ReceptorDamage [any]
deep seated self hatred is hard to get away from. don’t think I ever will. ‘this is me and I hate me. the end.’
Why was a transphobe wreckker appointed as an admin like half an hour ago? I see it was banned as well fortunately but how did that happen in the first place? Slip of the wrist??
I was following really closely for the first few weeks but just couldn’t anymore. Back then, it was being said that Russia had an almost certain win, even if it was drawn out in a presumable attempt to reduce civilian casualties. Looking at that map now looks like that’s not the case at all. MSM has been saying Ukraine would win for sure from the start, but I know that’s all lies and propaganda. We were wrong about there being no invasion when Biden kept saying “any day now!” Were we wrong to assume Russia would win this?
Obviously no one knows and we can’t predict the future, but is there any sort of consensus here on what the most likely outcomes are? Is there still any chance Zelensky and the current govt. will be removed from power by Russia, or is it looking like the focus is just on defending/taking the Donbas area?
Edit: Thank you for the responses and clarification.
I’m now over 40. :agony-deep: I have no skills. I’ve been unemployed and without income since 2019. Always on the brink of being homeless but still lucky to be depending on people in my dwindling, aging family who hate me and think I’m a loser (perhaps rightly so). Privileged piece of shit, I know I am. I’m not sure where to go from here except for content-warning places I won’t come back from. What should I do? I have serious mental health problems buy I have no way of addressing them. I just want people, anyone, to like me and think I’m worth something. But I’m not. I need help but there’s nowhere I can ask for it. Including here. No one here is equipped to deal with the social consequences of ultra atomization and the resulting mental health. fallout. But who is? No one. I’m crashing, comrades. I want to be part of some movement to make life better for the all of us. But I’m crumbling. I don’t want to be hyperbolic, but I think I’m dying. I’m alone. I’m so alone. I want to cry out for help but no one can help, and if they could, they’d be better off helping people in even greater need than the privileged perspective my cries emerge from, like the bleats from a newborn loser.
I wonder what keeps such people left wing
Um… having fucking principles? Like… I don’t know, recognizing that communism is necessary for the continuation of humanity rather than barbarism and climate apocalypse?
I don’t mean to be flippant, but I guess I do. If you know about the shit that we as leftists know about, you have learned about exploitation and class dynamics. With full awareness of these things, then if you’re dipping out toward the right, you know what the fuck you’re doing, you’re a traitor. And knowing that, and still drifting off on greedy ass winds in a rightward direction because of your material interests… then fuck you, you were never a leftist. You may still sell your labor maybe you even make a killing with it as an aristocrat. But aristocracy in capitalism is being a class traitor. They are among the ghouls that those of us who are committed to human liberation speak of when we talk about having a place on a wall or in a pit.
Yes, I know. I’m just being idealist. Everything comes down to only class interest, and we are all of us victims of material circumstance. No, that’s vulgar. If you were ever on the left because you had a human heart, you can’t ever turn right and without knowing your position is: “screw y’all, I’m going for MINE.”
Take the job. Get as much as you can. But whatever excess you have, and you’ll know what is excess if you’re honest with yourself, then don’t waste it on personal enrichment. “Invest” it in revolutionary potential, organizations, direct aid, whatever. Enjoy your life, but know that if you have any power to effect change with or through your wealth, if you consider yourself leftist, if you consider yourself human you take the opportunity to help others.
My first reaction was a sober, “yeah… it’s been like that for a long time…” and then I remember who Noam Chomsky is and it’s like… “What the fuck, dude, you helped write the fucking book on how Freeze Peach doesn’t exist in bourgeoisie democracy, what, 3 fucking decade ago?!” Or maybe I’m giving too much credit to MC.
