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Reply to Some questions for/about w/mental-health by SnowCode
u/Majrelende u/subrosa u/Epicalyx
Better late than never, but I renamed it to w/wellbeing 👍
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Reply to comment by Majrelende in Some questions for/about w/mental-health by SnowCode
Pages can't be renamed or deleted, but I could very well just copy the content to another page and replace the content of this one by "renamed to XYZ" with a link to this thread as an explanation.
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Reply to comment by tuesday in Tuesday Free Talk - Late Night Edition by tuesday
Thanks a lot :3
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Reply to Tuesday Free Talk - Late Night Edition by tuesday
I finally finished my exams. So that's really nice :3
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Reply to Which website uses BAT? by B0r3d
I don't know much, I've used it a little, and honestlyball the stuff with BAT and Brave seem like a lot of bullshit to me. Brave Browser already did some very sketchy practices. I feel like BAT is just an excuse for placing ads on the browser.
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Reply to comment by ChaosAnarchy in Ok we have confirmation that r/[email protected] has moved to raddle because of all the anti-voter feds on reddit. Yay! by anarchyfrog
Reddit.
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Reply to comment by ArchimedesLightning in [WHITELIST] by ArchimedesLightning
Ok, there's quite a gap between "making explosives" and "a balloon filled with ketchup" xD. Well if that's really your idea, there is no rule that forbids you to make ketchup ballons I think xD
As for whitelisting, whitelisting is done after interracting with the cmunity and participating on other threads. It's not done by requests.
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I didn't watch the whole thing because it's a topic that I have strong feelings about related to things I already talked about before on this site.
I am anti-psychiatrist (I am against the normative nature of psychiatry that treats it like it was "just a biological illness". Many abuse have been made by psychiatry, and I'm not gonna list all of that because otherwise I would write a book).
So I got on a anti-psychiatry Discord server, I don't exactly remember how I found it, and that server kinds of reminds me of this site in term of mentality. The users there have told me I was "highly disrespectful" for asking my friends how they felt and that I was "trying to control and coerce them". They had in general a huge distrust of anything related to emotions and relationships with others and heavily discouraged everyone to express themselves and communicate how they feel as a mean of "safety".
I am not for pressuring people to talk about how they feel and panicking when they don't want to (mostly because it actually causes even more distress and guilt to them and make everything worse, I unfortunately learned that the harsh way).
Hopefully there was at least 1 person there that was nice and linked me to another server that is actually pretty interesting and with very nice people in it.
I just don't really like the way that the author of the video just describes the fact that it's not "normal" (as not the same morality as everyone else and "extreme") as an argument. You can very well have "extreme" ideas about psychiatry and society and yet not be an absolute incel asshole (see things about support groups, etc).
Also, this excuse of nihilism with incels and fascists in general tend to happen a lot it seems. I find it quite ironic to treat an idea like nihilism like a dogma. But I've seen it at a lot of other places.
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Reply to comment by veuzi in Friday Free Talk by ziq
What the fuck, what a shitty therapist.
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Jesus fucking christ xD
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Continuing the convo -- Is absence of a negative thing enough? Or does one have to actively work to implement its positive alternative? by fortmis
Well for me I only heard about the term of "lifestyle anarchists" as a slur said by fans of bookchins or Marxist-Leninists, so for me it basically means nothing, it's just not a word I find relevant in the first place.
But I understand how that word have meaning in your perception of things.
(btw I edited my message)
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Reply to Continuing the convo -- Is absence of a negative thing enough? Or does one have to actively work to implement its positive alternative? by fortmis
However, and honestly maybe there is a simply a discrepancy in how I imagine lifestyliststs (idk... I'm picturing people who wear fuck the government shirts and have all the right tattoos? who don't really care about engaging with anarchism in a communal sense?? maybe I'm just so off) -- I do believe that creative thinking and rethinking and growth is vital in any situation where anarchy is the goal
Oh that helped me better understand what you meant by that. Yes I agree but people who just want to call themselves anarchists for the style of it aren't anarchists imo. Just like someone that would claim to be opposed to authority while themselves being an authority over people, isn't anarchist either, they're just hypocrite.
I think we basically agree but just have different definitions of the same terms, what you sometimes describe as lifestylist is what I would just call hypocrisy for instance.
Also about the thing of people claiming to be not monogamous but not doing it, I just have a thought on it. In my case we've said that with my lover, yet I never had sex with anyone else than my lover (so far), saying you're not monogamous doesn't mean you have sexual relationships with other people. It just means you don't value monogamous as being fulfilling in a relationship.
It basically means that if one of us have sex with someone else, that is OK (however sometimes things get complicated in a relationship so if/when anything feels "off" for any of us, we just talk about it)
Communication is basically our only real commitment in a certain sense (while for others it might be monogamy, etc)
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
Yes I saw your edit :)
However I don't think this count as "deconstruction" at all, if one change nothing in their way of thinking, communicating, etc; how can one claim to have deconstructed anything in the first place?
I can hardly see deconstruction and re-building as being two separate actions, to me re-building is the act of deconstruction itself.
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
I see. That wouldn't really be what I would call "inefficency", that's closer to straight up hypocrisy tbh.
In the case I was talking about, I was thinking about a friend of mine (that might actually see this message at some point idk), who was basically seen as inefficient because he didn't want to conform to the group (those so called "anarchists" there actually are just plain assholes and hypocrites claiming to be anarchists but acting in the absolute opposite way with people part of their group)
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
Oh, you mean people pretending to have good relationships and communication but actually not doing anything?
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
Oh OK. Can you give an example of that?
What I meant by deconstructing norms and stuff is all for being able to communicate more clearly and improve relationships (for instance, when you let go of the norms about how a romantic relationship should look like, then you are able to communicate more clearly to people you love and thus have much better and healthier relationships).
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
The problem is more that those people because they are seen as "anarchist heros", get to decide what is good and radical and what isn't for everyone else.
when you experience them dismantling all the oppressive / toxic structural elements of their lives and then stopping there
Could you tell me more about this? I don't really understand how you can deconstruct norms and structures without rebuilding at the same time tbh.
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
Yes, or sometimes they do action but in kind of "martyrdom" manner and blame (and sometimes also bully) their fellow "comrades" (that they certainly won't call friends) for not being "useful" enough.
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
Also in general when you attack social norms people can get very mean and aggressive.
And that goes for about any social norm (amatonormativity, psychiatrist normativity, productivity, universal morality, etc)
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
Well, people put a difference between 'comrade' and friends, and usually there is often a weird hero worship of dead old white men. Especially among many people in french speaking circles i've encountered that claimed to be anarchists. There's quite a shit ton of people insulting other anarchists of "lifestylist" for not being efficient and productive enough for anarchism.
This is all far too common from what I've seen.
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
No I planned on reading it and I only skimmed through it.
I guess I will cancel that plan lol.
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
No I'm solely talking about the "relationship anarchist" vision of anarchy. I'm not talking about anything linked to the Anarqxista or anybody in particular.
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Reply to comment by fortmis in Apparently, Anarqxista Goldman never existed by vos
I just feel very naive with all of this and it really annoys me. But thanks for your message, it cheers me up a little :)
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Reply to Does anybody have access to information/analysis from anarchists, ideally in English, about what is happening currently in Peru? by Tequila_Wolf
What is currently happening in Peru?