As a millenial who went through the shite by the media about how much of a snowflake we are by getting offended with everything, frivolous for ordering avocado toasts for breakfasts, and clueless and unequipped when it comes to working, I ask: “who raised us?” I remember the parents’ moral panic on videogames and cartoons in the 1990s and 2000s. Many kids of my generation weren’t let out because the boomer and Gen X parents were made afraid by the constant news cycle of serial killers and high crime rate. And they wonder why we’re so sheltered? Now, the media run by older generations are taking potshots at Gen Z claiming they are dumber. Even if that is the case, who are the ones who raised Gen Z to be constantly glued to the phone screen and watching brain rotting contents that led to lower IQ?

The next time the media complains such and such generation is behaving a certain way or being dumb, even if scientific study says so, ask yourself, who are raising these kids?

Tell me you can’t read without telling me you can’t read.

Me when I have anendophasia and don’t have internal monologue at every single waking moment.

It’s not neurotypical to be able make their inner voice shut up on a whim. I realise later in life that plenty of folks have inner voices in every waking moment, from picking up a can of coke to wanting to sit down. If do those things, I just do by instinct without an inner monologue. But when I do get an inner voice, it’s more like detached, if that makes sense. Or it is kinda like an interview where I am talking to another person. I tend to visualise my thoughts more than mentally verbalising it.

My anendophasia explains a lot why I can’t relate when someone says about silencing their inner voices. I get a confuddled face, before, everytime someone talks about. I don’t really get negative thoughts but when if I do, I imagine the thoughts flowing away. I’ve been doing that before I heard that therapist recommend this technique called “flowing river”, imagining thoughts away like a river flowing away.

Yeah, at the moment a peaceful revolution might still work. As much as I think that the events unfolding require guillotines and a revolution, it’s clear that Trump is trying to provoke the people to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to say do not be afraid to start one, if it weren’t for the fact that the opposition is not united and unprepared for a potential conflict. It’s going to be like the Spanish Civil War, where the factions of anti-fascists-- the liberals, socialists, anarchists and communists-- were too busy shooting at each other than at fascists, which made Franco won the civil war and ushered in 40 years of totalitarianism in Spain.

The American left really needs to think about the possibility of a civil war if electoralism fails. Who’s going to organise and lead the opposition? Trump is Franco who has the military and support of Russia should it come to it. The American anti-fascists may not have any backing.

If they can’t be persuaded by talking to them softly, beat them with a big stick.

Organising grassroots and educating people on having a better leftist alternative. This always starts at the community level. The American ancestors who ended the Gilded Age and elected the Roosevelts would be rolling in their graves at how their descendants became so spineless and forget to mobilise!

This is what I’ve said before and will say it again, both the Democratic and Republican parties are playing good cop/bad cop, respectively. They both take marching orders from their corporate donors to do a hot and cold game; to make people intimidated with the cold attitude, while the hot attitude makes the voters think “well, they’re not so bad after all.” It’s like a domestic abuse victim being psychologically manipulated by narcissistic, Machiavellian psychopathic partner by making us think “my partner hurts me sometimes, but at time he loves me. He’s not so bad.”

Funny there is no mention of primarying corporate Democrats with progressives while they’re at it. “Vote blue, no matter who” won’t cut it if corporate Democrats will remain and keep enabling fascists. It’s time for a full progressive takeover.

The far right are gaining influence and power in Spain, UK and Thailand.

Some centrists are, frankly, low information voters. They don’t really have a conviction or do their research well. I love my friend and I owe him a lot, but he supported Trump because of the initial anti-war and immigration rhetoric. He’s not far right, he supports Palestine and he’s a Pole who despise the far right party that ruled his country for eight years; but he is one of the many single and lonely men who feels lost and doesn’t have a direction. His background and profile are those preyed upon by the right, even if the person is of varying flavour of centrist.

The right don’t really need to convince people to join them, they just have to sow enough doubt to prevent the left from being a coherent movement.

It reminds me of Northern Europeans stereotyping Southern Europeans as lazy. But Northern European don’t realise it is mainly because Southern Europe is very hot to work for longer hours. The Southern European “siesta” of course carried over to Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Before Cuba gained independence from Spain, they only work three hours a day, and this happened only about one hundred years ago.

Poland is trying to open an investigation of possible links of Polish citizens to Epstein.

So Mamdani’s idea was not even new, and took it from the military? What was all that fuss about supposedly communist run groceries?

As far as I can tell, they are genuinely good folks who use money and influence to do good. After taking ownership of Casa Bonita, during the renovation period that followed, they said that they will still pay the existing employees, but only if those employees do charity work while the place is being renovated. Mat and Trey make money but they don’t seem hungry for more. They also renewed a deal with Paramount; but when CBS tried to cancel Colbert so that the duo’s parent company, Skydance, will have the Trump admin approve the merger with CBS, Mat and Trey unabashedly criticised their company without fear of cancellation and despite having just signed a renewed contract. They were not punished nonetheless and if even if there have been, I believe they will stick to their guns.

Also probably rich enough that he or she doesn’t really need to worry about campaign financing. The last time we had that was with FDR. The elites learned from that experience and have bankrolled and enabled FDR’s antithesis: Trump.

c/LateStageCapitalism

A recent probe into his killing have mentioned that the gang who possibly killed Pasolini, has ties to the far-right.

A lot of people don’t know about ICE because of personal distractions, but also the hyper-personalisation of mass media cooped all of us into our own bubble, which gives us information blindspot. We don’t really watch TV anymore, so we no longer share the same sources of information. Most people these days use social media for news, but the algorithm of social media curates our desires, which then forces us into a tunnel vision. Hence, we each live in different sets of reality, seeing only what the social media shows us.

But on the one hand, and I don’t know what to make of it, people genuinely switch off from the news because it makes them depress. I understand where they are coming from, but being completely cut off from news is just silly. A friend of mine did not even know about Trump threatening to take over Greenland.

I know through studies of the economic anxiety that the poor have, which led them to elect the populist right, but I didn’t personally feel it until I lived close to an underprivileged area. They do not get support from the government, and any social housing is blocked by the property-owning middle and wealthy class, because it brings down the property values. As a result, the poor are made to compete for limited resources with migrants, who themselves are victims of imperial capitalism through foreign interventions and environmental exploitation, leading to climate change and its resulting economic decline of the land prompt people to move. The competition for resources makes both locals and migrants go at each others throats, while the rich are laughing their way to the banks with the wealth pickpocketed from the rest of us.

That is the bigger question.