He was just announced dead. Rest in piss.

If you can make the case that washing your hands will extend your quality of life within the short term the person will be persuaded.

Counterpoint - USA and COVID or vaccines in general.

immigrants committing sexual violence, stealing jobs, out breeding the “whites”, coming into the country illegally, given all the money, not working, benefit exploiting, being uncivilised savages etc.

In the US they used this line in support of eventual disenfranchisement and mass murder of Indigenous peoples, Africans, Chinese, Mexicans. By the white labour unions, no less. First the “uncivilized immigrants” are brought into the country (or accepted as the subjects from within), then they work in inhumane conditions to build the cities, infrastructure and industry, and then they are displaced out of workplaces they created by the white European labour force.

In your case - ask your relative how often they see white workers in construction and utility, in the food and farm industry, in (especially lower-end) service jobs. Is this the result of unfair competition of privileged immigrants against the white brits willing to work these jobs, or are they filling the labour underclass that sustains the comfy privileged lives of the white collar labour? Who makes your £10 curry, and who grows the rice for it?

Look up the relevant stats distribution in crime, that’s the easiest thing to disprove right away. As well as crime against the immigrants.

And if you can make them read a book, “Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat” by J. Sakai will not leave any place for this type of bullshit in their head.

It really depends on what’s available around you, and what type of organizing you are looking to do. “International” does sound cool, but a lot of those, especially if you live in the imperial core, would be just maoists third-worldists roleplaying and doing self-flagellation about how the only revolutionaries are in the Global South. If you want to find a community of like-minded progressive people, I’d recommend you look into what’s available locally. Go and try volunteering anywhere - soup kitchens, homeless/animal shelters, mutual aid groups, ecological activists, refugee support orgs, etc. I guarantee that you will find some people who are pretty far on the left, and they could probably link you up with more politically oriented orgs in the area if that’s your specific interest. But going out and doing any meaningful work in your community already beats most of the hammer-and-sickle reading groups.

They’re very cringe at best, and imo quite destructive in siphoning aspiring activists into their swamp, possibly draining them of any momentum. They shit on any and every actual progressive movement or legislation, while chirping about the abstract glorious coming revolution and trying to sell their silly papers. There’s a good reason why they’re shunned away from picket lines and sometimes even protests. It’s a meme in the organizer communities to go through fightback, RCI, or whatever the latest branding iteration, before joining someone that actually does stuff.

obv we can’t copy their tactics and strategies 1:1

As long as you keep this in mind - ARAK, “Activist Study - Araling Aktibista” has what you need.

Try Ashwagandha supplements. You already take a pretty crazy cocktail of meds, and introducing more complex pharmaceuticals is unlikely to give you the balance you’re looking for. Also, anecdotally Vyvanse was definitely contributing to my anxiety big time.

Holy fedposting

https://youtu.be/xuCn8ux2gbs

I’m really curious what will be the take of Bayan-adjacent groups on this. Will they hate China more than American imperialism, and say that this is kinda justified? Truly a paradoxical situation for them.

10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman in 2 minutes.

May everyone have the loveliest of days

BBC finds electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups

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Big time agree. People often build their entire positions on top of a few very shoddy lies that simply have been repeated enough and never challenged.

Recognize the narrative they’re following (“israel is defending itself/China is doing a genocide in Xinjiang”). Empathize with their underlying concern (“I care about the safety of civilians/rights of minorities”). From there you can easily deconstruct the underlying arguments and show that they do not match the reality (israelis are not safe/Xinjiang is).

don’t even talk to me or my son ever again 😡

Huh, what are you saying? Literally all the sources you mentioned have consistently done tons of great coverage on Gaza? And “reading a report” is not “being obsessed with glazing”.

It’s not a secret at all that israel knew about the raid beforehand.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-knew-hamas-plans-report-finds

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Anecdotally I’ve heard extremely positive things about assisted ketamine therapy/solo trips and severe depression. And in terms of risks it’s similar to psilocybin, generally safe and not addictive (test your powders for fentanyl). But I kinda get your sentiment and ultimately agree. Mushrooms are better and more accessible as a foray into using drugs to treat stuck brains. Especially if you’re doing it on your own. If anything you just get to spend much longer with your unfiltered thoughts.

Also check out this absolute banger, Kneecap - Rhino Ket.

There is finally a lot of successful research being done into treating mental disorders using psychedelics and drugs in general. Ketamine, psilocybin, LSD, MDMA - they all can be very effective therapeutic tools. But like all tools, they need to be used appropriately and handled properly. Don’t go full psychonaut, read up on your issues and see if there’s an approach that suits your personal needs.

And get fentanyl strips if you ever buy anything powder. They’re cheap, easy to use, normally legal, and can save lives.

Crazy business idea mr. bank boss, listen up. Every person becomes a landlord of the property they live in! And if there’s one that nobody lives in, then we ask someone who needs a place to move in and become a landlord. Problem solved!