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What is it like getting citizenship in China?
  • Citizenship is extremely hard to obtain - basically impossible, a few western comrades have achieved it but their contribution to the PRC was extraordinary.

    Without a university degree it's not possible to obtain a work visa.

    If you want to move to move to China you're going to have to improve yourself so that you won't be a burden upon their society first. Complete a university degree in a useful field first.

    This may not be what you were hoping to hear but this is the reality of the situation.

    There are programmes that can help you obtain a GED at minimal cost. Once you've finished your high school equivalent qualification, you can get government grants or loans to obtain higher education. Most debts are unlikely to follow you if you move far away.

    The days of China accepting people just for being white westerners are over. Please consider continuing with your education even if you are worried about being "too old"

  • The Anglos are not Russophobic, I assure you
  • The poor little orcs have no say over their government, unlike the great cracker nations where we proudly support our genocidal wars of aggression based on lies. No racism here, we voted for a black man one time.

  • Anyone else here despise Destiny (the streamer)?
  • He said there's no ethical or moral argument why cp shouldn't be legal, many times. He has said that no ethical consumption under capitalism means that such unethical content should be permitted. Why are you trying to defend him? It's not one thing "taken out of context" as vaushites attempt to claim, he has made very sus arguments many times and even admitted to "jerking it" to underage hentai imagery.

    https://youtu.be/IoB9sg5PlzE

  • Do price caps make sense under capitalism?
  • Under capitalist logic maybe they make sense in natural monopoly situations -water, electricity, telecoms, trains. But nationalization makes more sense in such "markets" rather than attempting to create artificial market "competiton".

  • Psychotherapy and psychiatry in a capitalistic system effectively exists to reinforce the status of the bourgeoisie rather than to abolish it
  • Richard Wolff's partner, Harriet Fraad is a psychiatrist and has similar ideas and made a podcast with a therapist, Max Golding, called It's Not Just in Your Head. Libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote extensively on the limitations of his field.

    Historically psychiatry has been used to control runaway slaves, suffering drapetomia. Complaining women had hysteria. You are gay? That was diagnosable.

    Racial bias in psych treatment is well documented, with people of color more likely to be perceived as aggressive and a threat to others than white presenting people with similar behaviour.

    Psychiatry is most often practiced on an individual and fails to take into account the societal problems around an individual. If you're boss abuses you or the system as a whole alienates you there is little a psych can do.

    I used to consider myself antipsychiatry, I have personally had negative experiences with involuntary psychiatric "treatment"

    While going through an anarchist phase there was seemingly little contradiction between my antipsych and ideological beliefs - it's just another unjust hierarchy. You can only be diagnosed if your function within this capitalist system is impaired.

    As I embraced Marxist-Leninist ideas, contradictions became evident. Liberalism is an infantile disorder, the psychopathic accumulation of wealth by the richest endangers our survival as a species, the insecurities of those who hold on to the patriarchy and supremacist ideas should be remedied, one way or another.

    I defended the right of self identifying neurodiverse people to reclaim labels such as autism while maintaining their criticism of psychiatry as it was inflicted upon themselves - within antipsychiatry communities such sentiment was not welcome. I was subjected to antisemitic attacks for refusing to endorse the labelling of psychiatry as a "holocaust"

    I have much sympathy for the people who call themselves antipsychiatry, most of them have suffered immensely and they have legitimate criticisms of the field. But I can't call them comrades, for most - their understanding of the systems of oppression is too narrow - their hatred of psychiatry is bordering on reactionary. Seeing well meaning people with legitimate criticism of psychiatry, who were rejected by such communities for daring to identify as autistic or ND was quite disappointing. Seeing entirely antimedical communities come into being from antipsychiatry ones, even worse.

    I still have serious doubts about the long term efficacy of psychiatric treatment but I'm willing to accept that there maybe some situations where it is appropriate. I am an administrator on a discord server that describes itself as psych abolitionist and is mostly populated by anarchists that I helped start while I still considered myself antipsych that at least doesn't allow for bigotry or hate speech, though I am not very comfortable with my role there and would prefer to just be a visitor - I don't enforce my ideology there and try not to be heavy handed with the rules, I've asked to have my admin/mod powers removed but my anarchist friend, who created the server, lives in a different timezone, isn't very active online and seems to have faith in my ability to be fair.