Well, we do have something of a global presence still. And also money and manpower, that any good capitalist pig like Putin realizes he must have. I'm just disgusted by this fucking fearmongering. The best thing you can do as an insignificant worker for the lords with all the money is to start fearing whatever it is that you are told to fear, and remain in that fear forever. That keeps you obedient. And when the population on both sides are fearful enough the lords with all the money will agree to a war, so that the cycle of war and fear and exploitation of the working class will continue again, and the command over the lives of the working class will never be in the hands of the working class people. And the lords with all the money will remain to be the lords with all the money. And nothing will ever change.
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I for one am perfectly fine with rising up with all our trans et al. friends and burn all the TeSSlas. Maybe round up all the capitalist pigs allover the world and burn them while we're at it!
Oh no! The russians are coming! Oh no! And this time it's fo real, I swear bro they're actually coming this time bro trust me, I'm telling you bro they're coming for real and we gotta put all of our money in the militaries bro, I swear bro remain scared bro, the russians are coming bro
Oh boy, the fascists have really done it now: they're going after the beastpeople! Beware its poisonous spittle!
Well our current president, who looks like a reptilian zombie with a human skin oddly draped over him, campaigned with the thought of "allowing NATO nuclear weapons on our soil", and if it weren't for the fact that he has been, was, is, and will forever be a capitalist right-wing populist of the worst kind, that might've been the final straw for not voting for him.
Others still "serving" our great nation include the speaker of the parliament, who is a straight up far-righter; a racist and a fascist. He used to be the leader of our far-right party, but after failing in the presidential elections he switched to his current position. Then there's the leader of the far-right party, who serves as our minister of finance. She also seems like a horrible human being who deserves to get from a bullet, as she is responsible for the cuts in aid all the poor, the sick, the children, the young, the students and the immigrants, most of all who are not-as-wealthy-as-her here have faced after the last government took power.
And then there's of course our prime minister, who is nothing but a puppet of the far-right, though he represents the same party as the president had, the right populists. An insidious kind of a fucking mitten who should die with the rest of them.
Talking of the clips here: oh my sweet baby jesus, these people are so obnoxious. But obviously arguing with brainwashed idiots such as the average right-winger with the capability to vote (in any country, mind you; I was physically attacked just some years ago, before our last presidential election, by an absolute zealot of a right-wing idiot for daring to announce my distaste for his idiotic reasons to vote against my clearly superior left-wing candidate; and my country has been FOR YEARS the most bird-nest bird-nest that ever bird-nested between two opposing superpowers) is so akin to playing chess with a pigeon that you basically shouldn't do it for the sake of your own sanity. And by looking at the age of some of these fuckwits, I'd say gen Z is already doomed.
So instead of trying to convince the unconvinceable that their way of "thinking" is wrong (which it is, obviously, but maybe they can be converted later on or something?) and thus losing all your steam for the change, because you can't do it; not alone, at least, and never publicly, because like ants they find strength in numbers (and also carry a strange unwavering loyalty for their regent, like ants again). They need like therapy and interventions to get them rid of their own personal delusions and mental gymnastics regarding their own personal brand of cognitive dissonance on why they choose to support regimes that only do harm.
But what every local communist and anarchist etc. should do is aim younger. Gen A can still be redeemed, and in the hands of the youth lies the future. We must plant trees in shades of which we may never come to rest, but if our children or their children may live in peace beneath those branches I'd say that is enough and good.
Oh no, poor Donnie! You want Elon to come and suck your toes? (I heard it's something the cishets do, they're weird like that)
by being there for others (and myself) and minimizing harm while maximizing benefit in my interactions
Same here! A close friend who is going through the breakup and aftermath of an extremely toxic relationship actually validated my efforts by saying something along the lines of "There are a few people in my life who have kept me alive. I think you are one of them." which is a heart-warmingly typical way of saying "thank you" for him. All I have done is talk to people in the way I wished others would have known how to talk to me when I was at rock bottom (or indeed after someone threw me a shovel while there). Of course I'm not blaming any of my friends for not knowing how to do such, as - and forgive me if I sound presumptuous - not that many people in general may have gone through what I have, and probably even fewer around here. Or then it's the local style of not communicating or really even knowing how to show empathy in situations like these.
Thank you, you are a beautiful person by what I can tell. And yes, these are skills that I have had to learn the hard way, and I have worked hard to learn them. I am also working part-time as a bartender nowadays, which is something I thought to be completely impossible for me - in addition to having a stable relationship and cutting off toxic people and relationships - not more than 5 years ago. So things are and have been looking up for a while now. And no I don't mind you saying at all, and in fact if you ever have anything that you think I might be able to help you with, please don't hesitate reaching out.
Oh thank you for your offer and general empathy towards me, who is but a stranger in a strange land, but you needn't worry about me.
In fact, it has been over a year since I've last talked with this narcissist, though she did reach out to me sometime last year - again despite what I had asked and what we had agreed upon previously, so nothing new there - and, after some careful consideration, I did reply to her. I don't think I've berated anyone in my life before quite like that. I channeled every bit of rage and resentment I had towards her and the constant disappointments she had caused to me and everyone else around her, basically hoping she would die or at the least move far away so no-one of my friends would be available for her to abuse, after which I blocked her again.
Also soon after 2024 started I started seeing this lovely autistic girl, who I have come to love dearly and who loves me back. And she loves me the same way I love her, so it is easier for me to trust this love, which is a completely new experience for me. We are in a steady and I dare say committed relationship.
And if it's the drugs you are worried about, well... I've been addicted before, some years ago, to abusing alcohol and benzodiazepines specifically. Nowadays I rarely drink anymore, at least in the same way as before, and benzos I've dropped completely. I do occasionally dabble in some illicit narcotics, but I don't think of or see it as a problem. Mainly because I've seen and know what it looks like to have a substance abuse problem, and I strive to not let it go there.
In any case, thank you again for your offer (:
I, too, have found help with ketamine! Though the way you phrase it ("infusions") leads me to believe that my experience of snorting it straight into my nasal cavities with a rolled up fiver off a kinda nasty looking plate is somewhat dissimilar to yours. And yet one of the few times I used some better quality ket without having at least four different substances in my bloodstream at the same time (a royal flush one might say) was one that really opened my eyes to what was going on in my life at the time, and how to solve it; at that moment I was in a codependent, emotionally manipulative and abusive, and yet platonic relationship with a narcissist, which is somewhat of a classic power dynamic with many other borderlines. Also what was needed was to cut her off completely from my life, in which I added a deep resentment towards her so that if I ever catch myself feeling any kind of empathy towards her I can force myself to stop it.
Yeah, this fearmongering is exactly the reason I don't really follow any mainstream media outlets, and absolutely none from my country of residence. It's always the same. Also yeah, lemmy.world is quite a bit too right-leaning for my tastes, so I rarely frequent it. For me it's closing on the feeling I get when I visit reddit: disgust. Like stepping into a steaming pile of pig shit. And don't get me wrong, I ain't saying everyone should just roll over and die when the tanks come a-rolling, were they Russian or American.
What I'm saying is that the rich should be eaten or else killed with no due process, their capital seized with no recompence, every politican killed and burned in a great big pile, all means of production seized by the workers, and a new world order put up by the workers which should adhere to communistic and marxist-leninist principles.
And uh, the first "we" was in reference to all European nations putting money that could and should be used for literally anything else into militaries. The second was in reference to the EU as I live in a country in said union.