related, if you haven't checked if your credentials were in a dump for the past few months you might want to check again now. there's been some ... interesting developments lately
and why is "third space" now synonymous with "off the internet in person" instead of a particular community space you frequent more than anything other than home or work?
as much as I'm for unplugging and getting off the internet into the community more, a lot of the current "third space" discourse I'm seeing is a sort of rose colored lens view of the "good old days" before cell phones and social media.
yeah, cell phones and social media have a lot of bad aspects, but rebuilding community requires actually meeting with people regularly and taking up space. that might require cell phones and social media these days. Just touching grass alone and declaring it a "third space" isn't enough.
I think some people don't realize that worker's councils exist in the US right now. You can join them, form them, change them, and organize them. Their a part of most labor unions.
They may have a long way to go toward being more liberatory, but you don't have to look back at revolutionary Spain to wax philosophical about these councils. You can organize them right now.
I've been running into this phenomenon, in my union but also just in general, where I seem to be living in a different universe from other people.
I don't ever want to endorse politicians. I do often want to criticize them including using political mechanisms to hold them accountable.
I hear a lot of people conflate all of that into one action. Some even say something along the lines of "if you don't endorse politicians then you can't complain when you disagree." Why would I lose basic rights and privileges if I don't enthusiastically sign off at the start?