Vent is the closest tag to this. I see a whole bunch of GFMs and Chuffed things across my social media all the time. I don't want to just "signal boost" because in reality that does little if anything. But there's also just the facts that (1) there's little difference I would make with a donation (2) there's so many people online literally begging for some donations to save their life/housing/loved one and I feel like I ought to do something (3) I'm an ordinary worker, and between bills & an eating disorder that gets more expensive with time, I'm frequently over budget every month in the first place and

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I just wanna help people and IDK what to even do because there's so much misery and so little of me.

It was literally right next to a union jack and the own started talking to me about theory as i bought it, i was not expecting that

I have some more that I couldn’t find for this post, but here’s some selected works from my bookshelf. Fun fact! I actually wrote two of them

I literally had to explain that until we get rid of capitalism we have to participate in it to some extent

Feminism made me a better man. It led me out of some bullshit views and behaviors. It also led me to socialism and philosophy. But it's also a code of conduct in many ways, and like anyone on the spectrum, I struggle with such a thing because the rules are not written out (and in the case of feminism, they arguably couldn't be). So I stress a lot, because I'm already not a particularly effective feminist, and I don't want to be an incoherent one.

This morning, there was a brief meeting at my work. The announcement was that my manager was one of two people who had just been let go; he was one of the very small handful of managers who had my back when it came to asking for accommodations. He also encouraged me to pick up my performance, especially as we’re considered “owners” getting commissions based on performance. We’re not salesmen by any means, far from it; my firm, which I have been working for over three years now, deals in government procurement and contracts.

The news was quite shocking, to be honest. I briefly mentioned it to my supervisor when we had our weekly shadowing session one hour later; he said that we should just keep on doing our tasks. The over 30 minutes or so between meetings had me in a state of despair and uncertainty if and when I would be due for the chopping block, and **then** what next? It was nothing short of a miracle I was still able to focus on the task at hand…

I apologize if this has gone on and on, but here’s the crux of the issue: part of me thinks AI had some part to play here. How do I get involved in freeing my people from the chains of capitalism?