As usual, the reality lies somewhere in the middle.

I hope it lands on me and takes me out in a swift act.

Ah Starmer.

I’m usually the type to begrudgingly vote for the lesser evil. But to be honest, after Starmer’s treatment of trans and disabled people, I would find it excessively hard to be able to pinch my nose hard enough to vote for him.

Depends on what you mean by Block.

Most lemmy Ui’s let you block it in that it hides the communities.

But you’ll still see posts and comments by users from that instace on other instances

Oh my god this hits so hard.

I became bedridden from illness at the age of 19. And haven’t had the health to leave my bed since.

For years all my dreams have been about random moments in middle or high school, which I remember with utmost vividness, yet the people I remember, miss cherish memories of, wonder how they are doing, have nearly all completely forgotten about my existence. Like literally, the brain fills with new memories and old ones fade. I never got the new memories, so I’m stuck with a loop of older ones.

liberals, neoliberals, broadly the same thing.

Vaguely progressive, maybe a little bit of welfare sprinkled here or there, but adhering to capitalist “growth” and inequality as a doctrine.

Aka. Rainbow Capitalism.

If it makes you feel better, I think it’s a completely normal reaction to your situation. When I became bedridden and was mostly abandoned by family and friends. I often used LLMs for discussions. Though I didn’t use the sort of character ai thing, just a plain old LLM without a personality, but it kept me intellectually engaged when I had no one to share my ideas with, emotionally resilient when I didn’t have friends or family to vent to or support me.

I really don’t think you should care if people who haven’t been through the kind of immense suffering it takes to lose the functioning of your body and be abandoned by the people you love, think it is normal or not.

I kind of dislike this armchair diagnosing.

Someone reacting differently in similar situations doesn’t mean they are bipolar.

Aka. A shy extrovert.

In the four european countries I’ve lived in as a physically disabled person unable to work, this is exactly how I’ve been treated as well.

Adding signature from Nantes

“lure”

more like “help them make the move” its not like the need any luring

I already posted this elsewhere in the thread but i case it hasnt been seen yet, I think this illustrates your point well

I would very much recommend reading Orwell’s Hommage to Catalonia.

Especially the Appendixes. Even though written before the war even ended he explains quite well how the arguments you make were quite meticulously crafted by the republican government’s ministry of propaganda, and broadcast to the communist press worldwide through soviet intervention.

At the end, Orwell comes to the chilling conclusion which is actually fairly common amongst historians, that the Stalinists saw the worker controlled revolution of Spain as more of a threat than both the bourgeois state of things and the Facists. Hence why the allied with the bourgeois liberals and rolled back the revolution.

Here’s a quote

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist Party thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

I was reading George Orwell’s hommage to Catalonia the other day and was just shocked by how brutal this was.

For context Orwell served in the POUM (anti-authoritarian marxists) in the spanish civil war against the facist-conservative-feudalist camp. However over time the liberal bourgeoisie and the Stalinist side of the republic (anti-facist forces), allied themselves together and started brutally repressing the Anarchist and Anti-Stalinist Marxist Factions. They basically handed the victory over to the facists by purging the left.

Being authoritarian doesn’t make you “far left” it makes you “authoritarian”.

What’s your definition of “decimate”.

Macron beat the french far right 75% a bit less than a decade ago, and now his party is on the major decline and the far right has the highest popular vote and are favourites to win the next election.

Many countries with “universal healthcare” still require you to pay a percentage.