I swear I’m not Jessica

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    • I don’t study
    • I take the test
    • I pass
    • I remember what I learned

    I am built different, but it’s more that I’m built incorrectly: I just can’t memorize. My ADHD/autism makes it impossible to memory dump because I can’t pay attention unless I find it interesting. If I don’t engage with it on a deep level, I don’t learn anything at all, even for a test.

    Despite more than a decade of classes, I can’t even understand complex conversations in Spanish. I was never forced to use it in my day-to-day life, so I never learned anything. On the other hand, I joined college level courses late while in high-school, yet still scored higher than everyone else on the end of the year tests. I found psychology and economics intuitively fascinating because I could see how they shaped the world around me.

    It may sound obnoxious, but my study strategy was to genuinely learn stuff and integrate it into my understanding of reality. I find learning fun, so I’m able to focus and learn better than most people. It’s a truly broken ability.


  • This is justice because it makes the rich scared and likely to alienate the public even more. As they become paranoid, they’ll overcorrect and make people realize that they’re the enemy. They foolishly made class warfare the only avenue for change. They’ve created actual anarchy by executing liberal democracy for being too woke. Fucking dumbasses didn’t realize how good they had it.





  • It will take a lot of work, but I think the younger generations are ripe for becoming comfortable with socialism. A big part of that work will be providing essential services that the government does not.

    We could probably build a network of doctors that provide effective medical care outside of the corporate healthcare system. Basically an NGO model that operates without state licenses. It would be an independent verification system that takes the role of the state in establishing trust. The biggest opportunities lie in mental health, and healthcare that’s banned for political reasons.

    One of the biggest problems that will only get worse in the future is addiction. As unhappiness increases, so does substance use, so helping people with those issues will be essential. It’s one of the things that hurt the Black Panthers the most. This is a dire need that must be considered a top priority.

    We can have an AA model of accountability and support, but another important part of addiction is finding reasons to live. We need to help people become comfortable with themselves, and motivated to brave our terrible world. Socialism can offer answers and a cause, something that’s a major part of where people go after recovery.

    We need to work in conjunction with religion, not against it. There really is so much demand for mental support that we won’t even really be competing. In fact, liberation theology works well with socialism, so having religious allies is essential.

    We could also do basic checkups and help people navigate the healthcare system for issues that require a specialist. Simply having an advocate can save a person’s life.

    This endeavor will cost a lot, so we’ll need to have some people who work for wages to support the work of the healthcare providers. We can facilitate sharing of housing and other necessities amongst each other. Society is crumbling, and while terrorizing the wealthy can be helpful, this sort of work will be the true backbone of the movement.










  • No, neoliberalism is a term created by free market liberals to promote deregulation. It’s an actual ideology that dominated from Reagan until the Great Recession, when its practices began to fall out of favor with the right and left. Trump was the break away from it, explicitly opposing everything to do with liberalism. Biden moved away from it towards the social liberalism of the past, but it was too little, too late.

    One of the “best” ideas from neoliberalism was for economies to become mutually dependent on one another. The idea was to deregulate and remove trade barriers so countries would specialize in what their unregulated economies excelled at. Unfortunately, this deregulation made life worse for the workers, driving them away from liberalism and towards populist alternatives.

    If the country was lucky, socialism would win out over fascism, but the owning class naively thinks that fascism would benefit them more than socialism. They don’t understand that their selfish bullshit rots the foundations of society, ultimately making everything worse for everyone.