Get into non-dual spirituality. Zen Buddhism is a good start. Stop thinking you can win the cycle of suffering by spinning the wheel a little differently.
Marxist nonsense will succumb to the exact same human frailties as capitalism. Greed, tribalism. It’s the same thing, they just demonize a different group of people and thought. They’re still creating a division and separation. No system of thought that’s not grounded in what can be said to be inarguably TRUE is free from tyranny - the only way out is to release your attachment to anything that could be used to control you, to force you to act unlike you truly feel called to act.
Materialism is the ultimate means of oppression. And it’s something you’ve been conditioned to believe in since birth. Socialists, communists etc. still rely on materialism to drive their ideology and somehow think they’re better because they make nice noises about equality. Childish. At least capitalism is logically consistent with it.
Unless you are willing to take a really fucking hard look at your core beliefs about the nature of reality, you will not change anything. You’re just giving the leash of materialism around your neck to a different master.
I like how you just stated that Marxist “nonsense” will succumb to the same issues as capitalism, with no qualifications or real justifications, and instead are arguing for idealism and a rejection of science and understanding.
Aw, did your brain just go “nooo I need others to think how I think”. Congratulations, you just unlocked tyranny.
The evil tyranny of science vs the proud rebellion of the Flat Earth Society?
I understand the desire for spirituality. I’m not some Reddit atheist that claims to be on a war against religion. In my view, religion is something that will likely gradually fade, and doesn’t need to be directly fought against. What I don’t like is when people use spirituality as a cudgel against science, and use it as the basis for arguing against a better world. Religion has been weaponized against queer folk like me, women, ethnic minorities, etc, and have lobbed attacks against science for centuries.
Nice strawman equating nonduality with flat earth and other materialistic religions. Top critical thinking, very science and logic.
If you are so sure of your stance, prove to me that matter exists outside consciousness. And good goddess, at least try to do better than pointing at an extracted brain will you? Nonduality has been around for thousands of years and it’s yet to be debunked despite there being a very clear criteria for it.
I answered your strawman with something equally dishonest. I’m not interested in getting into a debate with someone who genuinely believes matter does not exist outside of consciousness and fully believes in idealism, rejecting materialism. There’s absolutely no evidence for ideas being primary over matter, and moreover all it does is open up the way for absurdities and fantasy to exist as equals to hard science. Materialism helps us genuinely understand and interpret the world, each successive year affirming its utility as science expands and we understand more and more. Idealism is a willing rejection of understanding to entertain the idea of fantasy.
Can’t do it huh? For all your talk of science, you sure are ready to take the belief in materialism for granted. Just another belief you demand others have, demand others have the same thoughts as you. The road towards fascism is short indeed.
Unless you can provide scientific proof, I have no reason to subscribe your belief system and neither does anyone else. Go read https://www.bernardokastrup.com/ or https://bradleyhook.com/donald-hoffmans-concepts-simplified-understanding-reality-and-perception/, debunk them and you probably have grounds for your ideology. Else, it’s just another house of cards built on a foundation of fiction.
01·1 month agoYou reject materialism, then ask for a materialist (science is materialist, it is the measuring and understanding of mater) proof of materialism. Nonsense.
I’m reminded of The Preacher and the Slave by Joe Hill. The pie in the sky is a lie. Everyone needs to eat. Religion does not feed people.
Tell me you don’t know shit about spirituality without telling me you don’t know shit about spirituality.
I said Zen Buddhism is a start. Not the end.
I was going to give you a tip, but then I saw that you might be a Marxist-Leninist, so now I have less motivation for that
Are you bourgeois?
Your number one step is privacy. Privacy is the foundation of freedom; it “protects the right to be left alone”.
If you’re a beginner, Naomi Brockwell’s videos have very good tips. If you’re not a beginner, read Michael Bazzell’s book Extreme Privacy. Read it in full and decide the level of privacy you want (you likely will not need every single one of his tips).
lol, there’s no privacy in a fascist State because the state doesn’t feel compelled to respect the law and doesn’t recognize fundamental rights. Nobody is going to leave you alone. Get real.
Encryption requires no respect from the State
Pee on your shoes.
We will contact you.
Nice try, fed.
Or mossad
Join an org, if you’re a fed the good ones will filter you out. I recommend either the Party for Socialism and Liberation or Freedom Road Socialist Organization if you live in the US.
If you want a place to start with theory, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, feel free to check it out!
It’s simple. As soon as you see any Democrat that might beat a Republican, look up something they said one time that will make others angry. Try to make it something that will make it look like you’re taking the moral high ground and allow no room for nuance or common sense. Keep as many people from voting as possible so that the most fascist candidate wins.
That’s how .ml got more Gazan children to starve to death than have to! Err, I mean stopped Israel by helping Trump get elected. Mission accomplished!
Genuinely disgusting how you fucking nazis who literally started the genocide and PLUGGED YOUR EARS when the subject was brought up suddenly bleed for the Palestinian people. Do you think we don’t remember what you were doing a year ago?
Go fuck yourself behaving as if these people are nothing but political pawns for your nazi fucking party of preference. You would be just as happy watching them be exterminated now as you were watching concentration camps on the southern border. We already have examples of you doing this from both directions.
You must honestly think we’re fucking stupid if to fall for your sudden act. You just wanted to be the one giving them the bombs.
Great, now spend this righteous energy fighting against the current administration. No? Just more posts about how Gavin Newsom is bad for trying to move the needle while continuing to ignore the actual fascists that you explicitly cheered for 9 months ago? Very fucking interesting.
Get a job
You have to invent within your mind palace the fact that I supported the republicans in the election?
You’re a fucking moron. Straight up. You’re stupid. The inventions you create to make your dipshit opinions fit into the world around you are the mark of a dumb piece of shit.
While you openly flaunt the fact that you’re going to support the next nazi from your brunch table uncritically just like the last one.
Great, now spend this righteous energy fighting against the current administration. No? Just more posts about how Gavin Newsom is bad for trying to move the needle while continuing to ignore the actual fascists that you explicitly cheered for 9 months ago? Very fucking interesting.
Get a job
Gavin Newsom is bad for trying to move the needle
I wish you gave a fuck what direction he was moving it in
while continuing to ignore the actual fascists that you explicitly cheered for 9 months ago
You literally voted for a fascist committing genocide. Fuck you. The fact that you can separate yourself from the fucking nazis after believing exactly the same fucking thing they believed is sickening to me. I wish you were never fucking born.
Great, now spend this righteous energy fighting against the current administration. No? Just more posts about how Gavin Newsom is bad for trying to move the needle while continuing to ignore the actual fascists that you explicitly cheered for 9 months ago? Very fucking interesting.
Get a job
That’s how .ml got more Gazan children to starve to death than have to!
Is there an acceptable amount of Gazan children to starve?
No, but less is better than more
Joe Biden during his presidency could have at any moment rang the phone of Netenyahu and said “stop the genocide” and not a single Palestinian child would’ve died from hunger or bombs or fire.
I’d say its more complicated than that but yeah absolutely that administration didn’t try to stop it, it clearly wasn’t their goal in the slightest. They did very little (though even that very little was more than the trump administration has ever done or tried to) but I’m not gonna act like Kamala Harris would have been like the fuckin savior of Gaza cause that’s just false.
However, if Harris had won the election, we would:
- not have people sent to concentration camps in El Salvador
- not have a concentration camp in the Everglades
- not have the mass militarization of ICE
- not hace the total loss of due process for immigration cases and people being kidnapped by federal officers off the street
- not have millions of people losing Medicaid
- not have the national guard marching on the streets of DC
- not have Texas gerrymandering 5 seats in the middle of the term at the president’s request
- not have the CDC, HHS, and millions of dollars in funding for research gutted
- not have environmental programs and research gutted
- not have a convicted rapist in the oval office
- not have students deported for protesting
- there’s like dozens more things that I could list tbh
- still have a genocide in gaza
I totally understand why people were really upset about that last point. I was/am too. But I have a few thoughts:
- If you thought Trump would have been better for gazans than Harris, you’re a fucking idiot.
- If you think those two were equally bad because of that single issue, then you’re a fucking idiot.
- If you didn’t vote to make a point about how we need something better than those two options, you contributed far more towards Trump’s victory than you did to making that point, especially since the democratic party is full of imbeciles who will see your missing vote and interpret it as meaning they need to become more “moderate.”
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Yes. 1. Strawman 2. Zionazi 3. No.
I’m sure the people getting deported to concentration camps and losing their healthcare will understand that you not voting was just to save the children in gaza (oh wait, they’re dying anyway)
Edit: also are you genuinely claiming that Harris would have done all of those things that I listed? Every single one of them? Be so for real. If that’s actually where your head is at you are so unbelievably out of touch I think you’re beyond saving.
Suspicious lack of criticism of the current administration on here though.
Suspicious influx of posts trashing Gavin Newsom as soon as he starts fighting back against the current administration on here though.
“current adminstration” because it’s not the current topic, the entire U.S. government is a fascist shithole democrats and republicans, what do you want me to criticise? “oh I don’t like how he’s an outright white supramacists and how Elon literally saluted Hitler” this is common knowledge.
also, “fighting back”??? HE’S A FUCKING TRANSPHOBE, he’s not fighting back for shit
Lemmy.ml had zero impact on the election. The Dems ran a horrible campaign and lost because of it.
Even if the constant rhetoric encouraging non participation had no impact on the election, which is debatable, it’s still very suspicious that so much time and energy was spent specifically attacking Democrats while giving Republicans a pass.
The GOP was never given a pass, it’s just that the DNC wasn’t either.
The large majority of the posts in this instance do not support what you just said. The GOP is objectively much worse by every metric on all of the stances that are touted on .ml and yet almost all of the hate here is directed at the Democratic party. At best the values here are extremely hypocritical and at worst it’s straight up gaslighting in order to prop up the GOP in order to advance foreign interests.
The Democrats have not done a good job but the difference between the parties is staggering and the objective of the rhetoric in this instance is obvious.
No, the very large majority supports exactly what I said. The GOP and DNC both get hated on in leftist circles. You’re overplaying the differences between the two, both support genocide and imperialism, and both are enemies of the working class.
Do you honestly think lemmy.ml had any sort of impact on the US elections lol
Server provincialism is so weird to me.
It really is. Mods should be moderators not tyrants.
You’re not allowed to build a community around shared values
YOU MUST SUFFER ME
If the shared values are helping fascists win then yes
