Tiring times in the world right now. I am extremely mad at how Palestina gets covered here and how we are watching a genocide unfold while accepting everything the IDF puts forwards as true. I honestly think I can’t get back to normal after seeing the shit that has happened in the past weeks. How can I ever act normal to people who are casually accepting genocide as the right thing to do?
But personally I feel like doing okay. I tackled some problems I had a while ago and so far things seem to go right. I’m even starting to make some sort of plan for the next few years about where I want to end up. The options I have in mind are somewhere along the Atlantic Ocean in Europe, a certain European island or somewhere more remote in a forest. But we’re talking about between now and ten years. My job and my health are doing okay as well.
Even politics seem positive because according to the polls our party is now standing at 14% of the votes and the campaign hasn’t even started. We’re doing so well that other parties are now talking about excluding is from results lol.
How about you?
Not good. Feeling like shit especially given our financial situation
That’s rough. I hope that you can at least you can find support in whoever you are going through this with.
wait, they are talking about just going full “dictatorship style” and excluding a party with 14% of the votes of the result?
Also, I’m pretty fine right now. I’m working on a research project at my university, for which I’ve received an scholarship grant (about 120USD per month for a year, which is about 0.5x the minimum wage)
Other stuff to say: Here in Brazil the Palestina conflict is being pretty controversial. The evangelicals are fully supporting Israel, “leftists” are split on the subject, and the government (as in traditional Brazilian foreign policy) is trying to keep itself neutral.
More stuff to say: The government here is discussing a possible humanitarian visa for armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and palestinians, which would help them escape their conflicts to Brazil. I do not know if I should support this or not (especially the palestinan part) because this would just accelerate their displacement and would in the end help the israeli forces in their effort to ethnically cleanse palestine. Still, I do think that people who want to leave should be able to leave.
wait, they are talking about just going full “dictatorship style” and excluding a party with 14% of the votes of the result?
In their defence, they already do this with the far right neonazi party as well. And they were even more popular than we are now. Luckily they slowed down to around 14% too.
What’s happening now, I think, is the result of the neolibs losing their majority to left wing parties. In Antwerp, for example, the left with our marxist party, the Greens and another socdem party can now form a majority without any right wing neolib party. I think they want to exclude us to keep leftists blocks from forming.
I don’t know what to think about displacing oppressed native people from their land. It does seem like a solution that helps to oppressor instead of helping a liberation movement.
Wtf? As an American I’m used to “leftists” being quarter brained jackasses, but at least they seem consistently decent on Palestine. Why are Brazilian leftists split on it?
Not to be too much of downer but honestly I’m doing pretty bad and have been for years. I was starting to get better with therapy but ofc the state health coverage I was essentially born with expired right as I started making significant progress. Seeing all the garbage being pushed about Palestine doesn’t help much either lol.
Yeah, therapy is so expensive. Any way you can afford it, or that they would take any cheap insurance?
I had a nice week :D
I’m doing a little better lately. I finally found a family doctor and have a mental health appointment scheduled next month. I’m hoping to get treatment for ADHD, anxiety, and depression. I’m interested to see what’s on the other side after living ADHD and anxiety all my life, and depression for the adult portion of it.
I also recently switched teams at work and so far the work has been more interesting and the environment less stressful. It’s still early days, but things are looking good so far. My new manager also seems to not be a sociopath, so there’s that too.
As far as Israel-Palestine, the mainstream narratives have been disappointing to say the least. I suppose that’s to be expected though. In contrast to his Ukraine-Russia perspective, HasanAbi’s coverage has been excellent and uncompromising. I think there’s more of a willingness among the general public to see Israel as an oppressor whereas Ukraine has just been propoganized to hell.
I’ve been using this as an opportunity to radicalize some friends. There’s a ton of historical MSM content that supports the Palestinian struggle. Bernie’s recent statement is a good example of social democracy being the moderate wing of fascism.
I still held a soft spot for Bernie but man that position he took shit that bed.
Me too, but I was previously unfamiliar with how dogshit his foreign policy is. It’s unfortunate, but ultimately not surprising. The hipocracy to spend your life advocating for the liberation of the working class in the west, but fuck everyone else. He’s just another western chauvinist.
