That’s you? Heaps of props to you. Your conviction and delivery was

I was reading Eurocentrism. It’s not specifically about the Middle East. But the author writes a lot about a materialist history of West Asia. It was in Hakim’s recommended reading list, btw.

Samir Amin can be exceptionally critical of Islam. But he’s half-Egyptian, and I’m fully white, and so probably he has a voice to be critical. I was just taken aback by some of the things he wrote.

When I read in a non-left source that “AES state did bad”, my first instinct is just not to trust it. Maybe if video or academic sources demonstrate otherwise, maybe I might eventually change my mind, but it has a big hill to climb in my brain for that to happen. We’ve seen so much fabrication out of pro-capitalist news sources, why the fuck do people still trust them at face value?

For a lifetime Windows user, going to Mint has been very painless. Gaming is very good as well.

I was literally thinking recently that all the evil shit that’s been done to me has been by white cishets. I’m white af, but this slow realisation has certainly pushed decolonisation theory on me.

Sorry though, your experience is certainly much harder than mine.

This potentially could be a bad opinion for this place, I’m not sure. I’ve talked online with Russian communists in Russia and they were risking arrest to organise against conscription in their own country. My feeling (God I could be wrong) is that this a correct and noble thing for them to be doing as Russians in Russia.

All the anti Putin arguments made in the West just can the flames of imperialist war here. It seems like we’re rehashing all the mistakes of the socdems during WW1 by rallying around our national bourgeoisie instead of calling for revolutionary defeatism.

Honestly it’s one of the few things that keeps me going these days.

Because anything else would require a robust, structured healthcare program that is socialized to actually assist the increasingly disabled. So instead you can just spit out some woo and then shrug your shoulders when they die off.

I’m not even disabled or even marginalised. But fuck, people with material comfort hit a emotional brick wall when asked to do absolutely fucking anything about a systematic problem.

When you point it out, they say “As Above, So Below”

What absolute knobheads. I hope hell is real so they can experience the bullshit they brought to earth.

Maybe it’s not as helpful, but with my disabled friends I’ll try to ask if there’s anything I can help with. But honestly, there usually isn’t. Your advice is better.

vagus nerve therapy

lol my ex therapist recommended this, and I lost a lot of respect for him after I Googled it. It seemed like a lot of woo.

I feel like the right-wing solution is always to suggest some bizarre therapy that no one is doing, despite the difficulty, costs, and very low probability of it actually working.

May I please put in a reminder that Brian Berletic is a far right source.

I just assume his stuff has Thai subtitles as he’s paid by the Thai military. He praises the monarchy like it’s going out of style, and he always takes the side of reactionaries in SEA politics.

I empathise. I’ve spend many hours stressing and feeling depressed with how unfair reddit and wikipedia are. I can’t stress enough, though, that we are living in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Your boss and your landlord hold the power of death over you, and the political/ideological systems are controlled by that class. Sometimes we can pretend for a bit that we have some power, but as the contradictions in Western capitalism become bigger, we’ll be given less of a voice to criticise them, including social media.

to self-censor everything and live in an imaginary dream world where every thought is percieved as the most perfect, morally superior, and everything that slightly deviates from that is wrong and needs to be removed.

I really do empathise. It’s shit. I’m guessing that I’m much much older than you. I want to say that you’ll see this trend almost everywhere, at work, in media, with family, at social settings, etc. It’s absolute dogshit and I’m sorry.

I’ve felt this before I left over a year ago. A lot of my stuff was removed just for being not reactionary, not even just tankie shit.

I’m not sure if you remember, but when the chapo sub got banned, those of us with a history of posting there had our upvotes and downvotes removed. Like we’d upvote something, log-off, and the upvotes disappeared.

IMO, a lot is in play here. Reddit tends to ban overly hostile mods, and people with lots of free time (i.e. people with material resources) are gonna be mods. But there’s no reason that a huge social media company isn’t going to try to crack down on subversive thought. Anti left behaviour is as old as capitalism itself.

h3h3 subreddit

Zionists aren’t going to tolerate even the most civil conversation with the other side. You’re not wrong to be upset, but I’m not at all surprised.

This is very entertaining, especially for someone who knows feck all about China (me). Thank you for this.

I’m assuming that you spend a lot of time online with non leftists? Tbh nowadays I’m only on Hexbear and my super curated feed on Twitter, so I couldn’t do this level of analysis for anywhere even if I tried very hard.

Animal agriculture brought us covid and it’ll bring us bird flu.

Oh no, I can’t visit Amerikkkka now

I think what OP is getting at is that a lot of liberals still have a lot of hope with the EU system, and it’s keeping people from radical politics.

My quick assumption is that it’s more that our current society is ideological and not materialist. People having well founded ideas run contrary to the needs of our ruling class.

while accruing huge amount of emotional debt for their children’s development.

I think you said it. His kids probably don’t want to say a word to this fuckwit, but need to in order to survive into the future.

Fucking western chauvinist liberals. I will not listen to your opinion on Asian ppl eating dogs if your white ass is eating pigs.