"Ronald Reagan was a freedom fighter in terms of supporting our Jewish bros & sis in the Soviet Union & opposing vicious forms of communism" - West

The soviet archives were opened after the dissolution of the USSR, the idea that these things are unknowable is wrong. Anti soviet historians with a shred of decency revised their analysis following those events and retracted many of their extreme claims. Conquest called the Holodomor a genocide prior to the opening of the archives and later admitted he was wrong.

Came here to say Vijay as well even tho he's not that young he should have a good 20+ years in him still, hopefully.

Historical claims? Lol wut? There is no country of "Taiwan" they call themselves the Republic of China and are remnants of the chinese civil war, specifically the nationalist side who lost to the communists who control the People's Republic of China. Without the amerikkkans sending their fleet to prop up and protect the ROC government in Taipei there would be no division and Beijing would have achieved Chinese reunification long ago.

The PRCs claims on the island of Taiwan are legal and recognised by the most every country on earth including the USA since 1973 via the upholding of the One China Principle.

Fidel nationalized his family's farms

We only trust western state and corporate media

Can you spill the tea? Iirc GI made some fairly based videos that were removed after radlibs/pseudolefties called you guys tankies.

Oh she showed up, once they won the vote and there was little risk in associating with the unionisation drive.

Which law was that? The one you made up or the one from up your ass?

At least destiny isn't claiming to be a comrade or trying to normalize child r***

We don't want to "make amerika great" we want to abolish and decolonize it.

Richard Wolff's partner, Harriet Fraad is a psychiatrist and has similar ideas and made a podcast with a therapist, Max Golding, called It's Not Just in Your Head. Libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote extensively on the limitations of his field.

Historically psychiatry has been used to control runaway slaves, suffering drapetomia. Complaining women had hysteria. You are gay? That was diagnosable.

Racial bias in psych treatment is well documented, with people of color more likely to be perceived as aggressive and a threat to others than white presenting people with similar behaviour.

Psychiatry is most often practiced on an individual and fails to take into account the societal problems around an individual. If you're boss abuses you or the system as a whole alienates you there is little a psych can do.

I used to consider myself antipsychiatry, I have personally had negative experiences with involuntary psychiatric "treatment"

While going through an anarchist phase there was seemingly little contradiction between my antipsych and ideological beliefs - it's just another unjust hierarchy. You can only be diagnosed if your function within this capitalist system is impaired.

As I embraced Marxist-Leninist ideas, contradictions became evident. Liberalism is an infantile disorder, the psychopathic accumulation of wealth by the richest endangers our survival as a species, the insecurities of those who hold on to the patriarchy and supremacist ideas should be remedied, one way or another.

I defended the right of self identifying neurodiverse people to reclaim labels such as autism while maintaining their criticism of psychiatry as it was inflicted upon themselves - within antipsychiatry communities such sentiment was not welcome. I was subjected to antisemitic attacks for refusing to endorse the labelling of psychiatry as a "holocaust"

I have much sympathy for the people who call themselves antipsychiatry, most of them have suffered immensely and they have legitimate criticisms of the field. But I can't call them comrades, for most - their understanding of the systems of oppression is too narrow - their hatred of psychiatry is bordering on reactionary. Seeing well meaning people with legitimate criticism of psychiatry, who were rejected by such communities for daring to identify as autistic or ND was quite disappointing. Seeing entirely antimedical communities come into being from antipsychiatry ones, even worse.

I still have serious doubts about the long term efficacy of psychiatric treatment but I'm willing to accept that there maybe some situations where it is appropriate. I am an administrator on a discord server that describes itself as psych abolitionist and is mostly populated by anarchists that I helped start while I still considered myself antipsych that at least doesn't allow for bigotry or hate speech, though I am not very comfortable with my role there and would prefer to just be a visitor - I don't enforce my ideology there and try not to be heavy handed with the rules, I've asked to have my admin/mod powers removed but my anarchist friend, who created the server, lives in a different timezone, isn't very active online and seems to have faith in my ability to be fair.

Even in the earliest days of European colonialism, there was very much a concept of the damage being done, look up Bartolomé de las Casas and educate yourself.

The poor little orcs have no say over their government, unlike the great cracker nations where we proudly support our genocidal wars of aggression based on lies. No racism here, we voted for a black man one time.

As a proud settler I only believe in crackernomics

Citizenship is extremely hard to obtain - basically impossible, a few western comrades have achieved it but their contribution to the PRC was extraordinary.

Without a university degree it's not possible to obtain a work visa.

If you want to move to move to China you're going to have to improve yourself so that you won't be a burden upon their society first. Complete a university degree in a useful field first.

This may not be what you were hoping to hear but this is the reality of the situation.

There are programmes that can help you obtain a GED at minimal cost. Once you've finished your high school equivalent qualification, you can get government grants or loans to obtain higher education. Most debts are unlikely to follow you if you move far away.

The days of China accepting people just for being white westerners are over. Please consider continuing with your education even if you are worried about being "too old"

Relevant video by Dr Jamies Davies on the DSM being written by consensus and not evidence https://youtu.be/6JPgpasgueQ

The status quo can be seen as "being a separate entity" but it could also be seen as "ever deepening economic integration with the mainland"

Always has been comrade

I must have missed or forgotten the passing of Rumsfeld, thanks for the good happy information.