This is a mandatory check in btw

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  • DankZedong A
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    191 year ago

    Overall pretty good. But there may be some issues.

    I’m not lying when I say that this whole communist thing with the party and activism is taking over my life. It’s on my mind 24/7, I keep doing stuff for it daily and normal things just don’t bother me that much.

    Is that a problem? Not per se, the cause is great. But I need to do normal stuff in order to keep functioning in society. But I take 0 shit from any manager, boss, cop, teacher, often giving them a polite go fuck yourself speech. If some normal thing happens to be at the same time as a party thing or protest I will cancel it.

    I was supposed to go to a football match with my dad yesterday but I went to protest neonazi’s instead. To me it’s more important, and my dad had someone else to go with as well, but it’s still a social event cancelled.

    There might be a point in which I need to find balance and focus on other stuff as well. But right now, all my emotional attention goes to my girlfriend and communism really. It makes me feel good to do the things I do. I really feel like we have momentum now and that we need to push forward. But it’s really busy.

    • DankZedong A
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      101 year ago

      I notice that the war in Ukraine and the crisis in Europe is adding to all of this. I’m having trouble with everyone just functioning normally when I keep having a feeling that shit will go down soon.

      Everyone’s passive attitude towards all of this is something that keeps getting weirder to me. There’s so many people complaining or stressed out about current situations and they do… nothing. It’s not that I blame them, but sometimes I want to grab them, shake them and yell at them that we can do something. Together. We together can change this shit.

      • @Munrock
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        31 year ago
        • Limited time: not enough life to divide between the cause, girlfriend, family and friends.

        • Conflicting spheres: political thoughts firing off while you’re socialising with apolitical friends/family.

        • Encroaching reckoning: change is coming, and it’ll be loud when it comes.

        Maybe the latter will ‘help’ resolve the preceding points? Or maybe bringing politics into the rest of your life now could be a good idea rather than letting the inevitable approaching shitstorm do it.

    • Average PFLP Enjoyer
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      I find that keeping my social life completely separate from my politics helps. My friends are a way to escape everything and I try not to preoccupy my mind with stuff like this if I’m just going to the beach or something because if I don’t then I will go mental. If the movement can’t handle me separating myself in order to focus on stuff that actually makes me enjoy life then it was never that strong to begin with, Marxism is just a way for me to solve the world’s problems, it doesn’t dictate how I enjoy the things I already can

      • DankZedong A
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        Interesting view, thanks. I do enjoy helping in a political movement. It’s as if years of anger and a feeling of not belonging in the world have finally found a place to escape into. The hate I feel for our current system is immense. But instead of making me miserable it’s giving me the strength to move on.

        It’s not that I don’t do any fun personal stuff anymore but some things just became less of a priority.

  • Average PFLP Enjoyer
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    finishing up high school, haven’t eaten in 3 days but got Sportsman of the Year at least 😎

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭OP
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      81 year ago

      always had too much distracting me to just journal, its a good thing to do. I’m doing similarly, tired, and bouncing between okay and questioning my sanity.

  • Black AOC
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    121 year ago

    Kind of awful, tbh. Can’t concentrate on my courseload atm because it keeps hitting me-- ‘there is no viable pathway to 1.5C before 2030’. We failed, and we’re going to pay for it; because the world will never decouple from the philosophy of a cancer cell until America is dead and gone.

    Questioning why I even bothered with computer-related STEM when I’ll likely be dead before it can even pay off for me.

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭OP
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      61 year ago

      Oh we’re in the shitter, but that does not mean the end times! I know it hurts to sound positive about this, but I think that even after that, even with the world going to shit, socialism can help us steer out of it. Its just going to take a real fucking long time.

  • @Shrike502
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    111 year ago

    Pretty shit, thanks.

    A lot of people are saying we’re “teetering on the brink of apocalypse”. I can’t shake the feeling this ship has sailed. That we are already full steam ahead to extinction. That the material processes that drive history are already set and we cannot stop this engine, even if the current ruling class had any interest in helping - and they clearly do not. I’m trying to read theory and collaborate with local comrades, but all of this feels like slapping a bandaid on an open belly wound. And even if we somehow pull through, if capitalism will fail to kill us all and a revolution will finally free us - how many will not live to see it? How many comrades drowned in mud in the trenches of WW1 and had no idea the October Revolution succeeded? How many would later be tortured to death by Nazis?

    Normally I would try to distract myself with hobbies - reading fiction or painting miniatures. But all of it feels hollow and pointless in the face of likely upcoming extinction. It’s likely what comrade Dank has described observing in others. The passive attitude and going through the motions.

  • @SpaceDogs
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    111 year ago

    Fairly stressed. Tend to shift from pretty chill all the way to absolute despair. I have to make phone calls to government people and I hate dealing with government programs. I’m always so scared that the one time I need to call they’ll change my whole shit. The whole war thing isn’t helping either.

    • SovereignState
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      111 year ago

      Sent in updated financial information to the EBT program and they reduced my monthly allowance from ~$250 to a whopping $23. The math makes absolutely zero sense as I’m still ~$500+ away from meeting the monthly income cutoff point where I wouldn’t get benefits at all. $23?? I can buy a whole meal once a month, hurray!

      The alternative would be not to report my income shift. Then I would owe them thousands of dollars when tax season comes. Love this country. Not to distract from your struggles comrade, just dittoing the hatred for talking to govt agencies for fear of them changing shit for the worse.

      • @SpaceDogs
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        71 year ago

        Thank you for sharing with me, sometimes it feels like I’m the only one with these problems so I’m glad you shared.

        Government agencies are so scary, the program I am on is different than yours but apparently because I’m going to university my whole benefits system will change which worries me. I’ll either get cut off fully or be put on a student benefit.

        We already get so little from them so any excuse they can find on lowering that amount or straight cutting us off is what they strive to do. I’m sorry they screwed you over so badly, but you’re not alone comrade. So many others are unfortunately going through similar, people in my support group have mentioned the same.

        The only good thing is that this does fan the flames for me to get work done and dismantle this system.

        • DankZedong A
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          81 year ago

          sometimes it feels like I’m the only one with these problems so I’m glad you shared.

          Oh man you never are. We all struggle in this system. Mentally, financially, physically. But there is such a taboo on being honest with your problems and throwing them on the table for the rest to see. Mainly, I think, because if we all did, a revolution would start in every country.

          We are all treated too harshly and we are made to feel ashamed about it too. Throw your shit out there for people to listen. The more people that do this, the more we all get mad and maybe do something about it.

          • @SpaceDogs
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            11 year ago

            That’s honestly exactly what I’m doing. I want to make our cause a reality and help to uplift others as I have the chance to. I know from personal experience how fucked the system is and with a “higher” education (a fancy paper), people who are unaware might finally listen.

            This war has me both pessimistic and hopeful; watching normal people fall hard for fascist propaganda has me terrified but I’m comforted by the fact that there’s not only you all but many other comrades pushing back. It just sucks I don’t have people IRL to talk about this with (yet), living in a NATO country is worrisome. But I’m excited for when school starts so I can become a better comrade and maybe gain some actual backbone.

            January can’t come soon enough.

        • SovereignState
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          81 year ago

          College was hell financially. Federal zero interest loans, scholarships out the ass from high GPA, eating nothing but ramen and Taco Bell, and I still wound up broke and up $5k in debt for a year of college I dropped out of. Credit score is shit, didn’t pay a dime off. Now the state is promising to negate it, but that bill is looking more and more dead in the water as time goes on. Sent the agency my info, but they state that it won’t be over and done with til 2024, giving the state plenty of time to shut it down. Just incredible.

          • @holdengreen
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            revolutionary woods wilderness village

          • @SpaceDogs
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            21 year ago

            I’m really lucky as I wont have to worry about feeding myself since I live together with my grandmother, so I’ll always have something good to eat. Being in debt is going to suck but hopefully with the summer job I’m looking into I’ll be able to pay it off fairly quickly. Really had to contemplate what the hell my plan was going to be since I can’t keep winging it anymore. Not when we both know fairly well how the government aid programs can fuck you anytime they want.

  • @Samubai
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    111 year ago

    In reality, I’m doing great, but internally, I feel really alienated these days tbh. I’m getting impatient, I’ve been impatient, I am impatient.

    I’m in Western Europe right now and all I see is bullshit. The people have been really nice to me and it’s good to talk to new people, but I have seen so much bs around Iran, it makes me sad. It’s like, okay you want regime change; do you know Bolton is jizzing rn at the opportunity to overthrow a sovereign nation again, right. Why are you playing into warmongers hand? You want another Ukraine situation so bad, another Syria, another Libia? “At what cost” as the NYT asks? What does regime change look like? Idgaf if your Iranian, if you’re diaspora, it must feel really nice to get on a high horse and call for revolution, but do you think it’s gonna be all flower power and freedom? Tens of thousands would die and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, would be displaced. Is Germany going to take them in? Are you going to house them, give them food, jobs, and homes? Fuck you, dude. You don’t know what you’re saying.

    These people are so naive and they think they’re right. You know who needs regime change? Western Europe, Canada, USA. These countries have fucked so many more people. Yeah it’s sad that Iran has killed civilians, but you don’t call for regime change frothing at the mouth for America who slaughters thousands of black people every year. How convenient… and it’s like, how do I even talk to you?

    • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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      41 year ago

      For now, bide your time and, as selfish as this may sound, enjoy yourself and your hobbies to get through the years. Hell, tend to your garden while also helping out on the side, you know? It’s no use being burnt out.

  • @CriticalResist8A
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    101 year ago

    Think I’m gonna drop a client. We haven’t signed anything yet but I told them yesterday that I would send them the contract (the contract is not binding, it just protects me because I get access to logins and data).

    I’m not feeling it. Some red flags that I don’t want to have to endure. I didn’t become self employed to deal with clients I don’t want.

  • @BenEarlDaMarxist
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    101 year ago

    Barely holding it together, but not enough for me to collapse emotionally. Still anxious about Earth and humanity’s future though.

  • Absolute
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    91 year ago

    Really subpar thank you for asking. Have just felt really disengaged with life this year, stuck in a rut, burnt out ect. I’ve realized I really dislike the way my brain works, always hyper-fixating on silly shit, making it impossible for me to focus or self motivate, sabotaging my relationships. I’ve had a really negative attitude about everything really and its just gotten worse lately.

    I’ve done enough feeling sorry for myself though, definitely trying to make some improvements. I’m seeing a doctor finally for the first time in like over 3 years next week, so hopefully can get my health back on track and get some help for my executive dysfunction. Also gonna finally schedule some therapy soon which will hopefully help with the whole hating myself and feeling dead inside thing. Beyond that I’ve also finally started the process of joining my local communist org, and am getting back into the gym. Just gotta keep telling myself things will be okay and not give up trying.

  • @ComradeSalad
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    91 year ago

    Not to well, I know I’m new to posting here, and not to good at expressing my feelings, but I haven’t been doing very well. I’ll pull through, but it gets very dark and lonely at times, thats partially why I decided to become active in the community.

      • @ComradeSalad
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        51 year ago

        Thank you : ) and I definitely agree, plus its nice to not have to put on a plastic façade just to fit in, and I can just be myself in a community I see myself in

  • KiG V2
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    81 year ago

    Pretty solid, thank you for asking.

    spoiler

    I was having a fairly rough time the last 2-6 weeks prior. Old depression was coming up after a mercifully long time I had overcome it…it was scary that it could come back so suddenly. Crisis of masculinity from some weird time I spent with my dad. Crisis of realness as I feel there’s many people in my life I couldn’t be fully, grotesquely honest with, even though I know how wonderful it is to lay it all bare and to bloodlet bad blood. Generally feeling like a loser who will never amount to anything and is destined for failure of poetic proportions. Feeling weak, overwhelmed, unfocusable, contemptable.

    I feel much better the last few days. Forced some truth out before the dishonest festered and the guilt invaded every impulse of my emotions. Made myself be depressed, take a day off, re-center and re-submerge. Got some personal and professional stuff done. Spent some time with nature, sang to the spirits in the woods. BOGO orange juice.

    I expect many more hardships these coming months, and of course the ever-present darkness of the future here in the West and this Sick Sad (Bubble) World ™. But I am prepared and eager to endure more challenges.

    I hope you and everyone else reading (and not) is doing well. I know many comrades on here have much harder lives than I and I wish I could only lend some strength to spare, even if just to pry open the tunnel mouth a little wider to show there really still is bonafide, genuine sunshine that still exists in this world, and that even the seemingly unrelenting suffocation of the abyss will sometimes abate even when it seems it will never.

    • KiG V2
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      71 year ago

      Yeah, I do see people here struggling. If anyone needs help I can be an emergency friend/therapist, although I’m not timely just know that offer always stands to anyone here 💜

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭OP
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      41 year ago

      Really sympathizing with that first paragraph. You are not alone. Remember that. We call you comrade for a reason.

      🫂🫂🫂

      • KiG V2
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        21 year ago

        Thank you. I’m feeling much better now but when I don’t I isolate and keep it tucked away from 99% of people. But thank you for saying this, I will remember next time I might feel bad! Best wishes 💜