Chana

No worries, friend. Take care of yourself! I know some folks in similar situations that are recharged by organizing and feel worse when taking breaks, but that's definitely not everyone. Do whatever is best for you and consider this stuff when you're ready.

I recall WhatsApp previously claimed e2e but actually they kept an unencrypted copy for themselves. After all, they control the clients.

I could never be responsible for that kind of thing. I'd immediately want to bomb the palace, aka worst idea ever.

Mao condemned Kruschev for not starting a war with the US over the Cuban Missile Crisis. Like a hot war.

He was fairly adventurist before he became communist. But in Bolivia he just miscalculated on how he could build support. The same strategy that worked in Cuban countryside did not work in Bolivia, it did not balloon with basically universal support. His understanding of local conditions was insufficient.

Hell yeah

I think it's less extreme of a problem now than it was within the last several decades. The US is recovering from settler idealism and the red scare, with reproletarianization leading the charge. The Starbucks union kids were some of the earliest and most militant pro-Palestinian groups in the US after Oct 7, for example. But they aren't getting much help in the way of seasoned organizers (outside of SEIU bureaucrats), let alone socialist ones. They make mistakes and figure it out on their own. Who would bring them into coalition and develop their approaches? The largest ML groups basically ignore them and the groups that do talk to them (like DSA) are routinely incompetent at organizing. PSL is insular (a Trotskyist tendency holdover) and FRSO is very focused on Teamster boondoggles. So this radicalizable group is basically ignored as a whole, with individual members joining orgs ad hoc, and has challenges developing. The things I listed, like adventurism, are the course that people take when they aren't brought into socialist organizing.

Ha, nice. I had a socialist acquaintance in high school that put me off it for a bit. They didn't actually know anything about socialism, they were just an asshole who was critical, on a personal level, of everyone else's choices as "bourgeois". Telling them to keep their shoes on their stinky feet was bourgeois. Having a job was bourgeois. I went the Socdem direction at first, having no concept of imperialism or the mechanisms of capitalism.

Ah, right, I actually forgot what OP had said, ha.

Then don't worry about that particular task, friend. There are many roles in organizing and it isn't just the socialist versions of cold calling, ha ha. Some example roles that don't require this:

• Writing agendas and facilitating meetings

• Doing logistics for events (food, water, medical, transportation)

• Internal education

• Propaganda and art

• Booking locations for events

• Teaching / ensuring opsec and infosec (but not personally doing de-escalation)

• Research

• Making connections with friendly orgs

Haha, a feather for my cap. I exist in the ultraleft-liberal superposition. Good on you that you were cool before the SocDem Bernie Buzz.

I think the challenge with young people isn't that they inherently have less experience due to being young but because they are surrounded by counterrevolutionary forces and don't have many discoverable mentors of quality. They have to figure it out alone surrounded by careerist activism, adventurist tendencies, idealist affinity groups (aesthetic), etc etc. Older people are more likely to have gone through this already. But if you get young people into a good program they can run circles around veterans in just a couple years!

All of them are annoying. Okay black people can say brother but definitely not white people that's always annoying.

So what so you think of an ironic, "brah"?

"Oh brother this guy stinks" is an essential part of the repertoire