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Welcome again to everybody. Take a seat make yourself at home, we are out of tea though. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Just feeling things tonight, are simple music links allowed here?
Yes music is allowed
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It's so weird to see the differences in the sensory environments at my great-grandparents' house and my parents' house especially after moving out last year.
As an autistic adult, I feel like my great-grandparents' house is much more sensory friendly. What I love is that I get to be my largely unmasked autistic self; I've been on an unmasking process for the past couple of years. I also get to socialize a lot more, even outside of my job and it isn't very socially exhausting. It still has several issues and one in particular is obviously the western propaganda they watch all the time but I don't have to hear it since I have my headphones in a lot.
My parents' house is okay, but it's become less sensory friendly in the last 4-5 years. it's gotten to a point where I've been told not to come for my own comfort. Everyday there's always someone emotionally dysregulated; for the most part it's my dad.
Had sort of an ego check thought I guess you might call it: If it was easy for me to change the world, it'd also be easy for it to fall apart. Which got me thinking more about what it means to create a legacy of lasting change. And in the dialectical view, I'd say that means a change in base most of all; superstructure too to go along with it, but if you only chip away at the superstructure and never challenge the base, then you get the kind of situation the US is in, where it had some mild reforms at points and some of that is losing ground over time.
Is there a federation issue with lemmy.ml? I can't see any posts from there.
Same.
It should be fixed, though it might take a little while for the federation to catch up
I'm seeing posts here on lemmygrad, not sure.
Though admittedly I don't know how it works
Justin Podur's history Podcast just did an episode about Reza Shah Pahlavi if you want a briefer on how fucking horrible he really was.
I think i get so incensed at some people, including comrades, because I hate when people use something being "hard" as an excuse to not do the work to actually think properly. [Materially it can be different. If you're disabled then that's a reasonable thing to say it's hard to do physical things like protest]
"It's hard for me to sympathize with x" or "well it's hard for me to see it like that because y." Well tough. That's really all I have to say. If you want to have a huff and a puff about it then go calm down and think about it. If you actually have something logical to say then I'll listen to it, but if all you have is Pathos then you have nothing at all
Edit: This isn't related to something recent or anything. I was thinking about a conversation I had with a Chinese comrade a while back that bugged me
Edit 2: I think I also hate emotional reasoning in general. I'm not saying you shouldn't experience emotion, but the amount of times ive seen someone say something immaterial because of emotions is dumb.
Isn't Young Stalin book super sus?
Moving on, I often feel like nuclear weapons were the worst invention ever created by humanity. Imagine in the post ww2 era there were no nuclear weapons. The US wouldn't have a "win button" that held the entire world hostage. Maybe Stalin would have gotten to Paris.
Idk, it doesn't really matter unless someone invents a time machine, but it feels like someone sent a bunch of teenagers into the woods with knives and bats, and then gave one of those kids a gun. None of of them are mature enough to handle that, and any mistake can cost a lot.
I think the fact that usa is insulated by thousands of Km of ocean is a bigger part of how it wins. I think nukes are a good thing. MAD kept the cold war from killing a billion people. Nukes are what stopped trump from restarting the Korean war. Over reliance on it's nuclear blackmail is a big part of why usa is so screwed right now.
There is an alternate front-end to lemmy written in svelte. Is there alternate front-end to lemmygrad? Link?