Welcome again to everybody. Take a seat make yourself at home, we are out of tea though. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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je vous souhaite à tous une belle et agréable semaine .
et n’oubliez jamais ; le communisme va gagner ! ✊🏼
Got an exam back today. I technically did about 15 points better than the average (out of 100). But I still feel bad because lI feel like i could’ve done better. Idk. Honestly my brain is so out of wack for exams. For some reason i don’t feel stressed when I feel like i should. I have another tomorrow and I just don’t have motivation for some reason. It’s not that i dislike the subjects either. So idk
Edit: the subject is supposed to be hard but our professor is really chill so idk if me getting what i did was good or bad.
I think that’s something I really dislike about college is that class difficulties are really up to the professor but that isn’t accounted for on your GPA or anything. I could have taken much easier professors and be on the deans list or i could take harder professors and fail classes. Idk, just a pet peeve I’m starting to have
Had sort of an ego check thought I guess you might call it: If it was easy for me to change the world, it’d also be easy for it to fall apart. Which got me thinking more about what it means to create a legacy of lasting change. And in the dialectical view, I’d say that means a change in base most of all; superstructure too to go along with it, but if you only chip away at the superstructure and never challenge the base, then you get the kind of situation the US is in, where it had some mild reforms at points and some of that is losing ground over time.
As a white man in the netherlands, it feels weird knowing that me feeling worse means that the resistance is doing well and the world is getting closer to being better.
I am especially worried because i simply don’t know how to prepare my GF and I for an economic crisis like this and i also don’t have the necessary analytical skills to not feel completely in the dark about the developments of geopolitics without relying on the analysis of the people posting on here.
A really weird mixture of hope towards someone sawing off the rotten branch that i am sitting on, while also not sure how to fall correctly so that i don’t hurt too much. Especially considering that i have exactly zero community here (my anhedonia makes it hard to make efforts towards friendships) and no one seems to have understood yet that there even is a crisis coming.
not sure how to fall correctly so that i don’t hurt too much.
Stockpile some dry foodstuffs. I wish I was joking but there’s a real potential for great depression type of food scarcity. 20% of the worlds fertilizer backed up in the strait and europe’s sanctions on Russia could make it a really rough situation in the near future.
The future might be uncertain comrade, but that means potential for change aswell. We’ll probably never see a Red Western Europe as long as our continent is built on the exploitation of other peoples. But through their emancipation we can eventually build a brighter future for proletarians in our part of the world too!
Yeah, just hard to imagine me being part of that world while being incapable of actually caring about and celebrating progress due to my anhedonic issues. The world getting better will not make me feel better. This completely eliminates motivation from my equation and leaves me with cold hard logic, discipline and grit. Those things will only carry me so far and without my GF, i likely genuinely would not care about anything in this world and would have perished already.
Autism Acceptance month. Please make sure you are accepted by a person with autism or suffer the consequences.
Am I allowed to accept myself?
That’s even more important
Isn’t Young Stalin book super sus?
What’s the difference between socdem and demsoc?
My understanding is socdem are people who want capitalism with healthcare and demsoc are people who think you can vote your way to communism. In reality they are basically indistinguishable.
Is there a federation issue with lemmy.ml? I can’t see any posts from there.
It should be fixed, though it might take a little while for the federation to catch up
I’m seeing posts here on lemmygrad, not sure.
Though admittedly I don’t know how it works
Same.
I’ve stopped posting pictures of my face on my public social media, because I don’t want my face to be used for AI training data. Anybody else who’s feeling the same way?
My lifelong paranoia about posting photos online has finally paid off
Burqas might be the play in public sooner rather than later
Lucky ladies get the whole covering while us guys have to make do with a medical mask and sunglasses.
Just don a Keffiyeh wrapped in front of your face, problem solved. This works for all genders too.
The idea is to hide your identity so you don’t get arrested. A keffiyeh is a target not a disguise.
There is an alternate front-end to lemmy written in svelte. Is there alternate front-end to lemmygrad? Link?
Why do I see so many Polish 🇵🇱 neonazis online? I guess that’s what almost 4 decades of no socialism does to people 🤷♂️
Been playing a game called Esoteric Ebb. Its draws very heavily on Disco Elysium in its narrative style in a Planescape: Torment style fantasy city. Not sure if it is doing those games justice but its interesting.
If I disappear for a time, it’s probably me trying to take a break from following things closely. Sometime today after reading the news about satanrael passing a death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners, I had what I could only describe as an emotional breakdown. I was getting uncharacteristically angry about random things (not at anyone, just in my own time) and then eventually broke down crying and realized that’s what was eating at me more than anything else.
I don’t really want to stop following things, I want to be informed and not look away, but I may have to force myself to for a bit so I can cope. I think the pain of it has been building up in me for a while.
As someone that updates the News thread regularly, always take breaks. Take a walk and, if possible, socialize with people that you hold dear.
Also, never forget that this pain, this sadness, and anger is not yours to keep. It is fuel to be used for our agitation. It is fuel to push us to organize and to make others join us to form a movement such as the solidarity rallies.
Our power is in the masses. When enough people of the masses feel and desire a better world, that’s when the movement turns into action capable of changing reality.
Thanks. I agree with everything you said, though sometimes it’s hard to think of it that way, emotionally. I’ve been doing a daily thing for more than two years now where I write down what I’m feeling here and there, throughout the day, but it seems I still have trouble with letting stuff bottle up. I am probably not letting myself feel things enough in the moment, so that I can process them then. Though part of it, I know, is just a matter of channeling it into appropriate action, rather than treating it like something to process and let pass (the latter could end up more like pacifism if taken to the extreme).
