immuredanchorite [he/him, any]

What do you mean you don’t call it capitalism? It literally is capitalism. All of those other things are just what the people doing this tell themselves to sleep at night. And its also the story you are telling yourself so that you can blame the other bad/greedy people instead of examining how this is the system working exactly as intended and you are a part of it … you even seems to be defending it (capitalism) - but profit is the social determinant for what happens in the capitalist system, thats like, its definition

Japan was openly fascist before the article was written too, but you might mean not including the period before US occupation?

so like, almost the opposite of the clickbait title?

i am being generous and taking a wild guess, but it is probably trying to say that it decreases the risk of dementia on par with the decrease in risk associated with eating vegetables regularly

if they hadn’t built the city in the middle of an inhospitable landscape they could have just planted some trees

reading the context and the comments was just sort of depressing. its sad that so many supposed-anarchist communities police each other in such a suffocating way… honestly tracks with how organizing with them irl can be sometimes.

on another note, there is no way that “tankie” will become a stand-in for any anticommunist slur- and that anarchists will find themselves eventually being labeled tankies and excluded from the very spaces they created by other liberals because they were already feeding into anticommunism, right?

Also, when one is banned from an anarchist community, on who’s authority is the ban occurring? Does everyone wait for consensus or is it just based on vibes? what keeps it from being “authoritarian”? (this is a genuine question, not meant to be sarcastic)

I have spoken to many many elderly people that either act like petulant children or they say that inside they really don’t feel like they have a different mind than when they were children/late adolescents. The truth is you are projecting largely outdated social signifiers for adulthood onto yourself. It sounds like the real problem is that you are struggling financially and asking your parents for assistance feels infantilizing but its the exact sort of thing that gave them “adulthood” ™…

Sure, having kids and getting married can confirm you are an adult- but honestly, having children connected me more closely with my childhood and brought back memories from childhood I thought had disappeared. It also gave me more insight into my own parents, for better or worse. Does that make me more of an adult or more of a child? considering that when I was childless and dating people I was only concerned with other adults in my life and having fun with them- and now I am putting myself in my childrens shoes and my relationship to my parents is evolving in ways it hadn’t for decades? idk if you really wanted any advice, but I guess my advice would be to worry less about measuring your life and self worth against others, and worry more about your aspirations and your community.