@riotmuffin I agree; you've hit the nail on the head about the invite codes being the kool-aid! And I literally just mentioned in my local IWW branch this past week that the comeback is always that tired (and doomed) old anarchist mantra as an excuse: "go where people are." I always say: What people? As if stopping by McDonalds on the way out of the local veganarchist cafe run as a workers cooperative is what we need to do, and where we need to be, to build the new world in the shell of the old. I could understand if there was no alternative, but there literally are alternatives, and overtly anarchist alternatives at that. There are places and spaces where anarchism can be built up and built stronger, all while de-legitimising and undermining centralised big business.