Ben Norton of Multipolarista has talked about how we’re already in the early stages of a multipolar world as well as it’s inevitability. I don’t have any links on hand to that point in particular but I was recently listening to The Deprogram (podcast) episode with him as a guest and he discussed it pretty extensively. It’s a good episode in general. Worth a listen.

(To continue the analogy). It’s a rabid one at that. As such, it’s destined to die, but it would be better for everyone if it can be put down as quickly as possible. It’s not only extremely dangerous, it’s infectious.

Same.

:picard:

I agree with all of this, but my fear is that despite how good and hard-won those positive strides are, backsliding can happen and is happening. There are some obvious recent examples like the overturning of RvW. Racism seems like it’s on the rise as well, instead of continuing to wane as I used to assume it would.

I hope that this only shows the efforts of a reactionary but powerful minority as it is facing the inevitability of its death, and that the overall progress you’re talking about hasn’t been lost, only partially suppressed. But I don’t know. It often feels like we’re watching as that progress that so many fought and died for is being erased and that there isn’t enough will or ability to prevent it. Are the drastic changes for the better that you mentioned now drastically changing again for the worst? In some ways, they obviously are - is that just superficial though, or is it emblematic of a full on slide into mask-off society-wide fascism?

This is not a recommendation, just mentioning that the old factory farming expose vid that did it for me was Meet Your Meat (I believe produced by PETA) back around 1999.

Have you looked into the phenomenon of initiation deficit? It tends to be associate with brain injuries but in my personal, anecdotal experience it also turns up a lot in just people who have experienced trauma. I know I have it… really bad. Like to the point that I can’t get started on something I’ve been deeply looking forward to. I get paralyzed. It’s difficult to explain to people who don’t experience it. It’s like a narcolepsy of action. Even a narcolepsy of joy. I don’t have any good links on hand (sorry) but here is something that at a glance seems to get into it a little and more importantly, offers some coping mechanisms. I haven’t vetted it, so to speak.

u/harajukum mentions “exective dysfunction.” This is a very related term (I believe broader in meaning) that is also worth researching. It’s come up a few times on hexbear. Hopefully it’s searchable now.

Anyway, solidarity to you comrade. I struggle with this shit immensely and I wish I had some solid answers for you.

You are on the path, comrade. Once you are like me, with all my irl relationships long since withered and dead, rotting even in a mass grave of liberalism, then will you know true ppbpeace. Hexbear relationships are all that remains now, for me, as they should for you. But even then I find they hang from the most tenuous of threads… ideological threads… personal threads… or the most egregious: when one is being told the reactionary lie that one needs to… to touch grass.

I use Firefox with uBlock Origin exclusively on my desktop. But on mobile android I just ran into problem after problem with Firefox. Slow, buggy, etc. So I went searching and it turns out that AdBlock Plus makes their own Chromium mobile browser and honestly it has worked wonderfully for me. Blocks all ads, not just youtube. This might also be a better option for you, u/CommunistBear, and u/PorkrollPosadist,as it blocks all ads, not just on youtube.

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I have no idea how you’re reading any of that into what I said. I have agreed multiple times that veganism is indeed about animal liberation, but that denying the massive role that food (and hence factory farming) plays in any liberation effort and calling other users “weird” for suggesting vegan recipe posting is just ridiculous. I can’t help but suspect it’s just contrarianism or something at this point so I am disengaging.