• Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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    26 days ago

    It’s really wierd being adventurous but timid. Like I don’t mind trying new things or going to far off places, as long as I have someone who can help me in doing that. Unfortunately not a lot of people i know are lining up to take a hakf a week to a week long trip to China at somepoint. But also I don’t wanna go alone ):

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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      25 days ago

      I will always advise people to travel solo if that is an option. Not that traveling with people is bad (it can be horrific) but there is something special about meeting world head on with no social baggage.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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    26 days ago

    Is it just me or is the navy always a hotbed of rebellion for some reason? HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën, the German navy mutinies at the end of ww1, hell even Krondstadt (although I hold pess respect for the latter for obvious reasons) amongst others. Idk, i feel like i hear about it often enough so it’s starting to intrigue me

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      25 days ago

      Mentioned famous mutinies and didn’t even talk about the Potemkin smh.

      But seriously, it makes sense when you consider the conditions sailors are often in: stuck on wood/steel boxes in the middle of nowhere for weeks to months to even years at a time with nothing but ocean for miles around. Humans are land creatures and it’s where we belong; we’ll never really get used to life at sea or in space or wherever - we just learn how to tolerate it and only up to a certain point.

      It makes sense that mutinies at sea are fairly common throughout history.

  • rangooski@lemmygrad.ml
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    25 days ago

    How do you guys deal with doomscrolling and a sense of helplessness? Struggling with it a lot, switch between this and periods of hopefulness but it’s really hard to feel hope lmao

    • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml
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      25 days ago

      firstly, i got rid of or altered any social media that has algorithmic content suggestion and endless scrolling. overproduction (in this case, of content/information) incentivizes capitalists to get you to overconsume, regardless of whether or not that overconsumption is unhealthy/addictive.

      secondly, i investigated what internal features or contradictions i had left to resolve that would explain why i defaulted to hopelessness. part of what’s meaningful about revolutionary optimism to me is the fact that it not only feels much better than hopelessness, but is also the correct/optimal cognitive approach. and, it applies to society as much as it does to every individual life.

      i think it’s much easier to be revolutionary optimistic when you actively unlearn whatever you learned to become/feel helpless, rather than trying to simply paper over your helpless feelings with revolutionary optimism, which always felt kind of fake to me. this may or may not track with your experience, but that’s the process i’ve gone through to actively and permanently feel more hopeful.

      • rangooski@lemmygrad.ml
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        25 days ago

        thanks for this my friend. On social media, I’ve gotten off almost all of it. Trying to get off Reddit but I used it heavily for sports stuff too but I think I’m getting better at cutting it out.

        And yeah, I’m trying to examine myself and I do understand why I have a tendency towards hopelessness. I think it’s just gonna take time for me to work through my own internal contradictions.

        Thanks again

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    25 days ago

    I wore an ACAB shirt to work today and someone asked what it meant so I convinced them it was the police union

  • Cenarius@lemmygrad.ml
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    26 days ago

    mutualoid alleges zhao_dashuai is a new zealander mexican, they are 100% serious. ough my head hurts someone else figure the veracity of that out for me. im already annoyed by their posts

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    26 days ago

    One of the far right Dutch parties, FVD, has a guy running for the municipalities who lost his teaching job for harassing underage girls. So I went to their insta to say how cool it was of them to let a pedo run for their party and they blocked me lmao. Free speech enthusiasts btw.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    23 days ago

    Sometimes I’m reminded that the French speaking part of the country has a media boycot of the far right. They will not broadcast anything about them, in any way. And as a result, the far right has a very hard time getting their points across over there.

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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    27 days ago

    The United States wanted something, too: for China to get on board with a U.S.-led, liberal-democratic order and move away from its communist model. But that’s not quite what happened.

    waow based based based

          • SouffleHuman@lemmy.ml
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            23 days ago

            I wonder if whoever made these slides considered that it might be because of these tight political controls that allowed China to lift so many people out of poverty. After all, most countries are capitalist, and none have come close to the sheer scale of China’s development.

          • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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            27 days ago

            The WTO rules were not written with China, or its unique economic-political structure, in mind. China has elements of a capitalist system, but is still run by a communist government. There are many influential government-owned companies (China’s oil and gas giant, Sinopec, took in more money in 2019 than any other company in the world, other than Walmart), and even private companies are heavily subjected to government influence. According to the China Daily (itself owned by the CCP), nearly 70 percent of the almost two million private companies in China had internal CCP groups in 2017.

            i love when neolib school that hates me gives me bourgeois class conscious bangers that make me so happy