Not quite yet, though I wouldn’t wait on leaving the country if I were there and of any personae non gratae

AIN’T THAT RIGHT, BROTHER rips off shirt

But yeah, sounds like a valid plan. That is if you believe things will ever change by voting, or that Trump & Goons LLC will be ready to release their power come 2028. A fool’s hope, certainly, but a hope nonetheless.

You best start believing in corporate dystopia stories, Ms. Turner… You’re in one!

Yes, capitalism can only serve the capitalists, and maintain a (highly relative) peaceful environment (not counting the subjugated peoples and areas in the global south atm) in only the most auspicious of times. And even then the system will inevitably shit itself and die every few years or so and must be resurrected by national intervention using said nation’s taxpayers’ (=working class) money. So the system is fundamentally flawed, which has never and will never “work” insofar as the working class is regarded.

Indeed the US is in quite dire straits, having replaced its national industrial capacity for outsourcing to countries with cheap labor, and also positioning the US dollar as the world currency, thus having the leverage to force dissenting nations to either go bankrupt or accept its imperialism. Now there is no industrial capacity in the US and its populace (completely understandably) not wanting to do two or three full-time jobs just to afford housing and groceries, neverminding everything else you need to live in there (like health insurance, so you best hope you don’t get sick ever), just to bring the industrial capacity back at minimum wage. And now the administration is driving out the only ones willing to do the manual labor at minimum wage, the immigrants; while being willfully ignorant to the fact that the entire nation’s history is that of immigrants, as most of the natives died on the Trail of Tears or were otherwise killed off and cordoned to reservations.

It seems that there are only bad tidings afoot for the USian worker, having also been brainwashed since birth into the impossibility of communism. Doom and gloom.

Social security and pensions I think.

An imperialist USian rebublican spouting uncitated drivel against Russian imperialism based on anti-communist sentiments and criticism of the USSR, arguing against nazis existing in Ukraine.

Yeah, kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out! But then again WWII was just a bunch of capitalist imperialist powers trying to save their income from other capitalist imperialists, so there’s that. Minus the USSR (and maybe some others?)

The most pitiful nazi is the one lacking the spine to fully commit to or own the fact that they are indeed a fucking nazi.

OIP, the Belgian subsidiary of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

yes, very sad. Anyway.

Also kinda urelated but there’s a weird point about the protesters being women because of behavior and how they wield the hammers, because women are girly and men are manly ig

yeah i hear you, and think you’re right. still ain’t gonna forgive her, just forget. and when she will inevitably appear in my spaces again (might be because this city is in actuality a fucking backwoods village) i’ll remember, and will choose not to forgive again! you only get about a thousand chances with me, 'cause i don’t tolerate shit. but once those are done you can consider your ass forfeit. and this person i am constantly referring to used up those thousand chances with me, and then some; i drew boundaries and she crossed them when it suited her. her type of help for a person lying on the ground was to kick them. the years i wasted dealing with that fuckwit kinda really fucked me up, but thankfully i now know not to forgive her.

irl i like to believe the best of people, can’t really help it, and that has lead me to problems in relationships. so like that, one shouldn’t forgive a person their infractions just because they cry.

I think I’ve seen this film before…

You both seem to be right. Needless levels of empathy should also be avoided in some sense. i want to believe in aliens though

tomato potato. and how do you know, hmm? do you divine the exact information on a case-by-case basis from animal bones and cryptic symbolism in your dreams for every non-socialist on whether they are stupid or willfully blind? i often find myself making such grand generalizations, while being myself willfully blind to the stupidity of such endevours.

cope is a hell of a drug.

what to do when all the propaganda we’ve all been spoonfed since birth turns out to be false?

how will any one respond when everything we knew in our hearts to be true isn’t?

will we change our views?

or will we remain as footnotes on a postcard from nowhere, as staunch nazi apologists and supporters of capitalist imperialism and subjugation globally?

time will tell for each.

The Institution proudly stands with Israel as a racist, neonazi oppressor of the already downtrodden. Any voiced disputes against this stance The Institution takes from members of The Institution will not be allowed, and will be consequently punished as evidenced by these 5 members specifically.

In that way.

No problem at all, I actually like the feeling I get from sharing what has helped me in the past. And especially so if I get validation that my way of communicating those points comes across clearly and resonates with those who hear it. So thank you. And indeed, while DBT is absolutely not the most perfect form of therapy for everyone ever and has many valid criticisms (especially when its implementation on Borderline Personality Disorder is combined with the fact that unreasonably many autistic people – of which an even more unreasonable percentage are women – are being misdiagnosed as BPD, and that having such a diagnosis is and will be a stigma causing further hindrance in actually getting across your own opinion of being autistic to those in their ivory towers), it has many ideas and ways of implementing those ideas (what to do when and how to deal with feeling down or negative emotions?) that should be taught to children in early childhood (preferably by a primary caregiver) globally. Or at least that is where all my problems in my personal life have arisen: I have strong emotions, but no-one ever told me what to do when they come, so I did what everyone in my country had done since at least the last war: engage in harmful behavior with alcohol and other substances.

Ah, you were embraced by the touch of the 'tism since before birth also? Same here, same here. And yes, I hear you. If I could I would make the universe as I see fit; just and good, and so nothing would ever have to change again. But that’s not possible now, is it? So all we can do is accept this state of existence, and embrace the world and all living things in it (except the intolerant) with all its inherent contradictions and illogicality. But I get you with the “sticky thoughts”, and I find it a valid concern when speaking of like work and income stuff on a broader sociological scope. There’s a fine line, though, between having a valid concern for the future of yourself and your family and other close people, and needlessly ruminating on things beyond your comprehension.

It said “many media outlets, individuals and other community stakeholders initially understood [the letter] to be a statement of the board”.

Its code of conduct required deputies not to misrepresent the position of the board and not to bring the institution into disrepute, it added.

The investigative panel unanimously found the 36 signatories to be in breach of the code.

THE HOLY STATE OF ISRAEL and its HOLIEST WAR against the unwashed, disgusting subhuman vermin that just incidentally happened to have been living there already in 1948 when the state was formed SHALL NOT BE DISPARAGED. Thus this board finds any objection to this cleansing to be out of line, and will send a sternly worded letter to 31 of the 36, while choosing 5 at random to suspend in order to make examples of. DEUS VULT, GOTT MIT UNS etc etc

I love it, the capitalists can’t win even in their own game!

Well yeah, most likely that. I want to believe that there are some politicians and city officials and such who are just too stupid to realize the problems with capitalism. I just don’t wanna think bad of all my fellow humans, you know. That style of useless universal misanthropy is so 2008-2011 thinking for me personally.