Someone had a good idea last week about making a kindness post.
Fundamentally, it is important to build communities and institutions through affirming actions and efforts. A forum devoted solely to bitching and complaining will never work, and could potentially toxify (though in our case I doubt it would be too bad because you all are capable of self-regulating).
That being said, I like the idea of making one post every week that is specifically devoted to, not simply good news, but good affirmations to each other.
Please post positive things in this particular thread. Also, feel free to ping other users with compliments, kindness, and affirmations.
Think of it as a morale building exercise!
I like the idea of building institutions and dedicating (at least) a post per week to that end. I do wonder if perhaps instead of kind-posting the post could be a bit more productive.
There's a lot of untapped skill on this board: I've talked to other STEM people, academics, finance people, business people, machinists, soldiers, and the like. Enough that if we were all in one physical location we'd have the oasis from Clown World that we all seem to want. And we're all just kinda sitting here thinking "well shit now what do we do?" I don't pretend to know what tapping into that skill would look like or how to go about doing it, but it's a shame it's sitting here unused.
Anyways that was my "good affirmation" intended in the spirit of "kindness".
Agreed, we need some forward moment but we're all sort of milling about trying to puzzle out what said forward moment would look like. I've seen some segments of the current political dissident movement advocating for everyone moving to the same region, but I don't think that's viable for everyone, so we'll probably need to figure out how to set up multiple outposts scattered across the country.
Sounds great. I think we get too entrapped in hate fucking here. Don't get me wrong, it's fun in a dark way, but often times it's boring in its entirely predictable nature.
Hell, I've been itching to create a topic about US economics and dark days ahead, but was a bit too lazy. Maybe I'll get to it eventually.
The great thing about this forum is that nobody's policing content. Don't worry about ideas -- execute. It'll stick if it vibes and timing is right; if not, no big harm.
Yeah I've had a post on "alternate communication methods" sitting in the back of my mind for some time as well. I think a great way to gatekeep communities is to use old tech that wasn't "normie-friendly" like IRC, newsgroups, and BBS's. But I haven't yet put anything to paper.
Some anons on /pol/ for a time tried setting up "Right Wing Dev Squad" threads to try to start building up distributed software infrastructure, which I thought was a great idea that unfortunately didn't go anywhere.
I've been kicking around some ideas involving things like BBS's and such, too, just on a pretty small scale. Maybe one of us will get some solid ideas down and we can compare notes.