nothing. it will be in the news cycle for a few days at most and everybody in the west will forget about it.

glasses. i honestly like how they look at this point and think they compliment my face pretty well so i don’t feel like switching to anything else.

a lot of these shelters will also prohibit substances on the premises and not all of them involve treatment programs, so if you are addicted to a substance (usually fentanyl right now), you’d have to go cold turkey just for housing. you’re expected to get clean on the street and then get housing.

for some people it might be that, for others it might just be reactionary conservative beliefs about gender.

maybe stop drinking depending on how the year goes

and the hostages were simply used as political leverage against the occupation state, their own testimonies claim they were often treated well.

what has hamas done that israel hasn’t done but in larger quantities? by most definitions, most western governments including israel can be counted as terrorist organizations. israel, the us, etc. have frequently committed unlawful (numerous violations of international law) acts of violence towards civilians for political/economic motivations. but this label is only applied to a national liberation movement. do you ever wonder why this is?

well it’s not certain how many leftists TRULY support them. what people say cannot be taken as accurate because anything remotely close to supporting “terrorism” can ruin your life or even land you in prison. so there’s no telling how many leftists are just putting up that facade because of the potential for government repression.

mix of good and bad. i’ve been having some successes recently in the romantic realm, i’ve got some dates planned which has definitely provided some source of joy in my life. but overall, i haven’t been sleeping at all the last few days and recent events have been making me so increasingly hateful and angry at the evil capitalist system that it genuinely brings me down all day. the days are blurring into one and everywhere i go i feel enraged.

absolutely love batushka. their sound is super unique within black metal and honestly i think works super well in the genre (with the orthodox style church singing and all that). just be mindful of the two batushkas, there was some conflict between some of the members and one member took over the band or something and pushed the singer out. this was after liturgiya, their first album. he does his own thing, a different batushka with an album called panihida, which i think is much better than the other batushka’s stuff.

is your source for this call of duty or something?

if the openly fascist american politicians (the republicans. the democrats are fascists as well, but they are more about silently enabling the republicans in their evil actions) have their way, they will institute systematic ways to strip LGBTQ+ people of their dignity and freedoms first, and then begin actions that will kill us off. states banning hormone therapy are already examples of policies meant to begin killing off trans people. its the same process worldwide honestly.

on local and state matters i do. for the president i do not, especially next year. i don’t think my vote matters for the president whatsoever, that decision has already been made by the capitalists and they’ll get whoever serves their interests best for the next 4 years. locally, i feel like my vote actually has some kind of sway.

sure, when people are in a relationship the main issue is just other people’s discomfort, but i have found that the real problems lie in the breakup that happens. i have seen entire organizations crumble over a single nasty breakup because of the ensuing polarization that happens when that drama gets in the way of all the professionalism and organizing. for that reason, i’ve always found it bad practice and a little selfish to date within orgs.

i don’t really care about specific ideological affiliation, agreeing on specific topics is more important to me. for instance, i don’t really care what they align themself with, so long as we are on the same page about AES. i don’t want to have to hide or bicker about my support for existing revolutionary socialist movements. if they happen to be an ML as well, that’s cool too.

AI. even as a communist, i thought that we could just make minor progress in AI research and then overthrow capitalism and have socialist AI which will be awesome. but after seeing the internet polluted with AI-created drivel (that “internet is mostly bots” theory might be true in all honesty…the capitalists would absolutely do something like that to make the internet look more populated because a lot of industries now rely on the internet) and ben shapiro using AI generated fake images to fuel hate against palestine, i want to see AI completely gone. i despise it. if i had the choice to destroy AI and LLMs and all that shit, i would. and i say this as someone in a field that is currently seeing some fledgling AI implementation.

many settlers are allowed to be and encouraged to be armed, with the zionist state even going as far as to purchase and distribute thousands of rifles to them. they then use these rifles to further encroach on palestinian villages and shoot them.

this comment reeks of “i only think about the west and nowhere else”. marxism and revolutionary socialism are the dominant ideologies in many countries around the world, the communist party of china is one of the largest political parties on earth. just pure ignorance.

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its a mere product of the lack of quality scientific education in capitalist countries, as are most conspiracy theories. nobody understands what a vapor trail is, so it must be planes releasing a mind-control gas into the atmosphere or something.

these conspiracy theories are often woven together under larger unifying ones (new world order, Qanon/deepstate, etc), and this one is part of the NWO thing where the chemtrails are allegedly part of the effort to drug humanity into submission, along with like fluoride toothpaste and aspartame and vaccines. again, it’s all just severe lack of scientific literacy, usually because of substandard capitalist education in the united states and europe. even if the theory were to be true, dispersing gas into the atmosphere via plane trails is an incredibly inefficient way of doing so i think.