Disclaimer: I’m not a troll, I used to be very (too) active on GZD here and on reddit. Feel free to search through my history here or on reddit over 1 month ago. There’s also this using Pushshift. Regarding my name “Pinkeston” because the trueanon people kept pointing that out. It’s a play on words from the 1996 Weezer album “Pinkerton” (which I used to love but can’t listen to anymore because it’s incelly) but it’s “pinkest” so it’s more “pink” than “pinker”. I never knew of the “American private security guard and detective agency” when I chose this username 4 years ago

About 3-4 weeks ago I double steeped about 6g of shrooms to make a ridiculously strong tea, and while there’s so much about that trip that I could write about, I just want to talk about the title. I wanted to post this earlier but waited this long because there’s always an afterglow where you’re still affected by the drugs but that completely went away after only 2 days for me and I still feel the same or possibly even stronger as I did immediately after the trip

During the trip, I thought about the Russia Ukraine war since that’s kind of always on my mind and I imagined all the suffering that was occurring on the land. For a very slight bit I was dropped in the middle of the war field on the ground and experienced all the destruction and death around me and I cried and wept for all the victims that are experiencing Hell RIGHT NOW

I realized that resisting and escalating tensions can only lead to more harm and suffering. The fighting will never end. The total amount of deaths and pain caused worldwide in 100 years of resistance will be mountains higher than no resistance at all

Violence only breeds more violence. No matter what the politics are (NATO expansion, Azov massacres in Donbas, etc.), you can’t solve those issues with just more war

The only way to create a peaceful just world is to change it through companionship and love. Forcefully submitting others to your will only creates more suffering and oppression that will result in never ending cycles

Revolutionaries who have overthrown kings and dictators, workers that have forced their company’s hand by going on strikes, and even people who have gone against their employer/state by leaking secrets like Snowden, Manning, and Assange

I can respect their well-meaning intentions but all of these only contribute or create new problems that are the exact same ones they were trying to solve

I’m asking all of you to please consider and realize all the harm you’d be doing by even just unionizing at work. It’s a slippery slope to mass destruction and suffering. No more resisting for the sake of EVERYBODY

Make love not war

  • @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    20•2 years ago

    It must have been a fucking intense trip to make you go from communist to liberal x)

    I mean, all of this is addressed in the communist manifesto (to name just one source). It’s the nature of the class struggle, and sometimes contradictions can only get resolved by violence. Contradictions make things move and make dialectics happen.

    We will be free from violence and war when there are no more classes. And we will get there through stages.

    Don’t forget the bourgeoisie was progressive compared to the nobility. And nobles were progressive compared to slavers.

    We would march to the seat of government right now with all my comrades and tell them to hand over the state to us if we could, so that there would be no violent revolution. But they won’t. They’ll laugh in our face, even if we had support from 90% of the population. And so what choice do they leave us?

    Vietnam was finally free from violence after they got violent against the French and Americans. If you don’t know the extent of what happened in Vietnam under the French, read Ho Chi Minh on marxists.org. The French had the power of life and death over their (Vietnamese) servants.

    Also I have to point out, it’s kinda weird telling people to not join unions but not make a peep about imperialist wars like Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan.

  • Ratette (she/her)
    16•2 years ago

    “I’m asking all of you to please consider and realize all the harm you’d be doing by even just unionizing at work. It’s a slippery slope to mass destruction and suffering. No more resisting for the sake of EVERYBODY”

    Are you still fucking high? 🤨 get a grip.

    • DankZedong
      13•2 years ago

      Don’t unionize and keep getting exploited. If you show enough love your capitalist overlord might give you a bread crumb.

  • @panic@lemmygrad.ml
    14•2 years ago

    This is why I’m perfectly okay with being an ebil cold sociopath. When you make it about the way your empathy makes you feel in your viscera, you are selfish enough to side with injustice.

    (Inb4 “epic prank bro, y’all though I’m a lib” ???)

    • @Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml
      7•2 years ago

      Lord, I looked at his reddit account and he seems committed to this hippie peace and love stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s right in that we shouldn’t relish in violence, but you have to be naive to not understand why revolutionaries are forced into it.

      I couldn’t imagine getting this scrambled, holy shit. 6 g’s is a fuck ton of mushrooms, though.

      [Don’t go harassing him, people. Be better!]

      • SovereignState
        6•2 years ago

        I did 6g’s once. Experienced “ego death” for the first time and came to grips with a lot of shit that was wrong with my life at the time. Became even more of a communist. I have utterly no idea how you could go from ML to this liberal because of a single trip… hopefully it wears off.

        • @Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml
          4•2 years ago

          Based on my interactions with them, they seem somewhat young? I hope so as well.

          I don’t really see myself changing so drastically if I ever took that much, at least as far as ideology goes. I feel like there’s a certain level of dialectical development that you can’t get rid of once you see it.

          In areas where I’m not as sure about in life, I’d be terrified of what that much could do to me.

          • SovereignState
            6•2 years ago

            I wouldn’t recommend anyone do that much unless they’re an experienced “psychonaut” and are seeking something utterly mind-altering. I did that much because my meds have a tendency to reduce the potency of drugs and I figured I needed that much to get the experience I wanted. Hours of crying buck ass naked, slurring my words and hallucinating pretty scary things later… I’m ok on a dose that big for a long, long time lol

  • @Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml
    9•2 years ago

    I’m asking all of you to please consider and realize all the harm you’d be doing by even just unionizing at work.

    What in christ fuck is wrong with you? Your account either has to have been hacked or those psychedelics really scrambled your brain, man.

  • Star Wars Enjoyer
    8•2 years ago

    The only thing pacifism is good for is protecting the status quo against those who might actually change it.

    All politics is warfare. All warfare is political. The right will gladly murder and die to protect the “sanctity” of their religion, race, and values. If we’re not also ready to do the same, they’ll have no problem killing us all.

    Warfare is no place for moralism, and it’s certainly no place for pacifism. War is ugly, most choices cause suffering, there is no winning a moral battle in war. A militant must divorce themself from their morality when it comes to beating the opposition, especially when the opposition is supported by the status quo. We can not win as revolutionaries unless we take measures that will make moralists unhappy.

    Fascists will not simply stop leading genocides if we ask them nicely. The only way to stop the violence is to wipe them out, occupy the territory they’re leading the genocide in, and actively protect the affected group. Without the second world war the Jews may have been eradicated. Without the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ukrainians in Donbas might also have been eradicated in time, along with the Roma, Jews, and other groups targetted by the Ukrainian fascists. The war in Ukraine might cause suffering, but it’s justified because when Russia wins, the shelling of Donbas will end and peace will finally come to the region.

    In the sense of political violence, we can not beat the bourgeois class unless we unionize. We can not have demands met unless we march. We can not ensure the safety of our communities unless we arm ourselves.

    What makes us different from right-wing radicals is our compassion. And that’s a valuable asset to living as a radical. But that compassion has no place in our tactical theory, and allowing it to become too prevalent in one’s dialectics will only pave the way for a fall to liberalism.

    Revolutions survive on the backs of those who are willing to achieve them at any (reasonable) cost. We have nothing to lose but our chains, if we have to throw down our lives to achieve liberation, so-be-it. If we have to risk our jobs to gain a higher wage or a better working condition for our coworkers, so-be-it. If we have to risk our freedom to prevent the murder of minorities, so-be-it.

    I’m not condoning terrorism, or telling anyone to go out and be violent. But I am warning against allowing one’s heart to get too in the way of their brain, if you should fail to keep your mind on the goal you’ll only become a counter-revolutionary.