Every Zionist should be put in a camp, Obama was a genocidal maniac, Stalin was based, North Korea is good, China is socialist, killing billionaires is morally correct, JDPON Don 2028, death to the Ukranian Nazi regime
Its called freedom of speech, liberal
This is amazing comrade! Please, take your time to rest and heal well! Eat plenty healthy and drink lots of water, and most of all rest the best you can. Wishing you the best with all my heart <3!
Please read the other comment I made in this thread, I hope it helps you beat it!
Firstly, I would like to preface by saying this is a tough addiction to beat, and is the addiction that defines our generation. Do not beat yourself up about this. I’m sure I speak for most of us comrades here to say that we care about you and your health.
That said, I’ll echo what other commenters here have said: 100% try a dopamine detox for u, for a full week or two. If it’s possible for you, inform your close friends/family what your are doing and that you may be harder to reach for a week. Basically, I would just turn off your phone and only use it when absolutely necessary, turning it off as soon as you’re done. Make sure to get a plethora of material that can at least somewhat entertain you without digital devices necessary and make them as convenient as possible to get to while making your phone as difficult as possible to access. Stick your phone in a drawer or something and have a stack of good books and maybe a crappy cheap MP3 player on your desk if you can find one. Granted, this is just about the most extreme option.
If the nuclear option is a bit impractical (which, for most people, it will be) I would set your phone to completely 100% grayscale and use the app ScreenZen or Mindful to set screentime limits for apps and block websites and such. If you care about privacy, I would turn off the network access for these apps as they require a lot of permissions that can be easily misused, and can work 100% offline. Mindful is open source and has privacy in mind, but if you’re properly paranoid (me), you’re gonna wanna get rid of its network access anyways. I personally find ScreenZen without network to be more useful as a leash to keep yourself on. It’s the only app I have found that allows you to set time limits for websites and allow cooldowns for apps rather than just completely blocking it after a certain point. Mindful might be more your speed during your detox phase because it completely hard locks sites and sets strict time limits for apps, but it’s up to you. Both have anti tamper protections that will prevent you from changing the settings unless absolutely necessary. I can let you know more about how I would personally configure them if you’d like. I would keep Mindful on for at least some long stretch of time—even after the detox has ended—before loosening the leash a bit by switching to ScreenZen, because you don’t wanna end up in the same place again.
On computers things get a bit more difficult, but scrolling is honestly not as stimulating on pc, at least to me. Regardless, you wanna take steps to prevent the scrolling from happening anyways. Fair warning: I never personally struggled with desktop scrolling, so I never did this, but there are anti scroll browser addons like this one for only chrome and this one for firefox and chrome (I can’t find one for safari on desktop lmao). I’m sure there are other methods too in order to bypass. You’ll have to experiment with that yourself unfortunately.
Best of luck to you in your journey. May you reclaim your brain.
Criticizing yourself based on whether you’d use it as a wallpaper is actually an amazing idea, so I’m stealing it!
Thank you very much comrade! Your resources will be put to use!
Are you trying to turn your friends communist? Think about your own radicalization - were you a diehard liberal who got outdebated by a marxist with impeccable sources once and promptly decided they had to change their whole worldview?
I mean, yeah, kinda. It didn’t really start like that of course. I came to Marxism because I was philosophically examining my morality, and I could not reconcile the concept of third world exploitation with my liberalism. I also like to examine the world scientifically, and Marxism applies to that essentially perfectly. I would’ve never become a Marxist-Leninist, though, were it not for some of our comrades debunking atrocity propaganda on its own right. I would have never come to the conclusion that I had to take up reading into the real history of Marxist nations, nor would I have ever tried to apply scientific Marxist theory to the world at large.
I almost want to believe my friend is much like I was, in a way. Believes the working class should be armed and in the fight against fascism and such, but at the same time he is very liberal. Wants Social Democracy because of a fetishization of the ‘Nordic Model’ as “the best system we have” at governing a nation. He thinks so similar to the way that I thought back then that I believe there’s got to be something there to exploit.
Even if I cannot convince him, we have a mutual friend, he’s more to the left of the first one by a good margin. Probably best described as a centrist (and not the horseshoe theory kind, just a less politically enlightened somewhat anti-America individual with previous exposure to anti-capitalism). I would like to pull him further left as well, make him into a proper socialist, actually do something with him and the other comrades in my friend group, but it doesn’t help me when friend 1 is mouthing off about Chinese colonization, Tibet or Xinjiang or some other nonsense dreck.
This thread has given me some amazing resources to assist in those endeavors, so I guess I just hope it goes well.
Excellent reply comrade! This comment is absolute gold for disproving a load of the atrocity propaganda, my only hope now is that he actually listens to it. Thank you very much!
Yeah, that would be why he loves it so much unfortunately
This may have been some form of error on my part during the reading of the question. For whatever reason, my mind took the phrase ‘coup’ as something much more public or, I supposed militarized than what happened to the USSR. Perhaps that is an incorrect way of looking at it. Call it a recent subconscious bias over what happened to Venezuela putting that interpretation at the forefront of my mind. China would undoubtedly repel Maduro-esque coup, and if the US were somehow successful in capturing Xi, it would have hell to pay in the sanctions it would recieve within the hour alone.
I also suppose that you could make an argument that because China has not gone through a period where the party line gave way to revisionism, the remaining party members would have more political capital to organize loyal factions of the PLA and the massive CPC membership to stage a counter-coup. This almost did happen in the USSR with the 1991 coup attempt at removing Gorbachev from office from more principled party members. I imagine that, were a sudden coup to just simply happen and some stooges were put in power in China, a similar chain of events would occur with a much more effective resistance measure due to the more principled party line at the moment. Take that interpretation with a grain of salt, as I am still brushing up on my Soviet history.
However, were the phrase ‘coup’ to mean something like what happened in the USSR—Yeltsin illegally dissolving the USSR after many decades of revisionism already rotting the party internally, and economic hardships on the people—this could cause a different series of events to happen in China. Even in the USSR though, there was an attempt at overthrowing the revisionist government. In China it would be a matter of questioning whether the revisionists would win in the military conflict or not.
Again, don’t take my word on the conjecture of the latter parts too heavily comrade, I may be mistaken, as I am still learning myself. :)
If China were to fall (isn’t gonna happen) and not very soon after becoming a heavily exploited vassal nation break out into a new revolution (would actually happen almost immediately because of the 100 million member communist party and PLA) the US would essentially be at the complete mercy of every climate and oil crisis that may occur. Massive ecological collapse, immigration crises like we’ve never seen, economic and technological stagnation, and running completely out of fossil fuels in the next several decades. It would be a much more brutal future as the global south would be violently crushed under the heel of the empire once things start going, well, south. In the current timeline, though, it seems like that is only going to become less and less likely as massive portions of the global south are beginning to wean off of the West with the help of China (Belt and Road).
I am from the US and learned cursive writing in kindergarten. It became my primary way to handwrite for some time, although now I am blending a bit more of print writing into my writing fashion. On the culture of touch starving, that I can agree is silently murderous to many people. When every touch, no matter how innocent, is sexualized and sexualization is a horrible taboo to most of society, a basic form of human connection is lost between entire generations of people.
Yeah, this place sucks… I’ve only ever met a handful of decent people who don’t become rabid at the first chance. I have no earthly idea how with these as my material conditions I became a communist.
I have long learned that lesson myself, unfortunately. Still, I feel like writhing in my skin whenever I simply have to stand there and swallow the slur without any action.
ooh yeah no YouTube ads is huge. Invidious and NewPipe are godsends. Me personally I’ve had relatively annoying inconveniences from changing my operating system because Google and Apple don’t let you see RCS chats (the thing that has read reciepts and allows for reactions) in group chats on third party messaging apps, so I’ve had to migrate every gc I’ve been in on SMS to Signal or Matrix. other than that degoogling is a lovley experience esp when you start downloading the foss replacement apps for stuff
Super Productivity app my beloved
Good on you for degoogling. It can be rlly inconvenient at times but it’s more than worth it
Chinese.
This artwork is amazing! I think I’ll definitely use one of these for some form of wall paper for sure. Thank you!
Oh yeah, I don’t feel bad for lying about it one bit. I do still care for my parents, but some of the things this family says and does make my skin crawl. I plan to leave the US in the future, so I will let them come to terms with it on their own at that point. Unfortunately, the reality is that because of their unhealthy love for this nation, they will insist on reaping what they have sown here when it all comes crashing down, which I’d wager is somewhat sooner rather than later.
Maybe that will help them change their mind. I don’t know.
In the meantime, I would like to take what little public pride I can in fighting in some small way for the liberation of mankind. So, subtle it is then lol
Lmao. Shame to see this take on Lemmygrad of all places.
If this is a genuine good faith opinion you hold, I honestly don’t intend to argue it with you. Countless articles, essays, debates, and comments have been written about this exact thing, so much so I don’t intend to repeat the same point ad nauseum. You can search up those writings for that and read them yourself.
I’ll save my breath, and let China’s future on the world stage do the talking.
东方红。