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Other Professionals: Does your political / materialist knowledge help you in your careers?

Other Professionals: Does your political / materialist knowledge help you in your careers? - Lemmygrad

I just recently quit my long term job and accepted two unique opportunities that will allow me to live a very flexible lifestyle. Upon telling some friends of mine I received quite interested reactions and was asked for assistance in their own job hunt. What I think helps me most beyond the material is having had a paradigm shift that’s allowed me to no longer idolize employers/employment and instead see if for what it is: A competition where I must sell my time at both an attractive rate and with desired qualities. This has lead me to both make myself more competitive (attractive) and seek out jobs in less competitive markets via poor location, advertising, or reputation. Now I’m wondering if this advantage due in part to my political education both of my self and from you all is imagined or if any of you experience this as well (in the day to day or job acquisition).

Cherry⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡11h ago

just found out my r*pist ex is majoring in polisci and has already published and is climbing the politics ladder

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11139889

just found out my r*pist ex is majoring in polisci and has already published and is climbing the politics ladder - Lemmygrad

No, I’m not okay for the rest of today… This absolute hell spawn of a man raped me, assaulted me, hit me, and threatened me with suicide throughout our relationship and you’re telling me he’s going into politics and govt?? How??? I introduced him to politics; he knew nothing of it when we met, and it was through me becoming a socialist (Marxist), anti-imperialist, and staunch anti-Zionist that he got exposed to politics. I constantly talked about dismantling the American empire, liberating our homeland, freeing Palestine, and how imperialism and capitalism are bipartisan policies of the US. Tell me why he’s a hardline democrat that published an entire article saying that the killing of a certain white supremacist (the same incident that led to the TheDeprogram Reddit exodus…) was incredibly wrong and that calling politicians “fascists” is wrongful incitement of violence, and condemnded any threats to Trump and said that the real threat to democracy isn’t Trump or various white supremacists or politicians, but is actually radicals who think political violence is okay Tell me why he’s already published a book about abortion rights for women, as if this dude didn’t assault me multiple times and sexually abuse me Tell me why he’s a lobbyist and is so painfully obviously climbing the ladder in politics and govt and remaining entirely silent abt imperialism and Zionism I feel like I’ve been kicked in the ribs again and again, how could he take a turn like this when his first exposure to politics was through me showing him photos of dead Palestinian children and raging about Israel?? He’s doing incredibly well in life and getting so many treats for being political, while I’m continuing to fight an uphill battle and relentless repression and persecution…I’m so exhausted and just completely drowning in grief and burnout through all my political work, while I’m getting hounded systemically and institutionally, and this guy just gets to be praised

lorty 23h ago

So what's Iran's goals? what can they realistically win?

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11133060

So what's Iran's goals? what can they realistically win? - Lemmygrad

They definitely can defeat US intervention and cause a lot of damage to their position in the middle east, but I keep mulling over what they can win. They can certainly force them to abandon some bases closer to them and maybe even keep a toll of some kind of the strait, but I don’t think it’s realistic to expect to force the US to abandon the middle east and even Israel. At that point they’d need to actually move troops or something to do that, which isn’t realistic. Maybe just force them to give up sanctions? And make the bomb?

ashestoashes 1d ago

Internalized bigotry

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11126798

Internalized bigotry - Lemmygrad

I’ve found that as much as I try not to, I really find myself not liking the majority of trans people I meet or interact with. I find the whole sort of transgender culture, the way transgender people (not all of them) conduct themselves and act just seems unpleasant. It’s almost a cliche really that trans people all seem to hate each other and find themselves splitting off into different groups like transmedicalists. I’m transgender myself, so I can recognize these feelings aren’t right or good, but that alone isn’t enough to get rid of them. I know “self crit” is valued, but I don’t even know what that would consist of. Truthfully I just feel more and more alienated from this community every day. I don’t know the “rules”.

Ilikecats 2d ago

New propaganda just dropped

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11120660

New propaganda just dropped - Lemmygrad

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt40893763/ [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt40893763/] 2nd episode is on Castro basically says he was a deviant and sexual predator. Looks like there will be an episode on mao as well

Cherry⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡2d ago

Men should be calling out other men when they witness them dehumanizing women. White people should utilize their privilege to call out racism when they see it.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11119459

Men should be calling out other men when they witness them dehumanizing women. White people should utilize their privilege to call out racism when they see it. - Lemmygrad

Late night shit post bc something happened to make me groan and complain, but dude if you’re a guy and you’re witnessing men dehumanize women, you gotta hold that accountable…if they’re making incel jokes, rape/SA jokes, jokes about sexually harassing women, spewing conservative trad family bs, degrading women for their appearance, you shouldn’t just sit back and laugh along uncomfortably Your response to men around you encouraging you to sexually harass a girl you know in the most violating ways shouldn’t be anything but shutting down that conversation and admonishing them for thinking such rampant misogyny is okay Same goss for white people. I see this especially a lot in academia and academic settings where a POC is getting absolutely flamed on the spot by ignorant white people, and the other white people around them who are self proclaimed allies stay silent every single time and occasionally tell the POC (ofc after everything has “settled down”) how much they “admire them” for “being so strong”…although some situations have nuance, if you are never able to step outside your comfort zone for one second while people who are more vulnerable than you are taking all the fire, you need to do some self reflection on why that is I’m going to bed now I’m exhausted 💔🥀🥀

RevolutionsPerMinute 2d ago

Was emailed a promo for a free course about the "Holodomor genocide" from University of Alberta, which I have never been affiliated with

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11117960

DisabledAceSocialist 3d ago

Billionaires want us homeless (video)

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11111511

Billionaires want us homeless (video) - Lemmygrad

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Makan 3d ago

In Morocco but will return to Virginia. Any DIY HRT services that may come in handy I should know about?

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11110393

In Morocco but will return to Virginia. Any DIY HRT services that may come in handy I should know about? - Lemmygrad

I don’t know when I am going to start HRT exactly immediately when I come back. I am in a trans group therapy, erm, group. I have done about 10 sessions so far. I wanted to do HRT by the end of 2026. A friend in Oklahoma wants me to start now and seems a bit insistent about it, which makes me uneasy because I want it to be solely my choice, and I don’t want to feel like I’m pressed into it. Frankly, I do want to not just do DIY, but also through “official” channels. Also, I don’t know if I will use a syringe, but idk. Maybe I will take a pill instead or use gel, idk. A pill would be ideal but it’s apparently not as strong or not as effective. So, of course, I should get used to the idea of syringes (even though I hate syringes along with surgery and, well, anything related to “body horror”). I came out to my Mom (for the third time, mind you) and she seemed a lot more supportive of it each time. My two brothers don’t know, including one who is in particular very rightwing and racist (he has pale skin, I have brown skin). I might get a pepper spray can and attach it to a keychain, just in case, which I am afraid might escalate things but I also need something to defend myself with against two people that are stronger than me, if or when I inevitably cross them. So, uh, yeah, we’ll see what happens. I might have to cut ties with the other half of my family now (Mom’s side). Ties with my Dad’s side have been largely cut off since the divorce, good riddance (Dad was or is an abuser and my two siblings are loyal to him). Might have to say goodbye to my Babanne since she won’t understand either, I think. Anything else I should know before I start? The LGBTQ+ community in Virginia is hella small, divided, and, honestly, a bit confused politically. So yeah, my possible circle of friends will probably shrink by, well, a lot. Ah well. It is what it is. If you have any resources on DIY in Virginia that I may miss or might be obscure, let me know! Cheers!

CurseAvoider 3d ago

antibiotics better, now im honing in on dysautonomia. anybody else have that?

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11108539

antibiotics better, now im honing in on dysautonomia. anybody else have that? - Lemmygrad

Strange but the antibiotics shifted my sleeping schedule. I now sleep in the morning and stay up all night. But I feel better this way, since 2 days ago i dont feel groggy and like I’m in a coma during the day. So I’m going to keep doing it until I finish the cycle. same thing happened when I was on tricyclics for these nausea symptoms too, they made me barely cognizant during the day. then slowly it shifted me to a nighttime schedule and I felt better after that. When I stopped the medication (it wasn’t working at all), I easily went back to a daytime schedule. now I’m locking on dysautonomia. I was talking to deepseek going over all my symptoms and it honed in on dysautonomia over and over again, linking all the problems I’ve had since 2 years ago together and back to it. could be other things but at this point there’s not really anything other than that to diagnose. my own dr told me we’d basically gone through all the specialists she could think of. apparently it could track as complications from the pulmonary embolism. listen deepseek is a great doctor. it doesn’t judge you or thinks it knows better. a year ago it kept recommending that i look into getting SIBO tested, and I finally convinced my doctor to do it, and the test came back positive for sibo. I trust it completely since then lmao. from what I understand it’s kind of an umbrella term though, and it can present in many different ways. I don’t know, are there resources or something to look into it? Stuff you should know about? deepseek told me about autonomic specialists in neurology, but honestly right now I’m just done with medical interventions and I don’t know if it would help my disability claim to do even more tests. I mostly manage alright at home now, having restructured my life around it, so I’m not really looking forward to anything that can upset this balance I built lol.