Arguing that there’s not much to be done is not that useful. There’s always something to be done. The South African apartheid lasted for decades, but it was eventually over too.

How long are you in this party? If in your experience you find that it’s possible to alter some policies of the party, then it’s definitely worth it struggling from the inside and fight for a more revolutionary line, even if it’s not a “ML” party. I expect however, that sooner or later you’ll find something in the party that cannot be changed because of limitations of the organization.

Democratic centralism does not exist outside the context of an organization lol. And we’re definitely not an organization.

Comrade, 7 years is not easy to simply overcome like it was nothing… A person 7 years by your side affects your own identity even, so it’s expected to be quite traumatic to experience a break up. You must be feeling like you lost a part of yourself, which in a sense, you did indeed. What you’re feeling is completely understandable and justified, you’re not wrong in feeling like this. I am currently in a 4 year long relationship and I would be as miserable as you if we broke up for some reason.

To engage in meaningless hookups and to go to social gatherings pretending you are okay is just postponing the inevitable, and may in fact be harmful to you psychologically. If you have close friends you can count to, I’d recommend seeing them occasionally, but outside of a party context. You’re definitely not in the spirit to party about anything.

You need to live your grief to its fullest. You need to cry, you need to stay alone for a while and spend enough time being miserable, because that’s how you feel. You need to express and feel your emotions instead of faking them to others, and you should definitely consider therapy. I know therapists can be annoying and seem useless, but just having someone to talk to is already something good for you, even if they can’t really help you or you feel “ok”.

You won’t feel satisfied in any other relationship until you learn to love yourself. The pain you’re feeling is because for 7 years you’ve loved yourself as an extension of your girlfriend, and now that she’s gone, you need to learn to love yourself apart from her.

Never saw something like that, but it’s probably because they have no idea what both of these terms mean

Money wise, we are very safe, currently holding R$ 4020.71, enough to keep us running for almost 4 and a half years at current rates and prices. We keep receiving generous small but consistent donations including from editors (thanks comrade @Spanish_Commie@lemmygrad.ml!), and we currently have no use for this money, but we appreciate any donation nonetheless.

We would appreciate donations even more if donators engaged with us, gave us suggestions on how to use the money, or became members of ProleWiki in general, but it never happens unfortunately. We are more in need of people than money currently 😄

This only shows how much Wikipedia Foundation is just enriching a few select individuals, because if they only cared about demand like we do, they wouldn’t make a donation campaign every year. It’s just a large money funnel, because they have no need for so much donation campaigns

Though imagine the potential it has, to pay editors for their consistent work if we reach a very consistent flow of donations and comfortable range of money, democratically electing the 5 best editors and paying them proportionally based on socially perceived excellence. Here’s hoping @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml and I get chosen. Most of our work is behind the scenes so no one would know how much time we spend discussing and promoting our project elsewhere lol. But obviously this is a very remote dream, and it’s fun to dream, as long as we recognize that we’re not even close to such conditions, but that could be a possibility.

He’s more like a smelly fart, an occasional nuissance

Can someone explain to me how the education levels work in US? What is “senior high”, “grade 10”, “high school” whatever, what age group are these in, etc.

Dreaming way too high

Just try not to fuel the ideological discourse to ban TikTok because this serves the interest of US monopolies on social media, who directly benefit from the banning of TikTok and regain monopoly on discourse and public opinion. More like opposition to banning but a demand to regulate TikTok, is a much better discourse. In fact, a regulation on social media in general.

Yes, TikTok is a nightmare and pushes ideology, softcore pornography, mindless dopamine hits and affects children of several countries. The Chinese company takes the opportunity that there are no legislation to regulate the content of these social media, so they push the most addictive content possible, in hopes to profit from marketing.

China has a regulation of social media, hence why the Chinese TikTok (Douyin) does not push this kind of content in the country.

COVID was lab-produced by the United States and the Pentagon. The US has historically used bioweapons both through wars (Korean War) and covertly (Cuba dengue epidemic) [those are just two examples].

In its desperate drive to compete against a fast rising China, the United States (DoS + Pentagon + CIA) preferred to sabotage world economy and hurt the two countries through a global pandemic than to let China outlast them very quickly. They could be seeking for more time to react to the rise of China.

The Foreign Ministry of China called in 2021 for investigations in the United States biological weapon facility Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina, to which the United States never gave a response.

From January to August 2019, a few months before the pandemic, the United States ran a joint exercise called Crimson Contagion to test the capacity of the federal government to respond to a pandemic from China. It described the virus as a “respiratory virus [that] began in China”. The Times of Israel reported that the CIA alerted Israeli and NATO officials of a pandemic in China in November 2019, a month before China fist detected the virus and sent the information to the WHO (end of December 2019).

You’d think he’d suspect of an user called anarcho-bolshevik, but he probably doesn’t even know what Bolsheviks were

Though, it really caused a stir in his evangelical support base. So much so that he went to the TSE to prohibit Lula’s campaign from associating him with pedophilia

I think there’s value in the book. The author made extensive research to develop it. However, the main thesis of the book is really awful. It essentializes white people as irreparably racist, and it conveys a defeatist message altogether, implying there’s nothing to be done to fight it, and that white people cannot be allies. It places the determination of race above class when it comes to white people.

The thing is, the majority of Statesians are white. If you declare that white people cannot be allies and that they are intrinsically enemies, you are neglecting 61% of the population of the US. There are some critiques of this work which makes this point more clear, take a look:

https://comraderene.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/settlers-by-j-sakai-un-marxist-trash/
https://erich-arbor.medium.com/the-anti-marxist-elitism-of-j-sakais-settlers-409ff2d496ee
https://thecharnelhouse.org/2017/05/15/dont-bother-reading-settlers-by-j-sakai/

I think those who defend this work to be of utmost value to the US radical left should address those critiques. I personally think the Settlers thesis is very beneficial to the bourgeoisie who wishes that the working class never unite and fight racism together. In the words of the late Fred Hampton,

We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity.

Bom post, camarada

We need to protect our community, but at the same time we will always need more comrades to join us. So pay good attention to where you’re sharing the Communist Lemmy (the best Lemmy! :winking face:)