Natural fit for this website
Mainly we would post links and screenshots of /r/Antiwork, which is mostly a great subreddit and full of pissed off workers ripe for radicalization
Edit: we’re doing it in /c/Agitprop - the now dedicated Antiwork comm
I think it’s a great idea. I was watching a friendly critique of a Hakim video that argued that rhetorically, anti-work free-time sentiment should be the #1 radicalizing force in our movement. The CIA controlled :reddit-logo: subreddit works explicitly against radicalization. If we can get people to visit here, that’s probably one of the best uses of a website like this.
Absolutely agree.
The mod Carcosa just posted and said we aren’t doing liferaft style communities here, which makes sense I guess because we could get a bunch of fucking chuds here who also just have bad jobs.
But yeah we should get good at this topic (we already kinda are) and influence the subreddit and the nascent movement.
I wouldn’t see it as a life raft - I wouldn’t encourage people to come here, just go over there and influence. Like the dunk tank for Twitter dot com. Not sure if that still qualifies as like a “potential inadvertent life raft” situation.
It would be primarily for influencing that subreddit, but people could post their own shitty work stories on the hexbear comm if they wanted. I feel like the volume of little comment and thread link posts would get annoying for people trying to like, build and support unions, and I bet it would just get confined into a megathread if we did it in those existing comms.
Couldn’t this be a good fit for c/agitprop?
Or would agitprop be where the memes/takes get warehoused to be used?
It’s worth a dedicated comm, and I don’t want to overwhelm /c/agitprop or /c/labor with a ton of links to reddit posts.
I think a new comm would help drive people to make a concerted effort (and have a fun time) prodding people along and keeping that subreddit cruising in an increasingly leftward direction
I was literally just typing up a response saying that you absolutely can and should use agitprop for this lol, it’s basically dead and we already decided on that a while back
Should probably avoid using the word “brigade”.
I mean don’t use the word on Bad Website, but you can do anything you want here.
I mean, I don’t personally have a problem with it, but I would worry that libs would see it and complain and get us banned from the sub.
on a related note, r/antiwork2 was created by someone here, its still pretty dead but i feel like it may be worth trying to build up for spicier and more leftist antiwork shit, and more radicalisation without being drowned out by lib posts.
and we could potentially be more active about promoting this place there with less risk of being overrun by libs and chuds