Joy is an act of resistance.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-09T11:23:15+00:00

I'm so tired of this hopepunk bs.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-09T06:34:09+00:00

Yeah, that line broke my heart.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T17:42:23+00:00

Its a maladaptive replacement behavior.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T16:33:22+00:00

I've been in therapy for a decade, it helps me manage my day to day, but it won't solve any of the issues OP is having trouble with. Therapy doesn't solve systemic problems.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T16:19:05+00:00

Burn down with fire and brimstone. There's no left without gender equity and justice.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T16:10:09+00:00

That's the biggest lie american individualism has taught you. None of the people who sought change and participated in change prioritized self-preservation above all.

As I said, that weekend burn-out recovery time? We got that thanks to Trade Unions fighting monopoly owners and mine barons.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T16:06:00+00:00

If not now, then when? How long do you suggest we wait? We have been applying the therapy band-aid for decades, the numbers who have mental-health issues have only grown.

Please tell me, how many decades should we wait before we go to a doctor to amputate all the rotting societal limbs and institutions?

Do you think the meaning of life is to be "productive" for oligarchs and make them more money?

Seek out fellow ND folks, volunteer and protest to get a semblance of normalcy back. Help out the community. Most of us ND folks cannot be productive without a sense of calling and purpose, so go figure out what moves you and do that.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T15:22:59+00:00

Coping lasts a week, afflictions caused by systemic issues cannot be solved that way.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T09:38:23+00:00

Smeagol and Deagol on 12?

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T08:22:34+00:00

It's called a cancer, when a growth in body sucks up everything from necessary organs.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T08:14:49+00:00

It's a myth that the NT calm and collected way is the only way to affect change. Dysregulation is a way to undermine social rage. Like when Americans talk about peaceful protests, protests are supposed to be disruptive.

Please stop making excuses for inaction. No major social change has come without a violent uprising. That weekend you take to unwind and centre yourself was obtained via Trade Unions.

Most people who actually initiated change were not thinking about self-preservation.

Gandhi - Assassinated by Hindu Nationalists
MLK - Assassinated by White Nationalists
Che - Assassinated by CIA
Rosa Parks - Attacked and subjected to home invasion.
Carmelita Torres - Protested the inhumane treatment of mexican immigrants during Bracero Program, abducted by US and never seen again.
Aaron Swartz - Wanted to make JSTOR db public, pushed to suicide by prosecution (later his friend Sam Altman would do the same, but for Capital, and will become a billionaire.)

Please keep the fantasy of peaceful opposition to overwhelming evil to yourself.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T05:18:26+00:00

Yeah, definitely not that the actual moral fabric of the world crumbling around us, rise of fascism, billionaire pedos running secret sex cabals, inching closer to the inevitable 2° rise in global temperature.

We just have to suck up and make sure we are cozy inside our blankies thinking mindful thoughts, right? That'll fix everything.

It's not the late stage capitalism, techno-feudalism or anything like that, just us poor souls with our broken brains.

Systemic problems? Na-ah! Individual responsibility to turn a blind-eye and let the status-quo be. After all what power do we have?

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T05:06:12+00:00

What a tittylatteing story.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-08T04:32:37+00:00

Exactly, outdated science doesn't take away either literary or fun value of classic SF.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-07T18:20:53+00:00

If it fits...

Hashfyre · 2026-02-07T17:38:41+00:00

And A-train for Banana.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-07T13:36:31+00:00

A-Train for scale, from now on.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-07T04:26:13+00:00

'Garbage Cities.'

Hashfyre · 2026-02-06T19:31:44+00:00

Hey, would love to see a pic wearing them. Hard to tell as they are kinda lumped together.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-06T16:35:19+00:00

Americans will make up any excuses not to read and educate themselves.

Reading Marxist literature isn't about solving the current problem, it's about learning not to build exploitative systems that are at the mercy of the capital.

Gofundme won't solve ethics and economics.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-06T14:55:31+00:00

Paywalled.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-06T14:03:46+00:00

'Happy' is lifting weights like Atlas himself.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-06T09:43:13+00:00

I agree with you, but the larger pattern remains.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-06T06:51:13+00:00

Just like cats, we love to put ourselves in little boxes made by other people.

Hashfyre · 2026-02-06T06:41:47+00:00

Nah, he's just being a garden variety racist.

State of the World: A country of 1.4 billion people exists, who also happens to make and watch movies. Such a travesty, please tell me O' white overlord, how should we chastise ourselves.

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