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how’s everyone? it’s been a while since I posted here. ans recently went to Spain Madrid and Barcelona on a work trip.
saw a palestine protest right in front of a world heritage center
I’m so fucjing tired but ive been forced to actually develop a good flow at work & I feel less scared. Did you try any good new food
food is delicious. i missed plain rice. paella is great. bread is awesome. I ate some catalan food in Barcelona. Also had this
Shit it’s almost worth being in europe tjose are some marvelous plates you went off there
I really shouldn’t watch TV shows set in high school. It just triggers my bullying and exclusion trauma from back then.
The worst kind of person in the world seems to always write high school settings it really doesn’t reflect what I think the overall experience is for ppl at all and accentuates the worst traits which are mainly in rich kids. But idk everyone is already pretty rich in many suburbs so it becomes the enormously stuck up McMansion fucks you would never wanna interact with anyways?? YMMV, if possible don’t go to high school, wait we don’t have to we’re adults, thank god
I good times in high school, but still that type of media just makes me feel bad because life just got a lot shittier after.
Saw a guy I got a socialist/anti-fascist tattoo from posting online in support of Graham Platner.
I just can’t believe how after such a long and documented history of US subterfuge of the left, people will just fall for this guy so easily
Is he a veteran by any chance. Also re: username you know where else would be good to move to?? [Moving eyebrows up and down]
Every day I feel less like liking football on the highest level and instead just want to support some local teams. The English champions are presented like some sort of magical thing but meanwhile they spend 1.3 billion euro to acquire a team to become champions. They will face what is effectively the sports branch of an oil state in the European final. Stats run the game now instead of wanting to play nice football and if I hear one more person saying xG I will become violent.
i can’t be the only one that thinks football has become boring, teams are run like finance portfolios, players don’t take risks and managers play to not lose, it’s a perfect example of the enshittification of stuff.
Same, I’m also moving towards following women’s football more.
Is it common (I don’t know if weird is a good word to use) to be much more zen as a communist? I feel like ever since becoming an ML, I’m more relaxed and peaceful, and I’m a bit torn what that indicates.
When you realize nearly all the ills of the world boil down to one thing it really does take a lot of pressure off.
When you’re a liberal you have no idea how anything works because you have no system of analysis. You might have a vague idea for why things are the way they are but you have no idea how to fix the problem because you don’t understand what causes it. This can be pretty stressful, particularly when you get to try your “solutions” and they don’t pan out. Also because you’re an individualist participating in bourgeois democracy will make you feel powerless when you fight hard for something but still lose because you didn’t have the pull you thought you did.
When you become a Marxist everything starts to click and make sense. You see the structures you couldn’t see before, understand why things are the way they are, and have a general idea of how to keep out of the situation because you can properly analyze what is happening. It also doesn’t feel like everything rests on you, specifically, because you’re no longer an individualist operating on Great Man Theory with a delusion that you’ll be one of those Great Men (the liberal fetishism for voting is basically Great Man Theory). This relieves a lot of burdens on your psyche and make you more relaxed. If you’re still stressed it’s probably due to something else like having no revolutionary movement to join, being poor and struggling, etc.
Whenever someone says that “becoming a leftist” made them more freaked out that’s a non-bookreader right there & if you have the energy, give them alms, o give them alms
Yankee here. I wouldn’t say it makes me more calm, but I also have chronic anxiety and had that before becoming ML. Being ML sharpens the clarity of where the real threats are, but it doesn’t make them any less real on its own. I think I was actually less anxious in a political capacity when I was liberal because I sort of trusted the system to work things out. Now I look at things like the mass murder done by it, the targeted assassinations, the slander, and so on, and it’s like, okay that’s a new kind of scary. It’s a bit like a Matrix type of thing in a place like the US. Waking up can make you seem like a threat to the system in ways that you weren’t before.
On the less fearful side, diamat is more grounding. It’s not all on you, it’s a fight that’s been going on for a long time, you don’t have to “just guess” and instead can look at the tactics and science others have used, etc.
But for me, that’s not enough to smooth over the understanding of how deeply depraved the empire is. It means unlearning a lot about how to deal with people and systems. There’s a Kwame Ture quote that goes something like, “In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The US has none.” It’s an unnerving thing to grapple with coming from a worldview that was something in the realm of liberal pacifism; that it’s basically junk and I have to learn a more militant way of being, along with the consequences that come from that.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too comrade!
You too Oppo
You too, comrade! ₍ᐢ •͈ ༝ •͈ ᐢ₎♡
You too!
You too Comrade!
I’m going to China tomorrow, which is pretty cool. (I’m also going to be in Russia for a while after that).
Stay positive, everyone! Even if whatever it is you’re doing seems daunting or too large, steady progress makes for steady results. Splitting up a large goal into smaller ones can make it seem more manageable, and this goes for anything from organizing to cleaning your place.
As always, communism will win.
Managed to avoid eviction. Lucked out and got the one landlord on Earth that is a demonic hellspawn and actually has empathy for other people. I’ll have to pay more later and my finances are going be shit for a while but at least I won’t be homeless.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
So it’s May and there is a heatwave right now. Absolutely scorching 30+ degree weather for like a week. No cloud. No wind. No rain.
But everything is fine, you know? Nothing’s happening.
I’m thinking of dropping learning Arabic. It’s too hard to learn Arabic when have to learn both MSA and the dialect. And it’s hard learning the dialect because there aren’t that many resources and all news and writing is in MSA. How am I supposed to learn Palestinian Arabic through TV shows when subtitles are all in MSA? I’ve lost all motivation to learn the language. It’s sad, since I really like the culture and language
I think I’ll focus mainly on Chinese
I really like the idea behind the comprehensible input method. It’s basically guided immersion, and may be a good option. Lots of Arabic resources when you scroll down just a bit here: https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Thank you. I’ll give Arabic another go. And that link is useful for other languages I’m learning as well
Nice! It’s a really interesting method. You almost can’t believe it’s taken people this long to come up with a guided immersion approach, but I’m here for it. :)
i rlly rlly rlly just hate having adhd
I know the feeling. It’s very exhausting, isn’t it.
yes, i have audhd, and while i can sort of recognize i dont have a lot of respect for my studies and what nonsense they push on me, i also get ticked off by how poorly i do at tasks, it’s really infuriating and also hard to articulate, also because for some classes i do have a love for them and should be doing better (love hate relationship with history given the sheer volume of nonsense i’m fed, just got the Katyn Massacre WAS Ussr in my book). thank you for empathizing :)
After the heat wave for the last days we now have floodings. Everything is fine though.
Probably good that you aren’t still walking.
Biblical
Communists should bring back the puritan naming scheme
I.e Nicholas if-christ-did-not-die-for-thee-thou-hast-been-damned Barbon
Or his father, praise-god Barbon
I’m gonna name my son Damian Political-power-grows-out-of-the-barrel-of-a-gun Harris
