The Jordan Peterson study guide to Marxism

Demi Lovato in shambles

Libs didn’t like my take on this the other day 🥲

I didn’t see it either. I just peeked at a YouTube clip and I would say it’s way more subtle than that. I guess you could say the result is the same if the result is the realization that things may not be as they appear. I did get so high on mushrooms one time that many of my visual memories from that day are monochromatic.

Don’t let anyone you care about go to a chiropractor.

Some of the stuff I’ve seen on YouTube and tiktok is horrific.

The idea that we shouldn’t allow a substance to temporarily alter our state of mind with the possibility of permanently changing how we think about things really feels like internalized bourgeois ideology. Psychedelics do a pretty good job of lifting the veil of liberalism in my own experience.

I suppose I could have been more clear, but my point was that the ruling class can use pretty much anything as a weapon against the suppressed class and certainly do in this case. I’m not advocating against prohibition just because the current ruling class doesn’t practice it themselves.

Prohibition has hampered our ability to effectively study and understand the effects of drugs in many cases. A scientific approach would attempt to study the least harmful ways to introduce legalization with regulation and praxis would lead to improvements over time.

Advocating against prohibition also doesn’t mean we just make it legal for anyone to possess and distribute in any amount. Distribution should be tightly controlled by the state and anyone caught in possession of excess amounts or unregulated products should be dealt with legally if the intent is distribution, or medically if they’re feeding an addiction.

I can understand why some would look at other states with a DotP as a compelling reason to advocate for prohibition. That I’m aware, there has never been one that practiced anything else, but do correct me if I’m wrong. I also think that China’s stance on this is completely reasonable considering their history. But China’s leadership is not one to attempt to press their ideology on others and consistently advocates for the others finding their own way.

Perhaps we won’t come to an agreement on this. I suspect that you and I have had drastically different experiences with drugs which leads to us having our own personal biases and this is unavoidable. I just hope that when the revolution comes, that this is something that will be open for discussion instead of just outright banned.

I’m not tricking you, you did used argument muddling the class conditions.

I never advocated for dropping health and safety protections for workers. This is what your comment conveys even if it was done unintentionally.

Yes, they also have access to better healthcare in general and their jobs are lighter but it’s not argument to drop health and job safeties for the workers.

I’m happy to discuss our differences of opinions in good faith, but please don’t try and trick me into defending a position that I never took. This is a common tactic that liberals use and we have to be better than that.

I think that this idea that drugs are only harmful for society comes from either:

1. Bourgeois ideology that’s taught to us both subliminally and directly through our education systems and then internalized by us throughout our lives
2. Generational trauma like in the case of China and its history with it being used as a weapon to harm their society

Yes certainly, drugs can be harmful, but to outright dismiss them as only harmful (except in medicine as you stated) is not scientific.

I bought it a while back. As some others have said, yes, there’s a steep learning curve. I tried a couple of times to get into it, but it hasn’t stuck yet. The first time I tried to just figure it out. The second I started playing the tutorials, but just got busy with life and haven’t had a chance to get back. I’m planning to give it another go soon.

Is hurling personal insults at anonymous PFPs on the internet the only weapon you libs have?

The real vanguard party were the friends we met along the way!

drugs are the weapon in the class war

They’re one of many, sure. The bourgeoisie use drugs too btw. They just have access to education, clean supply, and support for addiction.

In DoTP they should be forbidden at least for so long as capitalist drug states like USA exist and use it like a weapon.

Drugs are mostly prohibited around the world, but that doesn’t stop the American cartel from using it like a weapon basically everywhere in the global south.

And sure as hell communists should advocate againt drug usage.

In contrast to the negatives, I think there’s a lot of positive effects and experiences that drugs have to offer so I have to disagree with you on this.

Like in the case of alcohol?

In short yes. Different drugs should be regulated differently based on many different factors.

I picked up a tinymight 2 not too long ago and a water pipe adapter for it. I love this thing and the best part is my lungs legitimately feel better now.

What are you running?

I think some comrades get so caught up in theory and societal structure that they forget that the primary goal of all of this is to have some fucking fun! If doing drugs on your days off is how you want to do that I support you. As long as you’re able to be educated on the correct usage and side effects beforehand. And if you feel like it’s becoming a problem and you’d like some help and support then the state should provide that for you. This is all much simpler and effective to implement than prohibition btw.

And of course, medicinal use is a whole other reason as you mentioned.

I’d even argue that psychedelics led me to ML. They opened me up to the idea that I don’t actually know shit. That much of what I thought I valued was just programming.

Weed triggers my food addiction 😅

I use it for this as well, but I do struggle with over use at times. I’ve never experienced any withdrawal symptoms since it’s not physically addictive, but there are periods where I realize that I haven’t taken a day off in several weeks. I feel best when I only indulge on weekends, but there are times when I need it to get my mind off some shit that happens at work or when depression hits real bad.