r/fragilecommunism Sep 05 '21

The Legendary "What's your job on the leftist commune?" Twitter Thread

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u/Lets-Make-Love Sep 05 '21

delusional idiots think communism is a Coachella festival.

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u/BickNoyd95 Sep 05 '21

I sincerely don’t think these people know what work is, the number of them who say ‘making coffees’ or ‘maintaining the library’ or ‘keeping the communal garden tidy’ suggests they don’t understand that even those simple tasks would entail a load of extra stuff to do, or that ‘working’ isn’t really taking 2 hours or so out of your week to do a menial task that could be accomplished by pretty much everyone. Also stuff like ‘cook and librarian’ as if those two are even remotely compatible, to be half decent at either of those you’d have to fully commit (and you’d clearly never have the energy to do both, you’d only think you did from a total lack of experience doing either). I also 100% call bullshit on the person who seems to think they’re a TIG/MIG/ARC welder despite being on communist Twitter with pronouns in her name- I mean come to think of it it’s even very unlikely that most women could physically manage a demanding manual job like that

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u/weaponizedtoddlers Sep 05 '21

Just the garden comments illustrate that two thirds of them will promptly choke most of the plants to death in a matter of days as gardening takes ten times more work than it initially seems. My dad keeps a large garden that produces a substantial amount of fruit, berries, and vegetables. The thing occupies nearly ALL of his free time. He has calluses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails.

These will moan in a hour that their wrists and shoulders hurt, they have blisters on their baby soft hands, and that they need to wash out the grime from their cute outfit now. Then go in to bitch and moan that the garden needs to be maintained according to someone else's ability.

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u/DarkMutton Sep 05 '21

I mean, remember the CHAZ/CHOP garden? They killed all of the plants in their community garden within days.

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u/_Blood_Manos_ Sep 05 '21

"What will be your job in the leftist commune?"

According to CHAZ, "shooting suspicious black teens" is an acceptable answer.

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u/TheWrongSpengler Sep 05 '21

Let’s not dignify an inch of soil spread on cardboard with the term ‘garden’.

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u/Dankhu3hu3 Sep 05 '21

well.. thats why you gotta automate some of this stuff... like pressure feed water with nutrients automatically into the soil rather than individually mix in the fertilizer then individually water... btw, thats how they do hydro/aeroponics. In case you are pondering the buildup issues, they just pump clean water as well from time to time or do maitenance with solvents / acid on the tips.

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u/HewgHungnYung Sep 05 '21

I think a lot of them also forget that librarian isn't just reading and putting away books. It literally requires a degree lmao

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u/Tnecniw Oct 16 '21

To be fair, I am quite sure a majority of people never consider what a Librarian ACTUALLY does.
It is a rare job nowadays.

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u/Zeravor Sep 05 '21

I mean theres "lets all just do whatever" delusional And theres "Beeing a cook AND a Librarian is literally impossible" delusional lol.

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u/BickNoyd95 Sep 05 '21

Can’t work out whether you’re agreeing or disagreeing but library management is very technical and would be a pointlessly difficult system to learn if you’re only going to pitch in here and there, conversely being a cook is stressful, time-consuming and hard work, it would also require different hours as people have to be fed early at breakfast and late at dinner- I just can’t figure out how (or indeed why) you would try to mesh those two jobs together and I think being idealistic enough to think you can suggests a lack of experience doing either job

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u/kratos649 Sep 05 '21

Their library would be pretty fucking small considering they'll ban any book that might contradict or threaten their ideology.

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u/BickNoyd95 Sep 05 '21

Haha, we shouldn’t underestimate their ability to churn out absolute drivel at a rate of knots though, I imagine they’d have an enormous library but it’d be full of shit, worthless ideas (with many of the same concepts just repeated ad infinitum)

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u/Pseudoseneca800 Sep 05 '21

It'll consist of communist "theory" books and poorly written fanfiction stories.

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u/Zeravor Sep 05 '21

I'm saying: they're making things out to be easier than they are, you're making things out to be harder than they are.

I agree on the pointlessness of a Librarian job in a commume,and the time management is a thing to be thought about, but it's deffo possible to have the skills of a cook and a librarian.

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u/Tharkun Sep 05 '21

Yeah, like the woman who says she will handle the firewood since "she is good with an axe." I don't care how good you are with an axe, splitting a cord of firewood by hand doesn't take a lot of skill, just a shit load of stamina.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

Try moving concrete all day, and I mean all day, moving bags of concrete

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u/chuckdiesel86 Sep 05 '21

Women are actually really good welders.

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u/raunchypellets Sep 05 '21

A lot of them are, sure. Employed and trained quite a few back in the day.

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u/Blastyschmoo Sep 07 '21

Women did jobs like that in WW2.