CNN sticks it's finger in the air and gets it wrong once again. MSNBC made the same mistake once

[KMFJD]

CNN has a neoliberal bias, which is right of center imo

 

[Moonbeam]

- Yes, I should microdose psychedelics. Either my latent schizophrenia is unleashed or I confront whatever makes me see the world as a reflection of myself.

I am not suggesting drugs. I would recommend psychotherapy if I knew someone who had healed him or herself. All I am saying is that if your fears start to cause you to feel the presences of this or that sort of demons, all it really is is some repressed memory forcing it’s way into consciousness, and that’s all it is. You already survived it. The fear precedes remembering. Once you know you are in your own past the fear will change to grief for yourself as a child. That, we were not allowed to feel. Grief is compassion for our real self we had to abandon to survive.

A bad drug trip is caused by not letting go and resisting, in my opinion. That can just add to a sense of being worthless. To love your inner child I think needs time and an effort at forgiveness, so patience. The ego always wants to direct everything.

There is nothing actually wrong with us but our inner panic. We want to be panic free so we panic and then panic over panicking. Try to relax just a bit by noticing this. That is all I know to say hoping it helps because I believe it is how we are.

 

[trenchfoot]

I'm still perplexed as to how disseminating the facts and the truths about what the Repubs have done, are doing and will do is being partisan, radical leftist or some other scary tag the righties dependably come up with.

If the Repubs don't like hearing, seeing and feeling insulted about all of those naughty things they're doing that violate so many of the ethical, moral and legal tenets described in the founding documents of our nation, you'd think they'd simply refrain from perpetrating all of those nasty dirty deeds they're doing on the cheap.

Heck if they really wanted to clean up their act a really good place to start would be to denounce their allegiance to their Omnipotent Orange One who dragged them into the gutters of political hell and sailed them down into the sewers of conservative purgatory in order to placate that selfish chronic habit of his for cheating people out of their houses and homes for personal benefit.

 

[hal2kilo]

Porque no los dos?

Kidding really. I hated not getting off enough to Break on through to the other side, break on through....

But, I digress. Yes, there some people who advocate it. I really don't see how it can hurt.

 

[Captante]

Kidding really. I hated not getting off enough to Break on through to the other side, break on through....

But, I digress. Yes, there some people who advocate it. I really don't see how it can hurt.

Careful what you wish for lol(?) .... I knew a couple people back in my insane/stupid youth who took off on an acid-trip and only came back partially or not at all. (and still institutionalized 40 years later)



Hallucinogens (Especially LSD) are no joke and nothing to play around with.... if you want to "trip" take natural mushrooms or peyote from a reputable source.

Also have an experienced AND sober "babysitter/minder" nearby just in case!

If you "flip out" the LAST thing in the entire world you want is some Nancy to call 911 unless you're getting violent/self-harming or having trouble breathing.

 

[Moonbeam]

Kidding really. I hated not getting off enough to Break on through to the other side, break on through....

But, I digress. Yes, there some people who advocate it. I really don't see how it can hurt.

The danger is thinking. You take a drug and a special kind of thinking, a chain reaction of associations can take place. You start with some notion you have some habituated tendency to indulge in, maybe remembering a song that makes you feel sad, and that associates with something else that is sad and you start down a a rabbit hole of morbidity, all the while unaware that the real feeling, some traumatic experience is hiding behind those thoughts. Pretty soon you notice you have gone to a very dark place and you start to feel panic and the fear speeds up the panic to escape from the whirlpool that is sucking you down. Thought races, more and more negative associations and there you are in a struggle to keep from dying. And behind it all is only the fear of psychic death you have already experienced but are unaware that you have. If you have perhaps taken enough psychedelic that you smash right through you may die and go to straight to heaven, but otherwise you are going to experience hell itself, and having no understanding at all as to what is actually happening you might even jump out of a window.

The issue is the transition from thinking to feeling what you really feel. Our armor, our ego is there to help us suppress the pain we could not have survived childhood consciously feeling night and day. There are degrees of this. A general recommendation that everybody take drugs, thus, may not be right for some people. I have no idea who is who so I would not personally recommend drugs and in particular without prepratory knowledge of what can happen and why. But I am pretty sure that when the real feelings are reached, you will remember them in the original and while they were terrible in childhood the time they can hurt you now is past.

Maybe a hypothetical would help. A child tells his mother he hates her and later that day she dies in a car wreck. The child in it's magical world will think that he or she killed her. That feeling will be buried deeply and the child will grow up to live a life of miserable suppressed guilt, and why, because of a false belief. To remember, to discover that feeling hidden with, the child can know for real that it wasn't the anger at her that killed her. Feeling all the guilt consciously as an adult, opens the door to real healing, and in my opinion, like nothing else will. On drugs you can also just jump right over that memory if your thinking comes to an end by force of the psychedelic feeling.

 

[hal2kilo]

Anything as long as it's not Jimmy Dore or Tim Pool. Really, i think those guys are even worse than Ben Shapiro. At least Shapiro doesn't hide what he is.


Jimmy Dore tweets in support of this group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

The Grayzone is a far-left news website and blog founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal. The website, initially founded as The Grayzone Project, was affiliated with AlterNet before becoming independent in early 2018. The website's news content is generally considered to be fringe. It is known for misleading reporting and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes, in addition to its denial of the Uyghur genocide.

They publish pro-Syria, pro-Russia, pro-China stuff. Jimmy Dore and similar just lap this shit up, and call themselves left-wing. However the "left wing" people in their orbit always seem to support stuff that's near identical to what most right-wing QAnon types would support. Basically it's pro-Putin and China trolls trying to infiltrate the US "left" scene, casting themselves as the actual left while in fact supporting almost zero leftist policies.

Leftist totalitarianism is really no different from corporate fascism. One is terrorized by the state, the other by wealthy nationalist oligarchs.

 

[evident]

Yeah, they've constantly been giving platforms to nutjobs like Caputo, etc.

This "new" CNN isn't really new.

They created Trump, and enabled that b*tch mcenaney to come up with ridiculous defenses for him all the time

 

[woolfe9998]

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[Moonbeam]

I think the real concern is revolution. The antipathy the Right created for the left is much easier for the country to handle economically because on the left the irrational hatred and violent extremism does not translate into much of a counter threat, historically. But as the divisions have been allowed to feaster, unchecked by a lack of objective reporting, the left has become now much more willing to go to extremes, and that because there are some sources out there reporting the facts about the rise of fascism on the right.

When you depend on advertising revenue to fuel massive CEO profits, organizations that can keep both the left and the right somewhat happy, will do better than those who can only to one half or the other half of the population.

Which brings me to the point. The greatest revolutionary tool a democratic people have, aside from violent revolution, is the self abnegation one can express by economic boycott. What the advertisers want above all else is to be able to sell to each side while insuring that neither turns against them. You won't find the media teaching this kind of thinking, that the way to enforce change in the US is via economic pressure. Drive the fuckers that lie out of business by buying nothing they offer for sale, especially the products they advertise. But that requires effort and sleepless nights because I would have to throw away my Mr. Pillow and never but another one again. Plus, have you seen the new slippers they have for sale. God, I have to give up the possibility of walking on a cloud.