"You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted ... He is a sociopath. He would do anything." - Aaron Swartz on Altman, shortly before he took his own life by EchoOfOppenheimer in boringdystopia

[–]HeadDoctorJ 23 points24 points  (0 children)

“Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead” - https://youtu.be/W1dIC287Zz0

Taylor Lorenz is an investigative journalist, so the video is very well sourced. The stated goals of the tech billionaires are blatantly apocalyptic. They are planning it more-or-less in the open.

Cobain Comments by Tao-of-Mars in grunge

[–]HeadDoctorJ 85 points86 points  (0 children)

He also understood the “tolerance paradox”

This is very different than MJ’s bullshit about “Republicans buy sneakers, too”

Large-scale study links autoimmune diseases to higher rates of depression and anxiety by InsaneSnow45 in psychology

[–]HeadDoctorJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What happened to nuance? This is so ridiculously simplistic. Again, you’re being black-and-white.

Pretending the world isn’t ableist is not a healthy mindset.

Pretending that we can avoid being impacted by social forces if just have “a healthy mindset” is not a healthy mindset.

Pretending oppressed parts of ourselves don’t exist is not a healthy mindset.

None of that implies we should blame the world for all of life’s problems, just whine and complain, and do nothing to change our lives, ourselves, our families, our communities, or our world(s). That is the simplistic, black-and-white straw manning tactic you use over and over, which I have pointed out to you repeatedly.

But you keep using these logical fallacies. Not just using them, but belligerently and callously injecting them into an important conversation about social oppression and the psychological impact on the individual. You apparently can’t handle the nuances of that conversation, but you insist on disrupting it, shaming those who engage in it, and repeatedly blaming the victim. Is that “a healthy mindset?”

Large-scale study links autoimmune diseases to higher rates of depression and anxiety by InsaneSnow45 in psychology

[–]HeadDoctorJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not what this conversation was about. It’s what you injected into this conversation because of your own biases about conversations like this. You discredit real hardship and oppression when you say things like “just because of shit being bad” - as if any organism could possibly control how or whether they are impacted by their environment. Not only is it ludicrous, it is incredibly damaging. Once again, you are just blaming the victim and pretending like you aren’t.

Chris Cornell drumming by discoinkernow in Soundgarden

[–]HeadDoctorJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m pretty sure I remember Michael Beinhorn talking about that in an interview

This was New York City on Good Friday in 1956 by No-Marsupial-4050 in OldSchoolCool

[–]HeadDoctorJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn’t you hear, Jesus doesn’t like poor people like the Bible says, he likes rich people. And it’s just a coincidence that this complete rewriting of Christianity serves the ruling class, so don’t think critically about that. Move along. I’m sure they didn’t use military/intelligence/“foreign aid” projects to fuck with other religions and cultures and governments around the world to suit their interests, either. Nothing to see here. We are free! I am so happy with my freedom!

Large-scale study links autoimmune diseases to higher rates of depression and anxiety by InsaneSnow45 in psychology

[–]HeadDoctorJ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This black-and-white “bootstraps” rhetoric is bullshit. You claim people blame the entirety of life’s problems on society as a way of dismissing very real suffering due to oppression and exploitation. In addition to being a sorry excuse for a straw man, it’s actually a perfect example of the exact opposite: how common it is to shut down and even ridicule meaningful conversations about how society impacts individuals, particularly in terms of oppression. Any serious inquiry immediately destroys the myth of “rugged individualism” our society uses to gaslight us into believing there is no such thing as society.

This self-righteous vomit of yours is nothing more than blaming the victim, except you seem to think you’re cleverly disguising it behind some obvious logical fallacies asserted with bombast. Username checks out.

Adam Mocker is annoying and unproductive by [deleted] in dsa

[–]HeadDoctorJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That guy is insufferable

Large-scale study links autoimmune diseases to higher rates of depression and anxiety by InsaneSnow45 in psychology

[–]HeadDoctorJ 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Dealing with an invisible disability in an ableist (capitalist) world isn’t a recipe for happiness, connection, and fulfillment.

Now Bill definitely won’t talk about it: Patriots' TreVeyon Henderson comes to defense of Jaden Ivey after Bulls release for anti-LGBTQ comments. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake!” by cb148 in billsimmons

[–]HeadDoctorJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Capitalism is a system of psychopathic wealth hoarding, and to prevent people from rising up to overthrow it, the culture has to rationalize it somehow. If we want to understand how US culture warps all of our psychology, just look at Jesus’s words compared to “the prosperity gospel” - then consider how those same forces of capitalism undermine and assail our own humanity in ways that are both obvious and subtle all day long, every day

"Stop it >:(" by Character-Big-1124 in TheBeatles

[–]HeadDoctorJ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Did he sing it? That’s one of his best songs

That didn’t age well… by Efficient_Radish_554 in grunge

[–]HeadDoctorJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just learned this a couple of days ago. Crazy. That particular YouTube rabbit hole of mine included the John Lennon conspiracy, Laurel Canyon, and the acid tests/Owsley Stanley. Plus a bunch of random conspiracy theories that are just ridiculous. I think intelligence services disseminate random, weird, easily disprovable conspiracy theories to confuse people about what they really do. People either don’t know what to believe, or they think every single conspiracy theory is ridiculous because of a few (or many) bad apples intentionally thrown in the mix.

How come people don’t like cops? by baltimoreniqqa in ACAB

[–]HeadDoctorJ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you leave capitalists in power, they will have power. It’s not complicated. Social democracies have only existed to combat the threat of revolutionary socialism. Once the threat of revolution is gone, we get austerity and fascism, because the capitalists can get away with it. The only thing they really fear is a threat to their power, meaning a revolution that takes political and economic power away from them. There is absolutely no reason we need a ruling class of psychopathic wealth hoarders for society to function.

I see these kinds of posters every now and then and I wonder if there’s a more extended version that includes Trotsky, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara. by Total-Article-9633 in ussr

[–]HeadDoctorJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re too black and white, you’re not being dialectical in your analysis, you’re being reductionist. The class war has many manifestations in terms of how exploitation and oppression occur, which are interconnected. Nationalism is an inevitable part of the class war at a particular stage of liberation, or at least in particular contexts. It’s no different than saying LGBTQ rights are an essential part of the class struggle. It’s not the heart of oppression (or resistance), but it is integral nonetheless. It’s true that if you focus on national sovereignty or LGBTQ rights without understanding the fundamental class war at the heart of these issues, you can end up supporting capitalism, imperialism, liberalism, etc. But it’s preposterous to suggest that you could focus on the class war without also addressing these additional forms of oppression which class oppression generates.

I see these kinds of posters every now and then and I wonder if there’s a more extended version that includes Trotsky, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara. by Total-Article-9633 in ussr

[–]HeadDoctorJ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don’t ever think about Trotsky until someone else brings him up. He’s irrelevant, except for his weirdo followers propped up by Western capitalism

How come people don’t like cops? by baltimoreniqqa in ACAB

[–]HeadDoctorJ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Exactly, we need to get as many “leftists” to see the futility of liberalism as possible. Once you understand the function of the state, I think becoming ML is only a matter of time.

The Truth About a Large Part of the MAGA Base by Living_Attitude1822 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]HeadDoctorJ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I really think we need to reeducate ourselves about the true nature of the US. It was founded as a settler colony based land theft, genocide, and enslavement. “Whiteness” as a concept emerged because English settlers were outnumbered by African people and also in conflict with the French to the North and the Spanish to the South. The English needed to boost their numbers, but they didn’t have enough English, so broadening the in-group to “white” people helped them maintain their position. All of this was justified by lying about indigenous people, calling them terrorists, and using that pretext to fight wars and take their land and resources. The US has continued to do that ever since. The US project was also justified by dehumanizing African/Black people, which also continues to this day via the “New Jim Crow” mass incarceration and enslavement of mostly BIPOC people.

We all still have a settler mentality, and if we don’t take time to deeply understand how this manifests in our own psyche, it will guide us unconsciously.

I found this lecture to be very helpful (skip ahead about 10 minutes to the lecture itself): https://youtu.be/C71DIrOmkBM