here's the thing: everyone complains about late capitalism and how alienated and isolated we all are. everyone acknowledges this, and reassures each other of this, alone.

you need to get out of yourself, and your head, and your small bubble of one, and you need to go see old friends, or former friends, or people in your social circle who are just meh, or your annoying roommates, or your co-workers, or your former co-workers, or your lame family members, or your lame and bigoted family members, or strangers at a bar, or whomever, and party. meeting people is praxis, strengthening relationships is praxis, making yourself seen and vulnerable to another is praxis. please, guys, go out.

this, here, now, is a facsimile, mediated through a thousand screens. go kiss, go get kissed, go reject a kiss, go be denied a kiss. go out.

https://hexbear.net/post/242580

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    This was one of the funniest struggle sessions

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          • Kuori [she/her]
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            you copy/pasting this everywhere doesn't make posts like this - that give zero consideration to the existence of covid - not suck shit

            particularly since both of these dogshit posts have occurred during a massive covid spike

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              • macabrett[they/them]@lemmy.ml
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                That's okay. I also had an embarrassingly angry reaction. I'm sorry as well. I think I deleted my own post before I even saw your reply.

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          • Venus [she/her]
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            It is in fact harder to catch covid outside than inside.

            It is infinitely easier to catch covid outside with other people than inside my house where no one who has ever had covid has ever set foot

            Even at the height of covid you were allowed to have a bubble of people which you met with.

            At the height of covid you were allowed to go to superspreader parties if you wanted to, no one ever stopped you. What is this stock chud argument supposed to get across? You're allowed to do whatever you want and I will continue to criticize you for it and push back against you when you try to bully other, more careful people into spreading covid

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              • Venus [she/her]
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                What the hell does going outside alone and not meeting any other people have to do with this post? Are you lost?

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                  • Venus [she/her]
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                    Meaning, go out to holiday parties. That's what the post is about.

  • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    in a semi-ironic/post-ironic/non-ironic way, capital does not want leftists touching grass or kissing. breaking down the walls that capitalism builds around and between us is anticapitalist.

    or in the words of street sects, a band i like but that also scares me:

    "There’s always at least one piece of shit who wants nothing more than to see you fail; Death is a release from all their resentment, but life is a wire around their throat"

    Be the wire around capital's throat capybara-theorist

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    You live in Alsace. You need to give your lord the grain.

    • pooh [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      geordi-no Go hang out and socialize

      geordi-yes Go hang out behind a glory hole

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          It's always a blowie party everywhere I go. Only way I can temporarily fill the gaping hole in my soul and chest

          Call me a Hollow the way I Bleach my sorrows with swallows

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          If only you didn't harbor anti-Japanese sentiment and watched anime. You would've appreciated the pearly clean bars I just dropped on you

          Twice now

  • Gamer_time [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Around this time last year I had a small mental breakdown and I am fairly sure the OG post of this was a contributing factor to that.

    Anyway got diagnosed with Social Anxiety 6 months afterwards, what a coimcidines

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    Sorry, my neurosis has convinced me that I am a burden on everyone around me and that I actively make their day worse when we see each other. I'm not going to ruin someone else's evening by forcing them to deal with me.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      If you acknowledge that it's caused by a neurosis, then obviously you can't just shrug it off and probably shouldn't meet with old friends right this second, but it seems like that means the answer is still "working towards being able to talk to people" by whatever means are appropriate to your situation (therapy, medication, making friends online, etc.)

  • MorelaakIsBack [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    here's the praxis: everyone complains about late praxis and how praxised and isopraxised we all are. everyone ackpraxisdges this, and reapraxisses each other of this, in solo praxis.

    lost my steam, christmas hangover, you know how it is. you'll get no more of this shitty bit from me

    • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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      11 months ago

      Also, how 'bout you normie freaks on this site start following your own advice and come o'er and kiss me then? Oh, weird, don't want to come over and touch my grass huh. Interesting.

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      this post sucked ass the first time and it sucks ass now