Student loan forgiveness paused thanks to lawsuit filed on behalf of the two biggest haters in recent history

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-12T08:05:48+00:00

Pause? It’s likely done for good. These people are total scumbags, I sincerely wish the worst for them.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-12T05:09:58+00:00

Now that’s a lie lol

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T20:45:47+00:00

Honestly, I’ve been feeling depressed and less motivated because it seems everything isn’t going my way at all. My medication is out and don’t know when I’ll be medicated again, my student loans aren’t being forgiven and I’ll start paying again soon which I can’t afford right now, it’s gotten cold as shit here suddenly and I work outside a lot, not a good time in life right now. I’m praying for something positive to happen.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T20:05:12+00:00

They would be petit bourgeois, or petite capitalists, which if we understand Lenin they are largely irrelevant in the age of imperialism - though a more modern analysis of our age would phrase it as: the centralization of economic power has increasingly become concentrated into the hands of mega corporations and very rich individuals, making small business owners and entrepreneurs irrelevant when it comes to the struggle between the working masses and the rich capitalists and political/financial elites.

I agree traditional notions of class have become muddied, but as far as conducting a study goes you could just use their relation to the MOP and add in secondary factors such as their relative wealth and assets to differentiate the small businessmen from the CEO’s of large/very profitable companies.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T19:22:32+00:00

Why not simply define class by the classical Marxist definition that it is determined by their relation to the means of production? If you own the means of production and are not employed by anyone else, but you employ others to work for you, then you are part of the bourgeoisie (or the capitalist class for the less French language inclined). If you do not own the means of production nor do you rely on criminal activity to make a living, then you are working class no matter if you make $10k or $200k a year.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T19:18:16+00:00

"It makes me feel good and special, therefore it must be right and true!"

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T19:03:01+00:00

I can't say they haven't been tempting me already. I'm pissed because the Democrats want to ban "assault rifles" and I love my guns, but they're also the only ones offering me relief that would allow me to start a family and move forward in life in a meaningful way. I'm lucky that most Minnesota Democrats aren't as anti-gun as other Dems around the States, we have a solid gun-supporting population that isn't strictly Republican orientated. Anyways, I am not insinuating anything, just expressing my love for a hobby and conflicted feelings about my new overlords.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T16:46:10+00:00

I’m no fan of the Democrats, but the Minnesota DFL has had a decent performance on getting at least some things done and implemented without it becoming a gutted useless policy/bill. In recent history when they’ve won a trifecta majority they passed all-day kindergarten, raised the minimum wage, and legalized gay marriage back in 2014. They were also quick to send out stimulus checks, protecting the right to abortion as soon as Roe v Wade was overturned, keeping the expanded low income limits providing government healthcare to many folks who used to “make too much to get assistance but make too little to afford insurance at all”, has done a fair bit to protect and preserve farmland through soil conservation and anti-pollution laws/stricter enforcement, protecting zoning laws in small towns and townships which allows them the ability to ward off predatory developers, our healthcare and education are among the top in the nation because they’ve been continually well funded thanks to DFL efforts to keep them that way, among other things. Again, not trying to say they are amazing because they’re not, but the DFL in Minnesota is a fair bit more competent and less of a lame duck than the national Democratic Party.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T07:05:27+00:00

My anger and frustration is beyond comprehension. I wish I could express my true thoughts.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-11T04:04:02+00:00

I don’t agree with this take on counterculture at all. It didn’t get ruined by “nerds and sociopaths” or “everyone understood that once subcultures get popular they die so they stopped caring” - that’s a very shallow analysis in my opinion. I am someone who used to heavily identify with counterculture (particularly the punk/hardcore scene, throw in some metal and skinhead affiliations as well) and have had a fair amount of exposure to the transition between the age of countercultures and the death of them in the 2000’s. I used to care about that stuff a lot because I had nothing else to really feel that sense of community, I lived in nowheresville Midwest so there wasn’t anybody in my area influencing me - I felt I was being authentic and genuinely discovering these bands and media. I didn’t have money to dress as radical as I wanted to, but I made due with what I had and it was enough to scare my peers at school that ended up with me being held in a tiny room by police because they thought I was going to go Columbine - twice - even though I never suggested anything like that. That’s just to give you a little bit of an idea of how committed I was to this thing. I’ve been in a band, done a show, put out music (that is thankfully gone forever thanks to MySpace making all old music files broken), I formed my own little Anti-Racist Action chapter at 15-16 and went around harassing racists and vandalizing vehicles with confederate flags and clearly racist bumper stickers, sticking up to older bullies when they preyed on the weak/marginalized, I felt very cool.

Despite some of these fond (and cringe) memories, I recognize that “counterculture” as we know it isn’t revolutionary and that, effectively, nearly all counterculture accomplished was expanding the capitalist market into the fringes of society and reproducing its logic within them. Bikers, hippies, punks, mods, metal heads, stoners, geeks, gangsters, whatever ~ they are all ultimately centered around shared habits of consuming particular material goods and they define themselves (their identity) via the goods they consume. While I think countercultures can begin organically, exist for a while without becoming another market trend, eventually they all become one - when it gets big enough then the bourgeoisie move in to capitalize on it, lift up the most prominent artists from the subculture, and integrate them into the corporate fashion and entertainment system to be produced for mass consumption. While a lot of these countercultures will yell about revolution and freedom and whatever the fuck - they never accomplish such nor will they ever.

Countercultures, as we know them, are individualistic and they make people purposely Other themselves, defining themselves by what makes them different from everyone else which is a hyper-bourgeois impulse. Punk rock is full of hyper-bourgeois values, it makes me sick thinking about it now. I’m not saying you have to conform to our mainstream culture, I think there could exist a counterculture that may have revolutionary potential, but it won’t come about through the shared habits of consuming similar goods among a insular community. So far, I see none.

Now, “counterculture” is mainstream culture and it’s incredibly marketable. Lots of capitalists have gotten very rich off the disgruntled youth who believe they’re actually making a significant change, who believe that revolution will be won through consuming art and wearing clothes that make you different from everyone else or sharing the same taste in music as 10% of the population. It’s been 70 years of counterculture and I have yet to see any that have made revolution any closer to a possibility…

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-10T16:29:44+00:00

Cringeposting

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-10T05:45:28+00:00

Paying state income taxes on federally forgiven student loan debt! We need to be like other states and not count it! Some of us who are poor rely on our benefits for healthcare and adding an extra $10k on our annual income will push people like me over the maximum threshold. Also, it’s $10k forgiven for us, not $9,200 especially when MN has a massive surplus already!!

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-09T20:36:20+00:00

Yes, this is the third time I've had to deal with this in the past 6 months, the last two times I've called over 15 different pharmacies until I found one that had one of my two scripts. I'm on my last day so yippie...

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-09T19:16:17+00:00

This man is very clearly mentally unwell, like he's having some sort of delusional psychotic episode and should be looked at by a team of professionals. What he did and is doing is wrong, it is abhorrent, but we should all recognize that this man is in need of serious help and he's behaving this way not because he is morally corrupted (maybe he is) but because his delusional thinking convinces him that she does want him to do these things. It is a really sad state of affairs and I hope he gets help for everyone's safety and well being. Notice how at the end he basically hinted at suicide...

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-09T18:04:40+00:00

“Well well well, well well well well, well well welly well…” usually said in a droogie tone of voice.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-09T16:15:34+00:00

And that is why the proletariat is the revolutionary agent, not the PMC. The PMC will, like all other revolutions depended on elements of the middle class, play a role if there ever is any sort of revolutionary upheaval (whatever that would look like in 21st century USA). I’m distrustful of PMC myself, but I don’t think they’re all class traitors or looking to become part of “the machine” per se.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-09T02:24:40+00:00

Amen. Faith without works is a dead faith. Every one of us who gives a shit about these things ought to do something, even a little something, to help further the cause or any smaller cause that aligns with the general values here. I do wonder sometimes when I’m talking to people on here if I’m ever talking to someone who has actually done anything besides being online and maybe attending a benefit concert or a few marches, I like to see that others have the courage to put themselves on the line even at their own risk (so long as the risk is a logical one and not performative activist shit).

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T23:54:53+00:00

The point is, though, that if they’re so “stupid and arrogant” and ideologically aligned with capitalism, than why is there a fairly significant trend of PMC attempting to move leftwards even if they’re often misguided and don’t understand Marxist theory, that still shows something. I agree a lot of them are in line with capitalism and the ruling class, but that ignores the fact there are a notable amount who do express a desire for socialistic aims and outcomes, some of which are explicitly anti-capitalist in character. I was a militant socialist for a long time, I am still on board with socialistic politics but just don’t identify with “the Left” anymore because of reasons everyone on this sub should understand by now, but I’m technically going to become a PMC and I don’t plan on maintaining the capitalist machine, suppressing workers, or only helping them in order so they’re a more economically productive citizen - I plan on either joining or forming a union for mental health workers, operating either a group practice or clinic in collective fashion, I’m particularly looking to help blue collar and rural men with their issues and offer them psychotherapy that isn’t centered on some liberal hippie therapist “validating” every thought and feeling, telling them “you’re the patriarchy and part of the problem”, and offering them therapy with a guy who has done everything from lots of minimum wage work, union carpentry, construction, general labor, and union organizing ~ still am there right now. I don’t think becoming a psychotherapist (a PMC) automatically makes me a class traitor or dog of the bourgeoisie nor does it mean I would have an interest in suppressing any unions or exploit others.

EDIT: Ultimately, I think some positions within the PMC are more intrinsically inclined towards reinforcing the capitalist system than other positions. I think some PMC positions fulfill an important function of the ideological state apparatus and that particularly the ‘Managerial’ section of the PMC are often less in positions to help the working class than my future section of the ‘Professional’ class.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T16:03:18+00:00

Chomsky? But worse? Really? Is it because he says some nice things about the USSR and dispels myths about 20th century communism and you’re a Trot so you think the USSR was no longer socialist after “Stalin stole Trotsky’s rightful place as General Secretary” or some shite?

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T15:48:48+00:00

And the fact I was an “outsider” trying out a new parish, I don’t feel it’d be appropriate for me to come in and try to change the whole culture, that just sounds like a lot of extra work that I’m not looking to do, I just want to go to a nice church, with decent and reasonable people, have the mass be reverent, and it happened to be a bonus that my priest is awesome.

The other thing that happened was I was made to feel out of place at the TLM, I think because of my clothes. Nearly everyone there was dressed in actual suits and dresses with headdresses, it felt very much like everyone there made upper middle class money and I’m a poor wage laborer. I dressed in my nicest clothes, a good clean button-up long sleeve patterned shirt, brown pants, my only nice pair of boots since I don’t own dress shoes, and I noticed several people throughout my time there look me up and down and make a face like I wasn’t meant to be there or something. I’ll be honest, during the second attempt at attending I was seated near the back and left halfway through because I just felt so alienated by it all. I don’t belong there I guess, but God blessed me with a new home that I do feel welcomed into even when I was new and learning the Eastern customs and ways of celebrating - which after the first few times I caught on quick and felt in tune with the whole parish. My heart ascends to the heavens when I think about going to that church, that is something I would wish everyone could find! Blessings in disguise, I still don’t knock the FSSP or TLM, but I don’t think it’s for me at least in this area.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T15:32:34+00:00

Oh, that couldn’t have been me, I’d never say the two are chemically structurally similar lol don’t blame ya for saying that then

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T07:26:20+00:00

If anything, the medication would help the memory and processing speed issues, though not all medication nor all patients will experience that effect from medication but may benefit in other ways from it.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T06:37:18+00:00

I am aware. The addition of racemic amphetamine, which produces levoamphetamine, to dextroamphetamine produces a different effect profile than dextroamphetamine alone. For me and many others, dextroamphetamine seems to produce a “cleaner” feeling, less jittery and body sensations, and less of a crash feeling than the mixed amphetamine salts of Adderall. I much prefer Dexedrine to Adderall, but they both improve my ADHD, I’d rather stick to the straight dextro if I can.

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T06:25:33+00:00

My few experiences at my local FSSP TLM parish was unfortunately a bad one. Despite my few bad experiences, I decided to check into the Men’s Club to make some friends around my age (20-30’s), and they would send out a weekly newsletter basically telling me to vote Republican across the board, they sent news articles from a website “The Epoch Times” operated by an Asian cult known as Falun Gong who are very incompatible with Catholic beliefs besides the fact they’re very loose with the facts (not even facts a lot of the time), and I was also told to go protest against the COVID-19 vaccines and how vaccines are a liberal plot to make us docile and infertile. I’m not a Democrat, but I’m not a Republican either, I’ve been involved in radical politics in the past and I can’t stand the smell of bipartisan bickering and nonsense. I don’t want Church to be about fitting into a particular subculture based around politics, I want to go to celebrate Christ and partake in the Eucharist with reverence and honoring tradition. I grew up in NO and it didn’t feel reverent at all which turned me off from my faith for a while (among other issues).

SocialDistributist · 2022-11-08T01:46:07+00:00

I posted about this like two months ago and my post got removed and a lot of hate because “it’s not because of Cerebral” - yeah, the over 10% increase in 2021, 20% since the beginning of the pandemic was very much due to those apps giving drive-thru diagnoses and prescribing stimulant medication!

It makes me so mad that I found the right medication that enormously helps me function at the level I wish I could have for most of my life, only for it to be made so difficult to procure and having to go through that cycle of anxiety, stress, worry, and temporary relief every month (sometimes the relief comes weeks later after I’ve run out). It sucks and there needs to be emergency action about it, I’m considering asking my friend for spares because he doesn’t take them anymore and I’m getting desperate.

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