AZ_IZ_OT posted:Real life update: I’m gonna go on disability for mental health and then attend rehab-based vocational services so I can get job training that will net me the amount of money necessary to survive NYC long-term (i.e. like double the national median income or whatever)
The system works, but only once you’ve been legally positioned as having no claim to dignity
toyotathon posted:tears posted:
what can i do to have cool dreams like this ?
tell your partner you don't have any interest in owning the whites' bloody land, have a big fight, don't resolve it, let the problems work themselves out through snide comments and stress dreams
yeesh. I don't want to own land because I'm a settler and I don't want to have kids and hand them a dying planet. So far I'm young enough that this hasn't impacted my relationships but I am really not looking forward to it.
Where my anti-natalists at?
Gssh posted:sleeping, you gotta do it right everyday or its way too easy to start rapidly falling apart. it took me a while to learn/accept the basics to solve sleep issues, so i'll post some in case anyone finds them useful.
holy smokes that sounds like a lot. 'luckily' I'm working rotating 12 hr shifts so I'm not even going to bother with most of that, but the tips that I can enact I'm gonna try. ty for the tips gssh
toyotathon posted:tears posted:what can i do to have cool dreams like this ?
tell your partner you don't have any interest in owning the whites' bloody land, have a big fight, don't resolve it, let the problems work themselves out through snide comments and stress dreams
i really dont want a house either and it took me actually looking at houses with my partner to realize it. sort of like joining the military it was something i slipped into it without really questioning it but at least this time i realized it before i took the jump. the allure of a house is really powerful though. i dont like the idea of renting on a fixed income in old age. i want that security. but i dont think i can really take it and credibly call myself a communist
stegosaurus posted:toyotathon posted:tears posted:what can i do to have cool dreams like this ?
tell your partner you don't have any interest in owning the whites' bloody land, have a big fight, don't resolve it, let the problems work themselves out through snide comments and stress dreams
i really dont want a house either and it took me actually looking at houses with my partner to realize it. sort of like joining the military it was something i slipped into it without really questioning it but at least this time i realized it before i took the jump. the allure of a house is really powerful though. i dont like the idea of renting on a fixed income in old age. i want that security. but i dont think i can really take it and credibly call myself a communist
If it makes you feel any better its doubtful any of us will make it to old age.
Populares posted:stegosaurus posted:toyotathon posted:tears posted:what can i do to have cool dreams like this ?
tell your partner you don't have any interest in owning the whites' bloody land, have a big fight, don't resolve it, let the problems work themselves out through snide comments and stress dreams
i really dont want a house either and it took me actually looking at houses with my partner to realize it. sort of like joining the military it was something i slipped into it without really questioning it but at least this time i realized it before i took the jump. the allure of a house is really powerful though. i dont like the idea of renting on a fixed income in old age. i want that security. but i dont think i can really take it and credibly call myself a communist
If it makes you feel any better its doubtful any of us will make it to old age.
im going to live until im like 90 at least. my grandma is 89 and was in a fucking car accident a couple weeks ago and is fine. so barring some sort of death squad or workplace mishap i am in this for the long run.
AZ_IZ_OT posted:Remembering your ketamine post, I actually met a guy who got into one of those trials, he told me they gave him capsules and he would just save them up and get blasted, ha
yeah.. getting people hooked on ketamine sold by pharmaceutical companies is the primary purpose of trying to find new "treatments" using it
stegosaurus posted:im going to live until im like 90 at least. my grandma is 89 and was in a fucking car accident a couple weeks ago and is fine. so barring some sort of death squad or workplace mishap i am in this for the long run.
good. live long and prosper
stegosaurus posted:yeah its not like you sign the papers and directly take responsibility for the massacre nearest your house. its that you buy into the entire racist structure of real estate which has origins in genocide etc. its sort of like joining the military in that by joining you arent necessarily taking personal responsibility for all dead iraqi children but whatever critique you have of that institution is overshadowed by the fact that you sustain it and benefit from it materially.
except with the military you sign the papers and directly take responsibility for the massacre that's occurring while you're in the military
edit: for real, i dont really understand why buying a house is qualitatively different from, e.g., having a retirement account, in terms of buying into racist systems that use the resources you put in to commit atrocities across the globe, while putting you in a position to rely on the economic benefits of those murders
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toyotathon posted:the land is the basis of white wealth, it's the primary white privilege, it's the primary inheritance. it's the material foundation of the white nation in a way that retirement accounts, a much more recent white privilege, are not. you can imagine the difference between a future america where whites lose their 401ks, trial runs for which happen approximately every recession, and a future where whites lose the land, which would involve a full US decolonization.
i see retirement accounts as being a modern expression of living off of accumulated capital, which has a history in the US very much parallel to that of land ownership, so i think it's a decent comparison. neither really looks the same today as they did in, say, 1900 and i guess that might say something about the historical progression of settler society. and even today it seems to me at least that they both function in a similar way in settler society, both providing access to some element of a bourgeois lifestyle, in terms of the pseudo-guarantees to security and a share of the economic gains made by the bourgeois class.
roseweird posted:it never would have occurred to me to fret about this
settlers.log
cars posted:AZ_IZ_OT posted:
Remembering your ketamine post, I actually met a guy who got into one of those trials, he told me they gave him capsules and he would just save them up and get blasted, ha
yeah.. getting people hooked on ketamine sold by pharmaceutical companies is the primary purpose of trying to find new "treatments" using it
Is this the case with MDMA too?