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Having a job in a social field helping people is just utter insanity. This system drives people to insanity. This week alone I received death threats and other violent outbursts targeted at me. For doing my job. It’s like an animal cage you’re throw into. Pure survival mode for some. And it ain’t worth it. Two more weeks for me and I’m gone. I just wish I had it in me to keep helping people but it’s exhausting to the point of becoming mentally numb and constantly tense in your body.
Fuck this system and everyone who upholds it. Humanity my ass.
Thanks for reading this rant.
I am sorry to hear that. Do you live in America? I imagine that Americans would be the worst ones to interact with due to the general level of arrogance and ignorance combined together.
Nah Belgium. Sometimes it’s not even arrogance but desperation and I get it. Sucks to see people driven to a point in which they need to do harm to others to get forward.
Yikes, never heard of rude Belgians before you talked about them. Capitalism drives people to prioritize self-interest above empathy, which is super sad.
Ignoring why this is the case, the one thing I’ll miss about the US will probably be the food diversity. I appreciate being able to go to sushi restaurants and Ethiopian restaurants and polish restaurants all within a couple miles of each other. I know some of it is americanized, but damn that Ethiopian restaurant was good
Orange chicken? 目目 一一 人人
I think that’s one of those dishes that’s americanized. Generally the Chinese food I’ve had leans on the more savory side. Although I prefer the spicier Sinchuan Cuisine myself [although, Fushia Dunlop has a really good pork belly recipe in her cookbook]
Guangdong sausages are really good (though pretty salty, so you can only have a few per day) alongside some rice :> What is Sichuan (you misspelled it jfsjdhjkdab) cuisine like?
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
I hope you all have a nice week
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Omg the narration. I don’t understand a word and don’t need to.
You too comrade!
You too Oppo!
I’ve seen a Trot defending that Stalin paved the way for Khrushchevites by trying to coexist with the West and his “communism in one state” policy, and Trotsky was proven right with the dissolution of the USSR by the peasant elites in the ruling class (the guy is from the Global South, btw).
He also said Mao had to make a peasant revolution because of Stalin. He is actually a very intelligent guy, but somehow he has a Trot tendency while disparaging the Trots.
Seems suspect lol. Does he think the Soviets had the power to export a top-down proletarian revolution to China? Like, Mao didn’t conjure millions of peasants into existence. They were the primary underclass in China. You don’t just choose to be ideologically proletarian lol
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the claim
He claims Stalin thought China wasn’t ready for a proletariat revolution, and for that he didn’t support them. According to him, Stalin also abandoned the socialist Spain to be torn apart by fascists because of his “socialism in one country” doctrine.
Idk why, but the left-wing in my country is either left deviationist (Trots, MLMs, Hoxhaists) or right deviationist (demsuccs, patsuccs, succdems). I’ve yet to see a real ML who doesn’t crap on the USSR and PRC and their leaders.
Have a wonderful week, everyone!
As always, communism will win.
I think it’s a little funny that I’m basically too poor and china pilled to boycott anything. Don’t eat fast food, already pirate everything, already used deepseek for the little ai I want to use, etc. The only new thing is transitioning over to libre-office I guess :p. Now if only I could get my family to not spend so much
Sometimes I wonder how I wouldve turned out if I were in my mid teens right now. Because with my interest in living healthy and working out and whatnot I can click on one wrong thing on social media and find myself stuck in some weird lookmaxxing jestergooning alt right pipeline by virtue of being a white guy. It can’t be good for a young guy to have this amount of brainrot bombarded at you.
I hate when I have an actual opinion on something and then someone just says it’s bait
dont tell me if this is false i want to believeI suspect trump is even more likely to attack Cuba to try and compensate for being humiliated by Iran
‘the old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born, now is the time of morons.’
-Indi.caSomething about when Children get hurt makes me…
I mean obviously I feel bad, right? Everyone feels bad for children when they’re hurt. They’re children. But I get…scared? Or maybe I’m more like existentially worried. Idk.
Reading about Israel killing children or about children stealing food at school because they’re going hungry at home makes me wanna break down an cry.
Dread is the logical response to the realization that those who starve, maim and kill children are willing to sacrifice our very future for their own designs. You’re not alone feeling that way.
It could be said that James Bond was a sort of cope for the dying British Empire; an empowered, competent Britain substituting for the real decaying country being subordinated by the U.S. empire and gradually fading into irrelevance.
I expect the upcoming live-action “Call of Duty” movie to be exactly the same thing: a dying empire coping with its increasing irrelevance by lionizing itself. As reality fails to deliver all their fantasies the imperialists turn to fiction as a coping mechanism. We saw this before in Vietnam where it was impossible to hide how poorly we were doing and Vietnam War films, accordingly, were set to fictional plots & characters rather than real events - unlike WWII movies which were often directly based on actual battles and the people who fought them. There was no victory to glorify in Vietnam so they had to invent one. You saw some of this with Iraq and Afghanistan too but not nearly as much - until, of course, the retreat from Afghanistan. Between that and the empire’s humiliation by Iran I expect war movies to return to both nostalgia (when we could actually win wars, like WWII) or outright fiction (which is often thinly-veiled alt history).
There’s gonna be a call of duty movie?
To the detriment of cinema enjoyers, yes.
Thankfully I’m not really a cinema enjoyer so the wound doesn’t go nearly that deep.
My mental health is once again being tested. It’s been like this basically my entire adult life now and I wonder if I will ever acquire some peace. The guilt about feeling this way while lots of people have it far worse is also bugging me even though I know it’s irrational.











