• Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Love that we live in a country where people who haven’t done anything illegal for twenty years are getting deported for no reason but rich fucks get to walk around the White House with boxes full of drugs that they’re not supposed to have and nothing happens to them.

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    This is the coolest thing about him and the only thing the media is willing to go after him full knives out over. Not, you know, all thr incredibly shitty things he does. Just that puritan shit again about drug use being a morale failing

    • Probably because this shit is more effective at damaging his image than the other horrible stuff. His fandom mostly liked the other awful shit he does, it makes him seem “badass” in their eyes.

      Pointing out he’s a pee pee pants boy who broke his own dick is way more damaging to him that pointing out he’s a racist sex pest.

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      If it was just normal amounts, sure, but this is well into into non-functional territory. Anyone else would have already faced life-altering consequences for this kind of habit. And if he was a normal person this bad off I’d obviously have a lot of empathy, but with this amount of unaccountable power, every problem in his life is entirely his own fault. Insane how the most powerful people on the planet will preach “personal responsibility” to the rest of us, and then accept zero responsibility themselves.

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        Yeah agreed. There’s just a tiny bit of a difference between enjoying a coffee in the morning, a beer or two on the weekend, or dry vaping some weed at the end of the night…. and fucking being addicted to ketamine and non-medicinal use of adderall.

        That shit ruins your own body, your life, and all your relationships and it’s objectively a reactionary take to celebrate that type of drug abuse.

        Communism does, in fact, require our productive labor.

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          That shit ruins your own body, your life, and all your relationships and it’s objectively a reactionary take to celebrate that type of drug abuse.

          Not everything is so black and white that the opposite of demonizing is celebrating. In no way do I celebrate his drug use, however it is the most human thing about him.

          And as an aside for the parent comment to your reply, framing drug use as only okay in a narrow band of prescribed circumstances is reactionary in itself and exactly the puritan/moralism aspect I was talking about.

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    psychedelic mushrooms and ecstasy at private gatherings? yeeesh can you imagine being on hallucinogens at these types of events with these types of monsters? i’d 100% have a bad trip

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      I’ve actually been to parties in Silicon Valley with rich capitalists before and did a bunch of drugs with them

      The capitalists themselves were pretty boring to chat with but I mostly hung out with the hired catering staff + musicians and the capitalists GFs and wives (usually 1-3 decades younger lmao). There were also some models that I think were hired to attend that were also really fun with hang out with

      It’s not terrible, there was weird performative white people woke shit like the host was a white dude, all his capitalist friends were white dudes, and the only POC was me, the party staff, and a few of the partners of capitalists. And they would do hippie spiritual sound baths, have black people play African drums in African garb while talking about the spirit of Africa, playing Indigenous music and saying how we need to respect their land, have Asian musicians talk about Buddhism and spirituality, etc.

      One of the Asian musicians even told me they went by their Asian name to the guests to seem more “oriental”. But he told me to just call him Alex LOL

      The mansions are usually decorated with both lots of recognizable local and famous art with shit taste but there were cool places to hang out at like the pool, sauna, movie theater, music studio, etc.

      I had fun being high af off a cocktail of whatever free drugs I’d get offered at those parties, but again, only because I mostly talked to the non capitalists there

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      I took acid and went to a Six Sigma Christmas party as a plus one to a friend who worked at a bank. LSD makes me very social and I just drank a lot so everyone thought I was just drunk. I think while trying to blend in I described myself as ‘a wild eyed grunt sent to war who just wants to kill. But in an economic sense. I’m just here to spread misery.’ And it was taken pretty well

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    The more I read about shrooms and CHUDS taking them the more I’m convinced shrooms aren’t so much mind expanding, but self affirming. I thought these things were supposed to help make people more relatable, compassionate, open to karger picture things.

    Then again maybe narcissistic nazis are so hard wired to be fucked up, no amount of chemical correction can fix them.

    Maybe some of the psyconauts in the room can clarify. Ixm not demonizing recreational drug use - just ignorant for my own lack of it looking from the outside so to say.

    Been wanting to do shrooms / ego death to fix my terminal cynicism and chronic depression. But idk now. And idk where to get them. Maybe Ann Arbor - legal there.

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      theres too much of a mythology that anything psychoactive “opens up the mind”, when i take edibles i come up with shit like disco defense lessons to thwart attacks by The Village People

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      I’m sober nowadays, but psychedelics are the only drugs I can look back fondly on without any reservations. Might do them again some day, just not anytime soon.

      Honestly I think it depends on setting and mindset, I can think of a few trips than fundamentally changed who I was as a person, whether that was making me realize that I could be trans, or helping me see how much of a hindrance my own ego was. In the same vain, I can think of many trips where I was easily manipulated by others, or overly sure of my own thought patterns. The difference between these trips was usually the headspace I was taking them in. The life-changing trips, I was tripping just to trip, expecting nothing out of it. The ones that harmed me long term, I was seeking guidance from the drugs when I should have just trusted myself in the first place.

      I also wouldn’t say ego death would be what you seek for your depression/cynicism, ego death is kinda overrated in psychedelics. Sometimes beautiful, but it’s more the sort of thing you work your way up to instead of going for it right from the get go. You can get all the benefits off a trip at lower doses, although I don’t really fuck with micro dosing unless you have a specific plan for it.

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        This is pretty important info and I appreciate it. And the micro dosing stuff too. Therapy in the convential sense isn’t helping me much. There’s just too much to unpack in bi weekly hour sessions. Every therapist seems to just want to push me off. Which kind of turns me off.

        I had a dream two nights ago about accidently cutting off my junk and it seeing it was more of a prosthetic. Maybe it was foreshadowing the Musk story, but I looked down at the stub that was left and just wondered - now that would work? Like I wasn’t too worried / freaked out.

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      psychedelics increase neuroplasticity and give you the potential to expand your mind. My first time tripping was a big catalyst to discovering my gender identity

      it’s a tool, not a solution

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    I’m pretty sure Trump uses coke and Adderall. That’s how he’s able to do multiple rallies every day multiple times a week. It’s funny to watch fascist infighting. Trump isn’t against drug use. He’s against hippy liberal shit that isn’t used on Wallstreet.

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      diet pills and adderall is my guess. he was too genuinely curious about cocaine in that interview to be a user

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        IIRC the videos of Trump hanging around Epstein has them doing coke, or at least sniffling a lot in places where coke was present. He probably doesn’t do it anymore but I bet his kids do

      • Fascist movement tend to attract a lot of unstable, adrenaline addict aggro types. A lot of early Italian fascists came from the Arditi, which was basically early Italian SpecOps and were a bit notorious for being super violent and hopped up on stimulants all the time. I’ve worked with a lot of Vets who say modern SpecOps dudes are largely the same, always high on some shit and itching to kill or fuck anything. A lot of these guys get attracted to the Far Right after service.

          • Another thing I’ve heard from Vets, their “badassery” is a bit overblown. Apparently, willingness to go on suicide missions the the main factor in determining if someone is a good SpecOps recruit, not actual ability to carry out the mission. Their actual combat skill isn’t that much better than a regular soldier, it’s just they’re willing to do the shock trooper ass shit that actual GIs will hesitate at.

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              I’d guess it would probably be an equipment thing too. When you’ve got a smaller group to equip you can throw more money at it. So normal soldiers get the standard issue stuff and those guys probably get all the fancy toys.

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        It’s more like everybody does drugs. People in the socialist organizing circles in my area often do a bunch of drugs too, sometimes at the party office after hours lmao

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            I’d imagine this is dependent on where you live. Basically everybody all along the socioeconomic ladder in big cities with a lively social life do drugs

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              I mean cigs, weed, and alcohol are pretty common where i am too. But ya i don’t have much of a social life. My owm mother actually tried to convince me i should drink when i was 18-21 but once i turned 21 and still refused to she gave up lol.

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        I’d imagine a nihilistic worldview along with creating systems so fucked up and oppressive does a number to psyche so you turn to drugs to cope. Also what’s rich is the nazis like him project the “trad” worldview bullshit meanwhile behind closed doors they’re drug fiends.

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      They gave him that insane cocktail after he got COVID, though I feel like Trump is the type to just follow whatever his doctor says in regard of drugs to take (but still eat fast food too much lmao). He’s a teetoaler.