Yup. Welcome aboard comrade. Try not to let it break your sanity.

Yep. It is almost impossible to exist peacefully here unless you make at least twice as much as the average working person and happen to be born white.

Not only that. Companies are now charging people extra for using cards, passing on their processing fees to consumers.

Dice up a sweet potato into an oven safe pan and toss with olive oil, salt and pepper, and whatever spices you like (I like to use paprika, chipotle, cayenne). 400 degree oven. After 25 minutes take it out, create some space, and crack some eggs in the space (may have to add a little more oil). Bake for 5-7min, depending in how done you like your eggs.

Easy healthy breakfast that fits in one pan and doesn’t take too long. You can prep the sweet potatoes the night before and do other things while it cooks. I like to add an avocado too at the end.

Just wanna say I feel ya. I also got a new job and for the first time in my adult life I will be outside of the “official” poverty line. But with that I have had to let my organizing take a backseat as I acclimate and attend to a bunch of other personal transitions. I simply just don’t have as much time and energy to do both. I have moments where it’s not easy to reconcile.

Congrats on the new opportunity comrade.

Congrats comrade! Quitting is no easy task, especially when you’ve engaged in the addiction for years

And even then, Israel (and the West in general) has completely and permanently lost any facade of “civility.”. The aging imperialists in charge are trying to recycle the same strategies from Korea, Vietnam, Panama, East Timor, and so on, except this time the entire world is watching and remembering. These massacres aren’t just something being read about in the paper. These soldiers are gleefully making tiktoks of their depraved war crimes while a senile American president fails to gaslight the rest of world that its not happening.

Even if the Palestinians are completely displaced from Gaza, it’s just a matter of time before the Israeli state is in ruins. The most powerful tool that imperialism has is the mask of legitimacy that upholds its narratives. And the US and Israel, as regimes in decline, will never be able to restore it. While things are pretty bleak and are bound to become more violent in the shorter term, the writing really is on the wall for the yankee empire.

Trots have a history of transitioning into neocons. Christopher Hitchens was a Trot. In fact the “father of neoconservatism” actually started out as a Trot.

Developing a happy outlook isn’t easy. It’s a skill that you need to practice and cultivate over time. Recognize that rage-bait and fascist content is stirring up unproductive emotions in you and that you do have some agency over which thoughts you choose to identify with and give attention to.

Read a little bit about stoicism if you’re unfamiliar with it.

I agree. Defeating Russia was their Nat 20.

It seems like destroying Russia was a really ambitious goal. I doubt the empire managers of the US sincerely thought that would happen.

But by instigating a proxy war with Ukrainian bodies they were able to increase domination over their European vassal states, boost the profits of weapon manufacturers, and establish new narrative control mechanisms on the American populace. These were the actual short-sided victories that the US were aiming for, even though in the long-term this will contribute further to the downfall of the empire. But, you know, it’s all about those marginal gainz baby.

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As a USian I’m here for it too.

Yes, it’s going to suck. But it was going to suck hard anyway. At least now the Democrats will be out of the way and unable to siphon anymore revolutionary energy from the masses. It’ll be final boss time from here on out.

Noam Chomsky, George W Bush and Hilary Clinton all have episodes in the same “Masterclass” series

Every leftist Hollywood movie villain is always some extreme ultraleft accelerationist. See: Killmonger

And every leftist Hollywood hero is an anarchist.

Can’t say I fully agree with this one. Call it the trauma response it most likely is, but I’m just not shocked by any of the depravity anymore. I think understanding that there are no lengths of bloodthirst Western empires have gone and will go to sustain themselves is a crucial step to understanding why this shit needs to be torn down.

Getting sucked into the toxicity of online spaces bleeds back into your offline conversations, comrades. I always appreciate whenever someone checks a statement of mine as questionable. I think we can all do better to hold each other accountable about behavior and in a respectful way.

And an additional note, One thing I’ve noticed about leftist orgs is that they are filled with a lot of neurodivergent people (talking about myself too) who have suffered a lot of trauma under capitalism. And in my experience I’ve noticed a lot of toxic communication tendencies arise from that, since not everyone is in a position to get therapy or meaningfully address their alienation.

I know “self-care” is a meme at this point, but everyone here really needs to work on healing their traumas and becoming aware of their own damaging impulses if they expect to build healthy relationships.

Everyone has their limits. Some of us are really really sensitive to injustice and have a hard time managing our empathy. It’s a factor that led us to communist thought in the first place, but it’s also something that needs to be managed. Especially, we ND comrades can have this problem. There are times where I read about some massacre, or I watch some horrible clip or see a photo and I’m crying for hours, emotionally exhausted, and end up having no energy or focus for tasks that I need to concentrate on. I feel you.

You can still be knowledgeable, participate in actions and educate where you can. But pick your battles and where you can be useful. I learned a long time ago, nothing really good comes from arguing with liberals on the internet. You’re not going to convince them. And unless you’re some charismatic content creator, you’re likely not going to convince people lurking these arguments either.

It’s not an excuse to disengage completely, but you also gotta attend to your happiness. You may feel weird or guilty about it, so it can be difficult. But you have to optimize happiness the best you can. Because otherwise you’ll suffer mentally and physically. It’s your health. And if you’re unhealthy, you’re usefulness towards building revolution suffers too. This shit is a long game.

Stand your ground and keep calling this shit out. Lots of people who claim to support Palestine and originally held these views are learning the flaw in that line of thinking.

Please do!