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wires
@wires

I'm not joking that prioritizing and better trying to hold myself to a standard of "is this True or does this just Feel True", "no investigation no right to speak" in the midst of my marxist education has actually significantly benefited me psychologically in a way that actually has been genuinely therapeutic. because this framework requires me to force myself to acknowledge that some of the things that I take for granted emotionally (e.g. both old liberal idealisms AND the belief that I will always be abandoned by my loved ones) AREN'T "true" in a meaningful way, even if they FEEL true. A marxist education has forced me to ask myself, "Do I care more about something feeling right than I do something being actually literally True?", and consistently trying to answer "No, I think it matters that things are actually true" has helped me to hold myself to a higher standard in both political investigation and social-emotional internal investigation. I can know that it Feels like "everything is going the way it used to go" when people I love mistreat me, but I can also Know, in a meaningful Factual way, that the conditions which inform my life are legitimately Different, that the material circumstances are Different, and that these differences genuinely should inform my experience.

Relevant to this is that it is both a strategic/rhetorical disservice as well as a PERSONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL disservice to concede the language "feelings aren't facts" to the Right. Feelings AREN'T facts. And this has both freed me from the prison of the demons of my own mind as well as given me the tools to dismantle the web of propaganda and Ideology which has smothered our lives. There is meaningful value to things actually being true rather than just feeling true.


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I always feel like the response to the right claiming "feelings aren't facts" should be "correct, they aren't, so get over YOUR feelings and face the facts"

because the right WANTS to set itself up as the Logical Side that Sticks To The Facts. but it isn't! it fucking isn't!! this is the side that elected and still idolizes a fraud of a president that, among other things, suggested injecting disinfectants to fight COVID. this is the side that digs its heels in hardest against doing anything to stop climate change. this is the side that loves to appeal to a god that has never been proven to exist, and to pride in a country built on genocide. they have no fucking right to say "feelings aren't facts" and we should hammer that into them every single time they try to pull that