The CCP is special. It’s politicking very much takes it’s people’s happiness (or the people perceived happiness) into account.

Also While they do allow the whole weath inequality gap to increase, they very much control the wealthy, instead of having it the other way around.

Imo, other countries can learn a thing or two. For the CCP dudes, there’s no next election cycle to start ramping up actual work that needs to be done to get them elected again. For them it’s over, if they don’t keep their people happy (content/fooled) and they’re the only goddamn authoritarians that understand that. They understand this, so they keep a tight leash on every enterprise, bank and institution within the country and plan extensively.

That’s what the governments need to do, let only the people’s vote control them and not any money, lobbying, institution or rich person.

Hear me out.

Even left radicalism is kind of about - “Fuck those people” thinking. Instead of immigrants it’s the rich.

I want to know why this doesn’t seem as appealing as “I hate brown/muslim/black/even more than me poor people”.

I think it’s because of propoganda. The rich can pay for expensive ads and redirect anger. The facist target of the day can’t do this.

The Austrians did elect the FPO back. Did they forget about their incompetency?

I think something more is at play here. Maybe tiktok? Russian interference? Not sure.

I also think it may be because the root problem is not being solved. Late stage capitalism - housing crisis, unemployment and such.

The far right point to immigrants and blames them for it, but the establishment parties also do very little, too late, to solve the issues well either. Then the election cycle comes and people want a reset. A vicious cycle.

I feel like this calls for radical shift in how society operates, doesn’t it (just openly balling)?

I am not saying communist revolution. But I also think we’ve spent too much time kissing rich asses in the name of “we are benefiting from this, keep doing it”. Now that economies don’t grow as fast anymore, the “trickle down” effect isn’t working and people are getting poorer and angrier.

The rich don’t care as long as they can make short term profit, so they keep supporting whoever will help them with that.

There needs to be a change. Or at least the greens, the left need to get some balls, strong leaders and implement some kind of FDResque or clement atleesque policies.

What we need is to give the rich incentives to be happy with what they have and have a stronger government approach to handling things. Avoiding bloodshed is important, don’t want to end up like USSR. Maybe until we figure out unlimited energy we can let the rich be dicks but not let them be too much of dicks.

This was a weird rant…

I don’t get it, why can’t people around the world vote in left wing anti-establishment parties when the status quo gets frustrating?

The far right time and time again have proven to be ineffective at their job and people get tired of them. But they can appeal to emotions?

Are the radical left really that boring? Is the message “for the people” not as sexy as “kill those who don’t look like us?”

I don’t even get this notion.

“Everyone will become a lazy bum!”. Humans are biologically coded with the want to do SOMETHING. If you took current day scenarios of people wanting to not work at all, that’s only because WE HAVE TO WORK to live.

People want to remove stress, not be “lazy”.

And lazy is such a defective term.

Thanks

Well, looks like 4A is prepping to announce Metro 4.

Is there anyway you can prove you are in NK?

Why are you doing an AMA?

How did you find lemmy? and why lemmy? Why not reddit?

Also, african countries start paying spain, italy and Greece to keep the migrants there.

Brazil is super diverse to be fair. And it’s one the largest countries on the planet.

I like what Gusteau from ratatouille has to say about this - “Anyone can be a facist, but only the stupidest can be great at it”

Also Anton’s “Not everyone can become a great facist, but a great facist can come from anywhere”

Wait, isn’t that the word for liking the wrong kind of Germans?

It’d be hilarious to see a reverse migration.

Africa is beautiful, the only issue is safety.

Countries like namibia/botswana probably have less of these issues as well.

Yeah, but who doesn’t have fascists? At least they’re prosecuting theirs. Bolsonaro can’t stand for elections no more.

So, at least they’re back to the status quo, where they destroy the planet slowly.

Brazil is good. Nice food, people and forests.

Only when I remember to fill up on my blinker fluid.

True.

What helped me is doing it in small sessions. Like only for 5 minutes or just 2-3 minutes or just doing breathing exercises and not doing the mindful part.

Before sleep worked best when I was super tired, sometimes I just fell asleep while meditating and that was really sweet. You can do it lying down as well.

But yeah, not going to lie, it’s difficult to get that “mindful” state.

Ah, lol, meant it as a joke. I apologise if it seemed “just get a planner, duh!”

I have ADHD(enough to disrupt life quite a bit), and you are right, it is very difficult to just concentrate. I hate concentrating, it’s frustrating and I lose every time.

But for me, none of the medicines available to me work or help any of the problems with ADHD and I don’t have money for it. So I’ve been deciding to raw dog life and instead meditation in part has helped me with handling some things.

I’ve been meditating for past 6 months straight now (not very successfully). But I continue to do it because of the discipline’s gentle nature. There are no hard and fast rules. I can be meditating and it won’t be what most people call meditating but it helps me calm down and I like that. Brief moments/seconds of calmness are worth it for me.

And over time, while reading up more about meditating, I’ve learnt that it’s also very very normal for the mind to wander, that’s like the default mode for it. More so for people with ADHD. I think you aren’t supposed to be perfectly focused (at least for most people). All you are supposed to do is to acknowledge what you feel and try and move on and feel what you are feeling in the moment without any judgement. It’s very difficult and not being able to do it is fine. Over time, you get a little better at it while you incur other benefits of Meditation.

It’s more than just trying to attain peace, it’s about learning to be gentle with yourself, giving yourself time for yourself, living in the moment and enjoying what little time you have.

Meditation can mean to be different things for different people.

I was lucky or call it unlucky to have had found the time to add meditation into my daily routine(life reasons). And even now it’s difficult to do every day, with what the ADHD not rewarding me to do it. For this, the work around is to do it as much as you can but consistently and being okay with missing out on days. (It’s not do or die, it’s the cumulative effort). Do it for 5 minutes or three minutes, not more. Forget about doing it for hours or something, consistency matters more than the time you put in.

There’s also different methods to choose from, some are easier for folks like us. I haven’t gotten into any of those, but I see people discussing it often to know. I would highly recommend the free app - medito. It has a lot of different options, courses to follow and is very beginner friendly. There’s no shady backdoor, you won’t be pushed into buying anything. Though It’s run by an NGO and they will ask for donations time to time.

If you have a quiet and calm place to do it, I’d highly recommend that. It really helps when the environment isn’t fighting you. I forget example recently did it twice in the forest and It was beautiful.

Also this is just my experience, try and see what works for you.

Meditation helps with this. Well at least it’s better than nothing. Well at least you can feel superior over others because you meditate.

Yup, that’s a major reason why people didn’t want to leave twitter. They’d built a following that they didn’t want to rebuilt.

I know people who hated elon Musk and had accounts on other microblogging platforms, but continued to post on twitter because that’s where they got their fill of engagement.

Shifting away from reddit to lemmy is fundamentally easier than it is from Twitter to mastadon. I think it’s part in due to the nature of the type of social media platforms they are.