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The texture and smell is the issue for me. Love fish and love pickles, separately.:D
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Pickled fish, omg.
Back in my day in my country where the fashy values were never too far from the surface, the idea of education included the fun times of having to eat or at least taste everything on offer at school lunch.
My elementary school did pickled fucking herring, the kind where the fish is all red and slimy. And we all had to eat one fillet or throw up trying. They lined us up and watched that we all take one piece and eat it. It scarred me for life.
Some people apparently love that stuff, with new potatoes or whatever. I personally won't be in the same room with an open jar of that nastiness.
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Gas stoves never really got popular where I live. Been cooking on a electric stove all my life, not induction. Have had to use a gas stove in cabin conditions and the chance of accidentally leaving the gas on and such always freaks me out. Also I dislike having to fiddle with the flame, electric is far more predictable.
Have raised a family aka cooked a lot for a few decades with an old school electric stove just fine, have also worked in kitchens and bakeries that had similar stoves. Very much a cooking person myself.
I think it's just what you get used to.
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I will say that nutrition as a science has a lot of problems that it is just now starting to come to terms with. Some examples.
I would argue that food is inherently political and has been turned into a moral issue. A comment saying it isn't, is not historically accurate in my opinion. Looking at how food choice has been framed and constructed in the USA alone clearly shows this.
We have also learnt to rely on expert knowledge to decide what is and isn't good to eat, this is how neoliberal expert systems work. We have taken it upon ourselves to manage and control this self-centered project and we feel good about ourselves when we choose "correct foods" as dictated by the system. These are not set in stone, modern examples of how would be discourses around saturated fats and carbohydrates.
All and all this is a huge discussion with several layers from medicalization to the framing of fatness that would require a lot more backgroung information, so it doesn't translate well to a comment on an internet forum.
I still recommend for example this book to investigate this futher: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469626475/modern-food-moral-food/
Sorry that I don't have alternative links to these.
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I think it was exactly the difficulty and Lara sometimes ending up inside a wall. It gave me such pleasure when I got all the jumps down and could progress through a level in this glorious smooth flow. It took a lot of perfecting. All of the jumps have a spesific amount of movements and steps that need to be done to do them perfectly.
I also just really really loved the music, the ambience. Nothing got the blood pumping better then the wolves and he music in the first level for example, it was that sense of her being in those places all alone. It was epic to me. The zombie stuff in the last levels gave my little brother nightmares, the sounds were so creepy and the sense of fear so real. And the puzzles were so hard, it was amazing.
So it was all about the adventure for me really.
But I am of the nes generation, I really hated when they moved to the analog controller, I stopped playing after that. I was so good at gran turismo and tekken 2 as well, on the cross-controller. Oh and Crash Bandicoot.💗
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Absolutely the best idea. Community kitchens also used to be a thing, people would use communal resources to get their needs met.
This is the future I want to live in and one I know would also be safe for my disabled comrades for example. 
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I'm going to push back against this just a little bit because I see this sentiment a lot on Hexbear where food choice is equated with health with no investigation. This is still neoliberalism. And it's oversimplified. There is still a call for individual responsibility there, but it's masked as "good for the revolutionary cause". This also repeats in exercise and other self-betterment discussions here.
A carrot becomes processed when it's chopped and cooked. It's perfectly fine to eat still, no matter who does the cooking. Things that are fermented are very processed etc., but I bet most people call those healthy. So using that word and calling everything processed bad and worse the more it is processed isn't accurate. It does smell of healthism and food elitism. Health and healthy are moving targets and can get loaded with othering and ableism when discussed in certain ways.
Of course the capitalist system maximises profit, but it does that on all levels, including farming. If it's the same carrots on a ready meal and in your own cooking, how is your cooking automatically "healthier". The same pesticides and microplastics are still there. I am simplifying this a lot to make a point. Point is the performing of neoliberal self-government and assigning value to material things to align them morally somehow. In the moralisation of ways of eating, home-cooked food is deemed superior, but this is a social construction like any other.
If we are talking about growing your own produce or buying from farmers markets that enters an area of such high privilege that the majority probably can't do that. Asking them to is also individualism.
There is a lot of putting the responsibility on the individual in this thread. Maybe we should instead talk about things like soviet meal plans in factories or how we could make the food system better for all comrades.
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Used to play WoW and as you could not escape discourse about this guy in the game, I recall that his mom was basically burnt alive at home while this guy was gaming in his lair, he was supposedly taking care of her.
What a disgusting piece of shit.
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Ah, Tomb Raider 1 was my absolutely fav game on the PS1 back in the day, I was so good at it too, did speedruns and everything.
It was so nice to finally get a gaming character I could relate to at least a little bit, but man the boobs and the sexualization annoyed me from day one. The new cartoon Lara looks so cool, happy for all those like me that are young now and get to relate to something that looks a lot more normal than this character ever did before. It's ridiculous to me that Angelina Jolie had to wear implants to size up to Lara in the movies, if memory serves me right that is.
Have the gamers ever considered that girls play these games too?
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I'm not sure if it's my place to feel any way about this, because it really isn't my business. I would also like someone to define this "slop"? Honestly microwaved meals at least where I am are perfectly ok basic food, there is nothing wrong with them.
I'm also going to question if people that "refuse to eat anything but slop" actually meaningfully exist. Every person on a more restricted diet I have ever met has had some reason for it, like my kid who is ADHD and never was able to eat all that much variety even though it was on offer.
There is a lot of elitism around food tbh and many foods that are "slop" to some are just food to others. There are also people who are sensitive in ways that only allow somewhat restricted diets. Then there is depression, alienation and other pretty big things that probably play a role in how motivated people are to cook for themselves. Stress, disability, age, being overworked and so on.
Also some people can't cook, maybe nobody taught them or maybe they just don't care about food that much, which imo is fine. In this day and age we can buy perfectly ok ready meals, so is this really a problem if somebody chooses to do that?
There are also differences in access to produce depending on where you are in the world.
There are also a lot of racist brainworms around food that often show up in the whole foods eating circles so I would also consider that when putting value judgements to foods. Maybe not do that at all?
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Wtf is wrong with these people?
Why would you take actual time of your actual life to pay attention to the arms of a made up character. Who looks at other people like this? I have never ever understood any of this, but I find it vile that these people go around rating women, even made up women, all day long and this is supposedly an ok behaviour in the world. How is this ok in the mainstream?
Who the f circles things on a cartoon character that looks completely just normal to point out "manly bits". Like they have had to stop and think about this.
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I always had a good feeling about this one based just on the genuinity and sincerity I read from her and her argumentation, hoping I won't be proved wrong in the long run.
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Gretas character arc has been the most beautiful example of neurospicy intellectual inquiry and honesty, it makes me feel so happy and also seen.
She grew up seeing the planet burn, tried the bourgeoisie okeyed ways of protest etc., it didn't work. Came to the logical conclusion that libs can't get to and I think her neurotype explains some of it. A great role model, a great human all round. 
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Oh I am sorry, thanks for the heads up. It isn't meant to come out in that sort of special way. More in the way I'd say something like this in my own language.
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What level of liberal brainrot is this idea that Germans, after being the worst of humanity, now somehow inherently have this magical quality of knowing what anti-semitism is.
Oh yes, look at me, a Finn. I automatically know what anti-semitism is because my country sided with the fucking nazis too. Ffs.
The witty one liner arguments are a just always so dumb, it's actually getting boring.
-Edited a badly phrased bit.
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I don't take stimulants and don't plan to, because I am of the mind that enforced neuronormativity is oppression and I don't see the way forward to be making the oppressed like the majority.
But for doing this I have the privilege of working from home in the mornings and many other structural things that help me, like a partner who is unemployed and aids me in being a functioning worker. We have made a deal on this, he washes the dishes and I work. We are both neurospicy and so is our kid. I did study again to get here, because I could not do the type of work I previously did anymore. I have also accepted that I just can't expect myself to live like the majority does, so these days I lean into that difference and try to embrace it.
I have also developed countless toxic mechanisms of masking after living into late adulthood as an undiagnosed audhd woman and have a few burn outs behind me. These probably "help", but also drain me.
I have stripped all things I don't actually have energy to do from my life. I am still in the process of figuring out what I actually like and don't like. I rest so much more. I am learning my triggers and things that drain me. We had a workplace outing day on Friday that is supposed to invigorate us, this has cost me until today, I am still very very spent from it. In the past I might have ignored this tiredness and pushed myself to do stuff because weekend.
I try to keep my day to day as simple as possible. We often cook a big batch of food for days for example. I energy save from most things.
I have accepted that I can focus well on just one thing. I no longer try to do all the things at once. I do everything mandatory right away, because I know if I don't I will forget it and the ADHD-tax happens. If I absolutely can't do a thing right away, I write it down somewhere where I cannot miss it, but this already raises the chances of forgetting it a lot. I always try to stay on top of my work email because of this, I can't let it get out if hand. I pay a bill the moment it comes if I can. These took me decades to get down. This way I don't have to try and carry the things in my memory which often fails and drains me plus makes me anxious.
I try to accept that I can't control this fully. I keep in mind the structural issues of neuronormativity and tell myself that in this environment functioning is made really hard for us and that it definitely is socially constructed, we are no worse than anybody else.
Sometimes my systems fail me, but I still see these as ways of trying to make things as easy for myself as possible. I don't try to force myself into habits and into becoming neurotypical anymore because I can't get there. It's just a road to self-blame and frustration. I try to work with what I got and lean into the different temporality and way of life instead.
I am unlearning things I previously did just because "you should do this" too. I have also ended up learning a lot of good coping mechanisms that work for me over the years just by living my life, like exercise and music. I use a lot of environmental help in getting stuff done that motivate me. Things that others might call hedonism: If I have to read for an exam, I light a candle and put on brain rewarding music, brew myself a nice caffeinated thing to get it going for example. It doesn't always work, but often it does. It's good enough.
Sometimes I just procrastine on purpose and wait for the drive to do a thing to kick in, because I now know how I work. I am learning to trust my different way of doing stuff. If a particularly boring task requires three hours of idling in the inertia or procrastination, I allow it. Sometimes I can't do anything and I have tried to learn that when this happens, I probably need to let it and just let my brain idle and browse hexbear. It usually means I need the rest. I don't see the idling and procrastination as negatives anymore, but as parts of the different process of doing stuff I have. Because when I do stuff, it happens very fast. Probably ending up being just as "effective" as the neurotypical way.
I still sometimes grief the way I can never probably achieve "my full potential" because I just don't have enough spoons for it. But at the same time I try to learn to appreciate the at least 15 careers and skills my neurotype has already taught me that I am actually very good at. I try to remember that the image of a motivated and driven "normal" person is scewed and manufactured by neoliberalism. Nobody has it that easy.
I use to do lists and put things in the same places, I only own a controllable amount of clothes that don't need ironing ever, there are a lot of these little big things I do that I have just learnt over the years and by having to parent a human into adulthood, which was doable for me.
Before I knew these were adhd things, I just thought they were "quirks" that I have.
My point I suppose is that I think it is possible to do just fine without the meds, but as long as we live in a word of neuronormativity, it takes a lot of work that we shouldn't have to do. But by being kind to ourselves and giving ourselves a break I think we can at least cope.
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Oh lord, this must be a Finn again...
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This seems to be the play, after all they seem very interested in "an access to the Arctic". The fash here really learned nothing from the nazis burning Lapland as they left.
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One of my favourite lecturers, a seasoned older lady who was very active politically in the 70s just quoted Fanon and is talking a lot about solidarity in the uni lecture I am attending right now.
Love to see it!
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Thank you for your answer, it is very kind. I know you didn't ask for sympathy, but you have mine.
This is a rant. I shit you not my lib family member is now doing a PSA on the importance of getting the flu shot in our family chat, because there is a medically vulnerable over 65 year old in the family. And this would be fine if this wasn't the same person who brought themselves and their family to a family gathering in August with an active covid infection and this over 65 year old vulnerable person was in this same party, just recovering from a long course of IV antibiotics! They gave covid to me, my partner (who is also medically vulnerable two times over now, thanks to covid) and my brother (who just got a sleep apnea diagnosis a week ago). Good times! I mean I am all for flu shots, but this is just... I don't know what this is.
Went both looking for fellow tankies and seeing who I should be blocking on Mastodon by looking at the hashtag #tankies. It gave me brain damage and I also found a few of these "lemmy is made by tankies, ewww can't use it"-posts that I had never seen before. So sharing these for our mutual enjoyment:   Also just the general vibe of the posts with this tag is just so hostile. We really live rent free in these peoples heads. Interesting how so many of these were ukraine flag or isntreal flag profiles too, also a few anne applebaum replies, because of course. The vibe is pretty much whatever this drivel is by a true communism understander: 
I am in my postcovid phase again. This is the third or fourth time and every time I've lost more of my overall health. The first time was the worst and longest, ended up in the hospital that time. After the Omicron one I developed plantar fasciitis and pains so bad that my running and jumping has ended for good. There's been so many weird issues, even teeth breaking. Also flared up my sciatica that has been fine for a decade or more. But the thing that disables me the most is the nausea and gagging, the GI stuff and POTS I get from it. And it's back again. This time no bad coughing and thankfully not too much mental stuff, but oh man the heart/GI symptoms suck! I spend months gagging on the side of the road when leaving for work after I get it every damn time. It is always worse in the morning and I was just rid of it when I got infected again by my "living like it's 2019" family, for the second time within a year. I am four weeks in this time and I have a high pounding heartrate after eating and on standing up, some nights I wake up to my heart pounding. Also very hightened stress response, feels like I am just wired all the time. This has happened to me every time, the first time it even gave me the worst panic attacks ever that came fully out of nowhere, it was wild and felt 100% physical. Oh and interesting new pain stuff along with the foot and joint pains: Yesterday I did a bit of foam rolling to my back and neck to see if it might help with the nausea ans stress. I have done this for years with no issue. Today I feel like someone rolled over my spine with a truck. It's like my entire back is inflamed. This post covid inflammation is hell. I wonder if I'll still make it, if my heart will. Just a bit of rant, I am just scared and tired of this. My life is pretty good atm otherwise, I finally would have steady work and income after decades of poverty, I even like my work. Life is more secure and I am just happpier because I know I am audh now and have gotten rid of a lot of brainworms. But this virus feels like it will end me and it feels like there is nothing whatsoever I can do to truly prevent this. We are and have been very cautious, but extended family keeps bringing it to us or we are forced to get it from work/studies. I am not sure my body can keep rolling this dice even once anymore. And we can't even get boosters here, they just aren't available to us. My partner who was high risk to begin with has developed diabetes after the infection we got for Christmas 2023. And after this time he is just very very brain foggy and has been irritable, not at all himself. I don't know what I'd do if I lost him to this.
www.tax-the-rich.eu
For the people who still believe the EU is anything more than an union for the interest of capital they have now put up this site as a promise of maybe possibly considering taxing the rich if we just sign a petition. This is European "democracy". Many of these peoples petitions have been implemented so they can say there are mechanisms of straight democracy, but in reality these rarely impact anything. I find it patricularly ghoulish that it is the economic union itself promoting this petition, it's the same playbook as in all the environmental things. Gives people false hope and an image that something is being done when in fact nothing will change. But a few more years of status quo is secured with things like these.
I posted after Christmas on how my "it's just a cold" wing of the family came to Christmas dinner sick and gave my partner and me covid. My partner was almost hospitalized and developed type 2 diabetes after. I spent months almost throwing up every time I started to move more, daily nausea and GI issues and lots of back and joint pain. Also palpitations and brachycardia, so much shit. My partner just got his fitness back up so he was able to run his beloved easy 5k runs again and I was rid of the nausea and pain mostly. Doing stairs at work without feeling like death and winded after felt pretty good. We were so happy about this, just talked about it last week. That we might get our lives back, one more time. We have been down the covid/postcovid road too many times now. Then we had a birthday party last weekend for my family. My dad has just been on an IV antibiotic and he was also there. I thought beforehand that surely nobody comes sick this time because our dad and surely Christmas was a lesson. But nope, the "you ruin our vibes if you mention covid"-team came to the party with illness in the family. One of their voices sounded off/congested and I was like, oh no. I didn't dare ask because last time I did, I got yelled at. Today, two days after this party my partner gets a sore throat. By evening he has a 39 C fever that isn't responding to otc meds and red bloodshot eyes. We do a test, it's covid.
Been seeing "Finland has eradicated homelesness" posts a lot from typically "socialism is when the government does stuff"-leftists or some AmeriKKKan Bernie lib and it has become such an angering thing for me. It is all neoliberal country branding. That is all it is. Our shitty pseudo-leftist nato loving "modern left" party has gone around flexing about their progressive housing program. The party has no power, zero. It means nothing. I work with homeless people, in Finland. Where almost all housing has been privatized. Where the state support has been cut to a level no poor person can meet. If ones rent goes over this state mandated limit, people are forced to move. This leads to movement into rural areas where there is no work or services, factually creating segregation. If you have a mark on your credit, nobody rents to you. I spend my time trying to house these people and every time I see this meme/info floated on the internet I become more annoyed. The next time anyone goes "oh look at that socialist finland eradicating homelessness" you can say that this neoliberal austerity hell has nothing whatsoever to do with socialism, never really did and they definitely have not eradicated anything.
Early autumn loot is really getting started where I live. Chantarelles have been abundant for weeks now and these guys are just now starting to surface, about three weeks earlier than last year. And looking at how much small ones there were, it's going to be an epic year for mushroom drying. This truly is the poor mans truffle.
This is just next level. I too always like it when I get to choose who oppresses me, makes it feel so much better./s (No links, because not sure how big or small of an account this Harris lib has. Screenshotted from Mastodon.)
Ffs been listening to the yelling of a pathetic little nazi next door for over a year now at least two nights a week. As I sit here on my couch on a Friday, brain fried from work, this fucking guy just yells his hate into the void and never shuts up! It's like an endless rant from this poor mans Alex Jones that is just constant. He hollers and yells about "the immigrants" endlessly. Last week he did this shit with his window open so I recorded it. Went on an on about how he sure lives on welfare, but HE has a right to it because in his mind welfare is for WHITE PEOPLE. And he makes sure to constantly mention how immigrants are all rapists etc. How they all came hear to steal jobs. Also thinks Trump is amazing. And we aren't even in AmeriKKKa. It's vile, constant, disgusting hate speech and this is like max a 20 year old guy who has never held a job and yet lives in good housing, has a car and is secure, meanwhile the people I work with are homeless while driving doordash for shitheads like him. I cannot find in me any solidarity for this person whatsoever, I have tried. He proudly proclaimes how he doesn't even want to work and how the benefits he gets are too small because of, you guessed it, immigrants. He hates women and queers deeply too and I know all this because I get to enjoy this show every single week, several nights a week. This loser does not shut up even for a second, who the f listens to that!? Somebody clearly does. There is no point in reporting this anywhere either, because the only place I can do that to is the cops who are fash and basically agree with this asshole. Isn't it funny how the place that should handle hate speech is the literal fash central itself, such nordic country justice... I have made like ten complaints to our housing manager, this is social housing. It has done nothing. I am at the point where I want to go do something stupid and I just need to vent. I can't with the hate this guy is spewing, it's unreal. It scares me, it makes me so incredible angry and most of of all it makes me feel entirely helpless because there is nothing and no-one left who would care or do something to stop this. His views are basically the popular position now and it is making me panic. And I can't confront a guy who talks about killing people. I am not brave enough for that. I don't know what to do. All I know is that when the snow comes I will write NAZI on his shit car every day when I walk past it.
chuangcn.org
Saw this posted online. It's uhm, very interesting. Also uses the word "tankie". Found info of a New York based ngo from the site, but anyone know what this is about?
I don't even know how to start unpacking this, but I just need to vent about it. I am late self-diagnosed audhd afab, gen X who has learnt a lot of unhealthy hustle culture and looking busy brainworms over the years. Been down the burnout path a few times too before I realized my neurotype around 2020. I am currently working in a client facing, but also laptop touching position where I am constantly "out of work". I am always on top of the things I should do, because I always do them right away or otherwise I know I would forget them. I have constant "impostor syndrome" and question myself on whether I am doing enough, because I always end up with all this downtime. The work has no set structure and we very much manage ourselves. I have secretly compared my calender to my coworkers and I tend to have more client appointments than most, yet for example this week I have just been bored out of my mind for days. And questioning if I am somehow doing this wrong. I am having a remote day today and am just here posting. I don't know why I feel weird about it when rationally I know that I very much earn my wage and just do the work differently than others. I for example write very fast. And solve things very fast. But my question remains, do neurotypicals just fake it? Or do they think they are busy all the time? I for one do a lot of remote work and at the office I introvert it. I am always about the work, not socializing much, so my worktime never goes to those things. I eat at my desk while I work too, I tried the neurotypical style of taking breaks, but it just doesn't work for me mid-task. My breaks are the bus drives to clients houses or slacking in the morning pretending to be online in Teams. But I am having to do a lot of pretending and I think that is the part that is draining me. I actually really like my work and am probably pretty good at it, but this keeping up appearances stuff is exhausting and causes all kinds of self doubt. I did teaching previously and the daily structure in it with the shorter day was a lot easier to handle. But I can't find things to do for eight hours in my current work. And I know nobody works eight hours in the office, but why is the pretend so hard for me? I feel weird listening to audiobooks in my worktime and I want to stop feeling that way, but I think it's the autistic lawful good that makes me feel kind of bad about it.
So, I haven't done much travelling in my life because been poor, but am now in a position to maybe plan a trip for myself and my partner. To China is where we would love to go. I love train travel and dislike flying, did not enjoy the one trip over the Atlantic I have been on, so I was thinking about taking the trans-Siberia train to Peking, but it looks like I can't actually get to it now from Finland. I also don't really want to fly for climate reasons. There used to be a train straight to Moscow from Helsinki, but the warmongering started and now there is nothing. Also I keep getting 404s when searching for flights to Russia, the flight to Moscow to get to the train wouldn't be so bad. Is it really not possible to go do this train trip from Europe atm? Anybody know? Been searching the internet and there is very little info on this or other train access to China from Europe. I found freight trains. I am one of those who is both adventurous and seeks planned things at the same time, so would have to have a good premade plan and bookings for the trip. I was thinking we could do the highspeed rail in China to sort of travel across the country from Peking to Shanghai. Would be a month long thing at least, after I finish my masters and current work contract. But looks like it isn't easily doable.
It's all like this. I don't even understand where the stuff in this page is coming from, but "coercion and violence of communist rule" is once again just thrown in there. Also this book seems to really be looking down on the working class from my reading, although I suppose it tries to highlight some issues. Not to mention all the discourse about social capital or other types of capital, but never actual capital. This also reads like a weird sort of celebration of neoliberalism as inevitable, but then again I am just so tired of reading stuff like this that I am probably not giving it much credit. Book is called "masculinity, labor and neoliberalism".
So what are your plans for May Day 2024? I am thinking we will go visit a Red memorial and watch the ceremony there, then maybe some marching and singing with comrades. 
Maybe it isn't about good/bad, maybe consider anti-imperialism? (An anarchist account from Masto that has quite the following so posting here, but without links.) Edit. Added a link to the thread because it keeps getting boosted to my timeline by Western "leftists" and I think it deserves to be dunked on.
The fuck this Timo guy saying? This reads like peak Jordan Peterson thought aka thoughts from a pseudointellectual bullshit generator.
Been thinking about the weird embracement of all the circular economy solutions by the capitalist class. This framing has enabled them to sell the same commodity many times over and then recycle it into even more commodities while maintaining an image of "being Green". Due to this the second hand market for things has become a lot less accessible and expensive. Also donations and giving out stuff you no longer need seems to be disappearing as a practise. This might also be because nothing we buy lasts more than a year anymore. This post is inspired by me trying to find a few rocks or pavement stones for our backyard that a few decades ago you could just go source from the dumb or some construction site. Now those places are reselling the trash and have barbed wired fences around them. Also feels like these systems have removed the slack aka maximized and optimized profit on food items, making the food given out to the poor and homeless disappear or become way too scarce.
Currently have covid, so does my partner, vaccinated and boosted as we can be in the country we are in. My partner is not doing so well. We got covid from my ultralib vaccinated relatives who bullheadedly want to do normal, whatever the cost. They announced the coughs they were sporting at the Christmas table were just "lingering symptoms from past colds". This as the background to a post I saw on social media today stating that someone had avoided their anti-vaxx relatives for five years and this year went to see them and got covid. Like that is the sole reason they got it. The comment section was full of libs lolling at the stupid anti-vaxxers and wishing well to this vaccinated hero that was sick. Not one mention of masks, of barriers to vaccination. Of the fact that to visit someone people sit in crowded planes unmasked without a care in the world, risking everyone who is immunocompromized for example. But yes, the anti-vaxxers are the only problem... (not saying it isn't a problem) All this made me think on how "vaccinated for covid" has turned into a kind of VOTE! Once that bit is done, the liberal mind can turn its attention back to all the important consuming and status maintenance it needs to sustain its relevance. And the blame of everything is handily placed on a new outgroup, one that gets stereotyped and Othered much the same way all forms of perceived deviance have. I mean has anyone been able to aid with the obvious trust issues that people have in institutions by ridiculing them? I don't know, the anti-vaxxer discourses have started to wear thin on me, just like the endless laughing at Trump supporters did. They seem to repeat a pattern that is just hard to overlook.
Just wow. Also dudes talking about the market, which isn't the same as capitalism afaik.
Don't really have a take. These ghouls are discovering the Fediverse it looks like.