Storms tore through the middle of the country, recycling the communal tornado every so often and given certain friends bonus tornadoes. My town got one, but we haven't been able to get out and see what kind of damage it's wrought. We got stuck in high water and parents' car is damaged potentially beyond rrepair. But the house is intact and we have power, so I'll call that a win.

I posted a similar post to this one in badposting, but it was pointed out that it was a good post, and I felt bad for being too cowardly to put it anywhere else. So to all my fellow schizophrenics out there, you are good enough to be loved outside of badposting! You are all amazing people and have to put up with shit even from comrades because anti-psychotic language is just ingrained in our culture. At least USian culture, but a lot of other English speakers use similar words. And on top of that you have to put up with the shit your brain gives you! Therapists often have difficulty understanding, and medications can be really bad sometimes. You are worthy of love and understanding, and I LOVE MY SCHIZOPHRENIC COMRADES!

All people on the schizophrenia spectrum are wonderful folks who deserve love and respect!

I really enjoy the Big Spooky Creatures and tales of cosmic horror, but the dude is, like, everything-misic. Everyone who's not an Anglo-Saxon straight male is just abhorrent to him, though I'm sure y'all already knew that. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar stories by Cool People?

My therapist made a comment about how China is a failed socialist experiment because they have 2-3 year olds working in factories. I responded "So we've been told." She looks at me like I'm crazy. (Not a great look for a therapist) "I've not seen any evidence of that."

"Because they're such a closed country!"

"Which means you have no evidence to your point either?"

"Well, missionaries... anyway!"

This man will kill all life on earth to make a buck. What the actual hell is happening?? I heard someone once say that the Capitalist is not the lord of capitalism, but rather that Capital itself is. I see it so clearly now. No human acting in their own best interest would do this shit, but someone acting in the interest of Capital certainly would. A human could see that this will result in the death of millions, possibly (likely) including themselves, but Capital sees nothing because it is an abstract concept that has no agency yet many agents. Everything's fucked.

I'm so tired of feeling like I'm "crazy" because no one around me can realize that the US is not "on its way to becoming" Nazi Germany, but is in fact already Nazi Germany. I'm so tired of my history of psychosis making me think "Maybe I'm not the only one who can see clearly" as that's usually a red flag for me. I wish I could just close my eyes and be a lib again, but that's not healthy or useful. Besides, I don't think I can close my eyes. But I have a significant disability, so what can even do? I barely work now, and probably won't for much longer, so it seems organizing would be largely ineffective. Relying on government benefits, I'm just next in line for slaughter. Another voice disappearing into the void. I'm just so tired.

Lenin's writings are often not super long, but at least What is to be Done? is a hard read. Still intend to read it, it's just dense and hard; and I thought I was good at reading dense and hard works.

I have not read every document the two wrote regarding the subject, so I may be misunderstanding; but the ProleWiki makes it sound like Marx and Lenin--and therefore Marxist-Leninists would--disregard the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat. It seems like sex workers and homeless folks and disabled people are all spat on by the bourgeoisie and would be glad to help take them down? I'm disabled and mostly unable to work (I do work a little, but not even enough to be part-time) and I consider myself an ML.

The wiki describes the lumpen as exploitable by reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces, but we've seen in the West that the proletariat as a whole is susceptible to these forces. See Zohran run one of the most radical campaigns we've seen in a while and then put on Zionist officials and advocate for changing the system from the inside. The working class is content to sit down and wait for someone else to make change for them. Most disabled people I know, on the other hand, are ready to tear the system down with their own hands. So are we supposed to just gloss over a group of people who've been pressure cooking this whole time? If so, why?

If this is too much like fedposting, I can delete it. I currently have a *arr+Jellyfin on a remote server that uses public trackers, but I'd like to set up a home server and not get letters from my ISP telling me to stop pirating. I've heard private trackers mostly don't suffer from this issue, so I was wondering how to get on one or who to contact or what I need.

When watching most shows, movies, whatever from the West, I feel like I'm slamming my head against a wall. There are a few exceptions that are at least better, but seriously. My head hurts because of how mad I am at blatant copaganda. The show was even portraying police in a negative light, but my sometimes-leftist sibling and bootlicker dad were spouting the copaganda. Sibling seems to think the law applies to cops, and Dad can hardly comprehend the US did things like genocide or police brutality. Sure Jim Crow wasn't that bad, right?? Ugh. And Law and Order SVU trying to pretend law enforcement and ICE aren't buddy-buddy. Or that those are bad cops, but we're the good guys. Tell that to your dude who just beat up a man with schizophrenia to get him to confess to a crime he didn't do, and you just went "Oops. Wrong suspect."

Does anybody know of a mobile app that does character sheets for GURPS similar to what D&D Beyond does for Dungeons and Dragons. I don't need the app to hold digital source books too, but something similar to GCS for mobile that lets me store and play with a character on my phone would be really nice. I've heard SJG won't authorize an official app for this, unfortunately.