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He’s not choking. He’s doing what he believes is his job.

His role is to undercut any movement and crush the energy. Did it in 2020, did it for the Gaza protests, and he’s going to do it again.

Where African Football’s Immense Potential Came To Life - Where Is Football It was raining in Casablanca when I stepped outside the Mohammed V International Airport a day before the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. I had turned 35 years old in the air, during the overnight...

If you missed it, I wrote about attending the AFCON final and why I hope African football can finally shed certain stereotypes because it really is a tremendous tournament

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We should get to beat him up

It’s really a shame that Red Bull gave up on being the public platform for people to do wild shit like that because we used to all tune in to those kinds of moments. They had Felix Baumgartner jumping from outer space. Alex’s climb should have been a huge sports moment.

Love when the people who call for one refuse to take questions and say that you can talk to them privately instead

“I’ve changed my mind, now you have to be nice to me and praise me for doing so”

The only people who think like that are the same kind who write pieces presenting their change of heart as evidence of how bad things have gotten. As if they’re the center of the world.

And also, if your desire is for people to pat you on the head for finally realizing the obvious moral crisis, it’s pretty clear that you’re only concerned about your ego and not doing any real work to help. The ones who have cared have been putting their bodies on the line without fanfare.

Yeah, and when things are that “rare” you’re also looking at creating your own treatments or piecing them together because there’s no real guidance. It’s very tough.

Gucci Mane has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Keyshia Ka'oir has been his rock through it all Rapper Gucci Mane reveals he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. 'He needed someone to help him,' wife Keyshia Ka'oir says.

(A lesser example of this is also Gucci and how people would encourage and entertain his manic episodes, and the way it destroyed people’s lives. And it wasn’t until he got with someone who truly cared for him that he realized he needed help.)

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Maybe. But what else is he going to do? I don’t think he can really be himself is he’s not creating. I don’t think anyone should be buying his stuff and he’s done a lot of indefensible shit, but I feel like creating is part of how he knows himself.

But beyond him, there’s been many artists / writers / entertainers who have talked about believing that their creativity is linked to their illness, because it’s what they’ve been sold for so long. Van Gogh is the patron saint of this and it’s all a bastardization of what his struggle was.

So many outlets and sycophants latched onto him. Complex posted about his antics damn near daily — I remember responding to them several times that it was irresponsible. All the fame seekers surrounded and defended his behavior. MAGA saw him an opportunity.

Also, the idea that madness = genius and that the two are inseparable has done incredible damage to the mental health conversation. You could see it with Ye that while his real friends were pushing him back into treatment, the general consensus still remained that it was just part of his genius.

How a Young Woman Lost Her Identity Hannah Upp disappears for weeks at a time, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

She would go missing and end up in bodies of water, and the last time was after a hurricane. She hasn’t been found since.

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I was just reading about a lady who used to enter into a fugue state when she was triggered. And how this kind of disorder has been ignored for a long time because of this hesitation around the idea that someone’s personhood can be fractured and changed completely by a mental illness.

What people do in those manic periods have consequences and there’s no obligation to forgive them. But it doesn’t serve reality to pretend that an illness that often leads to delusions, hallucinations, and has led to people killing themselves and others, is self-contained and “manageable”.

And maybe this is a consequence of not being able to reckon with someone being sick not being an excuse for their actions. Bipolar disorder can turn someone hateful. It can make them suicidal when they’re usually not. It can fracture their personality and make them unrecognizable.

In a way we can understand depression and anxiety, we can prescribe sterile medications of “check on your friends” or telling people to call the suicide hotline, or even turning things like OCD and ADD into cute Internet personality traits, but that’s also not engaging with the truth of these things

'It's nothing like a broken leg': why I'm done with the mental health conversation It’s never been easier to open up – but hashtag healthcare doesn’t help people like me

My friend Hannah wrote some time ago about her own struggles with bipolar disorder and how the mental health conversation isn’t really open enough to deal with illnesses that can lead to a fracture of the self.

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Well, I think people just don’t understand that the illness manifests differently in everyone. Being in a manic state can make someone do things like that, which doesn’t mean he gets to come back from them. But I think we often like the docile portrayals of mental illnesses and not the reality.

“But if we mean what we say about solidarity, what choice is there? If every abducted child is our own, if every person they want to make disappear is someone Minneapolis cannot and will not live without, the decisions on how we must respond have already been made.”

Well said.

Where African Football’s Immense Potential Came To Life - Where Is Football It was raining in Casablanca when I stepped outside the Mohammed V International Airport a day before the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. I had turned 35 years old in the air, during the overnight...

Make sure to read @zeets.bsky.social's essay on going to the AFCON Final for Where is Football. Beautiful work.

www.whereisfootball.com/where-africa...

“The nerds are bad” - me, for almost two decades now.

Now that Drake Maye has taken us back to the Super Bowl, going to need to update this

Patriots vs Seahawks again aka a reprise of one of my favorite ever games that led to me terrorizing @brianmfloyd.bsky.social for like a year straight with the gif of Malcolm Butler’s interception

Where African Football’s Immense Potential Came To Life - Where Is Football It was raining in Casablanca when I stepped outside the Mohammed V International Airport a day before the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. I had turned 35 years old in the air, during the overnight...

This by @zeets.bsky.social is very good: www.whereisfootball.com/where-africa...

Yeah, absolutely. The person I want to hear from at this moment is Raymond Emanuel. That’s the way to go.

I tried this on Twitter and it didn’t really work so I’ll try it here too. I want to read Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance soon and would prefer to do it with a group. If you’re interested please let me know