I use neovim btw

huh, I’m only familiar with the ones from public broadcasters

TIL RTL has one too, tho ofc that makes sense

Unfortunately those are required under law to delete public access relatively promptly as not to “distort the conditions of (economic) competition”

I’m German… the hell if I know

gl sailor

Hey, idk why I didn’t respond to your comment back then. I just wanted to say that it’s of good quality, with good stats I wasn’t familiar with myself

huh, I assumed that because of me never mentioning the effectives that it would be perceived as neutral since I didn’t criticise that aspect, but rather psychotherapy from a meta pov

Sorry if it seemed like I said that therapy doesn’t work. My comment was not meant as such

I was more talking about the function of psychotherapy for mental illnesses under capitalism and it’s structural purpose from the perspective of political economy

I’m sorry you had to go through all that, it sounds horrible and should never have been allowed to happen in that way…

Reading this makes me both melancholy and angry. Capitalism is directly (and indirectly) responsible for many uncountable injuries, injustices and indiscretions…

I struggle with my mental health quite a lot as well (+ neurodivergency. medial asd diagnosis is otw lol), though even in Germany I’m in a privileged positions and still just can’t seem to get better no natter what I do. The only thing keeping me alive is revolutionary optimism and trying to contribute to the progress of humanity in the best way I am able to
Stay strong ✊ I know this probably doesn’t mean much but you have my solidarity and please know that many people are fighting for a just tomorrow. not all is lost

Unfortunately most of psychotherapy is individualistic and focused on getting people “functional” again so that they can generate a profit for capitalists…

It’s kind of like saying that the individual who isn’t responding well to the abysmal conditions created by capitalism is “broken” and not the system itself. So most of the time you are gonna get a “best I can do is give you some pills that dull all your emotions, good and bad”.

tbh I’m much more concerned about “mentally healthy” non-socialists. Either they must have been been brainwashed into ignorance or something human is missing inside of them…
(though I admit that this assessment is based on superficial knowledge)

Capitalism causes depression - video by azure scapegoat

EDIT:

Usually I also recommend the following podcast during discussions like these, I have not listened to it myself but only heard good things about it (it’s a leftist mental health podcast, focusing on systemic issues, especially capitalism, for a change):

“It’s Not Just In Your Head”

https://antennapod.org/deeplink/subscribe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2F1cf1dbd4%2Fpodcast%2Frss&title=It's+Not+Just+In+Your+Head

The most fulfilling economic system ever created!

I would be happy for my shares to go to zero if it meant working didn’t feel like this.

Same, I will happily see capitalism and thus my savings burn to the ground if it means establishing socialism, but if a (world) revolution will not happen, I don’t want to have to depend on German rent insurance and would like to not go into a broke retirement (which probably will be at the age of 70) lol

In the meantime spend EVERY spare cent on dividend stocks and organise.

imho the org(s) or party you are a part of should be allocated half of that (at least will in my case).
Before I go off about my current investments, I want to mention that once I am able (mentally and my life situation allows for it), I plan to get active politically and finally do some praxis. Along with that will go a split of my disposable income (ie. subtracting costs of living like rent, utils, basic foods etc.) as follows:

• 50% to the org(s) and party I join (or help found)
• 50% for me (split is variable but more of a rule for myself)
  • 50% of that goes to savings (including establishing/upkeeping a liquid reserve of a 3-6 month buffer)
  • the other 50% of that are for leisure

(Now onto the investing stuff)
I would rather suggest a global ETF protolio since you don’t take unnecessary risks there and still get good returns.

Both accumulating and distributing ones btw. Bc with the acc ones you get exponential growth over time and the distributing ones might make sense depending on your local tax policies (like some countries don’t require taxes for capital gains up until a certain amount. It would make sense to fully use that amount every year with distributing ETFs)

Personally I drive core/satellite (80/20) strategy for my long-term acc portfolio:

The core is made up of regional FTSE ETFs to cover the whole globe (regional for developed and the big emerging one). I weight them based on GDP and not market cap (the ETFs do go after market cap for each region tho, which makes a good balance) since that makes more sense imo. Same with putting only 30% in NA (partially bc I won’t solely bet on the US empire and partially bc I otherwise would overweigh them too much with my satellites).

(Now that the concrete mentions of specific ETFs begin, I should mention that I’m writing those from a German POV and they might not be the same in other region. Though the general concept is agnostic to specific ETFs)

Then there are 5 equally weighted satellites, which make up 20% of the long-term portfolio:

• FTSE Vietnam (since FTSE classifies them as a frontier and thus does not include them in their emerging markets indeces)
• iShares Automation & Robotics
• iShares Electric Mobility & Transportation (or smth like that)
• MSCI Global Semiconductors (takes everything sc-related from MSCI ACWI IMI, so TSMC is included for example)
• iShares Global Clean Energy (acc as all the other ones but my broker only recently made the acc version available)

Though a more simple 65 to 35 (or choose your weights), of FTSE Developed World and FTSE Emerging Markets would probably perform just as well and in current conditions does perform better (bc US is so high rn).

On another broker (which gives good interest on the cash you keep there, currently 3%), I implement the dividend portfolio, which is not as much about risk management and being invested in all markets, but rather fully using the yearly tax-free 1000€ (not there yet by a biiiig margin tho. Once I reach it to ~120% I will completely stop the actice savings plans):

• 40% Xtracker STOXX Select Dividend 100 (take the Xtracker instead of iShares, Xtracker one has a much higher dividend for whatever reason (it being swap instead of physical shouldn’t make that much of a difference))
• 40% FTSE Emerging Markets High-Dividend Low-Volatility
• 20% Global Dividend Aristocrats (as a more or less solid 3-4% return baseline)

From an older comment of mine:

And despite the corrupt character[,] AES brought forth massive progress in all fields of society. Free education up to university for everyone who didn’t slack at school. Millions of emancipated people learned to read for the first time ever. Massive scientific progress. Access to culture for millions. Making things like theatre, operas, ballet, cinema and chess accessible (and affordable !) for the masses. Making sure everyone had a place to work, sleep, smth to eat and clean water. Giving women the right to work, vote, choose whom or even if to marry, to go through life unveiled and just generally choose their own lives.(but this is one of the errors again. Patriarchal social structures were still kept and social conservatism took hold, which is why women rarely if ever had the rly high positions and were barred from the military f.e.) Making sure every child had a place at a crib or kindergarten. Making good quality healthcare accessible to all free of charge. Including vaccinating even the furthest regions, that had never even seen a doctor before.

[…]

TL;DR: dismissing state socialism [and thus planned economies] as “something that didn’t work for the people” is disingenuous and disregards the fact that it did work and that, despite its flaws, it worked for hundreds of millions of people.

[…]

And all that without exploitation that is required for capitalism to get even close to that (e.g. China rn). Historically centrally planned economies struggled at larger scales (which is why decencralizing/devolving into regions might have been a good remedy). But they excelled at creation of industry or rather primitive capital accumulation but without all the horrible effects capitalism had at those stages.

Computers at our advancement lvl change all that or rather make them even more feasible

I’m in my early 20s 💀

nothing in particular, I was just taken by surprise that a Roblox meme was in my feed lol

This is the first time I’ve seen a Roblox meme template 💀💀

relevant quote

The revolutionary struggle is the very antithesis of the parliamentary struggle. In Germany, for four decades we had nothing but parliamentary “victories.” We practically walked from victory to victory. And when faced with the great historical test of August 4, 1914, the result was the devastating political and moral defeat, an outrageous debacle and rot without parallel. To date, revolutions have given us nothing but defeats. Yet these unavoidable defeats pile up guarantee upon guarantee of the future final victory.

from “Order Prevails in Berlin” by Rosa Luxembourg

def Disco Elysium

heed this warning though: after Disco, there is no going back; most storytelling might seem subpar or just of low quality afterwards

it’s also soul crushing, existentialist and doesn’t shy away from critiquing/ridiculing society and what it believes in (from a Marxist pov, though Communism itself isn’t spaired either in the game, with a harsh critique only communists could write), but it’s also one of the most hopeful games I’ve ever played at the same time

I would rly recommend a blind play through without cheating through quick saves! (aka. save scumming) A lot of decisions in the game succeed based on the probability of your stats accomplishing it. I made the mistake in my first play through and just forced everything I wanted by reloading over and over again -_-

Taking a look at the sidebar should answer your question