1. I’m NB
2. I’m very offended by this comment and
3. You are 100% correct

I’ve been dealing with a similar anxiety recently. It sucks.

I’m a bit afraid of the future, but here is what I’ve learned during this time:

1. Sometimes we need some bravery to go on.
2. Sometimes our brain hurts us for no good reason.

I hope you will make it through this tough chapter of your life.

This might be it:

Making reading a daily habit was one of the best thing I’ve done. I used to avoid reading books like plague, but by reserving some of my time daily to just read helped me get used to it.

I recommend pretty much anything from Michael Parenti, but my favourite so far is Inventing Reality. I find his books also to be easy to read, which might help.

Btw if you’d like to change your doomscrolling habits into doomreading, The Divide by Jason Hickel goes into unequal development and ends talking about climate change, and how doomed we are.

To Kill a Nation by Michael Parenti

Communism is when the spoon is comically big.

Hmm I do wonder what happened to those XiBucks…

As a Finn I literally got told in school that Winter War was a “defensive victory” for Finland.

A reminder that judaism doesn’t recognize the new testament.

I’ve been seeing videos from Sabbatical. He’s from the US and seems to understand China from a typical anticommunist worldview, but he’s most likely well-meaning and respectful of Chinese people and culture.

relationship goals

Russia asking help from North Korea was always less about Russia being desperate and more about 2 sanctioned countries finding themselves in the same team. Ukraine has been asking help too, but media does not interpret that as being desperate.

The developing/underdeveloped countries have been made reliant on foreign investment trought colonialism and coups, making them have no choice but to agree to loan terms. These terms ironically strip away the same ways to develop that modern rich countries used to develop themselves, like high tariffs and infant industry protection.

By market logic the poorer countries then have to compete for investment by cutting wages and social programs. The rich countries can instead subsidise food production, enjoy safety nets and bail out their companies in economic downterms. This doesn’t even touch the unequal exchange between the poor and the rich.

Stepping out of line is not an option. The IMF, World bank and WTO have made that clear

The Finnish Communist Workers party has a similar take. They do say that multipolarity is a good thing, but call Russia and China imperialist.

What is the 1st picture about?

This evening I cooked some chicken with some veggies and rice. I tried making it taste close to chinese/asian and after tasting I think I achieved that. Using seasoning that I had at hand and letting them fry in watered down japanese kikkoman soysace with a teaspoon of sugar added did the trick. I’ve also made some New York style oven cheesecake a few times now.

If you google “public opinion survey residents of the autonomous republic of crimea” you can find a survey made by US in 2013. There is one for Ukraine as well. The surveys tells atleast how ethnically Russian Crimea is and how divided rest of Ukraine is between the west and Russia.

To clarify I don’t support Wagner, I just find ‘mercenaries’ to not quite describe them.

I wouldn’t call Wagner group literal mercenaries. Basically Wagner has been recruiting prisoners with the condition that their service will pay for their crimes. A mercenary would fight for the money but I find Wagners method of operation is different. “Fight for your motherland and your name will be cleared.” There is also a strong ‘patriotism’ among the group. Is there a much difference in other ‘patriotic’ Russian soldiers? I’ve been listening Scott Ritter for invormation and if I’m wrong please correct me. In his words “if you would call a Wagner soldier mercenary, they would punch you in the face.”

I used to watch Vaush. Then Hakim converted me with his debunking of Vaush’s ‘Lenin and Mao would of voted for Biden theory’. I had to watch it a 2nd time just to get any of Hakim’s arguments since the 1st time was me brainrotting trying to defend Vaush and just trying to find anything attackable.