Pacifism is an ideology centered on political change through nonviolence. Maybe you didn’t explicitly say it, but you might as well have. Can you provide a source on violence being a result of political breakdown and not intrinsic to politics itself? How do current regimes uphold their power?

Politics is, more or less, how decisions are made in groups. Making a decision doesn’t preclude violence. Wars are political and their entire point is violence. Colonialism was foundational to the politics of the last 3+ centuries and it was incredibly violent. Besides vibes, what evidence do you have to support the claim that politics aren’t violent?

This speech from former black panther Ashanti Alston starts with some of the flaws he’s come to notice in the black panthers.

All of human political activity boils down to violence. If pacifism were a legitimate strategy then we wouldn’t be in our current situation.

Tour as in tu- er or tore? I’ve heard it pronounced both ways here in the states

What’s your point in bringing bud light up? I’m not trying to start shit, genuinely curious. What is it that we need to know? What does “never trust” mean in this context? I can’t make heads or tails of anything you wrote

Is there a “veganism for absolute dumbasses” page out there? I eat a lot of plant based food but I get bored easily. I can only dress up tofu/seitan/beans and * insert grain here * so many ways before I feel like jumping off a bridge

This isn’t a problem with “my” definition of cure. I’m using the commonly understood definition. If someone is successfully managing their type 1 diabetes with insulin and a healthy diet we don’t say they’re cured. They still have diabetes. If they stopped taking their meds and ate a ton of carb heavy foods they’d wind up in the hospital in a matter of days.

Same goes with mental illness. If you stop taking your meds, going to therapy, etc. your mental state will decline again. They’re still mentally ill, they’re just managing it.

Perhaps some people have acute moments of distress to the point where it’s clinically significant and treatment helps them weather that moment. Eventually they may return to their baseline of not needing drugs or therapy. But given the context of this thread (a woman killing herself after a decade of unsuccessful treatment) I figured it was fair to assume chronic mental illness. Something to the tune of major depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, etc.

The word cure isn’t a fluid term to me or most people. It’s something that connotes permentant relief of a person’s signs and symptoms of a given illness. Something that often isn’t the case for mental illness

Name a single curable mental illness.

I’ll help you out: there aren’t any. Some can be managed and worked around in day to day life. Some people may achieve a reasonable quality of life, but their illness will never totally disappear

Did you read the article? She’s been in intensive care for her mental health for a decade. This wasn’t some spur of the moment decision. Its taken 10 years to get to this point. To state that mental illnesses are curable and non-progressive is pure ignorance and you would do yourself well to learn how poor the prognosis is for people with severe mental illness. There isn’t a cure. You never feel whole or normal. Medication is a shot in the dark most of the time. Therapy doesn’t help everybody. Some people are truly and completely untreatable, and she is one of those people

Replace the teal with purple and you got it

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

A 4 year old .ml account spewing mysoginy? That’s a new one

Two things can be bad

Well when you put it that way I’m suddenly convinced! I’m gonna go buy me a pocket to put my Firefox in right now!

I legitimately do not get pocket. It’s just rebranded bookmarks

You can explain it to me. I’ll over confidently feign understanding for maximum frustration too!

At the very minimum, at least it’s based on something tangible about you as a person over horoscopes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still dumb and effectively useless but it could be worse

I really want to put a couple bottles of tablets in a blender and see what happens haha

Alternatively, work in a hospital or on an ambulance. We’ve got loads of the shit

Wow, can’t believe I havent heard of this site before. Tons of useful stuff in there, thank you!