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If it makes you feel better, I think it’s a completely normal reaction to your situation. When I became bedridden and was mostly abandoned by family and friends. I often used LLMs for discussions. Though I didn’t use the sort of character ai thing, just a plain old LLM without a personality, but it kept me intellectually engaged when I had no one to share my ideas with, emotionally resilient when I didn’t have friends or family to vent to or support me.

I really don’t think you should care if people who haven’t been through the kind of immense suffering it takes to lose the functioning of your body and be abandoned by the people you love, think it is normal or not.

I kind of dislike this armchair diagnosing.

Someone reacting differently in similar situations doesn’t mean they are bipolar.

Aka. A shy extrovert.

In the four european countries I’ve lived in as a physically disabled person unable to work, this is exactly how I’ve been treated as well.

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Why?

“lure”

more like “help them make the move” its not like the need any luring

I already posted this elsewhere in the thread but i case it hasnt been seen yet, I think this illustrates your point well

I would very much recommend reading Orwell’s Hommage to Catalonia.

Especially the Appendixes. Even though written before the war even ended he explains quite well how the arguments you make were quite meticulously crafted by the republican government’s ministry of propaganda, and broadcast to the communist press worldwide through soviet intervention.

At the end, Orwell comes to the chilling conclusion which is actually fairly common amongst historians, that the Stalinists saw the worker controlled revolution of Spain as more of a threat than both the bourgeois state of things and the Facists. Hence why the allied with the bourgeois liberals and rolled back the revolution.

Here’s a quote

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist Party thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

I was reading George Orwell’s hommage to Catalonia the other day and was just shocked by how brutal this was.

For context Orwell served in the POUM (anti-authoritarian marxists) in the spanish civil war against the facist-conservative-feudalist camp. However over time the liberal bourgeoisie and the Stalinist side of the republic (anti-facist forces), allied themselves together and started brutally repressing the Anarchist and Anti-Stalinist Marxist Factions. They basically handed the victory over to the facists by purging the left.

Being authoritarian doesn’t make you “far left” it makes you “authoritarian”.

Many countries with “universal healthcare” still require you to pay a percentage.

Well in my ideal view we would abolish the state and abolish capitalism, so those things aren’t too much of an issue.

Fun fact: Grizzlies and Polar Bears are the same species according to the Biological Species Concept.

Meaning they interbreed in the wild (somewhat rare), and produce viable offspring that can have babies as well.

We’re actually noticing this happening more and more with climate change. As Grizzly populations move further and further north, they’re encountering polar bears more often and are more likely to mate. Some scientists actually think within the next couple centuries due to arctic sea ice pretty much disappearing polar bears will either go extinct, or interbreed with grizzlies so much that there isn’t a “pure” polar bear left. Most likely a mix of both.

Because the neoliberal political elite expends much more effort de-fanging leftist movements and co-opting them than quelling the far right.

Notice how the major “leftist party” in much of the west is basically neoliberalism while maybe adding a little to welfare.

So yeah I think when inevitable discontent comes from inequality, the left has been defanged, it’s kind of inevitable the facists win.

tho foghts are tuf

Abolish Marriage.

We don’t need the state or religious authorities dictating our relationships.

He’s like a more moderated Francis. Very much a bureaucratic centrist within the Vatican, but he still supports a lot of the Francis style reforms.

So we’re not going back to papal conservatism, but it’s not like we’re going to push further than Francis.

So basically the old vatican with some vaguely liberal messages.

(In most contexts I’d hate him, but given the overton window of the catholic church well… he’s somewhat good).

YUP.

I get it if the author is in poverty. But in the case I’m referring to they were upper middle class, maybe even liberal eliteish.