Did he really have to post that video from a poolside bar? Unbothered, talking about having beers.

Ship of fools

Well that’s exactly it. If you’ve suffered from abuse and trauma but you live in poverty, you won’t be able to afford the resources to manage your mental health. As well as the added weight of homelessness, hunger, debt collectors coming after you, can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Comrade, if you go I will miss you.

There’s not really much I can say to help you but personally I found this video helpful for times when I have the hot flush of embarassment for something I did a long time ago: toxic shame: what it is and how to heal from it

This article is about Australian suicide rates but the main point applies: the determining factor when it comes to suicide is poverty.

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/the-point/article/understanding-the-suicide-crisis-raising-people-out-of-poverty-is-prevention/5cew2lugr

Seems that the children of colonisers kept the legacy of making up borders with no historical/cultural basis. I’m actually surprised the boundaries on the map aren’t straight lines.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news… it didn’t actually end in a lot of places.

This got me thinking about 2 videos related to western eurocentrism in art:

Microtones: the lost art of western music

The white washing of Greek and Roman statues

Bolek and lolek - Polish

Pat and Mat - czechoslovakian

Professor Balthazar - Yugoslavian

This is just my opinion but I find ballet boring. I’d rather watch Indian dances in bollywood movies. It looks way more difficult and interesting, I wish I realised this earlier.

Don’t engage with the liberals, and especially don’t argue with them. If they genuinely wanted to learn they would use the search bar instead of asking the same cliche questions over and over. They are intentionally trying to get a reaction to frustrate you.

It’s when communism is still around 100 years later.

bUt nO iPhOnE!!1

But at what cost? :(

Good point about the inheritance. Actually I have seen it spread by communist from a “they are not left enough” perspective.

True, good point. I still don’t see their approach become successful because from what I gather it’s just “raising awareness”, I’d hope by 2023 people are aware of climate change. I really feel for the young activists who are a part of JSO because they are trying to do something to fix the situation and are met with so much hostility from the public. To me it does come across as a way to drain young socially aware people’s time/energy away from useful actions and towards actions that won’t have any outcome.

The best approach for climate action is through workers & unions organising, eg: https://youtu.be/J5Whs9IsTds

Perhaps we could have a few pinned posts with FAQs? I’m seeing the same basic questions asked over and over again. It’s becoming tiresome especially when it’s debunking cold war/china bad propaganda 101. I really loved lurking lemmygrad over the past year because of how intelligent and interesting all of the content was from an ML perspective. I stopped using my account for a while because I didn’t feel like I could add much to the discussion and just had a good time learning from others. Recently with all the liberals joining in I have to admit I’ve been baited into finding my account log in details. It’s so frustrating to read through these long discussions every other day about XYZ false media narrative but I understand there are a lot of people who have never come across conflicting information to what they were taught in school/news. It can become a bit of a drain on your patience, it might be easier if it was all focused in one post people can be directed to.

Just Stop Oil is linked to oil heiress Aileen Getty. I suspect it’s entire purpose is to make climate activists look bad and take attention away from affective actions. https://nitter.net/SarafromMI/status/1581002787617284097?t=UQFqNtm68odaoQKKKNee1Q&s=19

Use the search bar. Heaps of posts have already been made ages ago.