I will say I work in a very dangerous or crime-heavy location, so we have to deal with cops a LOT. An obscene amount. There is a rather arduous process involved… store management needs to be there to grant access, a warrant is required, etc.

Well, it’s mostly private surveillance so it’s ok. Muh property rights and all that.

Thing bad when gubment does it. Thing good when corporation does it!

I got a write-up for sitting on an SCO machine for all of 2 minutes when it was a ghost town in the store. Got called into the manager’s office and they showed me the footage.

It was surreal. Creepy as fuck. A reminder: we’re watching you.

Sometimes I stand around and look at the cameras, point at them even. I’m watching, too.

Work in retail. The amount of cameras is downright dizzying. Sometimes more cameras than people.

Don’t let the images or my descriptions make anyone reading paranoid. It feels like even mentioning the words “bed bug” is enough to manifest them into existence, sometimes. You probably know if you have them. If you’re worried, be on the lookout for stains like those in the spoiler, and cylindrical off-white tubes about the size of a pen’s tip. Kill on sight, and show no mercy. They will show you none.

Thanks for the advice. My parents constantly get them, making it nigh impossible to spend the night at their house.

I swear it was so bad when I lived with them it horribly exacerbated my unaliving tendencies. They’re cursed little monsters (I’m allergic, too!) and the world would be better off if they were annihilated imo.

omg

This is a joke, I think. I think it’s kinda funny in a really fucked up kinda way lol.

I mean, he talks about using the momentum he’s gained here to literally reverse Brexit , and claims he wants a “new lover” who looks like his dead wife. I really hope it’s somebody running a really long joke.

I’ve taken to calling it (voting for the Other Guy) harm redirection. That is perhaps still too charitable a take.

tw: gr**ming

What’s the difference?

I would not say without a fight. The Finnish Whites massacred the Finnish Reds (…and by extension anyone at all thought to be sympathetic to workers).

https://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/1930/year-one-sa/finland2.html

The victors massacred the vanquished. Since ancient times class wars have always been the most frightful. There are no more bloody and atrocious victories than the victories of reactionary classes. Since the blood-bath inflicted on the Paris Commune by the French bourgeoisie, the work had not seen anything comparable to the horrors of Finland. From the first shot of the civil war, “belonging to a workers’ organization in White territory meant arrest; to have been an official in such organization meant execution. The massacre of socialists reached such proportions that it ended by interesting no one.” At Kummen, where 43 Red Guards fell in battle, nearly five hundred persons were executed! There were “hundreds” executed at Kotka, a town of thirteen thousand inhabitants. “They didn’t even ask their names; they just led them away in groups.” At Raumo, according to a bourgeois newspaper, “five hundred prisoners captured on May 15 got the punishment they deserved the same day.” “April 14 in Toeloe, a suburb of Helsingfors, two hundred Red Guards were killed with machine guns … The Reds were hunted from house to house. Many women perished.” At Sveaborg the public executions were set for Trinity Sunday. In the neighborhood of Lakhtis, where the Whites took thousands of prisoners, “the machine guns worked several hours a day.” “On one day alone two hundred women were killed with dumdum bullets; pieces of flesh flew in every direction.”

It’s unwise to assume truth regarding breaking news, especially when it’s continents away. We mustn’t so quickly forget the “Russian bombing” of Poland that wound up being a Ukrainian misfire. Panic damn near caused WW3.

I do not want to get too far into it for my own safety, but I’d argue against even becoming involved with BRG or his org FTP.

Just listen to his interview on revleft to get a grasp of how little he actually cares about achieving revolution. It’s almost nothing but buzzwords – China is social imperialist and revisionist, the answer to revolution in Amerika is simply PPW, etc. etc. Tautological nothings.

FTP is slightly less deranged than the Red Guards. They still uphold Gonzalo, much as they try to pretend they don’t.

He’s good, but IIRC he’s said he’s not a “leftist” and distanced himself from “lefttube and breadtube”, calling them mainly white constructs.

IIRC, don’t quote me, in the same bit he said something about supporting certain capitalist policy and certain socialist policy.

Uh… critical support. 🫡

Similarly to La Résistance, we shall unite against libertarianism on the basis of it being a far greater horror than any difference in ideology between us.

I believe that I agree, generally.

As a certified Bipolar, I still think this is a worthwhile conversation to have.

There can be aspects of a field of study that are worth preserving while others exist that are worth less than nothing.

My medication journey began with my involuntary instutionalization as a child because I told my mom I was so depressed I wanted to drop out of school. I was sent to a juvenile detention center (selling itself as a “behavioral health facility”). It was hell. I was a suicidal, depressed teenager now surrounded by other kids ranging from runaways to pyromaniacs to sex offenders to those with violent tendencies.

It took 7 years to get my meds where they needed to be for me to function, and another 2 to find a med combination I can be content with. For those 7 years, I took prozac. I do not speak lightly when I say those years fried the hell out of my brain, and it’s taken long, tumultuous years of work to try to unfry it.

I am glad for my meds. I attend pay-what-you-can therapy. The end goal of all of it, though, despite my intentions, despite my healthcare providers’ intentions – at a systemic level – is to transform me and other useless eaters into productive members of society, not fully actualized people.

Oh, and to sell meds at 2000x the price it costs to manufacture them, of course.

Tangential addendum: the DSM sucks and has a foundation rooted in oppression and repression of LGBT people and political dissidents. and the overly prescriptive nature of western psychiatry (as opposed to a more holistic view of mental health) is maintained by the effort of pharmaceutical and healthcare profiteers through captured agencies like the American Psychiatric Association.

I highly recommend the website https://www.madinamerica.com/ for an alternative view - what they call critical psychiatry.

I do not hate many, however I do tend to hold great disdain for people with their heads so far up their own narcissistic asses that they utterly fail to recognize the humanity in others.

Especially glowing types like yourself, instigator.

I beg you: literacy, especially critical reading skills, are a blessing. You are squandering that blessing.