I hate the quote "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." I am positive I can demolish his house with his killdozer.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure I got yelled at the last time I posted this lol.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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The best struggle sessions need to not be so important that they might split the site (unless getting rid of the reactionaries is the point), but also not so unimportant that nobody will give a shit.
It also needs to be something that people will have a personal opinion on, so like "Should we have critical support of this small party from 1952 in Liechtenstein" probably won't bring engagement because nobody knows anything about it.
And finally, it should be something that hasn't been debated to death already in the mainstream, so that people aren't already tired of talking about it.
so the outdoor/indoor cat thing was purrfect. outdoor cats do have very real-world consequences on species but aren't like, a driving cause of ecological destruction unlike capitalists, people have opinions on it because many are cat owners or know cat owners, and it wasn't something all over the news already.
my only real idea is "Nuclear energy: good or bad?" but that's been a public debate for decades now
What about wearing shoes indoors? That's always a good one because people who haven't done it before don't know it breaks down heavily based on region and climate and culture, so they yell past each other for a long time.
The only time it's not stupid to wear shoes indoors is if your floor is already filthy
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Can we do "please use a washcloth in the shower?"
I think it has the potential to really annoy the core audience here, and also gives room for loofah posting.
I'll bite: why? its just another rag that I'll have to run through the wash every like 2 days
Because actually using a wet cloth to scrub something gets it cleaner than just putting soap on it then rinsing. If you think you're doing a good job scrubbing with your fingers, you aren't getting nearly as much coverage as you'd get in half the time with a rag.
also exfoliation.
using your hands is fine, how dirty are you people that you need to sand your body? I find that everyone who uses a washcloth type of thing uses it several times and not only does it makes the bathroom smell repulsive, but they're also wiping themselves with a bacteria rag
There you go. That's the spirit. Now we got the struggle sesh.
wiping themselves with a bacteria rag
Gonna blow your mind here: you wash them.
if you do it after every use, it's probably fine. people who I've seen use them don't tend to do that 
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tbf i don't shower hardly at all because i don't smell bad
Bunch of fake leftists in this thread. I only use rainwater to clean myself
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This one is genius. It's genius because people can be mildly offended by it, and need to retort to defend their honor. "What, you're saying my body is grubby all the time?" "Of course I wash my washcloth after every use!" "No my bathroom is not infested with bacteria!" I'll be back in a couple of hours to check how it's going 
Look, I can wash you with a cloth to reenact me, a peasant, preparing you, a mighty warrior, for battle, however, you will not moist cloth me while my body is being showered.
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Car batteries should be thrown in the ocean!!
Everyone agreed on this one though.
We could do male circumcision, that's usually nice and contentious.
I hope it's not here. I got rugburn on my glans last week and it sucked.
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except a vague idea that outdoor cats were bad
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Repeat this 72691 times and you have the cat struggle session.
And if you don't have a strong opinion either way both sides will agree you are in fact the biggest centrist liberal to ever live.
I don't judge outdoor cat havers, but it makes me sad thinking about how likely they are to get hit by cars or have a bad coyote encounter
Not having them eating birds is also nice too
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Compulsory public school is a topic that could easily turn into a struggle session.
I'll get us started: compulsory public education in a capitalist society is prone to child abuse. It's where imperial propaganda gets ingrained and where people who want power over children have unlimited access to control them.
Being anti-public education is literally a fascist talking point and one that's dangerously popular with US conservatives already. Public education is far from perfect, but removing resources will make every single problem with it worse. Besides, teacher's unions are one of the last viable union careers.
Teachers are cops and being pro teacher is pro cop. Literally if you try to refuse public school as a child, violent enforcement will be threatened and eventually called if you don't confirm.
Public education is one of the basic principles of any socialist program. Public education was one of the very first things the USSR and Cuba did. Uneducated people fall easier to propaganda.
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ACAB includes spins wheel dictionaries. Prescriptivist spelling is classist.
Am I allowed to say "this, but only half-ironically"?
The problem isn't really with dictionaries, which are a great tool for documenting and learning a language as it changes. I have nothing but respect for the editors of dictionaries. The problem is more with the way that a lot of people treat dictionaries as an authority, even though that isn't what they're supposed to be used for. This ends up being just one way in which a sort of hegemonic standard language is established/reproduced, which marginalizes non-standard language use.
...I dunno where I'm going with this. I just started typing and then blacked out for a second.
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I tried to have one about Nicolas Maduro the other day but no one was brave enough to weigh in:
https://hexbear.net/post/353817
please guys 0 comments hurts
the problem with this one is that all the libs/chuds have the biggest opinions. it's hard to struggle over "he's fine, the US should leave Venezuela alone"
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We can restart the struggle session about when 17 year old children make one big bad decision and that makes them irredeemable for life no matter what end of story. That was a fun struggle session. It's extra fun because it's also a far right wing view depending on the mistake, so it gets everyone upset
I saw "17 year old" and I instantly remembered the "power dynamics" struggle sesh
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I think dogs should be allowed to stay outside all day provided they have shelter and lots of water.
idk I'm trying to think of a really good one but I can't come up with anything.
How about "Reading Marx is revisionist because Socialism is supposed to be scientific and relying too much on a "golden age" of theory is akin to reactionary thinking"? Is that anything?
Ooh that could be a good one. Could also just have the revisionism one, since almost nobody agrees where the line is there, it's like arguing with people anywhere between Idaho and Missouri what "midwest" means.
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I think we should relegalize indoor smoking.
Hell yeah, I can work with this.
I will literally constrict my own ravioli and become anerobic before I tolerate living in niccotine hell again!
I think Covid & climate induced wildfires have caused a real shift in the perception of air quality. In that we've all realized its really shit. CO² levels alone in crowded buildings commonly exceed thresholds recognized to cause minor cognitive deficits. Even in hospital settings most modern buildings have a pretty pathetic exchange & filtration rate with the outside air, and thats saying nothing of the basically non-existant regulations on other public or communal spaces.
Modern society requires drastic retrofits and rebuildings to basically everywhere to have decent quality air. Under global communism there will be robust enough filtration systems to let me smoke a fat blunt at Kroger.
Edit:Also diner food hits different when the cook gets ash in the pan. You just dont get it.
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No no let's combine them.
Anyone that isn't vegan isn't a real Lemming and we should defederate from them.
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The struggle session I'm always ready for: When are reactionaries deserving of death rather than a chance at rehabilitation?
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so I've let my two cats stay being outdoor cats
you are liberal, its terminal 
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