That’d have been good.

I was considering “Fuck the ACP” but I don’t know profanity in the title breaks any rules

In the U.S., Democratic Socialist and Social Democrat has just come to mean New Dealer with a red color pallette. The policies proposed by Mamdani and Sanders are all New Deal/Keynsian. But the U.S. has such a warped political climate that FDR would be seen as a socialist today.

This is truly the darkest timeline.

Taking a tremendously difficult class which is normally a full semester but has crammed into an eight week summer course. Anatomy and Physiology. It is a nightmare. I get home from my full time job in healthcare at 10:30 pm and do homework until 6:00 am. Toss and turn and sweat and itch in bed for a few hours until it’s time to go back to work. I am not exaggerating. Chemistry and cell structure is so abstract and hard to follow.

I got a 62/100 on the first exam covering the first three chapters. I guess it’s not the end of the world. I have time to turn it around if I redouble my efforts. I’m usually a straight A student.

Every time I talk to people how awful this existence is I’m told it’s a problem with my way of thinking. It always comes back around to being my fault. It gets old. Life isn’t fun.

As Norman Finkelstein once said: “Speaking as a devout atheist, thank God we’re mortal.”

This ruling class has no legitimacy whatsoever. There may be some argument if they ensured the masses had security, shelter, medical care, food etc., but they offer nothing to the working class, they are wholely parasitic. And when the working class fights back, they use fascism to reestablish their order.

I’m not personally but I’ve never been able to get invested in sports.

Capitalism is an alienating and dehumanizing system. It would be strange NOT to be depressed in these circumstances. That means you are human.

I think that it is healthy to be intellectually, socially, and physically active. Scientists studying rats in cages consistently find that the rats in cages with toys and other rats are healthier and smarter than the rats without stimulation. Get involved with an activist group. Have friends over. Go for a walk. Read a good book.

Then also, progress is the key to happiness. Whatever your goals are, you haven’t accomplished them yet, YET. Keep repeating that word: Yet. Take steps towards your goals every day so you have something to show for all this struggling.

I hope it gets better. Your twenties are hard, don’t let anyone lie to you that they’re the best times.