I want to do something, anything, but organizing/participating in orgs is really hard with how my brain works. Theres chapters/locals out here, dsa, psl, frso, etc., but i feel like i cant participate. ...
I'm going to be so brutally honest with you as somebody who is the same:
If you have ADHD and autism (like myself) and you aren't medicated, it is even more crucial that you do whatever you can to get medicated for your ADHD. You need to take care of yourself and manage the part of your situation that is treatable medically. It sucks but it is actually a very real condition that impacts every single thing other thing in your life. Everybody is different, but for me it includes being significantly more comfortable socially.
It allows me to enter the organizing space while I'm feeling alright, not overwhelmed, and comfortable, and take on those roles that I know I will be able to handle if I'm having a day where I don't think I can socially interact too heavily. In my role in my org, I was able to do a lot of the behind the scenes spreadsheet work and meeting scheduling. That takes a huge burden off of somebody else and frees up their other capacities as an organizer.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. Any org worth organizing for will accommodate you with open arms,
I was in your position for a long time and feel like I can relate. ADHD to people who don’t have it is a funny little condition that some of the quirky and eccentric people they know have that makes them fun and silly.
The reality is that for some, like myself and perhaps you, it can be a completely debilitating disease that makes you feel incompatible anywhere you try to fit in with society. To us, it is a BASE LEVEL ISSUE. If you are an adult living independently, it is absolutely, beyond all doubt, the priority issue you need to address before the rest of the world slides away from you too.
It’s frustrating, it can be tiring, it can be expensive, but you need to do everything in your power to treat it before you can even attempt to fix the other things going on around you. I lost a few years of my life in what I’ve dubbed “The Slop™” where problem after problem could just be traced back to issues brought about by my adhd. First minor ones, then major ones, then the life altering ones.
ADHD treatment is stimulants. Do not abuse drugs, but treating it with reasonable amounts of caffeine will at least help you be somewhat more attentive and able to pursue real treatment. You may need to schedule multiple appointments back to back to back in a single day to find a doctor who will take you seriously. Some might think you’re faking, some might make you feel embarrassed, but only one needs to say yes and understand your situation to change your life.
Everything turned around for me when a doctor prescribed a small dose for 30 days to see how it impacted me. I was finally able to function the way I needed to in order to secure lasting treatment and eventually make a life for myself that I don’t feel trapped in. Do not spend your energy and focus on doing socialist organizing before you’ve secured proper baseline treatment for yourself. It is so worth continuing to try because you have no idea just how good life can be when you finally get properly treated. I sobbed my first day because I realized I got all of my house cleaning and self care done and I hadn’t heard my neighbor’s low battery smoke detector beep a single time even though it kept me up at night for weeks.
It’s life changing, and the least you owe yourself is a shot at seeing what it can become after sustained treatment for a serious disease.
Lovely that the actual explanation for this is that the record cold air is over the united states and canada because all of the warm air that is supposed to be there is actually above the arctic circle.
It is currently 32 degrees fahrenheit (0 celsius) in the farthest northern point in Alaska. It's above freezing in Nuuk, Greenland too.
While the minutes of the DSA meetings do not indicate any wrongdoing, they do raise new questions over the extent of Chinese influence within the group and more broadly in the United States. They are also an indicator of how China’s Communist Party seeks to build ties with influential political groupings in the United States.
Awwww that's sweet of them to call NYC-DSA an influential political group in the US
Also worth noting that anybody can join DSA and then sit in on committee meetings. As the org grows it will eventually need to have vetting in some capacity or we will probably see more "hit pieces" like this one in the future where the mole is actually just the person who is trying to get information as a reporter.
Worth noting that anybody can join DSA so there are probably going to be more people doing this specifically as infiltrators, especially in places like NYC-DSA where they wield somewhat substantial political power, in order to undermine the org and comfort participating in it.
The Washington Commanders are currently writing a strongly worded letter to the referees that they must replay the down with the cooperation of the other team
I don’t think that part of the TOS would hold up in court honestly. The platform is built to communicate “intelligently” with the user, and does terminate other processes that violate TOS. It wouldn’t be unreasonable for the user to expect similar action here.
Also please mark your post NSFW and content warn self harm
I’m going to be honest, I don’t think it’s “capitulating to Zionism” for a mayor to not openly endorse chanting death at people. In these screenshots he still called the Israeli colonization of Palestine a violation of international law, and that people’s first amendment rights to say those things are protected.
Did he specify only that occupation is a violation of international law, and not the rest of Israeli settlement of Palestine?
He defended the right of protestors to say death to the IDF and that it’s protected by the first amendment. He’s a mayor-elect and if he wants to ever effective govern at all you don’t get to endorse chants for death, even if they’re morally correct against genociders. You square it simply by using nuance to understand that if he’s able to effectively govern he can actually do something about NYC’s financial ties to Israel, which goes a lot further towards ending the genocide in question than the moral victory of endorsing or condemning the language of protestors.
He's not talking about suppressing protests, he’s talking about ensuring religious patrons are able to attend religious events and not be physically blocked from them. You and I both understand the nuance that it’s colonization thinly veiled in religion, and a violation of international law, but their attendance of religious events is explicitly protected by the first amendment. It is actually illegal to physically stop people from practicing their religion. Protestors will still be allowed to protest, by NYC would have a massive open and shut civil rights lawsuit against it if protestors continued to block religious services and the city did nothing to ensure people could attend.
He already criticized the synagogues and called the activities they endorse a violation of international law.
It would also be illegal for him to ban the protestors via a law, so that’s not possible
It would be illegal to ban the religious services, so that’s not possible
It would be illegal to allow the protesters to physically prevent religious patrons from attending religious services
The “law” in question literally can’t exist. It’s a complete made up nothingburger. Allowing any one of these would result in a massive open and shut civil rights lawsuit against the city. It is actually illegal for protestors to block people from practicing their religion, even though we are wise enough to understand that it’s thinly veiled colonialism. They legally have to be able to attend their religious event, and the city has to enforce that if protestors can’t self enforce.
A college campus is a very different situation than an actual religious event. Being on a college campus is not a first amendment protected activity the way attending a religious event is. I’ve seen the videos of both and did see protestors the other day clearly attempting to physically stop religious patrons from attending their (albeit shitty) event, which is what prompted this entire discussion about Zohran in the first place.
The settlement statement is disappointing and an unforced error. He could have left it at the violation of international law statement and up to interpretation with probably not much pushback. I wouldn’t have put out that clarification at least, but I wouldn’t call that a world ending total capitulation to Zionism as much as probably a strategic move to be able to effectively wield your governing coalition in a way that can actually make a dent through BDS. I get hating on Zohran where it’s deserved and we need to do it, but automatically assuming somebody has the worst intentions all of the time is not realistic or good for you.
Im going to be honest, a “pattern” of like… a handful of unforced foreign policy errors as a local politician who has almost no say in foreign policy is mildly disappointing at worst when the reality is that they will probably make effectively governing in a way that actually matters more realistic.
Yes, we should be fighting antisemitism btw, but Zohran’s policy is an 800% increase in funding for hate crime prevention programs, not just for antisemitic violence. Zohran is not Donald Trump, and the entire meeting was pretty much there to secure halfway decent federal funding for NYC, which is critical. If you think Zohran is going to use antisemitism as a cudgel the way Trump or Eric Adams have, you are not making an argument based on reality. I fail to see anything in his history as an organizer, elected official, or statements as a mayor-elect that could possibly lead to the conclusion that he’s planning to “crack down” on anti-Zionist protestors at all. In fact, in the screenshots you’ve shared he clearly says the anti-Zionist protestors are allowed to exercise their first amendment right
First, people brought that up literally all of the time regarding arresting Netanyahu and still do, including people on the left.
Second, I’d probably say Israel is the nexus of Zionism. Not downplaying that NYC is important, but let’s be serious. Yes, internationalism and solidarity are the key to socialism. It would be really concerning if he was calling himself a communist and not expressing these things, but he ran as a democratic socialist local politician in the heart of global capital. There’s a certain balancing act to getting anything done effectively while also achieving the other main idea of undoing decades of antisocialist propaganda tied to the very word socialism itself. Zohran detractors here seem to be under the impression that people who supported him expected him to secede from Amerikkka and declare a protracted people’s war or something. Nobody expected socialism in one city.
Third, what policy? You keep posting this screenshot as if Zohran said this for sure and committed to a policy in it. It’s an article quoting a rabbi who’s “quoting” Zohran. We don’t know exactly what he said, and you’re again just assuming worst intent from Zohran sourced from the third step of whisper down the lane that first went through a Zionist rabbi and then the Zionist, openly anti-Zohran press.
Fourth, NYC is already slated to divest at least from Israeli bonds, and Zohran hasn’t made any indication he’d be urging his comptroller to reinvest in them, so I’d say yes, he does seem interested in at least that much.
Don’t these endless arguments based around your assumption of worst possible intent exhaust you? He hasn’t even been inaugurated yet. No policy has been implemented. You haven’t seen one day of a Zohran administration, and you’re saying shit like
“you think the below policy is a benign one that definitely won’t make wearing a keffiyeh within 500m of a synagogue a hate crime (prosecuted with the new funding provided by the Mamdani gov)?”
What policy? The policy Zohran is never confirmed to have even mentioned, that came to print after a Zionist rabbi and Zionist, anti-Zohran media put it into print? And then you just go next level on it and throw down that his increase in hate crime prevention funding (which is good), not just for antisemitism (which still would be ok), is going to make wearing a keffiyeh within half a kilometer of a synagogue a hate crime? What are we doing here? What are you even talking about? PLEASE, for your own sake, give it a rest.
No more hockey.
Ok pause… Zohran is lowkey going beastmode with this lmao
Zohran Maoist arc in 2026 challenge
What if we kissed in front of the PS1 graphics style Marx and Engels statue?
Just an idea
18+ Norman Finkelstein’s name appears in the Epstein files. However, his name only appears where he calls Epstein and Dershowitz pedophiles and then saying both deserve to be promptly strangled
Norman Finkelstein getting name dropped in the files and coming out the other side looking even more morally upstanding
How to organize when audhd+anxiety makes it hard?
I want to do something, anything, but organizing/participating in orgs is really hard with how my brain works. Theres chapters/locals out here, dsa, psl, frso, etc., but i feel like i cant participate. ...
take the libpill
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Smh Trump is completely sauceless, he's posting like a GOP senator from 2010 now
DSA member leaked NYC DSA meeting notes to Newsweek which show that the party tried to set up communications with Chinese Officials ( archive.is )
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Weekly Discussion: How many rocks are in your home right now?
The concept of “allowing” two sovereign nations to trade with each other is peak burgerbrain. Nevertheless, Cuba will continue to have an oil lifeline in a neighboring nation
Link to the article here
Now that Mamdani is mayor, you may have been wondering “What is former Mayor Eric Adams up to now?” And I assure you, the answer is far more stupid than you had imagined: He launched a cryptocurrency
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["Bolsonaro is sick again" news] He was taken to hospital for tests after fall, head injury. [Full text inside] ( archive.today )
I didn't realize the "article" is just a couple sentences. ...
Hakeem Jeffries official statement on Trump’s illegal war and regime change operation in Venezuela: “What you did was fine, but it’s a problem you did it without our approval.”
There is no opposition party in the United States, only proud fascists and those who pretend they aren’t fascists
How US was able to invade Venezuela and kidnap its leader in hours?
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Death to America
$29B Disaster: Ford Cancels EVs, Kills Battery Plant, Turns to Profitable Gas Cars. Hands victory to China. ( www.youtube.com )
In America he would have been given a slap in the wrist and already time served.
Was there ever any attempt at making a socialist calendar?
Since the French Republicans made one, I am a little surprised I haven't been able to find any information in terms of socialist states.
[CW Self harm] California delenda est
Latvia’s parliament votes to quit global treaty protecting women ( archive.ph )
Florida Child Bullied for Being Only One in Class Without Whooping Cough ( thehardtimes.net )
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He's Different Colors For An Amazing Reason
I can't see a single thing that's bad.
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