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Where are all the free childcare programs? The American left does nothing but throw protests (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by BigHaas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The Panthers did free before school breakfast and after school babysitting and all sorts of actual community building like that. The PSL does protests and craft events and that's it. I guess providing consistent services is an order of magnitude more difficult than organizing marches but it just doesn't seem like the marches are getting us anywhere.

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[-] hmmm@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Quite frankly I'm of the opinion we need more nose-to-the-grindstone communists, something I try to strive to be myself and help others I know work towards as well.

Could you explain this a bit more? I've met enough comrades that got burnt out because their effort was not met with success. (This is a well-meaning question, I feel like it does not read that way, sorry)

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So I had a big thing typed out and then had to step away before posting it because I hadn't finished the last sentence, and then had my phone reload the page leading to it getting deleted. So I'll shorten it like it's not butter.

Folks need to go get jobs and live their lives among their coworkers as open, honest, reliable, and comradely commies, preferably in heavy industry or logistics or critical light industrial sectors, to both normalize and organically grow a rooted network of comrades, allies, fellow travelers, and friends in both the community and the workplace. Basically long-term dull shit.