I’ll go ahead and save this, as I am also interested in this topic.

What I can say even before reading any answers is that all decisions, “good” or “bad”, must be viewed through the context of time and place. I’ve read some amount on the deportation of ethnic Koreans from eastern Siberia to Uzbekistan (I think? my geography might fail here now though) by the USSR and was clarified on the issue when it was viewed through the lense of looming Japanese invasion on the Korean peninsula.

unironically and unquestionably believing in an unhinged right-wing nutcase’s DIVINELY INSPIRED conspiracy theory where Jesus Christ himself came down from the heavens to tell him that China is really actually killing and interring ONE HUNDRED GAZILLION-BASZILLION muslims in Xinjiang just to own the tankies. a modern free-thinker from the west, everyone. point and laugh.

finland’s major export by volume is Slurs

that’s correct, we’re racist af over here. also finland isn’t a part of Scandinavia, as we don’t have mountains (“Scandes”), but thankfully there’s this coping term of “the nordics” or whatever. a vassal state by any other name would smell as rotten.

Exactly this. imo most Euros have an internalized brainworm called western chauvinism. Most are also patriarchal, misogynistic, sexist, racist and xenophobic; wildly overestimating their countries’ relevance and the purity and infallibility of their own way of thinking – because this is what we’ve all been taught for all of our lives, directly by the nonfunctional education system and indirectly by cultural osmosis. Or at least this is how I feel, having lived in a European state, surrounded by European buogies all my life.

BPD with A(u)DHD traits? That’s me! But then again – for women especially, though I was assigned male at birth – BPD is criminally overdiagnosed when the correct assessment should be neurodivergence. Because it’s easier for the doctor to call the woman “hysterical” than to actually address everything wrong with modern medicine, especially psychiatry, especially especially when it comes to women’s health.

DBT tended to gravitate towards a position of “this is how your brain is wrong, and here’s how you have to fix yourself” when, for me as a highly sensitive and emotional person, the distress the world made me feel as I grew older (my first symptoms of depression being from when I was like maybe 14?) is completely jutified and not fixable with shit-ass fucking SNRIs and other fucking poisons. Also I’m still salty with Finland’s national healthcare for fucking up my functioning therapy regiment back in the day, after which the state disagreed with both me and my doctor on my continued need of rehabilitation and told me to get a fucking job, bum.

That being said, some of the individual parts of DBT have helped me with my anxieties and tendencies of doomerism. https://dbt.tools/ seems like a nice, clean interface. Also the concept of dialectics helped with the coming class consciousness and diamat, so there’s that at least.

I used to cope with drugs and alcohol… Nowadays I just try to limit my intake of both (we just toke, and even that occasionally makes my emotional dysregulation flare up). Some days I just flat-out refuse to engage with the outside world if there’s too much happening. I’ve been out of most bourgeois social media for over a year now, mainly just lemmy for news/interaction and Youtube for slop. I also use .worlders and other lib/fash intance users to lash out, because I’d rather hurl abuse at pixels on my screen than actual people irl which I have been guilty of before. Though even that leaves me drained and my heart rate spiking, so I try to limit that also.

It ain’t easy out here. Good luck.

In the grim dark of the far early 21st century, there is only war.

Coca-cola, sometimes war

this kinda sounds like something i might have written to myself when i was at my most suicidally depressed (basically just begging for sympathy online), except even i wasn’t as much of a loser as Elon.

It’s good that people more broadly, especially in the imperial core, are starting to question the “truths” about the world and its ways they are taught. But I’m annoyed with the general usage of these terms like “techno-feudalism”, when capitalism and especially imperialism would work better, wouldn’t it? Everything must serve the capital, after all, and the internet in general - being probably the most significant invention in human history after using fire or something and having been developed to this point and made available globally in an astoundingly short amount of time - is poised perfectly for everyone to witness its decline under imperialism. So using “techno-feudalism” for this is understandable, but in the end it’s just the most recent and visible symptom of capitalism in general.

top right kinda looking like henry cavill to me ngl

Well, as a local of one of the countries mentioned I can tell you that most of the eastern border area is already incredibly sparsely populated. There are a few towns here and there among the over 1000 kilometres of forest, but most young people will be itching to leave those backwaters and move to the few bigger cities closer to the coast, same as elsewhere nationwide. Add to this the governments constant efforts to save money by cutting on essential services (hospitals and schools basically) in sparsely populated areas. So if no Euromoney will be coming our government’s way there will be no one but old people anywhere near the border in the near future.

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Hey if it’s too much of a hassle I’d like to get pinged once you’re done also! By what you wrote in that comment lower this approach of two courses sounds better for my frayed ability to concentrate :D

Related to political lyrics, their song “Links, 2, 3, 4” has the line

Sie wollen mein Herz am rechten Fleck, doch seh ich dann nach unten weg, da schlägt es links, links, links

a translation of which goes

You want my heart to be on the right, but when I look down I see it beats on the left, left, left

“Links, zwo, drei, vier” is just a standard army march “left, two, three, four”. All in all, I wouldn’t be suprised if there was at least an alternate meaning there in Du Hast.

oh wow

Yeah I kinda guessed as much tbh

If anyone’s actually wondering about this film: it exists. I haven’t seen it though, so don’t know what it’s actually like.

Well, it’s the darkness that comes living near the arctic circle, that shit makes me question my will to live every year by itself. Thankfully we are not on the northern side, meaning that we get that sweet 4 hours of daylight this time of year before the sun sets again.

The christmas stuff starts creeping in to the stores before Halloween, even though Halloween isn’t something that’s a familiar celebration around here (but we’re a good little vassal state apparently, so whatever). And after that’s over with it’s just more and increasing amounts of christmas stuff. I hate it, it’s just worthless plastic waste that costs an inordinate amount of money because of reasons.

The music that plays on every radiostation and in every store at every time. All the songs are usually just translations of Usian shit jingles, all of which are way too cheerful and really way too fucking American for my taste, and those few that aren’t are just straight up hymns and/or psalms and I really don’t vibe with any amount of religiosity.

It’s a time for family, they say, which to me seems to be a way of guilt tripping me to visit people who stress me most, but feel bad when I immidiately want to leave and just go home.

There is a memory of a christmas here, some kind of an idea. But when I see the soulless eyes of plastic reindeer and hear the cheerless and lifeless jingle of plastic bells in the store where I (and WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE at THE SAME TIME) am franticly trying to find everything that everyone tells me that I need to buy in order to have a merry christmas, I realize that it’s simply not there. It doesn’t exist. Maybe it never did.

I look outside, and instead of the half a meter of snow I remember having fallen by this time of the year in my childhood I usually see a fucking puddle.

Thanks capitalism, you really do ruin everything for the rest of us, don’t you? Yeah you do.

Seconding this, I don’t think it ever even could have gone the other way. In the end the EU (and all its members) is just another bourgeois state with the same flaws as any other, economically and politically beholden to the will of US’s imperialism and capital.

Thank you, I try my best. Not everyone gets the chance to go the same therapy I did, parts of which should really, really be in public school curriculum, and universally taught to parents to teach to their kids. But alas, it is not.