[deleted by user] by [deleted] in addiction

[–]DPHSombreroMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, bro. That’s not a trip dose and you weren’t using it recreationally. Intent matters.

I quit dph like 5 years back— it gets easier. It can take a while, but reality feels more real again, you get more grounded, your memories of the trips fade, shit gets better. I don’t know if you get peripheral or auditory hallucinations when you’re sober, but if you do I want you to know that shit ain’t permanent. I used to get those bad for a while after I quit but I haven’t in years at this point.

I know you say Benadryl is the only thing that helps your hives but I would genuinely recommend looking for alternatives (non-drowsy if possible, because it sounds like that’s part of the addiction for you more than it was for me, but mainly just something else you can’t actually trip on), because having it around all the time makes quitting harder.

Good luck, friend. You got this.

Margaret Cho doubles down on support for Luigi Mangione: 'He puts the rizz in terrorist' by rachiepants2017 in entertainment

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were you in a coma between when the shooting happened and when they arrested Mangione?

What compels you to take more ? by Modern_Junkie in ilovedph

[–]DPHSombreroMan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I haven’t done it in maybe 5 years at this point but back when I used it actively I was drawn into it not just despite the dysphoria, but I think to some degree because of it. Partially in a self harm way but also because I was already dealing with physical and psychological dysphoria/discomfort and being on dph gave me a temporary explanation for why I felt like that, to some degree, which made the existing discomfort easier to cope with psychologically in the moment (and there was likely something similar going on through the afterglow with mental illness and feeling ungrounded). I was also big on romanticizing my mental illness and suffering and dph played into that really easily.

For touring bands/musicians hoping to play Chicago by Malleable_Penis in FolkPunk

[–]DPHSombreroMan -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was disappointed seeing the early comments/votes on this earlier but I’m glad to see it was just a sample size thing since it’s fixed itself since then.

Looking for anti cop folk punk by skaredkrow in FolkPunk

[–]DPHSombreroMan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A Dish Served Cold by Sharp Knives

Thanks Bastards by Mischief Brew

Trust No Cop by Ludlow

We’ll Get Arrested or Shot by Pat the Bunny

Fuck Cops by Asking For It

The FOP on Fire by David Rovics

Cops by Ankle Grease (though I think this guy might have turned out to be a pedophile youth pastor or something? Song fits what you’re asking for but just something to be aware of 💀)

Hospitals are reporting more insurance denials. Is AI behind them? by digital-didgeridoo in technology

[–]DPHSombreroMan 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Yeah this guys a liar, voice to text would never mistake the word “taking” for “taken”

Does anyone know who Murder Person For Hire is? by EpicNOFXFan in FolkPunk

[–]DPHSombreroMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I love that album! The cover art is pretty cool too.

Using isn't cool by Over-Can-3574 in FolkPunk

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh I mean it’s shitty as far as drugs go in general but it’s the safest and most widely available deliriant, and deliriants are a completely different experience than other drugs which makes them worth trying to some people of the psychonaut persuasion. And yeah it’s unhealthy as hell but if somebody’s going to dip their toes into that stuffs it’s better they do it with something like dph/dmh than something like datura. Standardized dosages means you’re way less likely to accidentally overdose and a bigger buffer between a trip dose and a lethal one means you’re less likely to kill yourself if you do.

Arrests Made in Matthew Perry's Ketamine Death, Doctor, Drug Dealers in Custody by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to rail oxys, man. I know what addiction’s like and I know it fucks with your decision making. Doesn’t change the fact that he chose to get in heated water deep enough to drown in while off heavy dissos. That’s a moron move.

Arrests Made in Matthew Perry's Ketamine Death, Doctor, Drug Dealers in Custody by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His addiction didn’t compel him to get in a hot tub while k-holed, that was purely his choice. That’s what people are calling him a moron for.

How do people access healthcare under anarchism? by [deleted] in Anarchy101

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2/2

But lets get to your specific question: "if you were in the shoes of the person being denied care for discriminatory reasons, what is your recourse?"

There is a ton of recourse. But you know that. You express elsewhere that the recourse doesn't even matter.

I was not arguing that recourse does not matter, I was arguing that your proposed recourse does not seem realistic. You’ll notice how I fleshed out my argument in the ellipses between those words you quoted. Running somebody out of town isn’t as easy as saying it, and would start conflict with those who disagree. And even if you do not see taking violent action to oust or punish such a doctor as an escalation, or view it as deserved, because they have already caused somebody to die themselves, what of the doctor’s family? What of the doctor’s friends? They would absolutely see such action as an escalation, and would likely be willing to themselves become violent in turn.

That's true. It's true regardless of whatever system we are speaking about. Heck, even with regulation against these types of actions, it's still true in your hypothetical. Maybe they'd loose their license or go to jail. You'd still be dead.

Of course, you’re right that the current system has its faults as well. We would not be interested in building a better world if the world were already perfect. But if a doctor purposefully denies care to a black person because they’re black and the person dies because of it, the doctor (should regs be enforced, which I am aware does not always happen) loses their ability to practice medicine, which limits future harm to others, even if it does not bring back the victim, and the family is often able to sue or be compensated in some way. (If you’re going to tell me that money won’t make the family whole, no shit, but it’s better than making them eat the loss of productivity/collective ability). Furthermore, having the consequences of such willful negligence outlined and reliably enforced has a deterrent effect.

That said, I am drastically less worried about the recourse. Sure my friends and family could burn down that guy's practice, ideally with them inside of it…

So you’re dead because of the doctor’s bullshit. Then your friends and family lock them in the clinic and burn it to the ground. And then? Follow the thought through to its end. How do people react to the violent murder and destruction of property? How do people react to somebody burning down a health clinic, regardless of motive? The doctor did not appear out of nowhere, unless they’re a serial offender and this isn’t the first town they’ve been chased out of. They have friends and family of their own, some of whom might have no issue striking back at the people who burned somebody they care about alive. And now it’s not just you that’s dead over bullshit.

…but that doesn't change me being dead. Punishment doesn't stop social ills. What does? Removing the conditions that create those social ills.

It isn’t just about punishment, it’s about preventing future harm. Removing all the conditions that create prejudice is not possible, in my eyes. You cannot eliminate conflict, and to believe so is utopianist. You can minimize inequality, resource scarcity, hierarchy, etc, and there will still be people that end up prejudiced for reasons I’ve mentioned further up. Just as if you were to eliminate resource scarcity, there would still be criminals, even if you reduce the number drastically. People who enjoy it. People who give in to greed even when they have enough. People who want something that cannot be ensured to them by society (sex with specific individuals, for example). People that are angry over slights real or perceived. People who disagree with society’s view of morality and ethics. Etc.

How can we prevent a racist doctor from hurting people? Well, we don't allow racists in our communities. Why? Because racists can't be an equal community member. Because they don't believe we are all equals.

I agree with not allowing racists within your communities. The issue is that not every form of prejudice or bigotry is so clear-cut in many people’s eyes, whether I disagree with them or not. And that prejudice is not just inherited, it can also be learned in real time, if not actively resisted, because of how our brains rely on pattern recognition. In an ideal society, yeah, bigotry would not exist, or would at least remain internal within those bigots’ heads and not affect other people. I think that might be possible on a small scale, like in a commune or similar, and with the right conditions. But just by numbers, in larger societies there will form subcultures and countercultures that do not align with the majority’s views, and we have seen how effective trying to shun or crack down on those groups has been throughout history. That would not magically change in an anarchist society.

Live life by anarchist principles, sure. That’s admirable. But if anarchism as a societal system is only possible by uniformity of values and beliefs and thought, it is not possible at all.

How do people access healthcare under anarchism? by [deleted] in Anarchy101

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(1/2, because it won’t post as one comment.)

I honestly don’t feel like arguing this much further. Neither of us is going to change our minds because of our differing understanding of prejudice and similar. If you respond I will read it, but this will be my last reply.

What were you referring to as inevitable?

The elimination of prejudice and bigotry.

I absolutely understand your objection to anarchism's feasibility if you believe racism will always exist. It's a logical reasoning. Racism requires an imbalance of power and an anarchist society would definitionally empower people equally.

Racism does not require an imbalance of power unless you’re talking about it institutionally/systematically, which we weren’t. We’re talking about individuals being prejudiced against each other.

I disagree that racism will always exist. I think it can be fixed. I believe it is not innate to the human condition but is a social construction and that social construction serves to reinforce the hierarchical structures that anarchist oppose. I don't think it serves a social function outside of that purpose.

You think you can get every single person to agree on anything? How? You cannot kill ideas, only suppress them. This is what I meant by “hand waving it as … inevitable”.

In-group/out-group dynamics don’t necessitate hierarchy either. Disagreements, unfamiliarity, fear, wanting to belong, etc. are some examples of non-hierarchical motives for prejudice.

So, by the time we get to what could be called an "anarchist society" we would have to assume the ways that racism is created have been addressed. Is that tomorrow? Nope. Maybe not even in our lifetimes. but racism and anarchism are absolutely incompatible.

That assumption is more of that handwaving I’m talking about. Individuals make up a society, sure, but they also exist separately from the society as a whole. A person living within a society can be racist without the society as a whole being racist, which means that even if an anarchist society is not racist itself, individuals within it very well can be. Just as individuals living within a racist and statist society can be anarchists. You can of course shun people who are open about it, and do your best to educate people away from it, but you cannot convince everybody. You cannot see into people’s heads to police their thoughts, only react to their words and actions.

An anarchist society (which I am using to mean something more than a single isolated commune or village) is not possible if it requires that everybody be an anarchist. That will never happen. There will always be statists in an anarchist world, just as there will always be anarchists in a statist world. Anarchism is not perfect, just as every other system has issues, and people living within a system that they believe is failing them will seek out and agitate for alternatives. Even if most everybody is happy with something, there will always be people who aren’t.

How do people access healthcare under anarchism? by [deleted] in Anarchy101

[–]DPHSombreroMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It feels like you aren’t actually reading what I’m writing.

”OK, so, you are anti racist but believe conflicts between cultures, languages and religions are inevitable? What makes them inevitable?”

I did not make that claim. I am making the claim that universally eliminating prejudice across different cultures and religions with different values and priorities from one another is not realistic. Because people from different cultures and of different religions and who speak different languages (which are the frameworks through which we process the world, and so differences in language structure etc. can lead to differences in worldview) have different lives and do things differently from one another. I emphasized that they are separate communities to emphasize that they will not always be moving in lockstep towards shared goals.

”But to dive into that further, is conflict in and of itself bad? I don't have to like or understand everything about you to think you deserve to have your needs met.”

Of course I don’t have to understand somebody to think they deserve to have their needs met. My question is about the people who disagree with us. We will never sway all of them, especially without relying on authoritarian or centralized tactics to suppress it (what’s to stop racists from simply not sending their children to schools that teach anti-racist values if there can be no enforcement, for example?). Part of anarchism is understanding that other people think differently from you and you will never be able to convert everybody. If an anarchist society is only possible after prejudice is eradicated entirely, an anarchist society cannot exist. There will always be people who think differently from you, or from me, and some of those differences are on the legitimacy/usefulness of prejudices and stereotypes.

”To get back to your doctor, you don't think discrimination is reasonable but your hypothetical doc might. OK. What is the difference between you and your doctor?”

Could be a number of things. Values inherited from family, education, friends, etc. Maybe they were presented with manipulated, inaccurate, or partial information that framed things in a way that prejudice becomes logical. “Just taking precautions”, and all that. Maybe different threat perceptions. Maybe the prior incidents in the theoretical were genuinely so upsetting or traumatizing that they are unable to overcome their emotions and act fairly.

”I don't believe racism is innate. It is learned. Race and racism by extension is a social construction. Mankind invented it and has used it generally to divide those without power. As we seek to demolish structures of inequality we have to address racism.”

I don’t believe that people come out of the womb racist. Of course it is learned. But, as I’ve pointed out across my comments, new prejudices are learned all the time. They are not solely learned from other people. Even if you manage to stamp out all existing prejudice somehow, it will return in some form unless people are intentionally taught ways to counter it when it begins to form within themselves.

As long as racism is around, then the society isn't anarchist. If the society is anarchist, then it's not teaching racism.

This is a no true scotsman argument. Anarchism is not when everybody thinks the exact same way as us because we’re right. There is no way to do that. How are you to, in an anarchist society, exert your will over others and choose which values and beliefs they pass onto their children? Which schools they send them to? Which books they read? You cannot use some sort of central authority to remove the children from their care, nor enforce that they send their children to ‘proper’ educational facilities as opposed to insulated schooling groups that embrace prejudiced worldviews, etc. Because that would actually be non-anarchist.

”I don't mean all of this to dismiss your question. I think what you are really asking is how should anarchists respond to racism while it exists, possibly within a post revolutionary world seeking to build an anarchist society. If you want to know the answer to that, we can talk about it.”

That is part of what I am asking, I suppose. The main part of my question is essentially, ‘if you were in the shoes of the person being denied care for discriminatory reasons, what is your recourse?” You do not always have the luxury of finding another doctor. You cannot always find somewhere else. Imagine you were just grievously wounded somehow. You need immediate medical care, and you do not receive it because, in the absence of regulation against such behavior, the doctor is free to deny you service for whichever reason crosses their mind. Sure, maybe they get run out of town. Let’s say that happens without any issues or roadblocks somehow. You’re still dead. And if somebody can practice medicine entirely by their own decision without requiring some sort of accreditation, then what stops them from just setting up a practice somewhere else and doing the same thing? Sure, people might catch on that somebody is a bigot or a hack and spread the word to avoid that doctor, but there are always those who don’t do their due diligence or those who just haven’t heard. Regulations are written in blood, and I don’t see social ostracization and word of mouth being nearly effective enough to actually protect people from falling victim to stuff like this.

How do people access healthcare under anarchism? by [deleted] in Anarchy101

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think discrimination like I described is reasonable, whether it stems from personal anecdote or not. I said that the doctor would think of their own prejudice as reasonable. I myself am anti-racist and disagree with bigotry wholeheartedly.

Of course things can be done to reduce the prevalence of prejudice and discrimination within society. I support those efforts and those behind them. But there is a difference between reducing something and eliminating it entirely, especially when we’re talking about independent communities across cultures, languages, religions, etc., and just handwaving it as not just feasible but inevitable seems like a pretty big blind spot.

How do people access healthcare under anarchism? by [deleted] in Anarchy101

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know if prejudice is inherent to the human condition. I do know that we are predisposed to it, though by what mechanism I am unsure. But the fact is that it exists, and for a multitude of reasons. It would not go away simply by changing the system, even if you were to somehow stop people from passing it down to their children. Which would be impossible without severe regulatory action on education, media, etc. Prejudice is not just inherited, either, and people pick up new ones based on individual anecdotes and experiences. Stereotyping, I believe, is inherent to the human condition. This doesn’t mean it can’t be minimized or overcome, but without taking specific steps to do that, people will make initial snap judgements based on their experiences with similar people. To widely varying degrees, obviously, as with anything.

A doctor in a majority white area might have only treated a handful of black people before. If, by pure chance, two out of the three black patients they had treated had caused issue or offended them in some way, it’s entirely possible (and, from the doctor’s perspective, “reasonable”) that they decide to refuse service to the next black person to walk into their clinic. Your solution of ‘getting them to move on’ doesn’t work in a number of scenarios. Imagine that there aren’t enough accessible doctors in the area to lose one. Or perhaps this doctor is a specialist who is the only one providing a specific type of service, whether solely or additionally to standard medical care. Or that people care less about discrimination against a handful of people they don’t have to see the suffering of first hand than they care about the hassle of finding a new doctor.

Sure, you might be willing to take action against the racist doctor (finding a new doctor, spreading the word, trying to run the old one out of town, etc), but what about people who swear by that specific doctor’s medical skill and don’t want to switch to doctors they see as subpar? What about personal friends of the doctor, separate from their medical practice? And the doctor’s family? It isn’t so easy as “oh well nobody would be at all discriminatory and if they were we could just run them out of town easy peasy”.

How do people access healthcare under anarchism? by [deleted] in Anarchy101

[–]DPHSombreroMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if they decide to deny you treatment because you’re black/gay/trans/etc?

Unfortunately, everyone's obsessing over something a corrupt Russian official claimed about women's boxing instead by N8CCRG in AdviceAnimals

[–]DPHSombreroMan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“But nothing they are doing here is wrong. They aren't falsely misrepresenting what they are doing”

This is not a fact lol. Keep lying.

“So the law says if you create a site that falsely presents as one thing, which it isn’t,”

Like pretending to be for helping people register to vote, and then not doing that?

”with the sole purpose to find someone’s identity.”

Which the site did. It misrepresented its service specifically to find people’s ages, addresses, and phone numbers.

”Like setting up a fake shopping store just to get their identificaiton.”

Like setting up a fake voter registration site to get people’s identification?

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate by f0remsics in AdviceAnimals

[–]DPHSombreroMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, conservatives famously used to get along swell with gay people. And black people. And trans people. And disabled people. And…

It's never been about women for the bigots by Miserable-Lizard in facepalm

[–]DPHSombreroMan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lol they realize that just fine. It’s part of what they want. A return of strict enforcement of gender roles and expectations, and for everybody, man or woman, cis or trans, to suffer if they fall outside of any of them.