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that's a misnomer; neuroleptic drugs don't combat a singular biological state of 'psychosis' because there is no such observed or biomarked state. neuroleptics don't have good evidence for their efficacy in actually improving patient outcomes, and are known to cause a range of serious short- and long-term (including permanent!) side effects ranging from metabolic dysregulation to movement disorders (neurological damage) to sedation (they have previously been known as 'major tranquilisers').

on principle i think people should be able to use psychoactive substances of their choosing; in practice i think this is basically a moot point in regards to neuroleptics because the side effects are so common and severe, and the benefits so minimal. these are drugs that continue to be popularly prescribed because they make patients more 'compliant' -- ie, because our current social–economic situation is so profoundly hostile to variation in perceptions of reality that we render people more 'functional' when dangerously medicated into submission.

atypical anti-psychotics are also approved for and continue to be prescribed to treat "aggression and self-injurious behaviour" in children diagnosed with autism for example. i was introduced to this class of drugs and kept on them for half a decade at the request of my parents, without being formally diagnosed with psychosis for the duration, for what amounted to 'disobedience and disruptive behaviour' at home. i was thirteen. my psychiatrists* enabled my parents' abuse by keeping me in a state where i was incapable of defending myself

in many psych wards the first thing they do is give you a very high dose of an anti-psychotic to make sure you won't complain too much, as it dawns on you're in a prison and all your agency has been stripped away. it doesn't matter why you're there, they don't check your file before doing it. they just do it because it's effective at keeping people quiet

April 27, 2025 - Ka Daisy, an NPA guerrilla and trans woman, was martyred after a confrontation with security forces in Barangay Tapi, the Philippines.

She was known for teaching literacy and math to members of her squad who were uneducated and always carrying a make-up kit in her guerilla supplies. May she rest in power. [video]/[video]

"As an LGBT youth our role is important in advancing the revolution. To change society's views we must change society herself"

more than just fighting the state powers, they are actively engaged in improving the conditions of the rural peasantry and the urban workers and semiproletariat (they were involved, for example, in the jeepney drivers strike a year or two ago). the NPA stands for New Peoples' Army, but in certain areas where they either hold power or are living among the peasantry, they're called the "Nice Peoples' Army". they live and work along with the villages they're staying in, and help feed and teach the people

their line on LGBT rights is one of the most advanced out of any communist formation worldwide. they hold that the liberation of gay and trans people cannot be achieved without the liberation of the proletariat and peasantry, and vice versa. they've held this line for a long time - they were fighting for trans people back when most other left-wing parties (such as the RCP, pre-Avakian-cult) held reactionary positions on their role in society. here's an article with more context on gay and trans people in the CPP. (warning for misgendering in the context of a trans person's "former self").

Yeah the state has to breed fish in captivity and stock them into lakes for game fishing and food web maintence because the ecosystem is so fucked from a combination of overfishing, invasive species, pollution etc. that lakes don’t teem with fish naturally anymore. If you catch and eat fish you gotta make sure to check the gov website guidelines for that lake’s pollution levels. Male sure you don’t eat more than 3 in a month so you don’t give yourself mercury poisoning!

There’s too many deer overgrazing young plants and spreading disease because we expirated wolves so we gotta try to keep their numbers in check through hunting permits. There’s only a few remote lakes and rivers that the DNR say are so far from human settlements that the water is safe to drink straight from it. But don’t worry you can buy bottled water or a filter because you probably shouldn’t drink the tap water. There’s far less frogs and predatory insects around that normally keep disease spreading insects like mosquitoes in check.

Yeah there’s edible wild plants virtually everywhere but you probably shouldn’t pick and eat them unless you live in the middle of nowhere because of contamination from everything from pesticides to car exhaust to heavy metals. If you have a rain barrel the gov says you can use the water for your lawn or garden but not for a vegetable garden because of the chemicals leeched into it from your roof.

You gotta have a lawn so you can imitate the landed gentry who had large estates of land not used for farming so they could show off their wealth. So much money you don’t even need to grow your own food you can just have this completely devoid of life lawn that you have to mow every week (or twice a week sometimes) because you don’t have enough money to pay people to maintain it for you like the wealthy do. It also needs weed killer and fertilizer and seed and water every year too. But hey at least there’s also far less native plants for pollinators and therefore far less pollinators. All for a stupid fucking lawn.

Where I live it’s actually illegal to replace more than 50% of your lawn with a flower garden or a vegetable garden. Half of it just be grass or the city will fine you. And where do you get your vegetables? From the supermarket. Why grow your own food when you could rely on some company to feed you. Most of our country’s farmland is actually corn for ethanol and animal feed, not sweet corn, and then after corn it’s soybeans so we can use soy as a filler ingredient. You can’t grow bananas or avocados in our climate but don’t worry. You can get them in January because we have them shipped in from Guatemala and Mexico.

Despite what republican aesthetics would like you believe, most farms in this country are not salt of earth family farms, they’re huge factory farms staffed by visa workers who are paid terribly, work in unsafe conditions, can’t speak out against violations, and some of whom are even just straight up human trafficked here. But don’t worry why bananas somehow only costs 29¢ each. Don’t grow your own food. Buy it from a store, grown and shipped to you from 2,000 mi away. Because that’s how efficient the free market is baby. Because that makes more sense than every neighborhood designed having a community garden and chicken coop at the center.

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