• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    14 days ago

    Have a great week, everyone! Keep up with whatever it is you’re trying to do, steady progress yields steady results!

    As always, communism will win.

  • Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    13 days ago

    I think I reached a new level of depression, cigarettes and alcohol are doing absolutely nothing. Silver lining is that it’ll be easier to quit, I guess.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      13 days ago

      I feel similar lately with sugar. Feels like this year has been extra stressful. Hope things get better for you soon, one way or another. ❤️

    • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      12 days ago

      Stay strong, my (Brazilian) comrade. Capitalism stretches our willpower and stamina to the limit, but we need to keep going, if not for us, for our family or for our cause.

      I am constantly feeling at the edge of burnout, with just a little push remaining before throwing me into depression. I do use food as a coping mechanism, but it isn’t being enough and now this addiction is starting to take its toll. I’m past overwheight, crossing the 80 kg line. I don’t have energy to do exercise and between all the demanding job activities and daily chores I wouldn’t have enough time, anyway. Now I also have a bad knee and back pain, as a consequence of neglecting physical activity and being overweight.

      If I can give you any advice (which I probably won’t follow, personally - o velho ditado “faça o que eu digo mas não faça o que eu faço”), is that you should stop with your addictions ASAP to avoid them having a snowball effect on you.

      But yeah, we live in capitalism, with all stress and pressure, so I’m not in a position to tell people how they should cope. The best I can do is give a positive message. And I’m rooting for you, comrade, and hope you feel better soon.

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      8 days ago

      Glad that I could help. Not gonna lie but the psyop are getting wild. There are too many zionist bots active even in Iranian channels.

      I can’t just imagine the amount of psyops comrades are receiving right now.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
        11·
        8 days ago

        This is nothing unusual for those of us who have been following the Ukraine conflict since the start. There were times when there was an absolutely insane amount of bots. Russian speaking spaces were (and still are) heavily targeted. Even now there is always some Ukrainian psyop even in “pro-Russian” telegram channels. You can’t prevent all infiltrations, but with time and experience you learn to recognize the bullshit.

        Right now there is a big blitz of botting and information warfare, but eventually it will calm down and there will be concrete on-the-ground results that will be impossible to deny (like how Ukraine can spin all the tall tales and put out all the deep-fakes it wants, but sooner or later Russian advances get undeniably geolocated). It’s why i recommend stepping back and waiting if you are unsure what is trustworthy at the moment.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    14 days ago

    Do you need an addiction to survive in capitalist society? I know it sounds like cope but basically everyone I know who isn’t retired or a child has some addiction. Not cripplingly addicted in most cases. Maybe a “dependency” would be a more apt term. It’s less that a person is constantly under the influence of it, more like they need it in small doses consistently [i.e, someone who smokes a cigarette every half an hour or something] or needs to get absolutely lost in it [i.e someone completely sober 95% of the time but gets shitfaced on Saturdays]. Is it natural to have some addiction like that or is it necessary only due to capitalism?

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      13 days ago

      My hypothesis is that much of it comes from need(s) being unmet consistently and traumas that can linger even when needs are getting met from times in the past that they weren’t. Needs meaning basic things that include what people would usually think of like food, water, and shelter, but also includes less emphasized things (especially under capitalism) like intimate connection (can be platonic), sense of community (in the meaning of interdependence not fandoms), sense of purpose and direction, sense of safety and security.

      Capitalism is far from the first or only system to fuck people up (formalized slavery comes to mind), but… if we’re looking at it in detail, capitalism puts the working class in a precarious position where they are disposable, which fucks with any sense of safety and security; it destroys community; it warps relationships toward the transactional; it reduces purpose to “live to make money and buy product”; it leaves direction in the hands of liberal individualism. From the perspective of basic needs, these are a lot of very big problems and it’s no small wonder people will turn to various unhealthy coping mechanisms, some of which plays right into capitalist profiteering; it has industries ready to fill the void with “treats” and the less fulfilling these treats are, the better (for the capitalist) because that means you’ll need to come back for another hit more often.

    • Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      13 days ago

      Don’t think it’s only a capitalism thing, but I guess capitalism causes so much psychic damage both due to how individualised the burden of existing is and how you constantly have to deal with completely unnecessary nonsense. Also drugs are commodities, so they fit very naturally into “fixing yourself” in capitalism compared to other economic systems, despite all laws. My smoking buddies are usually either political activists or homeless people, and it makes sense as those are two sets of people who engage with the irrationality of the shape of society on a day to day basis.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      61·
      13 days ago

      Its a function of neuro-chemistry not society or capitalism. People have been getting shitfaced since before the written word. Animals get fucked up on stuff if given the chance.

    • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      10 days ago

      depression is certainly a side effect of capitalism. obviously there are other things that can cause it but more people are depressed than ever before (more or less) and i think the social isolation encouraged by current-stage capitalism is a factor. a lot of people choose to self-medicate. there have been times in my life i would get really down every month or so and decide to get really fucked up about it. usually it made me feel a bit better.

  • Space-Love [Any]@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    10 days ago

    In the hardships of life under capitalism, I’m glad I can have our little community here.

    Sleep’s been scarce but hopefully this weekend will help. Stay strong comrades

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    11 days ago

    Politics is a funny thing. The Belgian coalition parties in the government are launching ‘save public transport’ campaigns. At least the socdems and the Christian dems are doing it.

    The same parties who are in the government. Approving budget cuts. On public transport. And their voter base are so positive in the comments. My dudes, you VOTED for the budget cuts get a grip.

    • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      10 days ago

      i’ve grown to think that while there is such a thing as normal, everyone has some aspect of abnormality to them. additionally, i think every difference from normality has some value in its distinction from normality, even if it’s only to better understand what is truly universal to the human experience.

      obviously that’s not to say the difference cannot also be challenging or disabling in our present society. but that has helped me a lot coming to term with my differences, big and small, is finding whatever value i can in them.

      hope you feel better soon, comrade.

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      11 days ago

      sorry to hear that :( honestly, hating the chemical randomness of one’s brain is something so relatable. so as to not feel anger or self-hatred i try to just think this is random and strange and out of my hands. i want to just survive this weird tumult and coast through it as best i can, sometimes just detaching myself from the world or being a bit mindless for a while, if i can afford it. i dont know if this is applicable or resonant advice at all.

    • Mels@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      It could be worse. Have you stayed doing the same thing for three-to-five hours every day, just staring at a map game? It fucking sucks, just wasting away. Hours gone I will never get back. At this point, I think you’re normal, to me atleast.

    • ashestoashes@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      10 days ago

      Chemicals, don’t flatten my mind

      Chemicals, don’t mess me up this time

      Know you bait me way more than you should

      And it’s just like you to hurt me when I’m feeling good

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    8 days ago

    i think about sinwar dying with an arm missing, alone in a building, throwing anything he could at the oppressor till his last moment, fighting the imperialist entity’s zionist non-entity till his final breath as an old man, and the scarce possessions they found on him including mentos and the quran, as far as i recall, and it is a proud and valiant death. i think of ayatollah dying during the month of ramadan. wow