Which writing is this from? I'm wondering if he talks about what is to be done about that issue.

It indeed is not as bad as it feels. I'm feeling better now but it hurt for like a whole day and I was ruminating about it lol. I hate rejection sensitivity so much. It wasn't like we had an actual fight, I just said my piece and I got frustrated feeling like I was being ignored by the group whenever I tried to explain stuff like that. To which I got: "Well, respectfully, I think you're wrong, and being kind of rude about it too" which hit me like a truck and made me cry. A lot.

This is why I don't post

Also, this is my main friend group so we're talking every day and I said sorry (even though I was right!!!) and now we're back to memes and jokes again.

I tried explaining to my lib friends why it doesn't matter who sits in the captain's chair of the evil empire and they got mad at me and I have rejection sensitivity so it hurts a lot

Nah, rising up against fascist colonizers is awesome and worthy of celebration. I don't give a fuck how it "looks" to zionazis and their pearl-clutching libs.

I relate to a lot of this, and I do wonder if it's an autism thing. Because like, I see a lot of lefties complain about libs as if they know they're thinly veiled fascists and are just pretending/virtue signaling etc, and they're always linking roderic day's thing about propaganda. But my experience was just nothing like that. It's like.... no, I literally just did not know lol. I always had good egalitarian-like values, and I was fed so much bullshit that I was just naively a liberal. I was a radlib for sooooo long because of all the other western 'leftists' being stuck in electoralism, defeatism, 'human-nature'-ism etc. The final thing that pushed me here was:

Wait, you mean communism ISN'T when no food?

Wait, you mean communism actually DID work and wasn't just a 1984 animal farm dictatorship ???

Wait, you mean it wasn't us libbies on the "right side of history", it was always the socialists, and basically every good historical 'great man' idol that we look up to (MLK, helen keller, einstein etc) was a socialist too??

THE COMMIES WERE RIGHT THIS WHOLE FREAKIN TIME????

Because my entire life I've been taught commie = evil, like, they're just The Bad Guys. It's drilled into your head. And then when you come up with something like "hey why don't we provide for everybody and make things fair?" it's always: "Nah, that doesn't work, it's been tried, and human beings are just too selfish to make it work."

And that had younger me like "Oh, okay... :( "

And our entire culture, media, news, history education etc is SUCH A FUCK that it took THIS LONG for me to finally get some real facts and be like wtf are you kidding me?!?!? The "villains" were right this whole time?!?!

Maybe it is like an autistic myopia for us. Maybe most people aren't like this...? I know it's more accurate that people's ideology follows their material interests, and for most of us westoids, our material interests are the empire staying an empire. And you could say that because I'm disabled, that means my material interests 100% align with the abolition of capitalism, therefore here I am. But there's definitely an element of like, bruh I did not KNOW. I wish somebody had told me sooner. But it's a wasteland out here in the west. I ultimately had to figure it out for myself.

And I'm glad I did, because unknowingly being a "communist waiting for permission to be one" is depressing as HELL man. I saw the BS of electoralism, reforms obviously were not working, I knew the necessity of revolution but I could NOT believe that it was ever possible, like the belief that humans are selfish and it just never works was so ingrained. So I literally felt like there was no hope. Absolutely nothing. We're just fucked and this is it and we're powerless to do anything about it. Total capitalist realism. The bleakest view of reality. Did you also go through this phase of utter despair like I did?

Capitalist fascist USA with its so-called "threat" from communist China and nukes... are we literally in the Fallout timeline?

Did anyone else have the idea drilled into their head during school that Communism created mass poverty and a failed state?

I think basically everyone is, hence the "communism is when no food" meme. That's what they told me in school.

and the traveler maintains a full-time schedule that enhances contact with the Cuban people, supports civil society in Cuba, and promotes the Cuban people's independence from Cuban authorities, and that results in meaningful interaction between the traveler and Cuban individuals, the individual's travel qualifies for the general license.

Lmao they make it sound like you're supposed to be some missionary of capitalism.

Hello Cuban people!!! Have you heard the good news about the Free Market??

Same I have learned way way more about the world than in all my years of schooling and internet diving just by reading these megas and their recommendations.

Pretty sure my lib family and friends' eyes would glaze over at all these big words

Are they insane or is the whole two-party thing a big theater play and they're taking on the "bad cop" role? Or the stick, as in carrot and stick. Or the "heel" and the "face" of kayfabe. I just feel like they have to know what they're doing. All those teams of people working on campaigns and policies and stuff. Right?

Dementia can progress very quickly. You can go from slurring words and forgetting grandkids, and then starving to death because you forgot to eat, all in a few months if it's a bad enough case.

And the president has access to the best doctors and treatments. And he's still like this in public. So you can tell it's gotten quite bad. This dude doesn't even know what's going on anymore or where he is, I bet.