queermunist she/her

YES! Yes holy shit, I love to make kids cringe by intentionally using memes wrong.

I’m not even a teacher but this is the best part of being a full adult.

Hotter take: patents shouldn’t exist.

Trump is the most American president we’ve ever had.

You aren’t getting close enough.

Push your head through the screen.

Without tracking they don’t have metrics for their ads, which effects reports and pricing. They really want to know if someone looks at an ad.

People use Archive links to avoid giving sites traffic.

This is a problem for advertisers and media corps.

Not saying they’re the ones doing this, but they’d definitely benefit.

I don’t like change! 😣

I only use the computer for word processing, internet, and playing roguelikes.

Fine. I guess I’ll learn Linux 😒

No one learns history from statues. We don’t have any statues of Hitler but you certainly know who he was.

The past will still be there in textbooks and we can teach everyone what an irredeemable fucking monster he was.

Statues are icons meant to glorify history. You don’t learn anything from a statue, it’s just a celebration.

Let’s glorify good history and not bad history.

Oh fuck I was just thinking about how to solve my need for a heavy blanket while not constantly overheating and waking up.

I wish I had the patience to write! I just read a lot of amateur stuff on ArchiveOfOurOwn and this seems like something I’d find there.

There’s a supernatural masquerade, with vampires and witches and werewolves living among us, and all sorts of mundane regulations are just their influence on the government.

You think fluoride in our water supply is for our teeth? Bah! It’s a vital mineral nutrient for the goblins and dwarves from the Underdark. They have a treaty with the surface governments to allow them to easily adjust.

That’s why you don’t hear about vampire attacks anymore.

You don’t work with people, not really. You manage them. Your job is to strategically use them for maximum productivity; workers might be allowed some small amount of input but only as long as it can be fit within your “roadmap strategy”. Your job it to discipline the workers and keep them on task. And, of course, make sure they never unionize.

These problems are structural. I don’t care what your motivations are, your class position is as an underling enforcer for the boss and you’re bourgeoisified by your position within the class structure. A manager, within this specific class structure, has every incentive to be an enemy of the workers. An individual manager can choose to become a class traitor, and people in management can be extremely powerful union organizers! But it rarely happens because it requires they betray their own class interests. It’s structural.

I’m not opposed to hierarchical organizational structures?

Under capitalism, the job of every single manager is to extract as much surplus value from the workers as possible. That’s their actual economic function. The problem isn’t the organizational model, the problem is the larger economic system they exist within.

If you had some kind of horizontal non-hierarchical collective under capitalism all that could do is turn everyone inside of it into petite-managers and force them to exploit themselves in order to hit productivity quotas. Or, more likely, it would fail because people don’t want to do that shit to themselves and need to be used and abused by a manager to make capitalism function.

The people managers are identified as the ones that can control and discipline the workforce to maximize their exploitation.

Whether they’re nice about it or they just really like their job as a slave driver doesn’t really change what their job is. Their job is to be the enforcers for upper management and this grants them a different class position.

I have some sympathy for people who have completely internalized the logic of capitalism and don’t even realize the role they play in our own oppression, but that sympathy only goes so far. After a certain point all I have left is contempt. They’re bourgeoisified by their position within the labor force, in my view it doesn’t matter what their intent is. In reality, many of them are just doing their jobs and they aren’t ruthless climber psychopaths. The problem is that their jobs are inherently tied into a broader system of capitalist oppression.

I work for a living honey. My knowledge is derived from dealing with them.

Managers at every level exist to protect the boss’s wealth and extract the surplus value we create with our labor. They’re slave drivers for the wage slaves.

News flash: managers at every level also think of themselves as victims and they always pass that on down the chain of command. Upper management gets screamed at by senior management, then they scream at middle management, and then the people on the ground get screamed at. Shit rolls down hill. They aren’t always looking to get promoted all the way to the top, but every single one of them wants to be promoted higher than the rest of us so they can get a little more of the surplus value we generate.

If their job as middle management is so fucking hard how about they give it up? Accept a demotion and rejoin us on the floor. No one has to be middle management.