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feels like it for me. My mood is oscillating way too frequently in a way that I can in my heart tie to what I see on social media. Want to know if anyone's having a similar experience if you're a resident of the sites or if I need to go talk to my psychiatrist.

like it feels like the only way out of this spiral into mass servile proud illiteracy in the imperial core is that, for the third qualifier, ego injury might push people into learning out of spite. I don't know. What can you even say to people who don't understand how to parse what you are saying, and then get mad at you about it?

Am I overreacting? Is this too blackpilled? It genuinely seems like this is a very dark potent, especially at this nexus of heightened contradictions

the US government takes money out of your paychecks—not to fund healthcare or social services—but to pay this person $200k/yr to quote-dunk National Socialists of TikTok's Nazi one-liner with arguably even more of a spiritually-Hitlerian screed.

like yeah I get they have to decimate our will to herd us into complacency but man it sucks can you not do that you're kinda pissing me off

natsuhi, you don't get it! mr. chan is a man with a brilliant future ahead of him! there's nothing suspicious about him! because the dreams he speaks of anticipate the future, they sound crazy to people who can't see into the future! natsuhi please i have to put the money somewhere other than roko's centipede or the other money people will start to get bearish

we can make it if we try

Release order on first experience is the only way guaranteed to not create unnecessary confusion. Works in a continuity that are released after each other tend rely upon prior knowledge of the work to accentuate the experience. Inventing a new angle to experience them through may be valuable as an artistic exercise, but it is very clearly a bad idea to recommend that angle to newcomers. Release order is specifically reliable because it tracks either the creative process/development of ideas in cases of straightforward serialization, or in case of intentionality in release order follows author intent.

The only time a bespoke work order is even debatable is in cases of an adaptation of a work that is not adapted in release order of the original work. Even then, that adaptation may work around that in a way where it makes it, too, confusing to experience outside of its own release order.

we could have had jury trials but you were so WOKE that I'm now AGAINST them. It's YOUR FAULT THAT I'M LIKE THIS! YOU DID THIS TO ME! WITNESS ME!

I'm going to keep agitating this at the general cohort of Unalloyed Posters, especially now. There is no excuse at this point. You will not imagine socialism into reality. You will not imagine us out of capitalism. You need to do what you can as soon as you can and the time is and always has been Now to start locking in.

Go outside and organize. By organize, I specifically mean join a local chapter of an existing socialist organization that exists and is real and is comprised of socialists and go to their meetings and events and demonstrations as much as life allows you to.

(EDIT: And if there are no local chapters--even if there ARE local chapters--get to know your neighbors and get to know your coworkers. An antisocial socialist is a contradiction upon themself. Talk to the people around you. Push yourself to put yourself out there. Combating alienation is praxis. The more communal a community is, the more will to resist it can summon. You hear it in Minneapolis right now--the people on the ground right now are fighting for their neighbors! Take the community out of communism and you get sadomasochism.)^1

I genuinely don't care if there's no organization that is aligned 1:1 with your sensibilities/preferences. If you actually care, you need to do the work to move the one that is closest to your sensibilities in that direction. Stop whinging over which specific one you join for fear of missing out on the vanguard party or whatever. My local DSA and PSL chapters coordinate with each other when prudent. Stop treating this like it's team sports. It's an unserious approach. You are not locked in forever to a specific org when you join it. You can change orgs. Membership is not a blood pact. You need to join an org first to do that, though. You need to join an org and you need to be an active part of your org.

Otherwise, please spare the world from irresponsible, ungrounded 'critique.' Without grounding in reality, without real organization and the insight it provides, it is utter drivel. Stop pre-emptively guarding yourself against disappointment. It's cowardly and pathetic. It's even more embarrassing than terminal vote-brain. At least voters walk their talk (voting and doing nothing for the next four years).

A bunch of willpower better spent organizing (or even just joining up with an organization) is spent (by some, less so talking about the people actually in orgs) being hyper-vigilant about movement infiltration. It serves to funnel the conversation into infighting and discord. Paranoia neuters solidarity.

It's to the point where I think we (communists and fellow travelers) just have to operate our opsec (or expectations of opsec) as if we (communists in orgs) know there are going to be a high volume of saboteurs and hoping we can drown or bait them out naturally. As in, stop trying to dig them out and start putting out traps, if that makes sense.

I guess I mean to say an infiltrated movement that exists is infinitely better than a secure movement that won't happen. We can strive for the latter, but you have to assume there is spies, infiltrators, etc. This is a class war. Your enemies will attempt to undermine you. Learn to operate in that environment or else you will do nothing at all.

Like, yeah, they can 'get away with' ending soft power. They can 'get away with' extrajudicial killings. They're operating off of pure machismo right now. They're getting drunk on their vices. They're stripping masks where masks wouldn't be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn't be doing this unless they were scared. It's too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I'm sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.

My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we're at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don't know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don't want to lose hope.

like are you telling me it's important to have the members of enforcement be well-read on the philosophy that is supposed to undergird The Founding Of The State. Are you telling me it is their job to Protect The Project. Are you telling me the only way to stop naked subversion of The Project by bad actors is by having A Force That Maintains The Project's Ideals. A Guard Of Sorts. Maybe One That Leads The Defense. A Leading Guard. A Guard At The Front. A Front Guard. I never considered that. Please, I'd love to talk with you about what else we could draw from this novel line of questioning you're putting down, I think we're onto something here.