I remember big arguments about that stuff but not the specifics. IMHO, therapy can work for some people, and fail for others. Same way with physiological treatments. Going straight to drugs for every problem is what the capitalist pharmaceutical industry would love for you to do. And I see that option thrown at you the SECOND to mention a potential neurological condition. This leads to a lot of over prescriptions and misdiagnosis. People coming out worse then going in. It yields a distrust in the system that has a rebound effect of causing some people to say it's ALL bad. Same with therapy. "It didn't work for me so it's all bad."
IMO, both of those sentiments are reactionary. The brain and the human thought process is super complicated. We BARELY understand it. We may know a ton more now then every before, but it's still barely scratching the surface. And while just throwing SSRIs at everything right out of the gate is truly not a great idea, so is saying we shouldn't do anything.
Same with therapy. Western therapy is designed to mitigate people realizing that most of their issues with anxiety and depression are the system they live in. So western therapy is mainly about how to cope with the system and accept that you can't change it so why try? So when you problem is related to the system, or a straight up neurological issues, therapy isn't going to do a whole lot for you. That being said, I know several people that have had issues within themselves that have done therapy and got a lot of help.
The main issue is simply that these things will never be used correctly under capitalism. In a sane society these things are used to treat and cure real issues. In a capitalist system they are just ways to use people to make profit. Fixing an issue is a byproduct of you making rich people richer. And actually curing people is a taboo cause you don't get more money out of a cured patient. Don't fix a joint when you can just give them cortisone injections for pain for the rest of their life. Don't try different medications that can potentially lead to long term cures for neurological conditions. Just give them shit that suppresses the symptoms, that they have to take for the rest of their life. But just because capitalism ruins something, doesn't mean we should simply abandon it outright.
Adding to everyone else and saying, I have always seen liberal beliefs as basically hypocrisy. Like that's it, all of their idealisms are just hypocrisy. They won't admit it of course, but that's what it is. It's all that is it. And when you entire belief system is being a hypocrite, then really, you believe in nothing at all cause it all counters itself.
Unfortunately the environment doesn't end at countries borders. China can do all the want to improve their own, and more power to them for doing it. It's truly amazing and wonderful, but unless the world stage follows suit, one country won't stop what's coming..
Another good point. People still have things to lose. It takes extremes to get ordinary people to be willing to fight. Not only that. From weapon standpoint it takes more and more people willing to fight, in order to combat the technology superiority against us. Literally the entire US military is designed for this. Fighting against a lesser armed foe.
The ones that believe it like me will be murdered for it and the rest will call it AI propaganda cause most Americans have internalized and inability to think critically for themselves.
Maos peasants weren't people propagandized from birth to worship capitalism and be good little nationalists that believe every other nation on earth is a shit hole, and taught that communism is the literal devil incarnate. I'd take the peasant over that any day. You could actually talk to those people without the threat of semi-automatic weapons being pointed at you. It's easier to start with a nearly blank slate then one that's had this level of propaganda drilled into their being.
This but also.... I kinda feel the same about people that treat these "influencers" as if they are supposed to be infallible, and then freak out over every instance of imperfection. Has their been a left side "influencer" in history that didn't say some unhinged shit in their life or have some bad habit or acts? I mean shit, imagine what kind of tweets Marx would have had? He was a great man but he wasn't a saint. I've seen plenty of people on here say we need to not like, worship influencers and treat them as infallible, and yet those same people rant when some influencer shows themselves as having faults. So what is it? Are the supposed to be perfect or aren't they?
Some people have shit takes. I'm not gonna defend a bad take, but I'm analytical enough to know people aren't perfect. I sure as fuck am not. So I look at it like this, Yugo and the dudes on that podcast have done more to bring more people into communism, real actual communism, then I have, so I'm not gonna cast no stones. And I'm sure as fuck not calling him a Nazi for having a rage fit over how fucking crazy Americans and chuds in general are. I hear these people every day. If an intelligent and learned communist can hear the things I've heard, and not at any point think, even once, "there might be something wrong with these people" , then I'd have to question if that person was real.
I don't agree but when I look around at the people in this country.... I mean, I get where someone might say something like this.... I have developed a fear of talking to people because of the crazy shit I hear. The first few times I heard someone say something so crazy that I legitimately thought "no way a person just said this?" I was shocked, but now I'm constantly shocked at how often it keeps happening....
I do, legitimately think a large portion of Americans lacks critical thinking, and have some absolutely bat shit insane thoughts. But in all seriousness, the majority of it is literally just propaganda, brain rotting media, and purposeful failure to teach critical thinking at young ages. Critical thinking isn't just something that happens magically later in life. You have to teach it, and schools in this country....lol. The system is designed to keep us uneducated and compliant. They don't want us to think for ourselves, to act for ourselves, and definitely not to question ourselves and by extension, what they have told us. Anyone that argues it's not is either not paying attention or not here to witness it. Then, when someone lives long enough like that, it just becomes a core foundation of who they are. It's not some metal disease, it's just, all they know.
And while shit like pollution can affect the development of the brain, I would say, saying a whole country the size of the US is that way because of it, is a bit of a stretch.
China has done a fuck ton to be where they are at and saying "do nothing, win" sometimes can feel like belittling all the hard work and sacrifice their people have done to get China where it is today.
They are just humble about it and not actually looking at it like a race. They have a goal and they intend to reach it. That's it. The only one that sees it as a race is the US, and all they are doing is trying to hold on to an old lead they got through cheating and sabotaging the competition. But that isn't working on China, particularly because of all the work they put into building themselves up.
On a similar tangent, I once read something about gold prices. That basically, a gold coin has about the same amount of buying power over time with only minor fluctuations. Gold "price" doesn't go up so much as moneys "value" goes down. So buying and "investing" in metals like gold doesn't really increase the value of your investment so much as it does prevent your savings from deflating in value.
All these western states outside the US making a show of resistance will all fold the second action sets off. The US will annex Canada with barely a fight and the Canadian forces will then help put down their own people when they protest. All western militaries are fascist and will join the imperialists against their own in order to save their own skin. Add to this, the west is operating on an almost entirely finite supply of munitions since they outsourced it all. Add to that the rare earth trade that China controls means they are having even more trouble running what little manufacturing they still have. They can't afford to waste the resources on each other when they still want to go to war with China. So they will surrender with barely a fight. Maybe let some troops that are actually loyal to the people get killed off first to make it look like they tried. Then sit back and put the boot on the rest while they live it up. It's what puppet leaders of other imperialists nations do, why wouldn't they do it too?
It's serious disgusting. Thanks to these people this dude got EVERYTHING he wanted. He went in there to get clout and fame. He wanted to be relevant and now he is. He's already getting thousands in donations. They really think he's gonna pay for their car damaged out of some sense of honor? Lol. Fucking what a joke. Guys like this will take your hand to save their life, then toss you in the pit as soon as they are safe. This dude should have disappeared into the crowd and not emerged.
And for fucks sake turn your fucking cameras off. We film our own actions and do the feds jobs for them. We incriminate our own movements all for Internet points. Either leave your phone home, off, or take a burner. They will track your shit and know everything that's going on.
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