LeylaLove

I've heard about it stopping withdrawal completely, unlike normal psychedelics

Yeah, that makes sense. I even told her when I got into it that I don't know much about Norse Paganism and was more just reflecting a mirror back into what she was saying. Due to the fact that she doesn't have community in Norse Pagans that aren't Nazis, I think it leads to her buying into a lot of Nazi stuff from them without knowing she's buying into Nazi stuff. One of the reactionary things she was saying that she related directly back to Norse Paganism was her feeling worthless as a disabled person.

She has such broad theologic knowledge that I think it would benefit her to start looking into making her own belief structure. But then again, I think one of her major character flaws is needing to told by someone else what to believe/do, so I'm not sure it'd benefit her as much as a think it would. Idk, I hadn't slept for 2-3 days when her and I had the conversation that made her realize all this stuff, I'm sure I could have handled it better.

She's one of the nicest people I've ever met. There was a reason in the original thread I was playing defense for her. Would crit her on certain things, but people calling her an imperialist monster when she was telling me in no uncertain terms that she'd risk her life to save a Russian combatant.

She was falling for propaganda hard, but she's one of the kindest people I've ever met.

Update on my trans friend who planned on joining Ukraine as a combat medic. Lots of text, but the TLDR is that she's not going to Ukraine.

I was able to talk to her about it today, and a lot was revealed. One of the commenters was spot on, this was suicidal ideation disguised as self sacrifice. I went a bit more critical on her than normal. I normally hold back a little bit because some of the things I said, I don't really feel are my place to say normally. I usually hold back because when she's not on a manic plan, she listens to be a little bit too much. She respects me as being better read and a smarter person when looking at big picture things. Whenever she says stuff like this, I make sure I point out areas that she's smarter than me in. She's really big into theology, so she'll manically switch religions. She's also really big into language, and not mainstream language either, which really impressed me. Doesn't know a lick of Spanish, but knows many indigenous languages. While she is right in her assumption that I am generally better at big picture stuff that sounds conceited, but many of y'all saw the arguments she was making about joining Ukraine, it's very true.

She came to me this morning crying, saying she was thinking about going to a mental institution. I ask why and she tells me that she's very suicidal. I comfort her and tell her I kind of assumed, because the Ukraine mission sounded like a suicide disguised as self sacrifice. She admits that this is probably the case. She is often struggling with suicidal thoughts, and while she deals with a lot of mental illness, I don't think she struggles with clinical depression. I'm not a shrink, but she shares all her thoughts with me, I really think she's depressed due to a mix of being a disabled trans person in America, having incoherent beliefs from not reading theory, and having essentially been groomed to throw her life away in some sort of combat. In my discussion with her today, I tackled all three.

First, being a disabled trans person in America. Under the structure of her religious beliefs in Norse Paganism (more on that later) it says something that amounts to "If you can fight, you should fight." I was very open with her about the fact that I don't know much about Norse Paganism except what she's told me, and what I've seen the alt righters say. I explained to her that this likely meant defending her own people, and as a disabled (schizophrenic) trans woman, she's needed in America now more than ever. Her very existence is radical in a country that's trying to send both schizophrenics and trans people to labor/death camps. Part of her reasoning for wanting to go to Ukraine was to escape America, but if she wants to fight, she should fight for her own people. If she wants to leave America, she shouldn't be leaving to fight in an American proxy war.

Second, incoherent beliefs. She is a Norse Pagan who isn't a Nazi. She rejected all community with Norse Pagans because she understands that they're all Nazis, so she's essentially isolated in her beliefs there. I normally don't go after her religious beliefs, she changes them when she's manic but typically goes for religions that seem to lead to reactionary conclusions. Like you know, fighting for Nazis in Ukraine. I told her she should consider building her own spiritual beliefs, but she has a problem where she just has to be told what to believe. Hence why I typically avoid criticizing her religions, I don't feel like I should determine what religious beliefs she has. I know if I more thoroughly explained mine, she'd probably go with mine. Not because mine are the best and truest, but because she generally follows whatever I say. The first book of theory I gave her to read isn't leftist theory, it's really disability liberation. She feels worthless because she was raised in America, by a bootlicker. She hates herself for being disabled, and I think that's really where she needs to start.

If you haven't seen it, I'd definitely recommend it. Unfortunately one of the big twists of the movie is kinda spoiled if you've seen any of the other SAW movies, but if you have shitty memory from actor's face's it'll still work.

The first movie is a lot more minimal, there are really only a couple of gore scenes, and that's what makes them so gut wrenching. I feel like all the SAW directors after James Wan didn't understand what made the first movie's use of gore so effective, just saw how good the gore scenes were and said "MORE"

Edit: Will also add, originally SAW premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Now I'm not going to pretend that everything that premiers at Sundance is high art, but I think it draws a clear distinction of it not being Hollywood slop. SAW is a passion project that got gutted and exploited by a greedy Hollywood because of how wildly successful the first one was,

I partially agree, but the first Saw is a great movie. Low budget passion project by the director. However, he only directed the first one, so everything after that is ass

I don't know too many specifics, but I'm assuming Ukraine is paying for it. The one piece of gear she was told to bring was ballistic glasses, because she has horrible vision, but she's on Medicaid so I'm sure she can find some her insurance covers

She has a very idealistic view of her role over there. She plans on going over as a combat medic so she can save lives of both Ukrainians and Russians. She also believes that the Geneva convention will protect her, being a combat medic.

There's an insane amount of cope going through her head right now. It's really hard to watch.

I mean if she joins Ukraine, she would functionally be an imperialist, but I really don't see her the same as most people gung ho to join Ukraine. First off, she's very idealistic and wants to go over as a combat medic, with intention of saving anybody on the battlefield, Russian or Ukrainian. Also very vocal about her support for Palestine, even before Oct. 7 made it a mainstream political issue. She also refuses to join the US military because she understands that the US is imperialist and sees America as one of the worst evils this planet has ever seen.

She was raised in Norse Paganism (which, yikes, but I've seen her leave pretty much all of her Norse Pagan groups for being Nazis, so I know she has some conscious) but something in that religion says something like "If you can fight but choose not to, old age will bring you no peace"

I've known her for quite a while. She's on a fixed disability income and normally doesn't even have enough money to feed herself, but she'll donate what little she has to Palestinians. I really think she's just drank too much of the Kool Aid from the western propaganda machine and is manic. Because she agreed with me on Ukraine until like a week ago, this is really out of nowhere.

Yeah, her idea is that even if the Ukrainians are Nazis, she believes in national self-determination, and other countries don't need to get involved in another countries politics. There's a lot wrong with that mindset, but after years of frying my brain on downers I'm a lot less well spoken than I used to be

Yeah she has the same sort of idealism. She wants to be a combat medic and wants to save lives. Which, I ultimately find less off-putting than someone who wants to go over there for ideological reasons.

She has 20/400 vision, so I'm a lot less concerned about what exactly she'd be doing over there, she wouldn't be able to do any real harm. More concerned about her safety because it's all just a horrible idea

Not sure if this is appropriate for this thread so take it down if needed, but I figured this would be a good place to ask. I sent this same message to a well known user on this website who would already have someone like this typed out. Also sorry for asking y'all to do my research for me, I just can't find much other than NATO propaganda.

One of my best friends (Lib on the edge of radicalization) is currently manic and just signed up for the Ukraine Foreign Legion. She's a trans woman, so separate from the fact that she'd be serving NATO, this is extremely dangerous for her. For a while, she agreed with me on Russia-Ukraine, because I just pointed out that they're all Nazis and showed her some proof. Unfortunately she drank the Western Kool-aid of "That was just Azov and they're disbanded now". I pulled up random articles and showed her pictures of Nazis in Ukraine in multiple completely unrelated articles and she just dismissed it as people not knowing they were Nazi symbols.

Would anybody mind sending me an old post they've made about the recent history of Nazis in Ukraine? Preferably one with some sources. I'm the only person she'll listen to when she's manic, so I feel strongly obligated to do my best to talk her out of this. I've been looking for stuff, but everything I've found has been pretty incomplete and can be dismissed by someone whose been so thoroughly indoctrinated by American media. And honestly, I don't know enough about Russia-Ukraine to really do a thorough job explaining why she shouldn't fight for Ukraine, I'd say what I've told her so far has been pretty surface level if I'm being honest.

What kids movie? I'm curious

I had this guy pop up in my recommended too, he has some new age rag time songs about trans people (that I'm assuming he wrote) further in his post history so he is firmly aligning himself with the alt right. At first I was like "Okay performing old time songs, some of which were written by black people, it is what it is" but he makes other decisions to dogwhistle his audience into what he's pitching.

Post got taken down by mods, what's the situation?

Is this supposed to link to something?

Damnit, that headline made me excited then I actually clicked the link :(

Don't dig this use of the term sociopath, sociopathy is an actual disorder

I mean honestly I don't care too much, just some worthless AI chud. And to be fair, I started with the insults, the comment they were PMing me about was pretty mean. I'm a little bit manic right now and just saying whatever

I almost responded to this with a very manic wall of text about my newly found negative feelings on psychiatry since starting a new and better med regimen that was really hard to get. I've been consuming way too much caffeine these past 48 hours and haven't slept yet. Fortunately I went to take a picture of my newly acquired cat and my browser didn't save any of it when I came back from my camera.

Yeah I'm still around and doing better than ever ❤️

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