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So I felt like its time for this thread.

As a disclaimer . Im black , bisexual and schizophrenic

I got a bunch of friends and acquaintances. One of them..lets call him Jack.(he is white).. and me get along well enough. We only know each other online, dont even remember how we met tbh, but we go back like I think I’ve known him since 2016 or 2017 or something like that.

I know what he looks like and which state he lives in, but thats pretty much it.

Anyway, Jack and me talk almost daily, mostly about anime and gaming. He lives with his grandparents who he takes care of, has a cat he really seems to love. Also smokes a ton of weed, like daily I think. He’s older than me and I like him (platonically, as a buddy obviously).

Here’s the thing tho. He’s American. Yes, really XD

Not saying all Americans are bad or whatever, but I’m almost sure Jack’s got brainworms. Like, a lot.

Not saying hes a fascist or something. If I had to guess I’d say he’s some weird libertarian type? Like he’s said before he doesn’t like Trump and once talked about how fucked up stuff is for Black people in the US. But he’s also not into liberal politics (probably for bad reasons) and super sceptical of mainstream media... which ok, fair.

But like how the fuck do I even talk to someone like that in good faith? How do you try and push them into a healthier direction.

I’m not tryna turn him into a theory reading communist or whatever, but the lil bit of politics I have picked up from our convos seemed very conspiracy brained. It would probably be easier if he was just like, an MSNBC lib lmao.

Any input and tips welcome. I will say our daily chats help me generally speaking. It helps me with my schizophrenia to have someone to talk to on a basically daily basis. I have other friends (some which have much better politics) but they are usually pretty busy and not always available.

If possible I dont want to cut him out of my life.

One last thing. Jack does seem to think highly of me and probably values our relationship quite a bit

It's small, able to fly short distances but not able to get elevation. It might not be long before it's big enough to fly properly.

Will it eat? Drink? Currently it's in a box with a wire mesh top I've put over it.

The thing will be cat food if I let it outside and there's no way it can get back to its nest.

It's cheaping trying to call for mom but there's no answer.

My thinking is like.. Water, seed (we have a parrot so I have seed)... Hoping it can feed itself or it's probably done for? If it can survive a few days to a week with me then it might get big enough to leave?

Surely it's gotta be even dirtier, otherwise people would be talking about it.

I recognize that it's speaking to an underlying emotional truth - something I've known on a gut level for a while now but can't quite put my finger on. I know it's not, as I've seen liberals argue, that it's an excuse to legitimize violence against them (their own violence is all the justification one needs) or some kind of "No True Scotsman" argument. There's something deeper and more fundamental, something to do with how the nature of their class position causes them to set themselves apart from and above the vast majority of humanity. Anyone who can help me put this into words?

Not gonna "dox" myself by giving out where i'm from, you can probably surmise it from my post history if you really want to know. My country doesn't have that large of a pro-Palestine movement, not to say there isn't one, there is. Just not on the same scale as neighbouring states. Our largest military trading partner in terms of imports is Israel. the total value of the arms and munitions we purchase from them is around 30-50 million a year and ever increasing as we further militarize to fight against the evil Russians. I know legalism will never work and it will be impossible to halt the import of weaponry through those means but it is good grounds for protest as the ones we see against Elbit abroad. It would be a good way to galvanize opposition to the genocide and Israel in general here as we are dominated by the same kinds of liberals and conservatives which love to couch their rhetoric with legalistic justifications. You hear constant whinging (rarely justified) about breaches of international law in countries that to do not align with the western interest. We are dominated by this kind of liberal monoculture and thus it would be easier to broach the subject with the same kind of framework than without it. The problem is i'm not well versed in international law and would not know how to properly formulate that type of argument, it's like a whole different language to me. I don't know where to even start.

i am not an immigrant so theoretically not in any danger of being deported. ICE has been doing raids around my job site and i suspect we'll be next. what can i do in the event they do come on site?

Wanting to get a list going on of things I need because I'm moving soon and wanted to have everything hammered down. They esentially shouldn't be expensive. I suppose can also be habits or other such things that improve QoL and maybe cost savings overall

Thank you!!

multi-party bourgeois democracy has proven to be too much of a hassle in both instances. there is heavy foreign interference, primarily through fostering the opposition and by direct coup attempts. if you attempt to work within the capitalist system as a socialist you'll associate every misfortune caused by the economic structure of society with socialism. eventually as us sanctions continue to strangle your economy and destroy your nation you'll be voted out and it'll all have been for nothing. i genuinely do not see how allowing the current state of things continue is in anyway beneficial to their programme. seizing power would prevent any overturning of the present reforms and allow for the cementing of revolutionary control. the west will never consider you legitimate as long as you are in opposition to their interests, they'll consider you a dictator no matter what you do.

My ADHD yearns for the lists. My autism insists that I don’t feed neoliberal app standards to do so.

I’ve been listening to Guerrilla Warfare this week and it’s just had me thinking about Che more generally, particularly how he was essentially killed trying to replicate the Cuban pattern in Bolivia.

Was his strategy adventurist? Did it become adventurist by applying it in the wrong conditions? Were the Cuban revolutionaries just adventurists that got lucky - (Fidel wasn’t even communist at the time so it’s hard to say they were following some kind of Leninist line)? Do we just call armed insurrections adventurism if they fail, heroism if they win?

I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on Che or the movements he fought in, I know a decent amount about Cuba, but very little about his time in Africa or elsewhere. Looking to start a discussion and hopefully be educated by comrades who are more well-read on this topic.

heard of redact, kanary, easyoptouts, but they all have important services locked behind a paywall

I used to watch her stuff from time to time, but her last video says it was over a month ago

I'm a fairly big and strong dude. I hate my current job and want to change careers. I think I would be a good goon, like a character Batman beats up before a boss fight in an Arkham game or that Noir detective outsmarts. How does one acquire such a job? I don't see any posting on Indeed.

i don't want to detach myself from the current situation dreaming about the possible horrors of the future while sitting in the midst of a genocide, but i feel this is one of those things you kinda have to think about especially considering the scale of its consequences. this isn't a 'nothing matters we're gonna die in a nuclear war anyway!' kindveof here, this actually is something that we know will happen and are already seeing """""gradually""""" take form. my worries here are primarily the response to the migration. we are already seeing far-right governments take hold all over europe and the west in general and as material conditions worsen the need to further act on their racist class-obscuring rhetoric will increase as they push people into a genocidal frenzy, blaming their woes on the hundreds of millions if not billions of refugees. gaza will be as herero and nama genocide was to the holocaust. the chicken must come home to roost and we will see the methods pioneered by our imperialism brought home. no longer will you be watching a holocaust on your phone, because it will be happening right in front of you, or more accurately, to you.

don't think we should be wasting a lot of time pondering this considering the issues at hand but we have to at least prepare for something along these lines as i do not see a future different from the one i depicted being possible without a radical reconstitution of the west. which isn't an impossibility like some doomers seem to think but not within 10-20 years when it really becomes a problem. maybe our only hope is Hezbollah al-Biritaniu like in children of men

nothing more to add

And I keep saying yes, but I'm running out of room on my finger for the rings.

Update: I asked him more firmly about it and he revealed that it was a scheme. He says we're now married 14 times, or as he put it, "14 layers deep into marriage" (a quattro-decima marriage) and if I ever left him I'd have to divorce him 14 times for 14 different reasons to leave him and get out of all the marriages. I'm looking up if this is legal but can't find anything saying two people can have 14 separate marriages with each other.

I do love him 14 times more than the average marriage but I'm worried for his self esteem if he thinks he needs to do this to discourage me from leaving him.

Update2: I got kinda' mad at him and he proposed again, likely to distract me, and I couldn't say no. So 15 layers deep now.

Example: support for Iran, opinions about non-violent protests changing, Opinion in favour of Palestine, Hamas and Ansarallah has increased

Even in Lemmy.world and even feddit people seem to be echoing my examples quite a lot

I have a hunch that I can't confirm so I want opinions and insights on it.

First some relevant facts:

• Philosophy has been separated from science. Nowadays, the era of physicists and mathematicians being also philosophers at the same time has ended and the modern average STEM student has hardly been taught any philosophy. In fact, some famous modern physicists have very poor opinion of philosophy.

• The 20th century streak of breakthroughs in science, especially physics and engineering, has ended, and relatively little (in comparison) has come from some the 21st century's major research paths such as the search for dark matter/energy or for a theory of quantum gravity.

• The time during which the first two facts of the list transitioned to their modern state, the 20th century, was a time during which the capitalist order was shaken and afraid, while socialist theories and philosophy was getting verified and confirmed to be correct in the real world.

My hypothesis is therefore the following:

As socialism's successes were starting to seriously challenge the bourgeois theories of capitalism, bourgeois academics started to see science graduates practicing and engaging with philosophy, particularly economics graduates, as a threat.

But they couldn't tell economics students and no others that they didn't need philosophy, not only would that look suspicious but the intersections between economics and other sciences would have come back around to bite them eventually.

So they took the decision to convince all science graduates that they didn't need philosophy, that it didn't matter if their hypothesis aren't grounded in reality as long as the math gives the right answer.

Capitalist academia essentially condemned philosophy to only be studied by language and/or art academics and actively started to paint philosophy as being separated from science.

What do you all think?

I'm drinking boxed wine tonight but I accidentally set the box in a puddle of water on my kitchen counter and the bottom of the box fell apart, so I had to just take the bag out and realized boxed wine is really just bagged wine. So now there's just a plastic bag of wine sitting on my table and for some reason that felt a bit cyberpunk to me, you just buy a big bag of booze when you want to get fucked up in Mega-City 1.

books on the collapse, the aftermath