On trial for violently running a cruise ship aground while intoxicated, opting to serve as my own defence attorney, then claiming that the disaster is not my fault because I have "powerful dumb guy energy"
Damn, posted a new comment in the previous megathread as it was replaced by this one; so I'll repost, sue me:
It has begun: as of a day ago or so hospitals are once again having to pick who lives and dies here in France, and postponing tons of surgeries due to COVID, with many of those postponements also resulting in deaths. The government finally put a national lockdown in place and closed schools - about 2 months too late.
The official scientific council created for the pandemic already warned in December that a full similar lockdown should be put in place in January but the government ignored them; and in fact there was an article in Le Monde that describes how Macron took to reading scientific publications on the pandemic and has been arguing with actual epidemiologists when taking decisions at about the same level as a reddit user having read two peer reviewed papers and thinking he's an expert. That same article has ministers explaining how he (Macron) gets a lot of his info on the pandemic from a well-known twitter account :agony:
I suspect the exact same thing is coming for the US, by the way; stay safe.
Also, thanks to @lydiaaaaaaa for this new megathread. I would also have added that Kaczynski was a victim of the infamous CIA program MKUltra.
I've been saying since November that just because Biden was elected, people are going to start showing even less care and cases were going to start to explode. I was saying late Jan or Feb, so I guess I was off by a couple months...but Massachusetts just turned around and cases are going back up, so here we go!
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Holy shit. I opened my old high school email account from half a decade ago, and on a whim began reading some of the things I had talked about and said to friends during some bad drama in my senior year. I had completely forgotten about all this, and extremely bad memories suddenly came flooding back and I started hyperventilating, legit almost had a fucking panic attack just now from cringing
Electronic record keeping was a goddamned mistake
My dad is very angry. He is claiming youtube has been showing him pictures of shirtless gay men for years when he tries to look up music. Curious. Very curious.
All hail the mighty algorithm. It gives you what you need instead of what you want, at least that's my interpretation.
YouTube keeps recommending me videos of Jordan Peterson and other right wing hacks no matter how many times I click "not interested". Idk what I'm doing wrong, all I want is for the algorithm to recommend me shirtless gay men like it did for Rem's dad.
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I'll pray for shirtless gay men to appear before you, stay strong comrade.
I would like all of you to have access to my totally chill and supportive parents. We aren't on the same page but they respect it and they're just okay sixty year old socdems.
It's good. Being partway between a lib and socdem is pretty much standard with varying degrees of racism depending on the person here. They got some issues but they're generally alright and at least respect that I got to where I am politically by doing a lot of work that they haven't done so I probably know more than they do, it's weird, my dad softened on Stalin no problem but went full battle mode about the McDonald's coffee spill lawsuit siding with McDonald's, not much consistency.
Also I feel like generation theory being a fuck aside, they kinda missed one between boomers and gen x. There's that 70s show acting as the Happy Days equivalent, the first wave of punk and subsequent new wave and hair metal takeover. Most of that stuff also openly resented boomers to some extent. This probably comes from most of my favorite music coming from that era and my parents being the age that if they were cool could have checked that shit out. I dunno, they were born in 61 and 64 and Courtney Love was born in 63 so it seems like there's a gap there if we're gonna classify stuff on those lines.
Spending Easter weekend as closeted bi dude with my homophobic evangelical Christian parents. It's not going great folks.
CW: bigotry, homophobia, transphobia
Someone from the family has a trans student in their class and the student accidentally outed themselves to them through some status thing online and they're making a big deal of how they're going to treat the student "equally and normally", while at the same making fun of her (the student) in private.
Someone please end me now, idk how I can continue like this.
It's super gross how casual people can be about their bigotry, like it's a joke to them, your entire existence worthy only of contempt. My family is pretty similar.
I hope you're able to get some distance from them before long. Tons of love :meow-hug:
I'm disabled/have a degenerative disease so idk if I'll ever be fully independent. I'm going to try my best though, can't live my life much longer like this, in the closet and in hiding from everyone irl. It really eats away at everything.
But I genuinely appreciate the kindness here, I really appreciate it, means a lot more than you think. Almost made me cry, tbh I try not to think about everything too much.
:af-heart: :heart-sickle: :meow-hug:
That complicates things a lot huh. I can't know your life or what's safe for you, but look for opportunities where you can. If anything else friends or even internet strangers to be "out" to can help a lot. But I will reiterate, you're a comrade and a bi bro, we're on each other's team and I support you wholeheartedly 💕
Umm tell me that your family member also is a student and not the teacher. Otherwise recording them and accidentally leaking the recording sure sounds like praxis to me.
There's a certain gilded post up right now on r/genzedong and I was surprised at how heartwarming it was. I think anarchist comrades might like it.
Post the link or be called a :LIB:
And yeah, it's pretty wholesome, which is rare enough when it comes to Anarchism in /r/genzedong.
My 5 year old phone gets weirdly sensitive when I hold down on the screen. It's not that I don't want to link, it's just more trouble than it's worth.
I found it interesting since it seems to mirror a lot of the rhetoric on this site about online and offline anarchists.
No worries, I was kidding, just wanted to add the link - thanks for mentioning the thread at all :stalin-heart:
folks, i've played disco elysium for 4 hours, got the "biggest communism builder" achievement, and was just called a lib by my sub-conscious. i am truly a leftist now
Getting all the horrible stuff from a cyberpunk future but with none of the cool shit. Come on, if we're going to live like this the capitalists could at least placate us with something better. Like, where's my super cool motorcycles and bicycles, or the cool hacker shit?
If a bitcoin mining rack falls over and crushes someone, should that be included in Wikipedia's list of mining accidents?
I actually can't tell if leftists like Ted Kaczynski. His manifesto seems super right wing to me?
It is super right wing. The first page denounced socialism if I remember correctly
I've seen unironic Ted support from the left before even here so, it was a bit hard to call
he's also a legit incel who wrote about wanting to mutilate a girl that rejected him.
stupid red fash tankie, bombing random civilians and a passenger aircraft is praxis!
Date a soft lib and bitch about capitalism until they internalize it and become anti-capitalist
I was kidding mostly. Though I think in general when people couple up they kinda slide some beliefs towards some kind of equilibrium at least a little. And if you just present things to people and they decide bc they agree or whatever I think that’s fine.
But I do agree one should enter into a relationship accepting that person as they are or else they’re just setting themself up to be disappointed if they’re thinking they can “fix” something about the person that they actually hold dear.
Idk during COVID, but a lot of people go out for drinks after DSA branch meetings. Might be able to meet someone you vibe with.
Absolutely. But it's also the only place you're likely to find people of a similar ideological bent mixing socially in significant numbers. I'm not saying you should be hitting on people during a meeting, but there's also a social component
last meeting i was in was a video conference, so that might not work
I dunno, but if someone was left enough to call me lib, i might just blush, ngl
I found that just a quick note about "leftist" / "socialist" in the bio helped find comrades, idk if the people I've seen were as militant as I am but there are plenty of socialism-sympathetic cuties out there. I do find that I'm pretty much the most radical person I know on those apps. Depends on how strict you are in your taste, like, is a demsoc is too far gone for you? Cuz I was one of those once, until I got radicalized. I think the important thing is finding someone who is empathetic to your worldview, and showing the same to them, while being clear and genuine about what that view is and why you hold it so strongly. With the right person, that kind of philosophy and dedication can be really attractive.
you say you love technology, yet you do not like the mail bombs i sent you. curious :a-guy:
i came out to my liberal-leaning but very religious mom. i think i couched it in a lot of conditionals, maybe as a way to soften the stress of it all to myself ("i like girls and guys, buuuut i'm still spiritual/religious, practice safe sex etc., i'm bringing this up because i don't want to hide any part of me from you") but... it was fine? surprisingly painless? we talked for like 20 minutes.
despite the "i still want kids!" fussing - it went well and i feel like our relationship is actually stronger than before. i'm really surprised and even a little emotional now! fuck. sending love and light to everyone here today, especially the people who did not have this very chill coming out ceremony and the people who still can't come out for whatever reason. this site i take long breaks from because sometimes you guys piss me off but ultimately i'm still here because i give a shit and we're all still here because we still give a shit. whatever. have a good weekend
