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1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Jun-2018 18:22:30 EDT Adam

   In vaguely related news, I decided to actively reach out to the local Communist Party today, to see what (if anything) they're doing outside of election cycles. I'd like to get involved in a properly socialist movement and the NDP ain't that. It's a shame they removed references to socialism from the party constitution a few years back, but it's also not surprising. They haven't been a socialist party for quite some time.

   1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jul-2018 17:04:01 EDT Adam

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      No response from the local commies. Not even an auto-responder. The email didn't bounce, so it's still active, but no one has bothered to reply to me.

      I guess I'm gonna work with the NDP Socialist Caucus folks instead, even though the party doesn't officially recognize them and they're pretty ineffectual. At least they reply to emails.

      1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jul-2018 21:00:38 EDT Adam

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         Turns out the NDP Socialist Caucus is also useless. The chair sent me a list of local members and two of the emails bounced. A third wrote back to demand to be taken off the list. So, he obviously doesn't maintain his email lists properly since that's about 30% of local members being "inactive."

         At this point I'm just going to need to organize my own local leftist group, which is really beyond the scope of what I'd normally be comfortable with. But, hey, desperate times, right?

         1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 13:10:52 EDT Adam

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            So I took the first steps toward attempting to self-organize some kind of left coalition. I've got a new ProtonMail account and a website. All created via the Tor browser because I'm paranoid. And, yet, the instant I'm ready to share and actually try to connect with people, all of that anonymity will be shot.

            The emails will still be secure, but the address will almost immediately become associated with me, so it won't be anonymous. 🤷♂️

            1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 13:57:10 EDT Adam

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               But since ProtonMail needs to send you an SMS code to activate a new account, I'm possibly compromised from the get-go. So... Oh well?

               1. thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 14:46:34 EDT thurloat 📌

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                  @ink_slinger hmm, i didn't need to do that for some of the proton account i've set up in the past.

                  is that new?

                  1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 14:53:28 EDT Adam

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                     @thurloat Might be. I had to either receive an SMS code or make a donation to prove I wasn't a spam bot. I don't remember having to do that with my previous account, but I set it up a while ago so I may just be forgetting.

   2. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jul-2018 20:52:48 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      Which province are you in? Perhaps you have a Marxist-Leninist party. Or are you looking for federal parties?
      1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jul-2018 23:13:10 EDT Adam

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         @bobjonkman Alberta. I was looking for provincial or federal. I contacted the Communist Party of Canada - Alberta (provincial wing) and the NDP Socialist Caucus is a federal thing, mostly.

         The Marxist-Leninist party always seemed a little like a wierd cult devoted to Hardial Bains. Maybe it's different since his death, though.

      2. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Monday, 09-Jul-2018 21:19:11 EDT Adam

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         @bobjonkman Given my experiences with the other leftist/socialist/communist parties I had very low expectations but the ML Party actually wrote me back. Alberta organizer is in Calgary but apparently willing to meet anywhere in the province, which is impressive (until I play games and pretend I'm in Fort Chipewyan, to see if he's serious; jk).