Hello Cherry, you’ve already proven you’re strong, brave and valuable. Now you need to take some rest and focus on personal matters. Do hang out with friends and experience petty drama. Get into a hiking group, enjoy nature, etc.

You need to recover before you can fight again. Morale, faith, life itself, are rollercoasters.

You may consider “touching grass”, which I interpret as staying away from news to reduce anxiety, spending time with friends & family, doing some sport, taking up a hobby, studying something not directly related to politics (science or philosophy for example)…

Burnout is real and we need us healthy for the revolution ❤️

Wow, thanks for telling the whole story. We’ve told you many times already, but here it goes again: your courage is commendable, I look up to you and I double your age.

They repressed and they looked down on you so hard you are a hardcore communist now and you’ll probably be it forever. Your story reminded me of a girl I knew many years ago who was systematically bullied by her father, who was a psychiatrist. Well, she ended up being a representative for a famous leftist Spanish party.

So the moral of the story is that of old Santa: capitalists and fascists breed their own gravediggers. (Just kidding, it was Karl Marx, not Santa. Not joking on the grave digging though).

Yeah, subtitles are obviously a must. Thanks! 😀

Hello Cfgaussian, I appreciate your analysis on practically everything. Thanks for sharing this.

I don’t think you need to go into further detail since you already identify the crux of the problem very well. The West lives by the motto: “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”.

Of course, this is part of the cultural war waged by burgers against the people. Keep us demoralized. Muh Fallout but no Lenin, sorry. I’m a big fan of the Fallout series, but I came to recognize the very same problems you tell about in your post.

In other words, post-apocalyptic America looks like post-industrial Detroit than anything else. A couple of good memes float on this theme.

Now, going back on topic: how about sharing the Chinese media you’ve watching? This way we can see for ourselves 😀

I see. Wow, they’re so brave and tough, going after the very students they should be protecting. Wow, who needs school bullies when we have corrupt teachers and education authorities? They are the bullies now.

Sorry I can’t help you more. I see now they’re forcing this on you because they can. They disgust me absolutely and are yet another reason for me to fight for a better world as a teacher.

Let me say that again. Any teacher / education-related authority who doesn’t fight for their students is a traitor, some of them even are little Epstein creeps who want to SA students.

Stay strong Comrade, if they force you into concessions break your word on them later. Any pact with fascists has 0 value. Retreat, recover, reorganize.

I’m wondering: what if you skip the meeting altogether?

Like, why talk with them when there’s nothing to discuss? Don’t they want you to bend the knee?

Then fuck them. No compromise, no surrender.

The failure would come from not doing anything or being a traitor like that lib you described.

On the contrary, I believe you’re being very brave in the face of US liberal-fascism. Not unlike Jewish communists in Germany in the 30’s - 40’s. The powers-that-be got nervous because you are doing something that unsettles them.

If the fash rage about your actions, that’s a good sign 99% of the time. The only valid leftist politics are those which annoy the right.

As far as I can see, you may need a temporary retreat to reorganise, mentally and as a collective, to strike later. When facing too strong odds, that may be the superior strategy.

“I am X”… The question is not what we are now, but what we will be tomorrow. Communism will win.

Welcome 😀 Hang around for a bit and most of these questions will be answered in practice. Be sure to check the communities, the equivalent of subreddits.

I think the one really important thing is that our posts can be seen by all Lemmy, not just Lemmygrad, unless specific instances (= servers) block us. So when one addresses the Grad, one is really addressing everyone who wants to read us.

At least that’s what I understand 😅

I’m about to try Through the Darkest of Times because I’m preparing a second academic paper on videogames, arts and politics.

As far as I know, you have to organise antifas from different walks of life and tendencies in Nazi Germany. Don’t wanna know too much because I need to elaborate hypothesis before actually playing it. Then the gaming + analysis will begin.