That's not how progress works. You don't make change through "a generation ending". A generation is shit we made up to put a bunch of people in buckets without any material reason for the cutoff. It's a tool of media/cultural narrative and nothing more.
Thinking that centuries long class conflicts will change by "waiting" until older working class people die? Funny how waiting and doing nothing through your best labor years is what you're hoping will lead to change. Weird.
Don't expect change without you working for change. And, it's clear at this point, that's not going to be possible through the existing systems of government and economic structure.
So, please, stop waiting for your parents to die to realize what they didn't. That they were too tired and old learn that lesson. So they jump into politics near retirement and have lost all connection to the progress those better have made.
"They look scary". We must have "gone too far" since then. So you blindly vote for the politician that gives you the most comfort.
Boomers are there now. The other generations will all follow - until we don't. And when we don't. That's a very exciting time. My hope is not for the old generation to die. But that the current generation in their "labor years" are radicalized enough to bring about foundation changing progress.
I have experimented. I'll smoke still if I'm feeling ok. But usually just before I sleep. I'll hit a dry herb vape my wife has and get just enough of it to feel a chill vibe. Then just relax myself to sleep.
I don't do well on it in a long awake period. But it's been 2-3 years since I have done that. Maybe I should try.
I think I definitely need a "plan" for when I get high. Like "I'm gonna smoke and watch this movie". I think the lack of purpose leaves me with anxious thoughts that already exist.
I forget where I heard it. But I've quoted it for years.
Weed enhances whatever you are already feeling. So if you want to eat something. Weed makes that so much better. But if you're smoking weed because you feel anxious, well, don't be surprised when you get an "enhanced" version of that anxiety.
And I take that to mean that what "enhanced" means could be different for different people. Some may feel like it lets them overcome that anxiety. It enhances their ability to overcome it. Some may double down and actually become more anxious.
I think weed is awesome. I just think that it's extremely different for different people in different mental states or periods of their life. Which is why I roll my eyes (figuratively) at the dudes at the dispensary telling me about what a strain will do.
Its very complex. Not because of the plant itself even. I think because of how complex our brains are and how we deal with the change weed triggers in them.
I should try more nights smoking in place of alcohol though. And maybe this is the conversation I needed to try that. So thanks.
Haven't heard of that. But another option is the SRA (socialist rifle association). Its a nationwide version of the NRA for socialist/leftists. They are not activist but strictly an organization for learning firearm safety and use. Highly recommend from my experience with my local SRA.
Our membership has exploded since the election. And obviously a lot of our members are from the queer community.
When MTG is the voice of reason in that party recently. You know something is wrong.
She legitimately the only person I can believe wasn't connected to Epstein. And she's too stupid to realize that a real investigation leads to Trump and her in denial doing a 180.
God I wish. I was a pot head through a very very hard time of my life. Family death, after college shock. Weed was great for me when I needed it. But the good thing about weed is that it lets you walk away from it.
I had a really bad trip taking an ungodly amount of edibles one time. Literally thought I was taking CBD gummies. Basically, I went to get CBD gummies and the dude at counter was like. Oh, yeah, we got that in blackberry now, you want it? Of course. So he must have grabbed THC by mistake and I don't know how much I had. But I was gone. Like for days.
I was organizing parts of my brain that were out of order. Hallucinating (maybe high and dreaming? Idk). I know people say that doesn't happen on weed. But maybe my brain is just different.
Long story short. I have a panic attack when I get high now. I know it's not weed but a mental side effect of whatever that experience did to me.
But weed let me walk away from it without any side effects or withdrawal. I'm glad for that. Weed is great and I wish it worked the same way it use to for me.
I know if I have to ask I have a problem. But I do hide some of my drinking from my wife because she is extra sensitive about it. Like having 2-3 IPAs in a week she thinks is too much for me. I think it unfortunately makes me drink MORE because if I'm gonna have 2-3 IPAs a couple nights a week I might as well make it 3 times a week. Etc. (It's rarely ever 3 though).
I'm not a day drinker. I never drive. Etc. But I do feel a bit of a dependency. It's been the same level for years though. I never black out or forget stuff. I never have more in the house than I plan to drink in a night.
Idk. I'm just typing this for my own rationalization at this point. I know no amount is healthy. But I also don't really want to stop either. I exercise and eat ok otherwise. I'm a tiny bit overweight and that's literally the beer. Would be a good reason to stop or reduce the amount of nights.
Nah. Hope he lives in a hospice bed, laying in his own shit, for a few years after. Just long enough for every rich pedophile that he respects to visit and tell him how much they hate him. Then he dies just before the rest of them see justice.
The only thing Trump cares about is that other rich pedophiles like him.
Oh, also, the nurse plays trans hijabi women playing sports on his TV the whole time he lays in his shit.
Ok I don't usually laugh at liberals shitting on Trump (mostly because theyre not usually funny and fail at critizing him well) but this is actually funny.
I'm hearing many people saying that all we have to lose is our chains.
I hate that shit like this is literally used to defend Israel. Even now we'll see articles written that are finally acknowledging Israels crimes. But they always have to add "well Israel says it isn't".
Giving even a crumb of text to say "what Israel says" should be considered a crime of propaganda and incitement of genocide at this point. If it's not followed by a clear statement that their words are just more lies. Journalist can come to conclusions from evidence and I'm sick of this gross "both sides" shit western media continues to do.
There is no reason to tell us what excuses a genocidal ethno supremacist state is making. I'm so tired of having to hear:
"so-and-so well respected institution has finally said something is a genocide after two years of watching a genocide happen. BUT the state doing the genocide also says 'nah, we aren't'"
Jpost trying to add some short articles it can point to when they are inevitably put on trial for incitement of genocide. At least I hope they will be.
So many people are in the positions they are, not because of malice, but because they already have the incorrect views that align with capital. Which is very much by design in the way our education system has been structured.
I think of what Noam Chomsky said to the journalist interviewing him about media manufacturing consent.
"I'm not saying you're self censoring. I'm saying that if you believed differently you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."
So, as you said, bluntly to make a point, the actions of politician's can be perceived that way. And the material outcomes are the same as if they were directly being malicious.
But, the reality is more sad. They are in those positions because they do believe that what favors capital is the most important outcome. The filter of our media and political landscape ensures this.
Thanks for sharing. And you are absolutely right about love being irrational and at times selfish. My experience of this was somewhat similar. At least in terms of the selfish and irrational love my mom had.
My dad was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia (similar to Alzheimer's) and my mom was in denial for far to long about it. Basically preventing getting him any help early on or even a diagnosis. Very religious and trusting that God would do something.
I don't even know when it was that I "lost" him. I don't remember much from that time as I suppressed the memory of those years I was in college. Visiting home and finding out a new piece of him was gone. The last real conversation I remember he asked me "do you hate me?"
He had been asking me if I checked the tire pressure in my car. Whatever was left of him was hyper-focused on worry. He had asked me about 100 times that day. I don't even know what I said to get him to ask me if I hated him. I don't remember. I just remember his face so confused.
I know I told him I loved him. Gave him a hug. But I think that was the last time any form of conversation was possible. So when I walked out the door that day and drove to class is when he "died" to me.
I'm sorry for your loss and can understand that feeling of having no control as you see a person you loved alive but already gone.
The western Imperialist empire will fall. We won't live to see what is built from the ashes of it though. But I have faith long term that the third world will be liberated and the history of class struggle will be written.
Palestine may not be free today. But it's people and their struggle have given strength to all oppressed people of the world. They and all people that support their struggle are an example of the good of humanity that will always exist to struggle for all people's liberation.
I think the goal is state violence. I don't think they will shy away from that. They want a "scary black/foreign gang" to make into a villain. And it won't matter if that's true. I think you underestimate where this is headed. But we will see.
That's not how progress works. You don't make change through "a generation ending". A generation is shit we made up to put a bunch of people in buckets without any material reason for the cutoff. It's a tool of media/cultural narrative and nothing more.
Thinking that centuries long class conflicts will change by "waiting" until older working class people die? Funny how waiting and doing nothing through your best labor years is what you're hoping will lead to change. Weird.
Don't expect change without you working for change. And, it's clear at this point, that's not going to be possible through the existing systems of government and economic structure.
So, please, stop waiting for your parents to die to realize what they didn't. That they were too tired and old learn that lesson. So they jump into politics near retirement and have lost all connection to the progress those better have made.
"They look scary". We must have "gone too far" since then. So you blindly vote for the politician that gives you the most comfort.
Boomers are there now. The other generations will all follow - until we don't. And when we don't. That's a very exciting time. My hope is not for the old generation to die. But that the current generation in their "labor years" are radicalized enough to bring about foundation changing progress.