Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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A thought about imperialism and logistics:
Imperialism has to hurt its own “allies” to recruit them. Whether in a more literally meaning of conscription or hurting them by shaping and socializing them into monsters.
Anti-imperialism doesn’t strictly speaking need to recruit. In some sense, the most imperialized peoples are drafted into resistance by nature of being targeted by imperialism.
Bit reductionist, since obviously logistics, organizing, spreading propaganda still matter to anti-imperialism. But the point is, they’re not having to dehumanize people or do herculean persuasion to get them to pick up arms. They’re recruiting from people who want to keep their people and their humanity intact, some of whom will be eager to rise to the occasion.
Imperialism still tries to present its cause as righteous anyway, but the realities of it will be felt. Imperialism will always have an uphill battle in this way, maintaining itself.
I’m not sure if this is one of those thoughts that is profound or a long way around to pointing out the very obvious. I’m in one of those states of mind, I can’t tell right now.
Do I need more water when I was coughing? I still buy cheap medicine as a backup.
I was gifted this book called ‘Poverty explained to people with money’ (translated from Dutch) which I guess is flattering if they think I have money lol
It’s sort of interesting though so far it has an underlying tone of ‘we must be aware of the poors so we can save them’
I’ve been thinking about my social skills and I came to the conclusion I’m way too serious. I know how to have a serious conversation but I’m bad at having fun conversations since I don’t know how to joke around and how to respond to jokes. Must be my autism.
I don’t know how much help this will be, cause I’m pretty sure I’m not on the spectrum, so I may have an easier time gauging these things in the moment, but… for what it’s worth, my go-to way to joke around is wordplay.
For example, if someone said, “This game is top-shelf” (like the saying meaning “high quality”), I might pretend to take it literally and say, “Is it difficult reaching for it when you want to get it down and play it?”
The nice thing about wordplay is it’s usually pretty harmless as humor goes. Worst that may happen is you get a groan from people who think it’s a stretch (it also might be a stretch reaching for that top shelf game), or you might get people who react to wordplay as something groan worthy in general. The part where it might be difficult if you have trouble gauging the room, is when it’s okay to joke and when not to. But as long as you aren’t doing it at a funeral, or a meeting about a company going down, or someone being in the hospital, grave stuff like that, it’s probably not going to be an issue.
The way I think about it is, as long as I’m not annoying/offending/upsetting anyone with the jokes, I do it to amuse myself first and if someone else finds it funny too, that’s a bonus. Sometimes the joke doesn’t land, but it can still lead to someone else making a joke, which might get a laugh, or it might get people more in the mood for jokes and then other jokes might get laughs. And then part of it is just knowing an individual too. What kind of funny they’re okay with and when, maybe being a little more constrained with it when talking to strangers or acquaintances, unless you’re confident with handling it. Personally, I don’t have the extroverted confidence to start slinging wordplay with complete strangers in RL, but I can do it just fine around people I know well.
A homeless man died this night in my city. He died laying outside the central station, one of the busiest parts of the city with people passing by 24/7.
You can die, just like that. Cold, alone and yet surrounded by others.
Seems like the drug war is heating up again in the city. Multiple grenade explosions in the past few days, a shooting in broad daylight close to a school the other day. A judge getting threatened. Some dudes threw some molotovs into a supermarket tonight. Never a dull moment over here.
Winter has finally showed up here, alarmingly late really, but god damn do I hate it. Doesn’t matter how many years I’ve lived in this city winter is always worse than I remember. Already dying for it to be summer again.
how’s everyone’s week?
It’s Thanksgiving in the US. Obligatory Wednesday Addams post: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=29XhRfrfsOk
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I just got a job and I’ll be starting next week. I’m so excited to have some savings 😭
I’m going to be without a functional computer for a little over a week, I’m afraid. It’s ten times harder to work through my smartphone, so I’ve been sharing @[email protected]’s topics on Canada’s profascist shenanigans to capitalismindecay as substitutes for my more elaborate threads.
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I’m going to be spending most of December in Ho Chi Minh City. I’m so excited! Has anyone been there or is anyone from there? I need advice and recommendations for things to try and do. Should I rent a bike or will that be suicide for a foreigner?
Eat all the food it is great
I’ve been told you can take a food tour by motorbike. It’s probably a good thing that I won’t have access to cannabis while I’m there or things might spiral out of control quick 😅
It’s a new week and I started off pretty shit. I don’t really feel motivated to do something, came in late at work and had very little patience for our clients. It got better throughout the day but still.
Someone is giving me their binoculars so I can take my new bird watching hobby to the next level. I managed to spot wild parrots in the yards of our block last weekend and that was pretty wild as they aren’t a native species.
I hope I can make something out off this week.
