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A while back I participated in DBT (dialectical behavior therapy). I've been wanting to tackle my anger with thinking about or talking about politics. I couldn't sleep as I was getting angry in my head over make believe scenarios lashing at liberals for all of the insane, fascistic shit they spew. Then in person, I get so blindly angry I just want to scream. The "this is not who we are" schtick from liberals boils my blood, I'm about to strangle someone. I tried all of the therapy techniques and none of them worked.
I feel that this anger is turning me into a reactionary. The only way I can throw water on it is to not participate in politics at all.
There is nothing Reactionary about feeling rage towards hypocritical liberals. Giving into your anger is not a good tactic, especially not at this point in time so you should learn to channel that rage into something useful. Maybe practice some meditation to teach you to control your rage and learn to channel it into motivation for strength building exercises. When the time comes having access to controlled rage will be a good thing.
May help to see if you can channel the energy into clerical organizing work in an org; the kind of work where you don't have to talk to people a lot, especially liberals. Not everybody has to be a big talker, especially in the capacity of tolerating people who are way different politically.
Lmao @ the Ukrainian athlete who ruined his shot at the Olympics because he just had to wear a helmet with killed people on it. Mate, the IOC is on your side. Russia is already banned. They're not going to jump through any more hoops.
i wonder how that youtuber bayarea smt is doing, hope he doing well.
We need more China glazers on YT, the ultras and redlibs are too loud these days
Some of the "China glazers" these days are radlibs. Liking China is becoming more and more mainstream. Ultimately that is a good thing though, because it shows that China's achievements are becoming impossible to avoid or deny. So all sorts of libs are jumping on the bandwagon now. That's fine. Once again "tankies" were right way before everyone else. We were on China's side long before it became popular.
Thought after reading the ad script on a box of tuna cans: capitalist marketing is the art of sounding like you're saying something without actually saying anything.
It's key to committing to nothing, so that you won't be held liable for anything.
the stuff in my cultural anthropology class is literally just marxism but with a different name
Been thinking about that tweet that goes, "Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it".
Metaphorically, this is true of capitalism and its contradictions, not just climate change. Some are more insulated than others for now, but that won't always be the case.
I don't mean it in a scary doomer way either, it's just like... living through decline is not going to be pretty, already isn't. And it's not going to turn around unless the regular people oust the imperialists and the capitalists from power.
Sometimes I just look at my uni's degree sheets and think about double majoring for no reason. Idk why, but it feels good imagining me getting another degree. I think I just like completing things on lists and getting recognition of task completion once I'm done.
Edit: I won't cause I need to graduate though. But I might minor in physics or stats or something
getting recognition of task completion once I’m done.
oh yeah.
I knew it was inevitable, but I finally decided to part ways with some people who I've been clinging onto. They've been a bad influence and refuse to change for the better. I have treated them with my utmost patience and given them every opportunity to show even the slightest willingness to be better.
The only thing it has cemented in me is that I can't beat material conditions with ideology. I'm always open to the possibility that I am wrong, it just hasn't happened. It's like water mixing with oil, destined to separate, without an emulsifier.
Part of this has been my own faul with my lack of trust in people, fluidity can be a good quality it makes adapting to new things easier, but without a current-water can become impure and repulsive.
And maybe it's true, maybe a lot of people have become untrustworthy, maybe there are a lot of liars and schemers out there who want to take advantage of each other. It's possible that I will run into such people again, some of them are the vilest they're the ones who hide their fangs and bide their time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce on you, but courage is required to build a better world. Otherwise you'll just end up with liars and schemers on top of everything.
Thoughts on Incendies? I am convinced that it is hugely self-censored. Its quite clear that the setting takes place in the Lebanese civil war.
The movie obfuscates the historical setting by making up names of the cities, however it does not make up names for Canada. For an average western viewer, it could very well be any arab country, after all a place in the middle east where muslim fundamentalists fight christians sounds like any day of the week!
However there are some very obvious references and breadcrumbs to the region, a muslim refugee wears a black and white keffiyeh, a scene there is a sticker in a window that says Palestine, another scene has a half view of a flag that could be very well jordan flag or palestine flag, it is not clear which. The movie itself was filmed in Jordan, so they definitely filmed a Jordan flag but in a way that it is not clear so it makes us think it's the palestine flag. There are several more references, however i couldn't see a single reference towards Israel and i was paying very close attention.
The movie is almost 2 decades old, quite before it was plain clear to the mainstream that Israel has been waging war in the region so i imagine the director was very careful here and engaged in self-censorship, which i find disgusting because it clearly gives Israel some plausible deniability of their huge involvement in the war, ffs they leveled and occupied half the country how can you omit this.
What a beautiful gift this XHS user received from his father!
Please could we do trigger warnings and sensor the r word in a similar way to Hexbear? Thank you.
I dont see where the R word was used in the GDT
Not in this thread, one of the post titles on the main page.
It isn't usually allowed, and I must have missed it
I assume they are referring to this post, in /c/worldnews. @truly@lemmygrad.ml: I'm not sure we have a policy on using such words, but I've mentioned it to the other admins.
That was not the R word I was thinking of
the other one is in our slur filter so I assume it's censored in titles as well, although I've never tried it
Lemmygrad Continues to Show Resilience in the Face of Extraordinary Challenges
11.02.2026
Starting from the 9th of February 2026, many users have reported that images on Lemmygrad have not been functioning as expected. A large amount of older images in posts, comments, and profile pictures have become unavailable across Lemmygrad communities.
This issue was not caused by any failure of Lemmygrad's infrastructure, rather due to an unexpected and untimely disruption to one of Lemmygrad's primary logistical partners.
Since its founding, Lemmygrad has had to overcome many unique challenges not faced by projects less hostile to capital. A lot of diligence went into finding reliable hosting partners, a task made considerably more difficult given the project's orientation. On Lemmy, it has been the target of strategic defederation campaigns, anti-communist propaganda in liberal and anarchist communities, and has been placed on a hard-coded block-list for Piefed, an explicitly neoliberal and NATO-friendly alternative to Lemmy.
At the time of writing, it is not known whether the disruption and reported decommissioning of Lemmygrad's multimedia host is another deliberate act of anti-communist hostility.
Regardless of the cause of disruption, Lemmygrad has once again addressed the challenge with the utmost urgency and resolve. Respected comrade @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml has managed to establish relations with another logistical partner, minimise the potential damage from the incident, and is working tirelessly to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Whereas many other communities may have faltered and expressed frustration, the Lemmygrad community rallied around their comrades, showing support and appreciation for their efforts in addressing the issue.
Lemmygrad has not only overcome challenges like these every time, but has also never turned down the call to assist its friends and partners when needed. During the notorious Hexbear domain incident, an existential issue for the socialist instance, The Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad was established to provide refuge and an open line of communication and coordination for Hexbear users.
It has also provided a community for feedback, recruitment and support for sister project ProleWiki.
Lemmygrad has shown itself time and time again to be a reliable partner, but increasingly finds itself having to rely on self-sufficiency. It is not yet known what the long-term solutions for such challenges will look like; what is known is that Lemmygrad, with the support of its community, will always overcome them.
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This comment is a satirical dramatisation and embellishment of recent events. Don't take it serious, it's just for fun.
You can find info about the actual problem here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10661745
come to the function please bro we got the most splendid press releases written just like real AES. god i love you user not mushroom for debate
Don’t take it serious, it’s just for fun.
Why would I not take such a well written and informative press release seriously? The tone and cadence is masterful. The content is factual and optimistic. 10/10
This comment is a satirical dramatisation and embellishment of recent events. Don’t take it serious, it’s just for fun.
I liked reading it though. For the most part, feels like the kind of press release lemmygrad would have if it was a socialist state project.
The Winter Olympics is dope as fuck. Yesterday I was really invested in curling. Today got me yelling at the ice skating. Really impressive performances.
Fuck the IOC though. Fuckers can't even ban Israel.
I wonder if statistics should be considered partially a social science rather than an entirely mathematical one. Obviously math is important but...I'll think about it and come back to this
Edit: mm probably not. I was just thinking about how economics is very much more a social science than what "economists" want it to be so I was trying to think of any other fields that may be like this
It's an interesting thing to think about - I would argue that you have a point, but unlike economics, which is by definition social because humans are fundamental to the economy - statistics can be focused on non-human subjects across the natural sciences. But, when statistics is applied to humans and societies e.g. through sample surveys, I would argue that in those situations it is operating as a social science.
I've not delved deeply into the definitions around this, my work is usually in programme evaluation in the development sector, but I'd be interested to look up academic writing around this question.
I'm unfortunately one of those crazy people who is genuinely enthusiastic about the philosophy of science and abstract definitions.
There's a guy in my stats class that looks uncannily like JT from second thought. Like I saw him and stared at him for a minute trying to realize how I recognized him lol
dont get excited im not sure if theyre based for real like that, i was just scrolling r/baseballcirclejerk
what happened with venezuela anyway? what happened to continuity of government or whatever?
Anyone have suggestions on books that go into how religion is used to brainwash global south populations with pro-colonial propaganda?
Its amalgamation of every horrible dictatorships, ideologies(Facism, Stalinist, Monarchist and etc) , feudalism (Tyrant Kings from Bronze age to Medieval Era) and religion (Every religions from earth and turn them all into extremism)
stalinist lmao. are all 40k idiotic like this?
Where did you quote that from?
it is part of some argument I had with a darktide player
Some of us are actually literate!
Sadly a lot of 40k fans are only there because "space marine cool".
Recently had my first proper discussion about Marxism-Leninism with a colleague. I have realised I need a well thought out plan, as my mind was full of responses but no structure to properly create a correct introductory discourse.
Any advice on how to slowly introduce someone without immediately scaring them off? Fighting against years of anti-communist and anti-china/dprk propaganda makes it harder than expected
Like dudithebudi said listen to them and respond. Think of it like improv, they say a subject, (any subject) and you say "yes, and... its capitalism's fault" (some people might respond better to the ruling class, the billionaires, big corporations, etc) Nearly every problem comes back to capitalism, even the weather.
Once you have established that the problem is capitalism you say "and under communism that problem wont happen." and as they scoff and say "but communism never works" (or whatever other slander they have against communism) you say "Who told you that? Capitalists. bit of a conflict of interest there hey?" "capitalists have a monopoly on education, media, art, and culture, and they use that control to demonize their only legitimate rival." Then send them to Yellow Parenti.
Yellow Parenti jumpscare. Thanks for the response comrade. They seem to be open to dialogue so I'll try again with this approach. I think the recent events (Epstein, Cuba etc.) have already "softened" the general population to the idea that maybe capitalism isn't really all that great, so that might give a good starting point.
Just listen to them about their general complaints about capitalism and then show them the actually existing benefits that socialism can bring them. Radicalization doesn't come from arguments about Stalin, it comes from just showing them that their complaints and frustrations are valid and are an issue with their economic system, and that a superior alternative has, indeed existed. A great communist is a great listener, of course.
A great communist is a great listener
That's a nice way to put it, and it's very true. Thanks for the response comrade. I can see the benefits of this approach. Eventually we'll find common ground on the current issues and problems of society, and showing how they all are in fact direct symptomps of capitalism instead of "coincidences" would definitely have a greater effect. I'll get my hands on all our sources and get ready for a new occasion.
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