Nah, I mean it’s just a little silly. “Every clock is a cop?”

I get the sentiment, and I agree. But you have to be pretty deep in the anarchist “lore” (for lack of a better word) to see what they’re saying. For normal people walking by, seeing this (the ones who most need to be swayed), it just comes across as fully unserious. Incredibly silly.

I think this kind of leftist silliness-taken-seriously stems from the yippies. When serious socialist and leftist factions were rising up and spreading in popularity, the yippies came along and turned the entire movement into something utterly silly—now, do I believe that anarchism should be based on joy? Of course. Do I actually like the yippies? Of course. Because I do believe in whimsy, humor, and joy as the basis for life. But I truly do think that, again, you need to be rooted in the “lore” of true leftism to see what they were doing and take it seriously while you also try to levitate the pentagon.

I do firmly believe that this forward facing silliness (joy-forward, instead of misery-in/joy-out, if you will) turned the entire leftist movement in the US into a self-defeating trend. And it shaped the entire perception and almost all of its antics for the rest of time. It just plays right into the fascist counterpoints: “they’re incredibly weak and incredibly dangerous.” Because on both sides of the coin, the crunchy sit-in at Zucotti park to…end capitalism(?) and the capturing, occupying, and torching of city blocks and police stations in 2020, they have the perfect footage to show. Both of those cases in point were true action—the two biggest examples of true action I’ve seen in my lifetime in the US. But one had cops and news anchors trembling in fear and clutching their pearls while the other started out as a true action then sort of fizzled and flopped about in its own unseriousness. The latter turned from a focused demonstration borne out of true anger and then just languished in this weird all-encompassing crunchy hang sesh complete with jugglers and all carnival sights.

The US left is just terminally stuck between its two identities, never fully realizing it’s potential as a result. Maybe we’re seeing less of that as time goes on, but that’s in response to a fully serious uprising of fascists. We’ll see what the next few years bring.

I like to imagine the cyclist’s utter confusion at the question “how do you know (there are cycling paths?)”

I found indisputable proof of this happening.

We were using Google maps, driving in a production van. We were talking about the song “Gasolina” by daddy yankee. The person whose phone it was did not speak Spanish. Moments later we were being served suggestions to stop at “estaciones de gasolina”

Yeah, this is definitely an issue that needs attention.

But…

That thumbnail. What secret is that hacker carrying in their little tummy basket? It looks like a scrumptious little bitty secret

I a, bothered by the ratio of what I pay extra for third party services as compared to what the delivery person receives. You can’t possibly drive the price up further

The solution already existed. It’s called restaurants delivering their own food. But Ubereats shoehorned their way into the equation to be an unnecessary middleman in order to profit. Exploiting a whole new group of people in the process.

I absolutely share the moral dilemma with the concept of third party delivery. They’re just as useless as health insurance companies, so if you see the problem with the latter, you can def see the problem with the former. (Not to say they’re on the same scale or have similar histories or have equal amounts of blood on their hands, just that they’re similar in structure in a system that work(s)/(ed) fine without them.)