I mean, look up “mindfulness” on Amazon. There are a million books for sale out there. And people like John Kabat-Zinn have made plenty of money selling mindfulness to everyone from mental health clinics to the military.

Mindfulness in this context is generally just defined as paying attention to the present moment. But that’s ethically neutral and can be used to, for example, make the horrors of late-stage capitalism more bearable for its subjects, or to help soldiers focus on the act of killing rather than the horror of it.

I’m not saying mindfulness can’t have serious benefits. However, I would caution anyone who’s into it to read the book McMindfulness. A lot of the “science” behind it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, there can be genuine drawbacks to it, and it’s often used in unethical ways–like to make CEOs of ruthless companies more able to shove aside their feelings of guilt, or to sharpen the minds of soldiers for killing.

one kind of dumbass will also be another kind of dumbass. worth knowing, but not especially surprising

yes i have, and his argument is fucking stupid. marx is all right, but i straight-up hate engels.

if MODERATORS are landed gentry, what the fuck does that make rich bastards like him?

there are things you can do to start building a better world today, but it never feels like enough

i’ve read marx. at precisely no point does he say anything justifying the various atrocities state capitalist countries have committed. i think he’s wrong about some stuff, but even if you accept that his word is gospel, tankies are still just people who took leftist principles as an excuse for the imposing the kind of brutal authoritarianism that leftists are supposed to be against.

See, I was born around 8:00 AM and I hate mornings. I figure it’s the trauma of being ripped out of my nice comfortable home into this weird, loud, cold setting I never asked to go to.

why? so the police can get there and stand around staring at the punisher logos on their phones?

i’m not against this, i guess, but it’s just… less than the bare minimum.

But wait. I have a NSFW subreddit, and reddit doesn’t allow you to upload pictures directly to reddit if you’re on an NSFW subreddit. Right? So how can it be the primary host?

Ha. As if there’s a process. I just stumble across a hill one day and realizing I’m willing to die on it.

you’re acting like this is some kind of new thing. it’s not. trans kids have already been using puberty blockers, and it’s been fine. it’s only new to people like you who didn’t care one way or the other about trans people until you were told they were on the wrong side of the culture war.

just don’t get married then. christ. we need an /r/arethestraightsokay.

unlike cigarettes, trans kids getting healthcare hurts no one. bad post op

If not, huge missed opportunity.

The burden of proof nevertheless lies with you.

I’d request you cite your sources. I might even click on them.

How many people actually click on the cited sources on reddit and Twitter?

How many people who are horrified by this get their news through reddit or Twitter? Getting news via social media isn’t weird.

damn, they really are teaching CRT to elementary schoolers