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reading the essay he wrote is eye-opening, or eye-watering. he's a bloodthirsty ghoul by any measure, brushing off the genocide in palestine and the US' war of aggression in Iran - if he were in power there'd probably be British boots on the ground in Iran.

You are treating one side differently from the rest because one side is in a dramatically different situation to the other side and you are acting as if they are the same. Slaves and masters, oppressed and oppressor, treated with the "same" moral and ethical rigour despite one side actively trying to exploit the other.

I mean 2 million years ago humans didn't exist but lots of other life did. Why are we some kind of pinnacle? Some kind of special extra-natural entity? It's a very human/andro centric approach to viewing the world.

The non-dualism comes more into the problem of religion and scientific analysis. If your philosophical world-view posits that there is a power outside of nature that can influence it independently of nature itself, then how can you square the circle with the science of observation and testing of hypothesis. Surely every time you prove that things are only influenced by their material surroundings and conditions, then you are narrowing, constantly, the scope in which a dualistic power can act upon the world. If you have a divine power that ultimately has no outside observable influence on the world, then you end up falling back to spinoza's monist view of the divine and nature, the basis for most materialist atheist philosophies.

For a short piece pulling at this thread from Engels: https://redsails.org/shamefaced-materialism/

After waiting 12 weeks for a 6 week course of CBT that does the bare minimum to get you functioning again: OK now get back to work little worker bee, hope you don't freak out again. If you do freak out again, you have to re-join the 12 week wait list that is now actually 20 weeks. If you do group "therapy" (some online seminars), the wait list is still 12 weeks though!

Find a sport you like and do it weekly with a friend or friends, and/or make new friends doing it. If you have ADHD, pick a new sport every 3-6 months if you get bored.

Edit: my vote is for squash

Though both parties are reactionary, their understanding of the basis of political and economic power are completely opposed, with the workers party being opposed to allying with finance and big business capital, and Reform happily allying with those same powers.

Social policy is not the be-all-and-end-all of theories of change.

City councils have a lot of power with regards to local governance and procurement, which is targeted explicitly by the BDS campaign. More pro-gaza councillors = more people to vote on divestment from boycott targets.

For your and others' consideration: https://redcompass.substack.com/p/the-middle-class-is-not-a-myth

The existence of inheritance makes people think of housing as a nest egg and investment vehicle, to be dispensed before or after death as a profit making instrument to their children. This is why large swathes of home-owners are interested in house prices always climbing, to the detriment of the non-homeowning portion of the working class.

It's not about politeness, it's that the crown have now firmly established themselves as part of the capitalist class, and expropriating them would be the same as expropriating any old capitalist. They have class solidarity and won't allow that to happen baring outbreaks of war with foreign adversaries.

The DPRK is more democratic than the UK and you have no idea how its democratic and political system functions, and are invoking it as an anti-communist canard.

The UK is a democracy for the rich, where any wins that are forced out of them by the working class are slowly reversed back to the status quo.