I myself am interested in the human race investigating more into how typical vs deviant relationships might have hard-to-see (and certainly hard-to-acknowledge) long term consequences of some sort. I am currently agnostic and I think that both extreme ends of relationships can be both healthy and cool as well as incredibly poisonous. I respect your views though I understand your hesitancy in a communist community.

That being said, I think that it can be much more complicated than that. I’m seeing one girl who really likes my closely guarded feminine side, but in our dynamic I am still by far the traditional masculine role. We take turns depending on the context in who is “dominating” although I would say there is little of that in either direction.

I also see other people where I am much more clearly filling a stereotypical male role, and others where it is more akin to “role reversal”. So far I think they all have their merit, and the most severe potential issues will be the result not of which roles we are filling but other internal issues.

I certainly think there are people who enter non-traditional setups acting out their traumas, unhealthy thinking, and other bullshit. But I see plenty of people doing the exact same thing in traditional setups. I think our society is just deeply fucked and right now there is no easy fix for that for many people.

This also struck me as a potential explanation. I can confirm as someone “going through a lot of shit” that girls who are sweet and want a good, simple, happy, stable relationship, and who have eaten their share of shit and deserve kindness and happiness, these girls make me want to push them away for their own sake.

I agree there are definitely women who are very turned off by such things. But I also know women who are very turned on by such things.

Because he said he was in the military, that they did something and recieved some sort of crazy high honor and met the president (good news is, when asked he said he “doesn’t care for any of the presidents”), claims he has his number or some shit.

As far the MK shit…this was my exact terror. I deadass stopped him from walking me down a road because I was convinced I was about to get blackbagged. I was deadass prepared to say some shit like “Do whatever you want just don’t hurt my friends or family. I’ll cooperate if you don’t hurt me too.” Seriously. I was that (haha) spooked.

I seriously wonder if he hypnotized me or some shit. Like he would ask me to do simple things and I would but like…everything would shift. It was weird. I feel throbs in my head and then he texts me on the dot asking if I felt it. What the fuck. He’s either really, really good. Or really. Really. Bad. And I’m fucking tripping or some shit. Hard. (That might be true regardless)

Late, but make sure you apologize in a way that recognizes his suffering, confronts his part, acknowledges your own part, and stands firm; don’t overly prostrate yourself and take whole responsibility. It would also likely have to be paired with a bigger conversation about his smoking and how it may generally affect his behavior. Allow him to talk but don’t let him twist things.

Love you man.

Hey, someone very close to me was in and out of residential treatments multiple multiple multiple times before they overcame their addiction. It’s brutal. I hope you don’t have to go through half of that shit. But I just want you to know that no matter how ugly shit gets that it is always at some level fixable. I wish you the best of luck. I know it is a cliche, but, stay strong my friend. 💜

These are ALL things I wish I could do and learn.

However, I’m honestly at the point where I’m putting all my eggs into the basket of the game of life in this shithole as it exists now. I am fully invested in this society as it is with the hand-wavy assumption that I can adapt should the circumstances radically change (which I do genuinely believe I could). This is partially based on strategic decision making and partially based in the fact that the life I have requires 100% of my attention and spare energy to be reinvested in the bottomless pit.

This hurts my eyes

I’ve lived in South Carolina (3x), North Carolina (6x), Arkansas, Indiana, West Virginia. I’ve also spent a bit of time in Georgia, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, and visited many others. Beaches, mountains, endless fields. Suburbs, small towns, and one bigger metro (Charlotte). Notably I have never really been to New England nor the West Coast.

It’s kind of funny but I almost can’t tell the difference. North Dakota to Texas to Nevada to Alabama to Chicago (oops, I mean, “Illinois”), each has their unique flavor but it’s all predominantly and irreparably USian to me. They all suck but they’re all alright. They all have pros and cons that are neck and neck with each other IMO. They all have some quirks, some organic and many artificial, but they all have an overbearing sense of samey-ness unless you can crack through the surface to something deeper, which is unfortunately not something easily quantifiable. They all are full of bigots, radlibs vs. fascists, McDonald’s, pockets of beautiful unspoiled nature, and a shitty selection of jobs that all want to f*** you in the mouth for spare change, how I see it.

Sorry if this is unhelpful but I’ve been asking myself the same damn question 😭😭😭

Joe Biden and Donald Trump, both communists according to my fellow Murkkkans

I cosign this!!

It would make good memes, like, fake propaganda posters for the CPA that illustrate the identical fundamentals of the “two” parties.

Any chance you can collect yourself and re-approach and ask again? Do you think perhaps they might make an exception for you if you press them and illustrate your passion?

And even if you really can’t, it’s okay, real life experience is ALWAYS valuable. You are no parasite just by living my friend.

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I just like how The Llama is really pulling a “bruh it was satire” 💀💀💀

To try and cut through the beef I just want to say that regardless of our opinions on anime, I think we can all agree that:

1. We all do and enjoy things that other people find cringey.

2. Anime is just an artform like any other. Culturally it has stereotypically attracted a lot of people who are unsavory, but the same could be said with a large amount of fans of any hobby, interest, franchise, media, etc.

I see both sides to the discourse. Personally I like a few animes but it’s not a main interest of mine. But who would I be to criticize? I shove rap down the throats of everybody in my life. Ya’all should see my Instagram stories, I’m sure many people would call it “cringey.” 🤷‍♂️ we all got lanes to fill. I’m conflicted too because on one hand I think socialism should be marketable to ALL people so any sort of distinguishable flavor to its adherents to me is a negative, but at the same time I highly value people being themselves and targeting the niches they know best.

I got the sense that many Germans were not so on board anymore with US and that it really dragged its feet chipping in for Ukraine. Is that wrong?

Yeezus, thems did a magic show and disappeared 😶‍🌫️

I was in a lot of spaces that would call that “synchronicity,” idk if you’ve ever heard of that.

But yeah, to me, I see it as a “you know if you know” sort of thing. Like, some shit like that is just too crazy to write off as coincidence.

And let’s be real, if this shit is real and it was really your grandmother subtly using her spiritual energy to tweak the algorithm to give you a sign, or whatever it is, it would probably be in small ways that we could ultimately convince ourselves are “just a coincidence.”

It’s a fine thread to toe because obviously going too far can lead to seeing EVERYTHING as a synchronicity, aka schizophrenia.

Look, you know your life better than me but that story to me resonates and I see no reason why that couldn’t very well be your grandma. To me at a certain point it becomes more irrational to tell myself this shit isn’t real when the evidence to the contrary piles up. I’ve definitely caught myself reading too hard into shit to see what I wanted to see, but I feel like I can tell when some Real Ass Shit ™ is happening, versus when I’m just being a egotistical dipshit who can’t see past the blur of my own bullshit.

I don’t know if you relate to any of that, I just don’t want you to convince yourself that it might not be true, when I find that being open to this sort of stuff often leads to the real crazy shit happening.

BIG RANT

I’ve definitely been there. You talking more low income/genuine redneck area or like Lily white upper middle class militia dad suburb?

Yeah, I’ve had similar experiences. However, at least I know if I cleaned myself up and got a haircut and stopped looking like a delinquent I could pass pretty incognito in these spaces–and I have plenty before, I just briefly had a job with, as I say, “a lot of cowboys,” at least one of which was extremely racist and presumably the rest were at least apathetic or willfully ignorant to it. I can’t imagine just sticking out like a sore thumb to cacs well known for owning a shitload of guns by default no matter what I did, it’s ridiculous that that would happen to someone doing volunteer work of all things. I know moving is a pain in the ass terrible but I hope you don’t live there whenever shit starts accelerating.

Like I said, I don’t think he had explicit leanings, I don’t think he had been given that vocabulary and his understanding may have taken years to develop, but analyzing lyrics to me belies a fundamental compatibility and trajectory towards MLism.

Thanks for reading all that, spirituality+X is like two of my four or five most major interests 😆

To me, the fundamental character of the systems and their typical behaviors means that I find it likely that something like this, about a capitalist empire, would be real, whereas something about a revolutionary government is statistically less likely to be true and more likely to be a psyop by a capitalist empire to stain their image. We don’t really have any examples of AES nor even anti imperialist countries manufacturing lies directly to Western audiences to defame their own countries…leaks that are “West bad” and especially “USA bad” overwhelmingly tend to be true and back up by lots of known contexts and precedents.

That said, I think that at a certain point intentional lying done overwhelmingly by capitalists/fascists has muddied the waters so much that it’s really hard at times to definitively say whether X Y or Z is true or false. And, quite simply, it is of my opinion that communists should let ourselves be a little less concerned about absolute perfection and more concerned with memeability and impact. I’d rather share something that turned out to be false as long as it radicalized people along the way. That might be a hot take because communism to represents the ultimate truth in every way, we have a monopoly on truth, so it feels ugly to say that, but at the same time, is vie oh lens not also an ugly thing that we have to utilize in a war where our enemies have no moral qualms chaining them down?

Wait, are you saying this picture is different that picture(s) in the article?

Interesting. How come?

Did they oppress the Chinese similar to other empires did to their conquered subjects? Genuinely asking I don’t know

Wow, this looks very interesting, I look forward to listening to it!

(Feel no obligation to read the rest I’m just rambling it out)

Yeah, because it’s way easier to photoshop a photograph of a paper in skewed lighting half folded, than it would be to simply release purportedly original files with the numbers changed digitally. 🙄 Damn, that’s some serious cope.

I hate how Elon Musk so often shits on the war profiteers just by sheer virtue of being a smug anti government technoblyat. “Guy Who You Hate Made A Good Point”

(No hate btw if any of ya’all are hipsters, I myself have had some aspects rubbed off on me, you know the types of people I’m talking about, the spoiled shitlibs who treat politics like a social club and who LARP being poor, etc)

Hakim definitely played a huge role in demystifying the USSR for me, which was a huge key to all the rest.

Was this the same incident as when you said you had your hair out and some lady claimed she had never seen you? It sounds familiar to something you mentioned a month or so ago.

Regardless, that’s a terrible feeling, I hate that you experienced that so casually.

On one hand, we must claim sovereignty over our lives, as we alone are the ones who must change them, regardless of the context.

On the other hand, alcohol is a devastatingly destructive drug that is ruthlessly advertised, widely available and quite accepted if not pressured in this sick society at large.

I just lost my girlfriend of 7 years so I understand how you feel.

I commend your success in quiting, I hope you find more victories repairing your life and eventually thriving.

You know, it’s one thing to call Russia and China “totalitarian regimes” when they have been propagandized to about specifically them for so long.

It’s another thing to call the REST of Asia and the ENTIRETY of Africa and South America “totalitarian regimes” when you KNOW 99% of the motherfuckers have never heard even a single headline about 80%+ of these countries.

It is just pure garden vs jungle racism. They really think their golden billion is the pure democratic good guys and that the other 6.5 billion people in the world, the VAST majority of people in the world, are ALL stupid and/or evil.

It makes me both amused and sick when people will spend their entire domestic political discussions talking about how democracy in the West has been dying for decades (particularly USA), but as soon as the conversation leaves the garden even the most “left wing” of these worthless hamburgers will tout the conflict as “democracy vs authoritarianism.” Even when I was teetering dangerously close to shitlibbery I was never under the illusion that the US was a democracy whatsoever. This is fucking batshit.

Nah, the disease is just more open and honest, which a necessary first step before it can be properly excised.

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Have you ever had an experience with any spiritual/paranormal entities? If so, have you ever tried or thought about trying to form a relationship?

I’m possibly atypical (also wait are we talking general mental normalcy or specifically autism spectrum?) and I pray, I definitely think for some people it would or wouldn’t work but I wouldn’t necessarily draw that line along neurotypical/atypical

Your powers are strong!!

I have had dreams come true IRL…moment for moment…shit was a headfuck.

Honestly can we even trust that this shit isn’t some deep state fuckery shit. Ain’t a normal thing happen in this country, and if it does we can’t tell the difference because of how dirty the waters have been made