I cannot go to any of the driving schools in the area, they all either don't pick up or won't take me. I think it may be because gangstalkers led by a cult I grew up in have influenced everyone around me to keep me pinned down. I am isolated and alone, the only friends and family I had will not tell me anything about my memories of the past or the cult. I cannot trust the average person with this to help me and treat me with dignity, which is why I am begging here instead of Craigslist. If anyone near Ohio is willing to go out of the way to help me learn to drive behind the wheel and complete my license, you would be a life saver. I can pay you a fair amount for your effort, PM me with any questions if you're interested.
Seadoggity Now • 100%
I don't think so? If revolution turns out to be unfeasible due to the speed of modern technological advancement fueling pre-existing power structures, and betterment by reform is off the table due to the mounting power of propaganda, leftists need to be more creative about their praxis. Creating a lifeline for migrants and refugees to get back up on their feet and live within an economically democratic community seems like the only praxis that can help anyone, based on what I've seen.
Seadoggity Now • 100%
True, or plant them.
Seadoggity Now • 0%
Honestly, I don't want it to be a revolutionary vehicle for the whole system, I'd rather just help people escape -- and if we can prove firsthand that mutual aid works and we can insulate society against manipulation and power grabbing, maybe normal people would see it as a possibility for once. I think our country is bound too tightly by its shared cultural mythology to do anything meaningful. Expecting to fix the whole world, seems to me like a fool's game. Even while people recognize the abuses of the economic upper class, their minds are closed to understanding the cultural upper-class, composed of successful psychopaths and their sycophants leading everyone else by the nose. Such a culture cannot be fixed, you can only help people escape and survive until everyone else's illusion collapses sufficiently for them to adapt to the danger they were unwilling to see, which may not even be possible on a large scale in today's world.
You would have thought 10 years ago, that if everyone learned the most powerful people in the country, the ones who lead politicians, were involved in CSA / trafficking, everyone would lose their shit and force the system's hand to at least assert this one basic moral expectation -- right? Turns out that is not the case. They can manufacture consent for everything up to and including that. It's a lost cause at that point. There is no future in trying to convince people who don't wanna be convinced or helped imho
I keep wanting to form some kind of housing cooperative for people seeking refuge from abusive situations, seeing as how there's currently fuck-all meaningful resources for adult survivors of childhood abuse. I know that despite this being completely nonviolent, legal, voluntary, and well-intentioned operation, that most people won't care or will actively support when some extremists decide to infiltrate and sabotage that effort. Manufactured consent and all. Why does nobody else do things like this? What has prevented the vast majority of other American leftists from simply crowdfunding their own communes, leaving the larger economy, and building their own means of production so that they aren't dependent on the rest of the world for permission to build systems of mutual aid?