niomi

The mantra now for recruiting is “be normal,” which I hate. How do people not feel like Harry fucking Dubois mid breakdown when they say this? How is this not the least normal thing to say? What else are they alluding to, if not the normalcy they are violating by asking for it?

YOU – I've taken responsibility for my actions now. I'm a new man. Weighty and normal. I'm so fucking normal right now.

I am getting cranky.

I would believe socialism seems like it could be is normal in some places. And maybe soon, oh my god, in New York City, socialism seems like it could be normal. For many, they will hope it's an irreversible tide, and get complacent.

And for other important sectors in the democracy game, the demos of democracy, socialism is not normal.

Also, only weird people have the power to control fate. That's literally what weird means.

Unfortunately, we don't just need democratic socialism. We need militant labor. We need a mass movement, and to put aside the rivalries of small differences. We need employed labor to support reserve & reproductive labor.

But atomized labor, who tend to be invisible, no 401k, migrants, reproductive workers, reserve, disabled people, all types of un(der)paid backed into corners, are going quickly by attrition.

Everyone else too, just a bit slower.

As to the political performance... I'm arguably not credible enough, definitely not normal enough. I must probably get weirder for min/max reasons.