Damn this is a good one. It captures such specific emotions.

The child has sadness and worry in his eyes but is outwardly happy, perhaps hopeful for a better future. The hope and worry are gone in the adult, but the sadness persists. Now it's a tired, worn-down sadness. The possibilities that existed in youth have converged into a simple, predictable future. Get up, get ready for work, go to work, come home, unwind from work, go to sleep, repeat until death.

Maybe this is one the futures the child had hoped for, a life with stability and predictability. That's what he studied and worked for, it's better than many people have. But now that he's on this path with nothing to look forward to but the rest of his life, he'd rather look back on a time that had more hope and possibility.

Never listened to a whole episode of chapo for some reason, but have listened to both hell series a couple times as well as other matt compilations. So not me ig

He's occasionally a little vibey with his analysis but still probably one of the best leftist edutainment sources out there (by some arbitrary metric I'm having a hard time conceptualizing, like there's no one else that's simultaneously as educational/knowledgeable and entertaining, most other people lean one way or the other). Sometimes I want vibes and it's nice to be yelled at by someone with an actual material grounding instead of pure woo nonsense.

Geopolitics is an infinite series of unrelated and disconnected vacuums. G7 is one entity over here, BRICS is another entity waaaay over there. It's like the earth and the moon, they can kinda see each other once in a while, but they have no effect on each other whatsoever.

One is the obvious enemy, the other is cynically occupying the space of progressive. A parasite sucking up radical potential and dissipating it or redirecting it into nonthreatening outlets (like bourgeois electoralism)

Lol idfc about Twitter libs, they don't exist materially. These people don't show up at rallies or mutual aid, none of them are in orgs. If anyone wanna argue about the virtues of voting for a blue or red fascist they can show up and talk while we do real work, otherwise they deserve less than mockery

Yeah libs ain't doing that at all lol. They aren't looking for the lesser evil, they're looking for the person that hides US atrocities better so they can go back to brunch guilt free.

What if it was an edge site?

Y'all dismissing the DSA better be in a different org, otherwise it's just internet posturing. Having a radical caucus within a moderate org is a much better place to be than no organization at all. It's also a good first step towards finding like minds and branching off.

If you have a PSL or whatever in your area then great, otherwise join the DSA and meet people. The perfect communist party isn't gonna just pop into existence.

I think it's fine but agree it's nowhere near a best movie list. At least it's not what I'm looking for in a movie.

Cheesy and without charm, idk. Might be cynical or just a taste thing. But the movie does feel really white in a way I can't put into words, and "cheesy" kinda works. There's kind of a charm to it, but in an idyllic faux grittiness, like a portrayal of societal problems in an unthreatening, individualistic way that wraps it all up in a feel good ending.

Who gonna make a George Jackson movie?

feel free to make suggestions if you have them, unless they're diet and exercise and mindfulness

Sorry to be that person, but I'll add sleep, water, and vitamin deficiencies to the annoying suggestion list. I found an antidepressant that worked decently well for me, but there's still a long list of things that can contribute to "bad days" despite the altered neurochemistry. Vitamin D and B seem big for me. Iron or magnesium for some people I know.

Also important for me, socialisation and a sense of purpose/productivity. The former like some sort of conversation with someone, or in-person mutual aid work sometimes. The latter might just be cleaning or organizing, or putting together a spreadsheet or document with plans or smth.

Wrt finances, the mutual aid comm might be able to help with a one-time thing for an assessment. Depending on how much time you have, /r/workonline and /r/beermoney also have a few resources for side income that isn't one of the many gig apps.

Kinda wild you're getting ratioed for softly encouraging investigation lmao

No investigation, no right to speak

Y'all other libs need to stop just adopting the meme positions of this site without actually reading, the realities of the decisions made in history are infinitely more complex than "this leader smart, all decision good; that leader dumb, all decision bad"

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