Hey comrade!! First of all thanks for being a big contributor and consistent presence to the grad.

I am not a professional nor do I have any real experience with these kinds of techniques, but recently (in the past two weeks or so) I've been trying to work on my anxiety through consciously thinking about it.

Instead of fighting my anxiety and telling myself there's nothing to be worried about, I just consciously tell myself something to the effect of "ok, I am feeling anxious" or "ok this feeling is there", "that's fine", etc.. Then I tell myself there is a reason for that anxiousness. And I try to think back and find potential causes for it.

This calms me down. I don't remember to do it every time but it does work to varying degrees for me. Sometimes less than others.

That Wagner leader better have a lot of caffeine. Not gonna be safe for him to sleep at night now...

Thanks comrade. Yes for sanity purposes sometimes it is best to ignore current events and delve into the history books.

This war in Ukraine if it goes Russia's way would a major event in helping tip the balance of power from the imperialists. Pretty disappointed with this development. Hope the resolution of this insurrection is quick.

Anyone care to fill me in on what Wagner is and what is being reported about them? I'm not really in the whole Ukraine war loop.

As bad as it is now, there is a lot of room for it to get worse.

Poor Caesar. Assassinated for the debt and land reform he didn't even have any plans to carry out.

Yes but there's always the extra step where they could just tell police, soldiers, and fascist militia to literally just round people up and throw them in jail or shoot them

I love watching liberals lose their shit over this. They're getting absolutely destroyed by their corporate overlords.

It was always going to end with those losers setting up shop. But hey it's great to see that MLs are making great strides in geopolitics for humanity, and all the bootlickers from reddit can do is troll on lemmy.

They genuinely think flooding lemmy is going to help stop the multipolar world. Think about that for a second - how stupid you have to be and how desperate you have to be to resort to that. So framed in this way, we know that they will go the way of history and that progress marches on, ignoring their tears.

Sasuke is my spirit animal

You just need to read more history books, honestly. By saying things "are nuanced" is actually I think an attempt to de-nuance by trying to equate two things (China vs US) which are entirely different.

There is nothing useful by starting from a perspective of trying to equate two things when there is a distinct lack of knowledge/information. This is your own bias coming into play here - you are instantly trying to find some sort of equivalence instead of starting from the real square zero of "wait, I actually don't know anything about China".

This is one of the main pitfalls of liberal ideology - to always have to appease two sides to appear to be unbiased. Since I assume you are American, you obviously wouldn't leapfrog to "both are bad" when cops beat up BLM protestors after protestors looted, right? Obviously there is a real truth to everything and you don't get there by leapfrogging from zero knowledge to equivalence.

What exactly is it that you are hoping to accomplish by criticizing China, a country that you know ostensibly nothing about (you do not know its language, history, nor do you live there)?

So when framed like that:

-Why exactly does your criticism help you in your goal?

-Why is it worth anything?

-Why should Chinese people care about it?

-Why should countries who are leaving US imperialism care?

-What exactly is imperialism (this one is easy tbh, read Lenin, learn about the role of military, debt, and currency)?

Anyway the purpose of this is to get you to explore the way your own thought process works, as I assume you are a leftist from the west.

China is starting to live in the future. And then I look out my window and America is literally crumbling apart brick by brick. Unused lots full of scrap and rotting metal skeletons. Broken glass windows. It's depressing. So depressing. There's no future here.