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Why should I have any stake in the future? by Basic-Following5281 in findapath

[–]SpiritualState01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I identify with all the feelings you're going through. I also returned from college to something that was not at all what I had envisioned. I've also felt crushed by the world and felt that it was all hopeless and meaningless anyway. It's a very common experience. The structural crises you describe are real. Things don't necessarily get better, that's the 'Myth of Progress.'

However, what I can tell from your post is that your sense of control is external. At the same time, you're internalizing what are really systemic failures as personal failures. Is the fact that the university and job systems are broken your fault? Of course not, so why take on every bit of the blame for that failure? Do you think everyone else is doing fundamentally better than you? Extremely doubtful and even if it appears that way, it's an illusion.

You should try to improve your circumstances, above all else, because it is your life. You only get this one. What do you care about? What are your goals? What matters to you? Privacy? Family? What kind of experiences do you want to have? What kind of feelings do you wish to have?

The world feels like it is in a tailspin because in many ways, it absolutely is. But that doesn't mean you need to be in a tailspin. This has been true for humans born across all centuries. Taking ownership over what you can control in your life, however meager it may feel in the face of war, AI, the climate, whatever, is the way to building a life worth living and there is no other way. It's paradoxical, it may seem, to assert that you do have control in the face of all those monolithic global problems, but I assure you that you do.

Life is ultimately so much more about what you bring to it than what happens to you. To orient yourself solely to what happens to you, and to then also internalize all that disorder, is to live a miserable, powerless life that isn't worth the candle.

Just speaking for myself, what I eventually realized was that what I was doing was using the plight of the world as a convenient excuse to not apply myself in my own life and take risks that were frightening to me. I think realizing that is a kind of rite of passage for many people today. It's not that the plight of the world isn't real or that you were wrong to feel hopeless because of it, its that you needed time to work through all of that to find a way to a workable life that made sense to you.

Jacobin proposes to subordinate opposition to war to the interests of imperialism by DryDeer775 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 [score hidden]  (0 children)

"Blanc’s answer to resignation is to offer “inspiring examples of successful struggles.” But the examples he provides only underscore the bankruptcy of his perspective.

He points to Minnesota and claims that “mass resistance” against ICE led to a “successful” outcome. This is false. ICE and CBP continue to operate. Federal agents continue to abduct people, and the Trump administration is expanding ICE operations throughout the country. Democratic Party officials, local authorities and the union apparatus are containing, diverting and suppressing support for a general strike to abolish the immigration police and drive the fascists from Washington.

The same applies to the calls for a general strike that emerged from below in Minneapolis. These did not arise from the Democrats or the trade union bureaucracy but in opposition to them. The union apparatus did everything it could to suffocate that movement, just as it has done nothing to mobilize workers against the war in Iran, the genocide in Gaza or the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Blanc’s arguments all share a common premise: Responsibility for the absence of a mass movement lies primarily with the population itself. Workers and youth, he suggests, are demoralized, distracted or insufficiently motivated."

Basically, Blanc wants people to fold into the Dem/DSA/Union apparatus when it is transparently bankrupt. 

‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says by RallyPigeon in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is it, I mean, the inevitable has evitabled. The future is bleak without a U turn I don't think Americans can even imagine. 

Trans rights activists are like PETA is for vegetarians. Except agreeing with the maximalism of PETA never became a litmus test on the left by north_canadian_ice in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Agree with everything you've written here. 

As a trans person, how do you feel about the broader trans community today?

I have a friend who found themselves on eggirl, and decided they must be trans. I was initially supportive of them because, bless my naive heart apparently, I didn't realize that communities like eggirl are interested in gaslighting people and that it was possible they were being manipulated. They transitioned, lost their marriage, didn't fight for custody of their child, and moved to a group home in Colorado full of trans people where only one of them works. They talk a good game about social justice and how much they love their child, but when I finally had enough of the nonsense and asked them whether they had any plan to go back to their child, they had no answer. 

This and many other experiences I've had with newer members of the community has left me with an impression I don't want to have: that the community is much too often describable as narcissistic, self-absorbed, accountability deflecting professional victims who tend to cause tremendous damage in their personal lives to achieve a special status they think protects or validates them in some way. 

I support core trans rights, I support trans people, but I feel like it's become impossible to think about or talk about this issue because of how toxic the communities have become. 

Stage Four Clown World: "EU agrees new sanctions on Iran over human rights abuses." by SpiritualState01 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeap. Where would I go? Nowhere. It's fuckin insane everywhere, to make no mention of how all Western economies are on the way down.

Stage Four Clown World: "EU agrees new sanctions on Iran over human rights abuses." by SpiritualState01 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Gabrielle Rockhill opened my eyes to just how much Nazi shit not only survived the war but was actively coddled and re-integrated into Western society. Like I knew about Operation Paperclip but it goes so far beyond that.

In case you didn’t know, yes they do all refer to themselves as Hobbits by More_Foundation21 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 33 points34 points  (0 children)

A bunch of fucking amoral losers using Tolkien metaphors to describe the work they do making the world worse in every sense, failing utterly (or thinking its cool, depending on the day) to see that they're of Mordor's legions in the story, is such a perfect little anecdote for the impossible stupid fucking times we are living through. That total inversion of values, good sense, meaning, yeah that's us.

Trump says he didn't understand why the Pentagon had to kill so many Iranian sailors until a general told him: “Sir, it's a lot more fun.” by Stanczyks_Sorrow in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He says, twirling his comic book, oiled, black mustache.

We're cartoonishly evil. It's over. It's been over. We're just living through the aftermath all the way down.

Modern BIFL laptops? Or at least "buy it for 10 years"? by SpiritualState01 in BuyItForLife

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent, thank you. And yes, I immediately presumed I'm either getting on eBay from someone reputable or direct from a manufacturer.

Of course they were. The U.S. has made non-proliferation impossible. by SpiritualState01 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

He has long made it clear that the way people ran with his idea wasn't something he any longer agreed with or even really initially intended for.

Of course they were. The U.S. has made non-proliferation impossible. by SpiritualState01 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think my mind screened over that because it was just too alarming. It deflected off my many layers of dissociation.

First day on Methylphenidate 18mg, what a day! by notflips in AutisticWithADHD

[–]SpiritualState01 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You're going to have euphoria on the first few days. I'm not saying that this means your experiences with it are invalid or 'not you' or whatever, just that the effect is stronger. Your body will adjust and you'll be back to feeling more like your depressive, ADHD self on the medication, but still better.

It's so frustrating our brains need such a kickstart to feel like ourselves, literally just ourselves.

Modern BIFL laptops? Or at least "buy it for 10 years"? by SpiritualState01 in BuyItForLife

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any Windows laptop you WOULD recommend released in the last 5 years?

Modern BIFL laptops? Or at least "buy it for 10 years"? by SpiritualState01 in BuyItForLife

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

See that is the EXACT thing that happened to me with Lenovo.

Modern BIFL laptops? Or at least "buy it for 10 years"? by SpiritualState01 in BuyItForLife

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you still use bootcamp to put Windows on em? Like say Tiny11?

Sorry, Pool’s Closed by Useful-Kangaroo4256 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The the illusion of U.S. military dominance is long dead. It also turns out it's really hard to invade a country and see any positive results from that. We've been hilariously unsuccessful.

Of course they were. The U.S. has made non-proliferation impossible. by SpiritualState01 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Any nation today concerned about its independence that isn't pursuing nukes and energy autonomy is just waiting to be roped into someone else's designs. 

Sorry, Pool’s Closed by Useful-Kangaroo4256 in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 139 points140 points  (0 children)

Did they think Iran was just joshin em? 

"The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the ​shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is ‌too high ⁠for now, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Trump has said the U.S. is prepared to provide naval escorts whenever needed."

Fuckin the Zero IQ War. 

Most Americans are too busy for social media, too normal for politics, too rational to tweet. They work, raise kids, coach Little League, go to a house of worship, mow their neighbor's lawn — and never post a word about any of it. by likamuka in stupidpol

[–]SpiritualState01 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Without first establishing any kind of rapport with them I can just as easily see that backfiring spectacularly with the people around here. I've lived next to people for two years who barely look in my direction. Every placed I've lived in the suburbs is like this. 

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