queermunist

queermunist , 13 days ago

I was a 5 before my head injury, now I think I’m a 3 if I close my eye and really focus on it.

But also? I’ve liked adult literature the entire time. “Visualization” is overrated.

queermunist , 13 days ago

I remember when I learned people weren’t just being metaphorical when they talked about “picturing” something in their mind.

Do you have an internal dialogue? Or is it all visual? Cuz my internal world is basically a lightly illustrated book, 95% dialogue and occasionally I can imagine a vague image.

queermunist , 13 days ago

I only seem to dream if I’m not sleeping well. I can pretty reliably make myself dream by having coffee before bed. Otherwise, nope, there’s just a vague sense that time has passed when I wake up. If I do dream it’s highly visual, though.

queermunist , 13 days ago

I couldn’t visualize even slightly before! Total aphantasia.

Now if I focus really hard I can briefly see images and memories. It still doesn’t come naturally but the difference is staggering.

queermunist , 13 days ago

It’s like, sometimes, if I really focus on a memory then I can start to fill in 3D space and contrasts of light/dark and especially faces. I can’t visualize color or really texture, but everything else comes to me. It takes a lot of focus and doesn’t come naturally though!

I still mostly don’t visualize stuff, but sometimes a vision will strike me out-of-the-blue when I’m reminded of it. Weird.

queermunist , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

I’m a 3 for memories, a 4 for everything else. Before my head injury I was a 5 for everything (no idea what that’s about lol)

I can describe a car accident in great detail and draw a picture of it, but in my brain I’m just verbally describing the car accident to myself as if I’m the narrator.

queermunist , 13 days ago

Progressives need to learn this lesson: liberals will always shift the blame.

queermunist , 13 days ago

No, we left this lib behind a long time ago.

We’re all China-stans now.

queermunist , 13 days ago

When was the last time China invaded an oil-rich country, overthrew their government, and killed a million people?

If you want to dream up Chinese imperialism whenever China builds roads in another country, you still have to grapple with the fact that they don’t build those roads on the graves of martyrs that died trying to defend their homeland.

queermunist , 13 days ago

they’re also indirectly assisting and allied with a country that is happily trying to extinguish the entirety of Ukraine.

Hyperbole does not help your case.

A war to extinguish a nation looks more like what Israel is doing in Gaza. Compare the number of children, medical staff, UN aid workers, and other noncombatants that have been murdered. Compare the total eradication of all homes, businesses, universities, hospitals, religious institutions, historic sites. Russia, by contrast, is waging a war of conquest and assimilation.

All China is doing is trading with them, and not even trading weapons or munitions! It’s just normal commerce. Let’s compare again with Israel and how the US is providing it unlimited bombs and heavy equipment and fucking jets it needs to do its genocide.

When you compare the two the stark contrast makes your hyperbolic claims into a joke.

With abusive conditions that all but make it impossible for the poorer countries to satisfy their terms,

They forgive the loans they give to those poorer countries when they can’t repay and are always willing to refinance.

Compare that to the IMF which sells off public assets to private interests and imposes austerity measures onto the people, letting the US infiltrate the government and set up counter-terror operations and win exclusive trade deals to superexploit the people.

Again, compare and contrast. The US isn’t merely worse, it has different objectives. One is imperialist, one is internationalist.

Every global superpower does their fair share of this shit. The countries we should actually be looking up to are the socialist/communist ones that rapidly accelerated their growth and citizens’ quality of life before being destabilized by an existing global superpower (namely, the United States).

This is why China is the way it is. China has to ally itself with Russia and it has to wield state capitalism, or else it would end up the same as every other socialist experiment the US destroyed. If China cut off every country that US says is evil then it will lose all its allies, and then the US will just turn around and declare that the world needs to stop doing business with China.

Instead, China saw right through that, and with BRICs the dedollerization of the global economy is inevitable. The Communist Party of China has done more to destroy US imperialism than any communist party in every other country combined.

Grow up.

queermunist , 13 days ago

Oh no, libs don’t take me seriously! 😭

queermunist , 13 days ago

When was the last time the US committed cultural genocide?

When it caused one million deaths in Iraq through direct and indirect warfare for no reason. It currently has a direct hand in the genocide happening in Gaza right now.

Or how about when ICE was caught sterilizing migrant women in detention centers? They were doing that as recently as 2020, and there’s a long history of forced sterilization in the US.

Compare and contrast. Look at Gaza, look at Xinjiang province, try to spot the difference! Can you do it?

Neither should be looked up to.

There’s no other choice. You can’t just think up an idealistic imaginary third option. The US or China. Choose

queermunist , 13 days ago

What the fuck are you talking about? I’m siding with China. You know, the worlds second largest economy? A billion people?

Hardly a little grassroots movement. I live in the reality where China is the only serious challenge to the US. What about you?

queermunist , 13 days ago

Do you think zero people outside of China look up to their accomplishments?

queermunist , 13 days ago

I think the US is worse. Even if you think China is a subtle imperial power (how is that supposed to work, exactly?) then you have to acknowledge they’re the lesser of two evils. Unless you think you’re going to dream up an idealist third option to replace them both?

queermunist , 13 days ago

21 people were arrested for organizing the Tiananman Square protests.

14,000+ were arrested for involvement in the George Floyd Uprisings.

🤔

queermunist , 13 days ago

Also because they can’t dig the bodies out of the rubble and because the bodies have been blown into so many pieces they’re hard to count.

queermunist , 13 days ago

They just want the hostages returned. They don’t really seem to care about the genocide.

queermunist , 14 days ago

So uh, sounds like it’s not just Netanyahu holding up the deal but the entire right-wing coalition. Getting rid of Bibi won’t fix this, their government is just like this.

queermunist , 14 days ago

Well, maybe if they had their government forcibly removed they’d get the message.

queermunist , 14 days ago

Imagine what would happen if the government actually regulated and restricted sugar.

queermunist , 14 days ago

People in despair don’t care about much at all. Nevermind this shit is addictive, psychologically manipulative, it also acts as a little dopamine hit in an otherwise miserable life. Obesity deaths are deaths of despair.

Imagine if people wanted to live.

queermunist , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

People don’t just randomly make the decision to live, they need to have things for which to live.

You’re right, taxing sugar isn’t an answer. Banning it is better, somewhat, but it’s still not the best solution.

The best solution is to make people want to stop eating like shit and stop killing themselves. I called obesity deaths “deaths of despair” because it’s really not much different from any other unhealthy/dangerous behavior be that drug abuse, self harm, etc. Screaming “make the decision to live” at people is kinda fucking stupid lol

queermunist , 13 days ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1ba11416-eaf8-4b64-a8ed-2295925453e8.jpeg

As we see here, obesity and very low body weight are both associated with worse mental health outcomes. Merely being overweight, interestingly, seems to be associated with better mental health outcomes. This tracts, being overweight isn’t necessarily associated with the kinds of unhealthy or dangerous behavior that obesity is - that’s just a problem of quantity rather than quality.

IANAD but I think obesity is the real killer.

queermunist , 14 days ago

If’t hadn’t been for genocide Joe,
Palestine’d been free long time 'go.
Where’d you come from,
Why won’t you go?
Can y’draw a clock now, genocide Joe?

queermunist , 14 days ago

They’re prisons not death camps.

queermunist , 14 days ago

I’ll vote for a chimpanzee if it’s not Trump.

The average American won’t though. You have to actually appeal to them or they’ll stay home.

queermunist , 14 days ago

He sounded punch drunk.

queermunist , 14 days ago

I believe I need to leverage my vote to stop Biden from being the nominee because he can’t win the general, and by pledging to vote blue-no-matter-who you are making it more likely Trump wins because he’ll have no trouble beating Biden.

They’re listening to voters freak out about Biden and they’re responding. It’s not too late.

queermunist , 16 days ago

My prediction: Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble alliance will ally with the National Rally to stop New Popular Front from doing much at all.

queermunist , 17 days ago

Look at Russia’s economic growth in spite of the sanctions.

There’s a world economy outside US control and it is only growing. Where do you think the inflation is coming from?

queermunist , 15 days ago

In a democracy one person couldn’t ever have more than 50% of the votes.

queermunist , 18 days ago

I’m sure the Chinese tariffs will help! 😑

queermunist , 18 days ago

Volunteer work with the express intention of challenging Christian theocracy and the church’s dominion.

Seems pretty Satanic to me 🤷‍♀️

queermunist , 19 days ago

Some degrees are more in demand than others, but even a degree in something you think is useless (like philosophy) is an indicator to employers that you are the kind of person to get a college education and are in so much debt you’ll do anything for a job.

queermunist , 20 days ago

Nazis doing warcrimes. Shocker!

queermunist , 20 days ago

This is one of the US’s partners in the war:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/04b28bed-70ec-4ed9-a970-33194d085b34.jpeg

America loves Nazis, whether they’re Ukrainian Neonazis or Zionazis.

queermunist , 20 days ago

Fascists are nationalists. Fascists from different nations fighting each other isn’t really infighting, that’s just like, regular fighting.

Not something we should be fueling at any rate. Heaven forbid anyone asks about a peace plan that isn’t total victory, though.

queermunist , 20 days ago

Ukraine hopes for total retreat from all claimed Ukrainian territory, not a mere stalemate. That’s hardly compromise.

queermunist , 19 days ago

Ideally leading to Russian collapse.

Cool so you want a nuclear war.

queermunist , 19 days ago

Isn’t it literally illegal to be a Nazi in Germany?

No surprises for the Fr*nch though, read up on the nightmare shit they did in Algeria.

queermunist , 18 days ago

Killing surrendering prisoners is a war crime.

queermunist , 20 days ago

Real answer:

Moderating a porn forum is a lot of work for volunteers, because if they fuck up children can get hurt and people can go to prison etc.

Porn boards should be private with paid subscriptions to pay moderators.

Or public utilities. That’d work too.

queermunist , 20 days ago

Criticisms of Bitcoin didn’t really become popular until years after its introduction. Give it time.

So-called “AI” is worthless too so they’ll get their turn.

queermunist , 20 days ago

The Convention hasn’t happened yet. He can still be replaced. We aren’t stuck!

queermunist , 20 days ago

Democrats will tell you they’re not leftists.

Ask Joe Biden if he is a leftist, what do you think he’d say? Nanci Pelosi? Chuck Schemer? Hilary Clinton? Barack Obama?

queermunist , 20 days ago

The rest of the big tent won’t call themselves leftists either. They’ll say they’re “”“progressive”“” instead.

And if the progressives get too uppity then AIPAC or some other rightist faction will get rid of them.

queermunist , 21 days ago

But have you considered nonbinary fellas? 🤔

EDIT No, wait, they’d already be included. nvm 👍