Instead of paragraphs, I'm just gonna make a list of shit that I used to enjoy, but can't now:
- professional sports
- my country and its fucking holidays
- literally any film except like ok foreign kinda leftist pieces like Parasite
- most video games (if they're not full of ideology like COD, they're full of grind mechanics)
- my career (I just want to teach and go home, advancement seems pointless)
- most white people I know now, because their views are terrible
- traditionally "hot" people (see above), I'm not saying that white people aren't attractive, but generic middle class ones certainly aren't
- a homestead, I used to have a house and care about furniture and aesthetics and shit, now I want the least amount of expence and maintenance
- meeting new people, if you're not at least a radlib, I don't have time for you
- hanging out with lib workmates
- FB & IG type social media
- porn, I can't unsee a worker getting the value of their labour appropriated
Yes, Yugopnik just made a video about this recently
Edit: I somehow forgot that "enjoying things" is a regular struggle session here. Listen, no one is being attacked or judged. I assumed a lot of you can't enjoy 1-2 normal things now that you used to. I'm sorry I phrased it in a way to make it seem like games and films are bad.
The broke just enjoy things vs the woke create some kind of weird complex where you get addicted to getting mad at problematic things.
:gigachad-hd: Why yes, I do still enjoy video games as a communist.
No, everything has to be serious at all times and we cannot find any humor in the absurdity of hell world. The last time I smiled was on August 19th, 1991. I wear a dirty ushanka at all times, do not shave, and only take cold sponge baths because hot running water is bourgeoisie decadence. Every day at exactly noon I have the same meal of an expired Maoist MRE I store in a pit covered in old issues of a revolutionary newspaper. I sleep in a bed made of flags from every failed revolution so that they are never forgotten. In the evenings I stare at a picture of vodka by candlelight, but I do not allow myself to drink because there is nothing to celebrate. Every local org has banned me after I attempted to split it by assassinating the leadership. There is no plumbing in my house I shit in a brass bucket with a picture of Gonzalo and Deng french kissing in the bottom of it. My house is actually an overturned T34 in an abandoned junkyard in Wisconsin. I have a single friend in this world and it is a tapeworm named Bordiga that I met after ingesting spoiled borscht on 9/11 in the ruins of building 7 (I blew it up after finding that a nominally leftist NGO inside of it wasn’t sufficiently anti-imperialist, the attacks on the world trade center were a perfect revolutionary moment for me to enact direct praxis against liberalism). My source of income is various MLM schemes in the former soviet bloc that have been running for so long no one remembers who I am, they just keep sending money. I have not paid taxes since McGovern lost the Democratic nomination for president and my faith in electoralism died more brutally than my childhood dog after it got into an entire jar of tylenol. I own 29 fully automatic rusted kalashnikovs and three crates of ammunition entirely incompatible with them or any other firearms I own. My double PHD in marxist economics and 18th century Swiss philosophy (required to understand Engels) sits over the fireplace of my home, my fireplace is a salvaged drum from a 1950s washing machine that was recalled for locking children inside of it. I chose that washing machine model on purpose because I am anti-natalist. During the latest BLM protests I firebombed a Nikes outlet in the middle of a peaceful candlelit vigil. William F Buckley and I wrote hatemail to one another for 47 years until my final letter gave him an aneurysm. The only water I drink is from puddles. George Lucas and I dropped acid together during an MKULTRA southern baptist summer camp and he went on to write the movie Willow about our time together. The best way to test whether an electrical wire is live is to drool on it and shrimp salad is racist. You can make an IED out of potassium and the instructions are online thanks to Timothy McVey, who was actually a committed antifascist communist slandered by the deep state as part of operation condor. Every time a liberal files a restraining order against me, I carve a mark into the wall. I am running out of walls. When Amerika finally collapses I will be ready to lead the revolution. I am very smart and people like being around me.
Jesus comrade, I was whinging about how I can't enjoy old things. Comparing my thinking to "shrimp salad is racist" is rather hurtful.
Not trying to hurt you bud. Just making a couple jokes. C'mere :meow-hug:
Were you comparing my thinking to this? I personally wouldn't be snarky to someone outside the power structure, but you do you.
Take the Grill Pill, my dude. Not every single interaction has to be a stepping stone to international revolution.
Chill the fuck out
There are times when you need to be a non-practicing intellectual and just have fun with stupid bullshit
Some of these are valid, but for example I can't imagine turning down an invite to go see a sportsball game with the homies because (insert ideological reason). I used to be like that and it was the worst era of my life in terms of happiness / social fulfilment
I enjoy problematic things while still being a socialist because i don't give a fuck, y'all give too much shit about the wrong shit sometimes
Fr, like i watch formula 1 ffs even tho cars are the devil, the sport is run by corrupt billionaires and even the drivers themselves almost all either come from money or have wealthy financial backers because that's the only way to actually become a professional racing driver
Don't care, cars go vrooooom
Communism is where you refuse to be happy because capitalism made your iphones and thus you have to live in the woods or be a hypocrite.
from this i'm guessing you were a lib til bernie or something
a lot of this shit is going to make you burn out sooner or later, and some of it is actively detrimental to any attempt to organize
I'm definitely not against sports. I wish to fuck I could enjoy my local team and do the comradery with people in my area.
What if instead of paying for this shit you just stole it? Would you like it better then? Even if you still can't enjoy the product, maybe you'll have a new hobby.
most white people I know now, because their views are terrible
This is probably the hardest one for me. Even well meaning liberal whites are terrible.
Just had to describe policing and why it is institutionally rotten to a friend who has the idea that police solve crimes and make him feel safe
I have been a joyless grump much longer than I've been a leftist. It would be more accurate to say that becoming a leftist has freed me from the obligation to pretend I enjoy that stuff.
By sheer dumb luck, the stuff I genuinely enjoy has been mostly unaffected. Well, except for chocolate.
