• amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    9 hours ago

    I’ve been using an MMO to help distract me from emotional eating, which as odd as it might sound, has worked so far (albeit not without some hard days). But I think the forums for the MMO are making things harder. It’s sort of habitual for me to want to involve myself in forums for stuff, but the forums for the game in question are tinted by corporate bootlicking as many western forums for products are. I was thinking about it today and what a lot of the behavior there reminds me of is the Narcissist’s Prayer. Somebody will post a complaint about the game, or a polite ask for something to be added to it or for something to be different about it, and the spirit of like half the replies will go something like: “That’s not a valid thing to say. And if it is, it’s not a big deal. And if it is a big deal, it’s not the company’s fault. And if it is the company’s fault, it’s because you deserved it. And if you didn’t deserve it, well fuck you anyway for saying things about other things, I am mad at the world and hate everyone and everything.”

    Then these same kind of people will suddenly remember what a valid complaint or request is when they have a complaint or request of their own. It very much mimics the reactionary stuff you see in USian politics.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    61·
    20 hours ago

    It bothers me how normal it is for people to advocate stuff like “fake it til you make it” on confidence. Rephrased, they’re basically saying “lie about who you are until you start believing your own lies.”

    Like what about vulnerability and being vulnerable. Why not instead of “fake it til you make it”, something more like “be real about who you are until you’re okay with letting other people see you.” Are people just so terrified of being real with each other, is the culture punishing that kind of honesty, I wonder.

    • DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Great comment!

      It makes things difficult in IRL leftist circles where everyone has different exposure to theory and different abilities to engage with theory. Not understanding something is seen as a weakness so everyone has to pretend they understand it, and thus conversation ends up being really shallow and unproductive. The worst a person can do is say something “incorrect” and prove they’re not a “real” leftist.

      Like, to convince people of things you have to appear confident. But to learn things you have to be humble/vulnerable. And our culture makes it difficult to code switch.

    • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Its capitalist superstructure. Social capital accumulation (prestige) by providing the desired discourse.

    • mjackxson@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      damn, that’s deep. you have a good point! why even “fake it”? why do people even want to “make it”? very good questions to ask and think about!!

  • Nocheztli ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    1 day ago

    At this point anyone who supports AOC is an open fascist in my view. No nuances, no buts, no ifs. Death to America and death to Israel.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    1 day ago

    I was at a pride event today, and one of the speakers was from a queer refugee help organisation. With him were some queer refugees, some of which were from the USA. And yet the USA is seen as a safe country by the Dutch government.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    1 day ago

    Went to take care of my sis in laws garden as she is on holiday. Beautiful garden with native plants and edible things.

    I was scraping weeds from between the tiles when her MIL walked in (husbands mother). When she saw me doing that she said her husband had some Roundup I could use so it would be quicker.

    Nearly threw a spade at her head. Fucking Roundup lmao. Yes let me use fucking poison in an edible garden where a cat and a child chill in a regular basis. For some weeds.

    I swear to God some people just want to see the world burn.

    I kindly explained why that would be a bad idea and she could see my point.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    lol found out a new yeonmi park, dont wanna link her videos but her youtube channel is hanaya, it’s exactly what you expect “north korean goes to supermarket 1st time” and that sort of stuff 😂 can these people get creative ffs?

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    3 days ago

    We managed to stop a weapons shipment going through our port. Even a judge has now ruled it illegal. A while ago one did go through and we increased pressure, with success.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    3 days ago

    Austrian neo nazi Felix Baumgartner, famous for jumping from high altitudes, died today doing what he loved. Jumping from high altitudes.

    Rest in piss.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    4 days ago

    So the main stage of a festival nearby burned down just now (Tomorrowland, huge festival). Not only are people treating it like some 9/11 (festival didn’t start, nobody hurt), the media were spreading fake AI images of a burned down stage as well. Scary stuff. Guess that happens when you need to be the first to get the clicks.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      20 hours ago

      Thank you! This went viral on twitter and I found the name of the project, it’s the ragwon offshore fishing farm. With this I was able to find more pictures, going to see about making a page for it on prolewiki

      There’s a LOT more pictures on google but I won’t saturate the grad’s server with them lol

      • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        19 hours ago

        I am glad that I was able to help!

        If there is interest for this, I can probably make posts of my findings along with pictures on c/korea

        • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          18 hours ago

          non-editors can edit content pages or even create them now on ProleWiki (it just logs your IP), however you can’t upload pictures but you can use them if they’re already uploaded. I just need to get around to uploading a bunch of pictures about it on PW and then anyone will be able to add to the page. If you google ragwon county offshore farm a lot of information comes up so there’s plenty of sources to pick from.