Highest praises to her autobiography, absolute must read. Rest in power Assata ✊🏾

I think they’re alluding to the idea that xi’s picture with the uyghurs is a fabrication, like the blonde lady is a paid extra to make putin appear friendlier to women or something

I’m not certain the first is the same as the others either… they just cherry picked images that had a blonde middle aged slavic woman standing in putin’s vicinity

You could have just said that, it was more your language than anything.

Some kids genuinely need it until they’ve formed the ability to self-regulate. My little brother wouldn’t have been allowed to stay at school if he’d been unmedicated. Impulsive, distracted, having meltdowns where he’d literally bang his head against hard tile floors, generally making his teacher’s job impossible and alienating him from the other kids. At age 10 him and my mom are giving it a shot without meds. Hard to say if it changed him in any way other than giving him the space to develop the tools he needed to take on school like the other kids in his class.

I don’t know your cousin, but I do know most parents don’t go around getting their young children diagnosed with learning disabilies just for the fun of it.

First, Adderall isn’t meth. Stop calling it that.

Second, if you don’t have ADHD then this doesn’t apply to you. Misdiagnosis does happen, and I’m sorry you had to live through that in order to realize you were misdiagnosed.

I’m glad you’re doing better and found a way to manage your mental health that works for you. Please don’t use your experience to erase ours.

For anyone else reading,

Everyone reacts to medications differently, especially when it comes to brain chemistry. There are a number of treatment options for ADHD besides Adderall. Other stimulants, non-stimulants, even non-medication options like behavioral therapy and exercise. Most people will mix and match to eventually figure out what works for them specifically.

Adderall didn’t work for me either, and I spent a long time trying to make it work before I switched to a non-stimulant that was great, until it eventually stopped having any effect on me aside from intense nausea. After losing my job, I went off meds entirely; it was too much hassle to get on another controlled substance, and what was the point anyways if I wasn’t working.

Long story short, I’m working again and taking a different stimulant now that I pretty much owe my life to. Trying to keep up with basic life stuff; not just work but chores, bills, projects, getting up in the morning, etc; is hard enough for me even on medication. Doing it with only talk therapy as treatment was a living nightmare, like seriously put me in a dark place.

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My take on it is that it’s just a tool, and as with most tools you can use it in a sensible way that’s positive, although many people choose not to.

I mean sure a screwdriver is “just a tool”, and you can use a screwdriver to pick ice; but it’s not the most efficient tool for the job. It was designed for something else entirely, which makes it awkward and finicky to use as an ice pick. This is why so many people use screwdrivers for their intended purpose, rather than manipulating them to fit into a different workflow.

(The intended purpose here is disrupting creative professions, making creative labor cheaper and more efficient in order to maximize capitalists’ profit from it. Not to make artists’ lives easier or increase their effectiveness as laborers and business owners, although yes it can be used that way and, yes, that is arguably a limited side effect of the original intention.)

hahahahaaaa stay mad fascist

Are you saying the Republican party and their mouthpieces are not far right authoritarians?

Most Nazis were “regular people” “just right wing” until the opportunity came for them to commit atrocities.

One that wants to recruit more fascists and fascist sympathizers?

Yeah, we all know the nazis only became fascists the day they killed their first victims. All those nazi propagandists and theorists were actually blameless because they didn’t personally assault anyone publicly, which is famously the only form of violence.

Upvoting for the first reasonable thing you’ve said in this entire exchange.

Real mature lmao. You got me. You must have done some real deep historical analysis and gotten a whole lot done over there to feel so much authority to say what works and what doesn’t. I can’t believe your city doesn’t listen to you! You clearly have all the answers… I guess they’re just stinky meany heads and there’s no systemic reason for that whatsoever, at least not one worth questioning.

Man, gee whiz, you really set me straight!! I can’t believe leftists aren’t out there handing out pamphlets!! How can they expect any change or crumbs to fall out of our unflinchingly static system if they aren’t handing out pamphlets!? If we just vote for the right politician, and hand out enough of the right pamphlets, surely they will betray their own class interests simply out of selflessness and a strong sense of moral duty!

The carrot’s right there, I even got a taste of it once! Hey, stupid leftists, stop going after the guy with the stick. I can’t get the carrot while he’s beating us with the stick!!! The stick guy said we might even get the whole carrot if we just jump high enough!! They’re simple rules, why don’t you just follow them?!

edit: also, sorry, I just can’t get over how silly you’re being over very minor transgressions. It’s very funny to me that you decided to equate “actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization” with not engaging with community at all or pressing government for change, because I gave support with very minimal critique of mutual aid specifically.

I guess nothing else matters if I’m not committing time and money I don’t have to do chores for my neighbors. Anyways, why bother fighting for a world where as-needed aid is baked into the system? If we just do enough mutual aid then we’ll never need the government to respond to our demands! Is that the logic? I guess anyone living paycheck-to-paycheck can forget about doing any resistance whatsoever. Lmfao. Very serious and hopeful person over here.

You sure are having fun being mad over a single word when you still compared humans to controlling the population of dogs. The word “sterilize” does not improve the ethics here in the slightest. Euthanasea is not a very far leap to make once you’ve done the work of, I repeat, reducing human beings to the level of dogs. But nevermind that. Nevermind the indigenous people, blacks, immigrants, and so on, that have been sterilized against their will. That was actually to reduce suffering, you see, and not fascist at all!! Nevermind the 8 other paragraphs I wrote about why that’s unnecessary in the first place and is more an expression of your contempt for humanity than it is an actual solution to anything.

What a weird thing to gloat about and not think about the real world implications of in any way whatsoever! I am the one who cares about words, my words say absolutely nothing about me at all! Soothe your ego and backtrack because you have been called out and bested in debate! Bet you feel real bad right now!! Lmfao you fascists are so funny sometimes.

Anyways, I’m busy fighting fascists like you in real material ways. Kindly fuck off and have the day you’re very clearly already having.

Thank you for making my point. You can think what you want. Mutual aid is great, and it’s great you have the means for it, but it’s a band aid at best and it isn’t an organized movement aimed at addressing the fact that our system is more dedicated to the needs of capital than it is to the needs of people. That’s why the city won’t do shit, because they aren’t serving you.

Sure, and you let me know when your city council; or any politician at any level of government for that matter; does anything to materially improve conditions for the working class, completely unprompted by working class people organizing and making demands. And you let me know too if they are faithful to those demands and give any credit to the organizations that pushed it through, or give just enough to shut people up and present it as if it was all part of their plan the whole time.

Sure, we have leftists in America; we just removed on Lemmy instead of actually stand on street corners handing out pamphlets.

lmao, speak for yourself dude. There are plenty organizations doing this work; not just handing out pamphlets but actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization, etc; you just haven’t gone looking for them and by default you exist in an ecosystem that suppresses them from your view.

lmfao project harder fascist

and while you’re at it, pick up a fucking book. Your reading comprehension is atrocious.

That’s wild of you to think that not wanting kids is facism.

That’s an insane reduction of my argument

I’m merely emphasizing the ridiculous of your claim that one can only improve the world by birthing kids and raising them to do good. You don’t have to birth kids to do that, just fuckin do it yourself.

That’s also not what I said, and “just fuckin do it” is the point I was making. I was saying that having kids and raising them in that way had relatively better potential to reduce suffering than not having kids at all, not that it was the only or most effective way to do it.

You clearly didn’t read or try to engage with what I wrote. You’re the one that compared human population control to euthanizing dogs, as if that would actually solve anything, and refused to elaborate when I pointed out that it wouldn’t. I’m not the one in bad faith here and I’m done responding to this thread. No, I don’t care to learn about ideologies that seek to “improve” the human condition by removing humans from the equation that aren’t even materially responsible for these conditions in the first place.