I just got in a major depressive episode. Fuck me.

The seat of the figurehead of the White Empire is in a building called White House.

Bravo, Kojima

genuine question for those who deal with intrusive thoughts:

i used to get really really bad episodes where i had intrusive thoughts or undesirable thoughts and then hate myself/be angry and sad and spiral rest of day about myself for having them.

and then one day i think i saw a post explaining how many of these undesirable thoughts in the first place are tests by your brain and you not acting on them itself is a success that proves you will not do these things. and then also criticisms about just sort of idealist views about sin and ‘evil thoughts’ when it’s not really a fair thing to think about since any of your ‘good’ isn’t in your brain it’s ultimately your action + other things about really finally thinking of your brain as just an organ rather than spirit or Soul something fictional like that.

and i hate to be like someone saying there’s one easy trick but it really drastically dramatically changed my mental health. has anyone else found a sort of shift in the way they think about their thoughts to be super alleviating?

There is so much mindless doomerism going on lately. People think Trump is going to end the world for no reason any day now.

I just learned that the Thailand government offers loans and sponsorships for Thai people to set up restaurants in other countries. Fucking weird man.

From Brazil in the heart of Rio de Janeiro

The place is real in case someone thinks I used AI -> https://www.instagram.com/p/DfDToROhggl/

Do you like numbered paragraphs?

I feel like they are very useful for a reader, but not so much when the author uses them to avoid repetition like “blah blah see paragraph 19.3 for more info” instead of “blah blah blah [rephrasing of idea in another paragraph] (see paragraph 19.3)”

There’s probably some positive value in using actual language and connectors instead of raw pointers to other paragraphs.

In XHS(rednote), there has been a trend of people doing photoshoots like this. It is very nice. Wanted to share this with you all.

She has an awesome shirt

hola a todos

¿como estáis?

The image is called, Strengthen attack dynamics, resolutely wipe out pornography, gambling and drugs It’s a propaganda poster published in the People’s Republic of China in 1997 and is from a series of propaganda called Talk about civilization and create a new style propaganda posters.

I was just searching through Chineseposter.net and came across this and thought it was interesting. For me, I feel that this poster, as well as the others in the series serve as a primer to think about the ways societies with differing histories, economic modes of production, and global relations may view crime, social issues, or even what is considered impolite in public spaces (see the no spitting poster in the series). I think it’s cool to look through the site and see how the art style of posters changed over time. This series is distinct from the more modern posters and of course are different from those made in the cultural revolution, not just in style but content.

Yeah, I read theory.

/j

Hi, I’m new here, and to introduce myself and contribute to the further development of the theory, I’m going to list the last two books I’ve read recently.

Truth and Knowledge - The Theory of Knowledge in Dialectical Materialism in the People’s Republic of China - Tchang En-tsé [Zhang Enci] (1976)

The book is written in Spanish, but it is one of those books that anyone interested in Marxism-Leninism and total liberation from capitalism should read. There are very few books that, even after you’ve grasped the essence of dialectical materialism, leave you speechless and allow you to delve even deeper into knowledge and objective truth. This book helped me fully understand the dialectical materialist theory of reflection, which, in my opinion, is the main cause of the mistakes made in various organizations around the world. How can we objectively grasp the objective reality of different countries? Through the central organ (objective truth) controlled by the party. In my opinion, this book helps us understand this issue better in philosophical terms.

https://archive.org/details/verdadyconocimento/mode/2up

Frederick Engels: Life and Work - Editorial Progreso, Moscow, (1987) spanish

This book helped me see Engels not as the bourgeois version that has survived to this day, the one who was merely an appendage to Marx, helping him finance his works, etc., but as a revolutionary with his own individuality who betrayed his class in the service of humanity’s complete emancipation. I learned that he spoke and wrote many languages, that he was an active participant in the 1848 revolution, fighting on the front lines and later fleeing the counterrevolution. There are many portraits, personal belongings, and drawings of him here that I had never seen before, and that surprised me greatly as well and the part of the book that recounts the struggle of the Paris Commune made me so sad that I almost shed tears over this quote from Marx, which seems particularly urgent to me in the times we live in:

“THE PRINCIPLES OF THE COMMUNE ARE ETERNAL AND CANNOT BE DESTROYED; THEY WILL REEMERGE TIME AND TIME AGAIN UNTIL THE WORKING CLASS ACHIEVES ITS EMANCIPATION.” C. MARX

https://archive.org/details/engels.-vida-y-actividad_202610/mode/2up

I often think back about this book by William Blum, the one aptly titled Killing Hope. The book itself is, of course, excellent but it’s the title that captures my mind again and again. The US is effectively killing not just people but the very notion of hope.

Is Isaac Asimov’s Psychohistory similar to Historical Materialism?

I heard an anecdote that said he create historical materialism from first principles and shrugged. I don’t remember where I heard it.