What kind of weirdness? 🤔

Hi! I used to take way more Zoloft daily due to chronic anxiety. What helped me:

I kept going to the doctor and adjusting medication. Tried different meds, different dosages, until I found what worked for me.

My personal circumstances changed. I got transferred back to the city. My job at a rural school was gruesome, but I’ll spare the details.

I had a lot of support from my dear wife.

I started to get organised, first through my union. Working towards a goal with like-minded people helped me have a more positive outlook of the future.

I got diagnosed with autism. It helped us understand myself and my needs better.

Mindful meditation helped me a whole fucking lot. Almost like a magic spell.

I went to therapy.

Not all of those options will be available for you, but I hope something in there is helpful. All such personal anecdotes must be taken with a grain of salt. I still take 50 mg of Zoloft daily, but I’m okay with it.

I also started smoking weed, but I can’t say how much that is possibly helping or hindering my progress. It was instrumental for me quitting alcohol altogether, though, and I’ll be forever grateful for that.

Well just wait until you find out about mili then 🙏

Everything I said is true and you didn’t refute any of it.

When you order beef and the waiter brings chicken, you point out the mistake. When the waiter bites your nose, what do you do?

This is a leftist space. Debunking is something done in general forums, when you’re trying to inform the audience. No one here is gonna waste their precious time debunking any of that for the 100th time lol

You made me think of this short essay by my countryman Jones Manoel: Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture (2020)

I want to argue that there was no reason to recommend him before. Nothing will change my mind that Manufacturing Consent (1988) was written to distract from Inventing Reality (1986). Only one of those books has a dedicated Wikipedia page, and it’s not the one written by the communist.

Thank you, you’re always so helpful

Then surprisingly the greybeard lifted his gentle face and with perfect composure he made an astonishing remark. “Sha pu kou!” he said. “They don’t kill enough!” We both looked at him flabbergasted.

Lmao that’s amazing

Yep

Any particular reason to look for a replacement?

Thank you, I enjoyed reading it

Trying to register, but I can’t read a thing in Chinese :/

Thank you. I’ll definitely be reading it this year.

One of those texts cites Revolutionary Education: Theory and Practice for Socialist Organizers. Have you read that book too? What are your thought on it?

All hoxhaist parties are like that. I’m often disappointed with Unidade Popular pelo Socialismo here in Brazil, for the same reason. That said, they are not entirely useless either. They do a lot of organizing, including violent resistance at times. And they heavily promote reading classic marxist theory. I think it’s important for us to criticize the mistakes of their political line, but the name calling, shallow criticism I often see is not ✨ dialectical ✨ (and tbh they also do that a lot)

I don’t know a single thing about the American Party of Labor, though, except for procapra@lemmy.ml saying they are hoxhaists.

Copyright, patents, closed software, all of that are tools of the burgeoisie and should be (eventually) abolished.

I don’t know much about Rust, but from the discussion here, I get that it only has one compiler implementation and that it can’t be verified. So anything compiled with it is, technically, not fully verifiable. It doesn’t matter if the compiler I have on my computer is exactly the same as the one provided by the Rust devs (which is what checksums do), if the one provided by them is already tampered with.

Your technical prowess in seemingly unrelated topics never ceases to amaze me, comrade.

No problem. I hope I can finish the current list so as to be able to contribute at least with feedback.

Essentially, I think any revolutionary needs to actively train and prepare for revolution, not just simple organizing. I also want anyone to be able to follow this list, urban or rural, global south or global north, and take away core skills for self-sufficiency, community organizing, and better surviving the day to day both pre-revolution and during revolution.

Fucking yes, please! =D

I also liked the idea of having two lists. Like a first semester, second semester of college thing.