, and this is for more than just unions, is engineering social time that directly addresses the loneliness epidemic. Union funds should be spent on weekly bowling meetups and shit. I think there's a lot of people who would make time for that if it was pre-paid, and just getting people into a casual activity together on a regular basis would be ten times more effective at organizing them than any online based agitation.
to speak to the efficacy of this, i had a group of coworkers who would meet up and play music together after work occasionally.
we all worked in the same office and occasionally topics like unionization or how crappy everything at our company is would come up, i think due to the casual hangouts we did.