peripateticpeasant

I really don’t care what is happening in New York. And i especially don’t care if this person is “Muslim” who will work under the chains of the liberal bourgeois state. If all you need is some left-facing slogans to vote than I don’t know what to say.

Can’t wait for my country to get indebted to Wall Street banks and get “structurally adjusted” - but atleast the banks are under a city with a “Muslim” governor! All is well. - Felt the same when Sadiq Khan become London’s mayor.

and before anyone says why I have “Muslim” in quotes, I take the opinion of Houria Bouteldja of what it means to be a Muslim in the West:

I’m not here to have a debate (because my mind is already made up), but i am just airing it out at the void really.

Having lived in Qatar and knowing many people there, kind of insane to see first hand accounts and videos of the missiles.

Mashallah. I support the Islamic Republic against the US and Zionist imperialists.

I had this in my notes

Do people think their armchair analysis of events in West Asia have any relevance to their praxis in the West - did I somehow miss the underground missile silos procured by the DSA?

Doesn’t matter if you want to get “both sides of the story” or a “materialist” analysis of daily mechanisms of the war, in the end Iran/Russia are objectively anti-imperialist. That’s the only position you’d need to argue. The rest will be handled by the relevant peoples that are actually directly affected by the war.

I am sometimes very thankful that my part of the world barely gets mentioned by Westerners. I would have to stop paying my internet bills if that was the case.

Sometimes you really do know some on here are too online, western(ized) and propagandized. It becomes immediately obvious through their mannerisms and speech patterns. Especially when it comes to anti-imperialist actors internationally.

I would like to type so much - but I know it won’t help so I am exhibiting some self-control.

Have been sick for a while now. Started scrolling way too much again.

Reached the funny Islamic side, where people accuse eachother of being sufi, madhkalis, pseudo-salafis, kufr, munafiqeen, wahhabis, claims to be the Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah and all other crazy stuff like the hustle culture bros or the Ottoman Empire apologists.

I am tired. What a waste of time. Really need to touch some grass.

I am trying to find a different piece of work of Lenin that talks about the role the masses in not commenting the national affairs of countries that their nation-state is in imperialist war with but I can’t find it.

Regardless any Global South radical knows this, whether through explicit radical theory or through culture, of not interfering in other people’s affairs especially when you lack the knowledge or ability to affect it.

But in the meanwhile I found this which I find perfect for this context in Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International:

Kautsky wants to represent the golden mean, and to reconcile the “two extremes” which “have nothing in common”! Today (sixteen months after the outbreak of war) he admits that the masses are revolutionary. Condemning in the same breath revolutionary action, which he calls “Abenteuer” “in den Strassen”[4] (p. 272), Kautsky wants to “reconcile” the revolutionary masses with the opportunist leaders, who have “nothing in common” with them—but on what basis ? On the basis of mere words! On the basis of “Left-wing” words of the “Left-wing” minority in the Reichtag! Let the minority, like Kautsky, condemn revolutionary action, calling it adventurism, but it must feed the masses with Left-wing words. Then there will be peace in the Party, unity with the Südekums, Legiens, Davids, and Monitors!

I am 100% convinced that for the majority of the Hexbear user base, that if they started living in a Global South country they’d turn to a NATO-supporting liberal so fast. Simple class interests.

Suddenly all this posturing of being part of a “radical” political minority falls flat.

I built my algorithm well. I get reels from across the world.

I got random West African News, next to gay Pakistani thirst traps, to South Indian memes, to random theory posting from commie accounts, to your usual in trend and inevitable USA and Western memes, to Caribbean cooking, to Chinese language learning.

That doesn’t even cover half of it and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Life’s been good lately. Not everything’s perfect - far from it.

But I like how things are going right now. There’s progress and can’t expect much more than that.

So many great responses, thank you all.

It touched upon all my concerns and questions, and further avenues to do research when I have the time.

I think I’ll stick with self-identification for now, and use it for mainly personal and social settings. I think the sort of accommodations I would get with an official Autism diagnosis is already covered through my ADHD diagnosis, at least at this stage of my life.

We shall see if this remains the case as I progress through the tiresome testing of the ADHD meds, but I’ll not worry about the costs and additional work for now.

New ADHD meds “make me more autistic” (according to someone I know), a succinct way of putting it, and tic more frequently in public. Thinking about the tics just makes it more frequent though so it’s kind of a self-fulfilling cycle.

The usual stimulant side-effects are also there, although it has been better than the previous one I tried.

Still thinking about what to say for the next checkup in a week’s time. I will stay with the same medication for the time being probably, although I am thinking of a higher dosage.

Update

Just finished the university fieldtrip.

Was able to wear the traditional clothes for Eid without much issue. The weather was quite nice that day. Got some insane golden hour pictures at the beach thanks to a coursemate.

Now I’ll have some time to chill with family before deadlines come up.