You’re either missing the context of the thread or you replied to the wrong comment?
The police/bootlickers should be the only antagonist one has to deal with, not fellow protestors. If someone is in the group which the protest is there to protect then they should be encouraged to prioritize their survival.
They’re often networked pretty well so check in with the bigger orgs, Food Not Bombs, or Mutual Aid Disaster Relief asking then to point you towards local orgs.
You may also be able to find an org by searching. “Mutual aid” + your nearest city, state, or alternative name for region (e.g. “twin cities”).
Blue sky might be a good resource.
Telling people to exceed the bounds of their own threat model is exclusive as hell. When you tell others to put themselves at more risk than they’re willing to take on you’re pushing them away. You’re giving them the impression they’re not wanted because there “not dedicated enough”. Don’t do that.
What is this cacophonous radical ideology that makes the MLs give their sensible arguments? I MUST HAVE THIS POWER
You can search for local mutual aid groups. You won’t have to be in crowds but you can still help with organizing, and making a difference on the ground. Logistics and administration are crazy helpful.
Volunteer in outreach orgs or at events that are related to your interests.
There are also mutual aid orgs. They are almost always accessibility aware. Maybe check in with MADR. They may be able to point to local groups if you’re in the US.
There’s also Food Not Bombs which is great!
Insulation means one is not challenged. The brain and body learn from being challenged. If you haven’t experienced difficulty first or second hand you haven’t learned to relate to it. You literally cannot experience empathy on a meaningful level.
It’s part of the wealth disease.
To be clear I’m agreeing with you. I’m saying Ios_chill had a point with executive dysfunction being a symptom of many conditions. So jumping to one of those conclusions based on one symptom without further context nor a systematic approach is wasteful for everyone.
Executive dysfunction is a symptom of many other conditions such as depression, stress/anxiety, and autism.
ADHD diagnoses are expensive, intense, and take a long time. You wouldn’t want to spend your time, energy, and money on it if your real problem is something else.
In any case, therapy is the phase to start. Probably CBT or ACT as they directly focuses on OP’s complaint and are the most common forms that help ADHD anyways. They should also be able to help you identify whether a diagnosis is worth pursuing.
Furthermore you don’t diagnose symptoms, those are reported or observed. Definitely still valid to avoid the immediate jump from symptom to one of the many complexes which develop it.
As an American, neither do i. I was taught them but unlike STEM courses i would never use that knowledge in my adult life.
Meanwhile i knew there wasn’t a tunnel between IE/UK.
Some of us are more worldly i guess…
Yeah sure. Good podcast/series tho. It pulls a lot from The End of Policing by Alex Vitale. Robert Evans is also an incredible journalist/narrator.
i think the cover it in here but it’s been a while… Behind the police
Yeah sure, palace guards, militaries, mercenaries, and so on.
The “police man” is a concept from the last few hundred years.
E: don’t lemmy half asleep folks…
I don’t think you could have a successful society without laws, and you need someone to enforce those laws
This is a very post Renaissance take.
Sigh… Look, the point is we don’t let people off the hook because it’s hard to do something. It’s hard to go to work 40+ hrs a week for 40 years and they ask that of every single one of us.
They have the power or they don’t. If they do, and choose not to act or even attempt, they’re complicit in the world’s problems. If they don’t, and they’re relegated to continuing to sit and amass wealth, then the system itself is broken and must be raised.
You don’t even need to sell, you can take a loan out against an asset like every rich asshole or nation…
I refuse to accept that the most powerful people in the world are so helpless.
There’s a myriad of ways to handle covering wealth into purchasing power. The wealthy falling to do anything about the evils in the world is part of what makes them evil. They aren’t even trying. They use arguments like yours to throw their hands up and claim they’re helpless and that the system would fail, that the world would be worse off if they did anything at all.
Maybe you should read “saving” as “hoarding”. The skeet (tweet?) Is making a point about their odd motivation to continue to accrue unimaginable wealth far beyond the point where the costs of their wildest dreams are trivial. The whole while having the ability to literally end world hunger many times over after subtracting those costs.
Yeah definitely useful when managing expectations around buying cheap shit but quality generally peaks or plateaus in the middle of the cost range.
Im not going to tell someone with a broken leg to charge a police line. Nor would i expect someone without legal status to stand in front of ICE.
If they do it should be their own choice, not because someone said it’s the only way to show solidarity. Solidarity with who? Themselves? That’s fucking nonsense.
You’re bringing up ideas that are unrelated and out of context. Please reread the chain.