I gotta say, I’ve been to a lot of protests and rallies and I usually leave feeling a bit deflated about just going through the motions of liberal “peaceful protest”, but today felt different. Not different in the sense I think the government is gonna cave to our demands, but I felt such a connection and humanity, I really needed it.

I think the last couple of years has almost forced me to shut off a little part of my empathy, or to try and ignore it, because otherwise I’d lose my mind. But days like today I reconnect with the love of humanity that made me a communist in the first place. Having conversations about Gaza all through the day with random people - “oh are you going to the rally? Have you come from the rally?”, talking about the issues with all kinds of folks from across this city - from lefties to normies, and we all fucking agree. Hell, a bus driver shook my hand when I was on my way home getting off his bus and said “I’m Palestinian, thank you”. I feel like a human again and not someone taking crazy pills. The great mass of humanity is against the genocide. We’re not alone on an island, being gaslit by the media and going crazy. Those in power are the mad ones, they’re the nihilists, it’s their media and their politicians who make us all feel gaslit - the people know the truth. Train drivers were honking at us as they went past on the bridge, people were waving from the trains, the crowd cheered back at them. Amazing. The crowd chanted loud enough to drown out the chopper that was buzzing us and telling us to disperse.

The cops were also absolute fuckwits today but that’s a story for another time, for now I’ll leave y’all with the positive feelings and inspiration I took out of today. I gotta say, coming up over the rise onto the bridge and seeing the entire thing filled with people was inspiring man. I hope this photo captures even 10% of that feeling. I highly recommend people look up some of the aerial shots the news got, the entire bridge was full twice over. There must have been 200-300k people. Seeing shots of such an iconic world famous landmark full of people protesting a genocide is awesome (in the original sense of the word).

I feel like I need to completely tune out or I’m gonna actually lose it man. Glad I have therapy this afternoon lol. I’m not sure how anyone with any humanity can live through this without reaching a mental breaking point. It’s all I can do to prevent myself from fedposting, that’s where my head is at lol.

Yeh y’all I’m sure deleting Spotify and installing Apple Music will really bring about the change you seek

We live in hell. Death to the west

Including someone just yesterday who said they’ve STOPPED SEEING THEIR PSYCHOLOGIST and are ONLY USING CHATGPT for therapy now.

This shit is genuinely dangerous. “AI” therapy got me feeling like bro fr.

Deteriorating material conditions + expensive mental healthcare options + LLMs that recommend tall bridges to suicidal people, what a fucking great recipe

That’s without even getting into the privacy concerns of telling your deepest feelings and secrets to a fucking chatbot that literally builds a profile on you. Someone else said to me recently that they basically use chatgpt to journal so it knows everything about them and their friends and god knows what else. So yeh, take comfort in the fact that even if you’ve never interacted with this dogshit, it could probably still have a deep profile on you because one of your dumbass friends decided to use it as a diary because LLMs just agree with everything you say and are very validating.

I looked into this “Tibet action group” think tank and its run by some random Canadian-born lady. It doesn’t seem as off-kilter as something like falon gong, that being said I didn’t go further than a couple of Wikipedia pages.

One of my most used websites! I hope it isn’t permanently gone does anyone know anything? And more importantly does anyone know a good alternative?