politics

hey comrade, i know you already apologized, but i still want to point to this post as an example of why i take such issue with casual DoomJerking:

a good chunk of the people on this website you know and (hopefully) care about are in the PSL, even if you don't know it. These are the people you're talking so flippantly about being sent to do brutal slave labor for trying to create a better world - and on strong average, it's way harder to talk about these things in such a detached and offhand manner if you're actually in the crosshairs and taking the punches and risks of state violence like that. now, i don't want to make any presumptions about what kind of irl organizing you are or aren't a part of, but DoomJerking does imply a degree of comfortable, detached distance from the matter that really rubs me the wrong way. this is me and about half of the people i love you're talking about when you make posts like this - it's not an abstraction, these are flesh and blood human beings who have inspired each other & created bonds of love with each other that are hard to overstate. please just try to be mindful of this, even when you are feeling deeply depressed and disillusioned with current conditions (which is completely understandable). 

again, i know you did apologize and post a more optimistic sentiment afterward and this is a bigger trend than just you. i just thought it was a good opportunity to hammer out some issues with this kind of thing (which goes way beyond you or this single post of yours so don't feel too bad) in more detail.