In this world, in this system, love is rebellion
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Nope, sorry, you can't not be depressed. It's the price you had to pay for your university degree in truth.
Just because I'm a leftist doesn't make me depressed, I'm depressed because I have crippling gender dysphoria and I'm not allowed to express myself
The thing keeping my sanity holding on is knowing that I'm not going to get what I actually want, so any bits of progress feel great because I'm not expecting the whole thing
Don't neglect your personal wellbeing for politics. It's OK to switch off now and again to focus on other things.
Like drugs!
Which can also be politics, but whatever.
God I love drugs, the spice of life. Comedowns on the other hand..
Using drugs as a coping mechanism is a guaranteed path to addiction. Don't do it, man.
Think of the people you know who drink at parties. How many became alcoholics?
Now think of the people you know who started drinking to cope with grief or depression. How many of those became alcoholics?
Youre not wrong! But also, when there's no solution in reach, sometimes its mushroom time.
I don't fuck with that alcohol shit tho.
Yup. You gotta help yourself before helping others
I find that when I'm feeling depressed and lefty, singing out loud helps me. Maybe you too can sing along!
"Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes!"
Don't feel shame, be heard, be loud, and beat the drum!
(Yes this is les mis)
feeling down
fuck it
pop a les mis
le mis make the pain go away
Ah yes... the classic feel-good musical Les Misérables.
The thing is, they want us depressed. Depressed peons doesn't want to fight injustices, they just hide under the covers and doomscroll the internet. We aren't built to handle the massive amount of info we are constantly force fed through all available channels. Our lizard brains are not good at prioritizing between threats and media and astroturfing are constantly overstating the importance of the current threat. There are SO many threats and issues to choose from that it seems insurmountable. Where to even start? If you are the kind of person that cares and have a bit of empathy it can be too much to handle.
I don't have a fits-all solution to combat care-fatigue, I really don't. That said, it might help to list the shit that needs dealing with that are important to you. Prioritize engagement from that list. How much effort and/or money can you spend? Where can it have the most effect? Put it there and do something. Anything. Just try to be a force for good in this fucked-up world. Helping others will lessen the despair, it really will. Again - you can't help everyone, but you can help someone. Let that be enough.
Also - eat the rich, it's all their fault. Don't let them tell you otherwise.
*kill the rich.
Fixed that for ya, big guy.
No I think eating them alive is best.
Becoming a communist has greatly improved my mental health because I’m no longer constantly disappointed by liberal politics. Now I put my motivation into helping my org grow which feels very fulfilling.
It is because communism (in the sense being tankie) is far less radical than what we actually need. It is just imperialism with some red aesthetics. This is not the way, this is surrender.
F tankies. Be gay, do eco-trolling crime. Stay based fren.
If everything is shared under communism, that would include political power. So that would make communism a direct democracy.
Does that sound like the nation's you have in mind?
If "in the sense being tankie" is not clear enough for you, I do not mean possible communism ideal, but I mean actually existing "communism", like in USSR, which, besides some social advantages, was a red authoritarism.
actually yes.
i see pop up again and again, different ppl quarreling over the meaning of what they say when they use the word communism... the.. ur meaning of communism was what some might call anarcho-syndicalism or similar, and there are some ppl, like apparently sop (though i have no idea what communism means for sop and am merely projecting here) who prefer that word, as it centers around community and avoids talking about anarchism, while some use the word communism to mean what the communist party of some nationstate currently says... or similar "modernizing" takes
Communism is inherently anti imperialistic. Maybe read a book before you spread red scare propaganda.
Do you mean the communism's ideal or actually existing "communism" of "anti-imperialist" USSR? I read about both and live in a post-soviet country.
I feel like the communism that everyone associates with communism are just dictatorships hiding behind the name. Pity people now think that's what communism means.
This is the way.
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