MiddleWeigh @ MiddleWeigh @lemmy.world

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Some people don't have parents. But I generally agree with you.

Yea holding everyone else hostage is a great way to live I guess. Crazy people.

Now I have been outa school since 2008, but back then, in public school, they didn't teach us shit. Like actual useful things. How to deal with emotions, personal finance, How to deal with police, mindfulness, critical thinking..nothing. all busy work and history through the American lense (propaganda). I even had a science teacher who was super religious and said earth was created 6000 years ago...it was geology ffs. Math was the worst imo. Solve for X, zero context. The only reasoning they gave to learn it was "to get in to college".

Safe to say I didn't go to college.

What was I doing?

How long till they secede and shut boarders to libs? Good times good times.

I wouldn't call it addiction, in most cases it is dependence...unless your facing legal trouble due to your use, but keep smoking. But that's more to do with shitty legal practices.

I've been addicted to real addictive substances and weed ain't the same at all ime.

For long time users, stopping can cause some withdrawal symptoms, sure, but nothing worth fear mongering over imo.

It really varies person to person. Some people let it run their life. Others not so much.

Great post OP

Practicing mindfulness has been the most important thing in my life for my own health and growth as a person.

I got into eastern philosophy in high school, and never really looked back, only building my own system tailored to me and extrapolating the principles into every possible facet, and every moment. It's a battle to stay constantly on the point, but one I really enjoy having.

People just have different tolerance for how much death is caused by their own existence, your gonna kill something regardless to survive, that is life. I am not really to judge, especially a culture that I have very little interaction with.

They do it to cows as well. Veal.

Police spend most of their day inserting themselves into the everyday lives of citizens who aren't doing anything wrong.

I have a criminal record. Minor drug charges. I still get pulled over constantly, for zero reason, just so the cop can take a look and see if they approve of my hair clothes etc, and whether or not they wanna ruin my life...because they can, without provocation. Ever get slapped with a resisting arrest because the other charges weren't gonna stick in court? Happens all the time.

Fuck cops.🖕

It builds character.

His "prison" will be mar a Lago. They already have a gate and guards.

I don't trust the justice system whatsoever. Jail is for economic dissidents.

I think many people just have a fundamental misunderstanding that they are indeed a part of something larger.

DeFeDeRaTe NoW!

Don't worry. I asked what a tankie was on my first day on lemmy. I learned, sure enough, I learned.

They'll get theirs eventually, imho. Maybe not this go around, but it'll happen. Always does.

I can't disagree with that. I think the sort of utopia that communism suggests is a natural progression back to our roots as a species, and will happen, but only after we've pushed for it AND survived through an inevitable apocalypse, because we done royally fucked up tbh. For right now? Well I'm just a blue collar American with no degree. I don't know. I think socialist structure needs to be implemented for sure though, just to stop the people whove captured the wealth from royally screwing all of us over. I am not educated, or indoctrinated enough to actually debate you beyond that. In fact, I kind of just avoid people, so I'm probably not the best leftist to debate you at all.

I have no fantasys about Biden. He's old money, and more conservative than I would like. This "news" is in line with my perception of him. Idc.

I've recently begun to dive into my own indoctrination, and it is quite wild how effective it has been.

I think if anything, capitalism goes against our nature. But also, tbf, it's worth pointing out, and I only have an anecdote for you, that people do seem to behave differently in large groups compared to smaller, where the larger group tends to lend itself to our worse nature, but even that can be atributed to external forces in some regards.

i've just began to dig into theory... Peeling layers of capitalist suffering complex off in the process.

Tbh I don't know. Communism feels like our natural state, and getting back there is going to be extremely hard with the hole we've dug for ourselves.

In my recent dive into the literature, I've found that I'm a pretty extreme leftist.. But growing up in a capitalist society ive learned to shun people, avoid at all costs, and I've become basically a hermit, denouncing all forms of govt as futile, especially given our current circumstances as a species.

Sorry for the rant. I'm still eating my shell.

I'm not really too educated on theory, but this seems disingenuous. Yes it has failed, and so has our current capitalism, ime.

I think in USA, we have a unique situation to give it another spin, and for it to be successful.

The only way to reign in the runaway greed train is to introduce some type of socialism, and that is a natural progression en route to "true" communism. Which, imo, is going to take a very long time, realistically.