Once you've come to terms with death, finding a cause to die for can be a lot easier than finding one to live for.
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Even at my most dispassionate for life, I don't think I've ever just left greasy and slimy food just sitting on my keyboard. I don't think this is depression, it strikes me more as self-loathing.
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There actually is no "male lonelyness epidemic" or rather, the increasing lonelyness we see in our society that atomizes and alienates everybody, systematically destroys third spaces and tears apart communities has been shown to affect people regardless of gender. Other studies find that women are affected more often than men, even when you adjust for potential confounding factors like lower self-reporting among men and longer life expectancy in women. And when you look at the search results for this stuff, you may notice that the sources that confirm the idea of a male lonelyness epidemic range from chud-adjacent to outright manosphere propaganda.
What we see here instead is the concept that Klaus Theweleit described as "soldatic masculinity" in his main work Male Fantasies, which in spite of its psychodynamic Deleuzian bias continues to be a thorough takedown of the ideological intersection between patriarchy and fascist recruitment. And personally i think that's one of the most dangerous developments we're seeing at the moment, it's never a good thing when reactionary men get combat experience.
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As an introvert there is no fucking crisis.
However no one can afford to do shit anymore and it isn't worth the time, gas, and money to do anything.
That is basically the west's plan, yes
Can't feel lonely if you're dead 
Absolute state of the average slav male
One way to do it
Putting food directly on the keyboard like a goddamn neanderthal
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CW discussion of Suicide and Mental health
Random thoughts
Suicide by combat has long been a popular recruitment strategy for more than just Ukraine.
It's a fine line to walk, though, like I imagine there is a lot of alienation and despair that drives communists in the imperial core to volunteer for internationalist brigades - I've followed a few people who volunteered in Rojava/YPG-I* over the years and some definitely struggled with their mental health before they made their decisions. I personally was close to doing so when I was particularly bad around 2016-2018.
Then again, those who did volunteer appear to have a new perspective on revolution once they return home. They become more active in organising in their communities and don't seem to be as paralysed by despair as before. I can't ever be sure if that's a pattern or an anecdotal observation but you certainly don't hear of folks taking their lives post-service like you do of veterans in the imperial militaries.
One thing that absolutely differentiates the two, though, is that Azov and Ukraine at large prey on this alienation. Azov like any fash movement is fueled by the doomerism and mental anguish of people like this redditor to serve as their blood sacrifice for fascism. Socialist brigades have historically not wanted their volunteers to die; they recruit for teachers, engineers, farmers, and medics as much as they recruit for soldiers. Does Azov and Ukraine offer anything other than making oneself "immortal" through glorious combat against the "Russian hoards"?
Idk that's my two pence on the matter. May this redditor either find the help they're calling out for, or meets a vain end in their pursuit of fascism. I have a feeling they are seeking the former, given my own memory of how quick these "plans" fall apart once someone offers anything other than cynicism to guide you. I wouldn't be so quick to assume how well they've thought it through.
^* Yes the party line on Rojava and the SDF is negative, and rightly so, but most of the volunteers of the YPG-I were absolutely comitted to their pursuit of communalism, and the org itself was particularly strict on communalist education of foreigners.^
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Yk should we even stop them? I'm wondering if Russia meat grinding so many fascists will have positive effects for western countries.
Maybe they're not leaving in big enough numbers, not to mention the people of Donbas didn't ask for so much fertilizer
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capitalist alienation driving the "straight, white, male" demographic to the welcoming, embracing, accepting arms of the... fascist meatgrinder? well ig it costs less/is easier to access than therapy, so thanks again capitalism. life truly is miserable for most in capitalist Empire.
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