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I really needed this. Here's Gazans celebrating the ceasefire: https://t.me/PalestineResist/82561
I am glad for them. I am sad it took this long. And I am sad Israel still exists.
Same on all counts.
Does anyone ever wonder the variety of research chemicals that Shulgin discovered that could have potential psychiatric or therapeutic uses that have yet to be properly and rigorously studied due to federal regulations on psychedelics? With the miracles that psilocin, ergot alkaloids and other similar compounds can do on mental health, we have so many that have yet to be discovered. I use some for health reasons already.
For some non-political non-fiction that's interesting, "Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved"/PiHKAL is a good read. TiHKAL is good too. I enjoy his commentary.
Today I learned for the first time in thirty-one years that I am circumcised. All this time I thought that my genitals looked natural even when I was aware of what circumcision was, but after rewatching Eric Clopper’s presentation on the subject I asked my mother and she unambiguously confirmed that my deliverer gave me the procedure.
G-d, I feel so blockheaded. I should have figured it out so much sooner than I did.
The last week of news has made me so angry. The UK going even more authoritarian on the right to protest, the treatment of the activists Israel illegally detained, the brownshirts of America waging war against civilians.
I wish I could do more but I am also really struggling to find a group in the UK with their shit together.
It has really been infuriating to witness and feel so powerless!
Hope everyone can keep up with the goals you've set out for yourselves, has a pleasant week, and stays safe in this troubled times.
As always, communism will win.
In France, the prime minister has handed in his resignation something like 12 hours after nominating the new government.
There have now been four prime ministers (Attal, Barnier, Bayrou, Lecornu) since Macron refused to recognize the result of the parliamentary snap election he called in summer 2024. Macron has stayed true to his original motto since 2017, which is not to compromise on anything ever, even with potential allies.
Polls in France systematically disadvantage the main left-wing party LFI and its probable presidential candidate for 2027, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Even so, he is currently polling at 15%, indicating that the coming presidential election will very likely be a contest between the left and the far right.
Has it even been a month since the last one lmao Could you elaborate on the "systematic disadvantage"?
It's concerning the amount of times I end up in a discussion on Nazism and the other person says 'but they were left wing. They had socialist in their name'
"The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is an american, for profit, outsourced genocide contractor." If that doesn't get them you say "My name is Zeus. Do you think I can't shit lightning bolts? Anyone can name anything anything."
My school has a plan to go to the USA for a study trip. Is it too risky to go as someone who's involved in left wing politics?
I wouldn't.
Depends on how public your involvement is. If you're on a party or org's website, or you have lots of activity on your social media, it may be risky.
But most importantly:
So in the past week in The Netherlands at least 3 women were killed by a man but since the suspects were (most likely) Dutch, there is no massive outrage, no Dutch flags in football stadiums, whatever like there was some weeks ago when a refugee killed a girl. All of a sudden we don't have a femicide problem anymore it seems.
i watched one battle after another a few days ago. it was fun (just ok imo), but damn... is this how they really see us? LMAO
battle?
one battle after another is a movie directed by paul thomas anderson. its a fictional story that uses the american resistance movement as a backdrop.
oh, I didn't realize it was a title
It should have been capitalized.
The Beijing Military Museum:
Sometimes I feel like if I were to go to the media I could have them write such a devastating piece on the unions that they would not recover from it.
I would never but fuck me do they make working there miserable, hypocrite bunch of shits.
Probably doesn't help that the unions aren't explicitly anticapitalist
I've been exploring some of the guns I never used before in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's only today I realized the one that looks exactly like an AKs-74u is a shotgun and not an SMG and I only discovered this when I tried to shoot a gangoon and didn't get the usual rapid fire of bullets I was expecting.
It was then I remembered the Saiga-12 exists and the design was likely based off it and not the AKs-74u.
what do you guys think the next decade or so will look like? with the american empire crumbling, i could imagine decades happening. if the government can't keep a lid on anti-imperialist movements abroad, i could see the us taking its first baby steps toward revolution, not to mention the oppressed nations. at the same time, nothing ever happens. the empire is losing strength, but that's not the same as saying it isn't strong. internally, its citizens care more about being able to watch some shitty talk show than palestinian lives, maybe even their own lives. the security apparatus has a lot of money and a lot of toys. the western left is a joke. if the treat faucet doesn't stop pouring, nothing cool will happen in the us. and if nothing cool happens in the colonized nations, the treat faucet will never stop pouring.
My guess: usa is going to have more "random" terror events as the national guard and ice keep occupying entire cities to deal with "crime." Then the military will start getting brought in. Eventually some soldiers will get pushed over the line of what they are willing to do to american citizens. Then there will be purges within the military. Defections and desertion will spike. Maybe a bit of civil war but mostly just unorganized resistance events within the military where a groups of soldiers make a move before they get purged. Usa will rot from the inside.
One of my coworkers grew up in Soviet Latvia and yesterday she was talking about her school period and how it was kinda strict but at the same time gave opportunities to develop, and one of my other coworkers asked: 'and if you didn't listen? GuLaG? Haha' and she looked at him like: no that's not at all how it worked. The gulag wasn't that much of a thing.
This is what I posted on October 7, 2023:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2258613
At the time that I wrote that, I had no idea about the raid on the ‘State of Israel’ until evening, when a friend on the telephone told me about the incident. At the time, I naïvely believed that the worst that was likely to happen was the IOF bombarding Palestine for a few days as retaliation. As we all know, the full aftermath was even worse than that, to put it mildly.
Yet it is having this context in mind that this otherwise mundane thread feels so much differently than it could have: there I was, talking about the differences between two Torot with an almost youthful fascination, blissfully unaware of what was going on in the Levant and the atrocities that would plague the region for two years. I almost envy the simplicity that our lives had back then. I could easily talk about the mildly interesting features in Judaism or Jewish cultures without feeling like I was neglecting anybody.