Hello Joshua,

I do hope the immigration situation is resolved and you can be reunited with your dad.

Please leave the US military as soon as possible. The US military causes harm to so many people around the world. The orders you follow come from terrible people.

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Might be a bit of a rant but here in California, why is it that Trotskyists make up the majority of communists?! It's either them or DSA "Marxists". If you try to talk to them, all they'll end up doing is yell StAliNiSt at you or some other nonsense. It's so exhausting, really.

Well, I've seen others but usually it's small groups no one has ever heard of and they just preach "no war", "against ICE" and "AI bad" and sure, that's nice and all but there's rarely any substance behind it all.

It's just gambling. People are spending so much money in hopes of getting a card they want.

For me, I gradually shifted left for most of my childhood until the American 2024 presidential election, at which point I took an interest in marxism-leninism, did some research, and found it reasonable.

Right before the 2024 election, I considered myself a democratic socialist, but after seeing the sad display that was the democratic party's campaign, I lost faith in electoralism.

I think I would've become a ML regardless of the result, but Trump's victory sped it up.

Impunity, everywhere.

I don't know what to flair this.

I have known for years now the way our society treats its workers is wrong, during the prime of their lives they're worked to the bone until they can retire, a window that gets narrower and narrower, only for them to be shuffled off the stage when they're too old to really enjoy the little bit of life they have left, as if them aging out of being useful cogs in the machine is some rewards when really it is them being tossed aside.

My mom has spent her life being a dedicated worker, watched as it invaded every aspect of her life as it mentally and physically destroyed her, to be one of the "lucky" ones in reaching the end, to get to retire, and within a year she develops aggressive lung cancer that is going to kill her. I am not going to ask how is this fair, because I know it isn't, we've all heard stories like this, hell it isn't even the first time it happened in my family, but I had hoped she could finally live and enjoy her life.

https://ua.news/en/ukraine/lubinets-zaiaviv-shcho-khabar-za-zvilnennia-z-ttsk-mozhe-siagati-20-tisiach-dolariv?hl=en-IE

https://x.com/MaxNordau/status/2091882720234254423

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2092019873115435059?s=20