Mollweide is a very close second favourite for me so maybe I’ll change my mind

Goode homolosine?

Gall Peters is ugly as hell, it’s possible to have a map with less distortion at the poles without it looking like this abomination. Winkel tripel forever

I don’t post about the USSR for Stalin, I post about the USSR for the based Georgian boomer who says Stalin killed your grandpa for a good reason

Idk but it made me laugh too

Absolutely. Even if you don’t care about the consequences of gambling itself, it should still be illegal just for how completely it destroys the integrity of sports.

Something I like to make when I’m feeling lazy is rice topped with a fried egg, green onions, and soy sauce. If you make lots of rice and store it in the fridge then you just have to fry an egg and chop some onions. Surprisingly tasty for the effort it requires.

RAISE THE SHIELD WALL NOBLE ONES

Two things which I have found effective are mindfulness and action. These two things are useful in different contexts of feeling fear. I find mindfulness to be useful with big picture types of fear, the sort of stuff you lay awake in bed late at night thinking about. Climate change, fascism, existential dread. It’s far easier said than done, but practicing being in the present moment instead of dwelling on things in the future and past which are largely out of your control is incredibly valuable and something I think everyone should do. And it is a skill, practicing it will make you better at it. Meditation is very useful for this. Action on the other hand is something I find more useful for specific fear, fear caused by a particular event, situation, thing, etc. Think public speaking, introducing yourself to someone, standing up for yourself, etc. Once again this is a lot easier said than done, but you kinda have to just do it. Like mindfulness this is a skill that also gets easier with practice. A phrase which I have found really helpful (shoutout to Dave from Shoeless in South Dakota) is “you don’t think your way into acting differently, you act your way into thinking differently”. I find that if I wait to feel like doing something I’m afraid of, I’ll never feel like doing it, but if I simply do it, I’ll realize that I had nothing to fear, or if I did, then it’s something I can handle. This makes sense in a way. We know as materialists that ideas don’t shape and change history, material things and actions do. Why would it be any different on a personal level?

I hope this was a bit helpful and that you can conquer your fears soon. Also don’t ever blame yourself. I think self compassion and acceptance that you’ll fail sometimes is incredibly important in the whole process of facing fear and anxiety as well. Like lots of other things, this is something meditation has helped me with too. Good luck comrade

Bluey is problematic because it’s causing children to adopt the barbaric australian dialect.

He legit just has terrible ultra left politics. I can’t remember which video it was in, but I do remember him once saying something along the lines of there being no point in trying to organize at all in the imperial core countries and if you’re a leftist there you should just like move to Palestine or Yemen and join Hamas or Ansar Allah.

Yeah, even with other ND people there’s so much misunderstanding, you just kinda have to keep that shit to yourself. It sucks.

Even 69 Xi bucks doesn’t go very far in this economy

Just wanted to say you aren’t alone friend, and that getting better is possible. One resource I have found really helpful and would recommend is Everyday Mindfulness for OCD by Jon Hershfield and Shala Nicely. If you DM me I can send you the PDF.

Genuinely and in good faith can you explain this perspective to me? Please don’t tell me to read theory, I have. I know that imperialism is not simply military action, but is monopoly capitalism and the export of finance capital. Russian mining companies like Severstal and Rusal own facilities throughout Central Asia and Africa. Do you dispute Lenin’s definition of imperialism, or think I misunderstand it? Please help me to understand this perspective. Education is necessary for self criticism.

I certainly don’t blame them for that either, and I was perhaps too harsh in my first comment. I just get annoyed by the number of communists I see who heap praise upon a society whose own government admits is capitalist.

The way people on here glaze the PRC for standing in solidarity with Hindutva fascists and imperialist warmongers is gonna turn me into a Maoist

If you like weird fiction China Miéville is a great author, especially since he’s a commie there’s a lot of good politics in his books.

Check out military history for anti-fascist reading???

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