Salah [ey/em]

I’m frustrated I read the whole post not realising it’s AI because it so obviously is. I kept getting confused by the contradictions in the text, the vague references to other posts/comments and the factual inconsistencies. L.W is still a zionist shithole though, it always has been.

That’s true, but I think we shouldn’t belittle the restrictions that exist in a liberal society. It’s not just a social bias, it’s ideology pushed onto us by government and other financiers. Just ask any Palestinian scholar about it.

Science in the US is already ideology driven. It’s just that it’s currently driven by liberal ideology which current scientists agree with. When you study in the sciences in the US and its vassals, there is a (self-)selection process. If you clash with the leading ideology you will either not be selected for phd positions, your research will not be funded or you decide to leave the field.

This is one of the main reasons why most high positions in science are occupied by cis white men. Most marginalised people will at some point have moral disagreements with the status quo and they get punished harshly for it.

I hope you get good responses outside of using AI. Personally I became so frustrated with how useless search engines have become that I caved and started using deepseek to search for sources. I use it like I would use a search engine, but can be more descriptive about what sort of source I’m looking for.

I also more frequently use the search option of different websites and news outlets from which I know they will cover certain topics well.

Ironic for the US to have an issue with that.

Thank you, that’s super fascinating. The way that people who work in the industry talk about animals is very unsettling, they have really convinced themselves that animals can’t feel the pain they inflict on them. So I had assumed that they had completely reduced animals to objects in their mind. Knowing that ptsd is common is somewhat relieving because it means that fully objectifying living beings cannot happen without consequences.

Is there research of the psychological effects of butchering animals?

There’s no need to sacrifice yourself, such actions rarely lead to good results. Everyone has their own way to contribute, but historically some sort of organizing effort has always been necessary for regular people to wield power over their rulers. Organizing takes different shapes depending on your goal. But suppose your goal is to disrupt the US war machine.

Look for small ways in which you might be part of or adjacent to this machine. Does your workplace work with arms manufacturers or other infrastructure used in warfare? Is there a heavily complicit company in or near your neighbourhood? Does your city/municipality have contracts with complicit companies? These are all things you can organise against. A campaign starts with awareness. Stand with a sign next to a company building and talk to workers about how their employer is contributing to mass murder. Or organize a protest. Or do something else that better fits your qualities.

Maybe set up a petition and build your campaign around that. Talk to people in your environment to agitate them. Educate yourself so you can educate others. After and during the awareness stage you start to recruit other people who want to take action. Together you can build a plan to achieve your goals. This plan should create the pressure necessary to change policy or supply chains either through a worker strike, direct action, mass mobilisation or maybe something else.

Read about organizing tactics from the book secrets of a successful organizer (or another book about the topic)

There are so many ways in which you can organize it’s impossible for me to tell you what’s best for you to do. It all depends on your qualities and your surroundings. But you can at least try, and learn from your experience. No one person can change the current course of the US. The threat of mass organization is the only thing that scares the people in power into moving at least a little bit towards the demands of the people they rule over.

This answer is not super coherent since it’s such a broad topic but I just want to impress upon you that being a citizen of the world means to engage with the world and how it impacts you and how you impact it. With enough people you can topple governments, but with less you can still significantly impact supply chains and/or policy. If you do nothing we are guaranteed to lose. If we all do something and coordinate, we can collectively wield more power than the people in charge.

Do you actually care, that your labour and tax are used to commit the gravest horrors onto other people, or do you just pretend to care for virtue signaling? If it’s the former then there is much more you can do than vote every few years.

The same discussion with long covid where I live. There’s ‘no proof’ that it can be chronic so government denies most requests for disability assistance. They even tried to change the name to ‘post covid’ to try to obscure the chronic aspect that’s implied from the word ‘long’.

It’s about knowing that any phone can have a backdoor and being careful on how you use it. Don’t bring your phone to a protest.

It seems like Russia has actually gained from its invasion of Ukraine while the US stands to lose (some of) its military bases and influence in gulf states. So I don’t see the necessity for irony.

Your patience brings out the worst in them which is lovely to see

The fact that these people are our ideological enemies makes me feel even better about being a leftist

What we refer to as ‘races’ are racialised groups of people.

Racialization is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been used to describe the process by which certain groups are categorized and treated as inferior or superior based on their perceived racial or ethnic identity. This process is deeply rooted in historical and contemporary power dynamics, shaping societal norms and cultural identities.

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So it’s the society you live in that defines what groups of people get racialised and who belongs to that group. In the US and Europe, racialised groups include Arabs, African descended black and brown people, Eastern Asian people, Southern Asian people, latinx people, Native Americans, Roma/Sinti people, etc.

Since racialisation is purely a social construct, the people who get racialised change over time. Italians used to be a racialised group in the US but are now considered ‘white’.

With white, people usually refer to the ‘in-group’ of a society (from a US and European perspective). Being white means that you are not racialised. The answer to the question if someone would be considered ‘mixed’ if they descend from both England and Swedish is usually no, because English and Swedish people are considered white and don’t face characterisation or discrimination based on how they look.

Racialisation is unscientific and a form of discrimination. It’s a fact in society and it’s important to be aware that some people get racialised and thus treated differently based on their appearance, but trying to characterise people in a set of ‘races’ is not scientific because it is purely based on something as subjective as appearance.

I woke up to this news and am really glad I actually had a good night rest before waking up to a nightmare.

The ‘left right spectrum’ is a harmful concept because it makes communism seem like an extremist position even though it’s in the best interest of 99% of people, and only unpopular due to billions and billions worth of red scare propaganda by the 1%.

Pls read Lenin. It’s not people who are greedy, it’s capitalism that brings out greed in people because it seems like the only way to survive. When you start to look at things from a materialist perspective it all makes a lot more sense.

I want to know how people commented

Sorry I didn’t mean to come off as invalidating either. Assuming you’re a trans woman (correct me if I’m wrong) you get your own experiences and confrontations with misogyny. Any of these experiences you can avoid are wins, it’s not a right of passage to face misogynistic abuse as a girl to be a woman. I’m a trans man who has faced disproportionately much when I lived as a young girl, it doesn’t make me less of a man either.

When you live your live as a women, you are at some point be forced to learn that dangerous people live among us. They can be your friendly science partner who suddenly takes advantage of you when you are in a vulnerable state. It’s a really sad reality but I think people just learn to live with… Everyone has different ways to cope with it though.