Neşe Devenot, PhD 🍉 (@NeseLSD.bsky.social)

Trump embracing psychedelics should clue the left into the fact that there are things going on in this industry that aren't in workers' interests or good news for public health. When the consequences of elites' control of psychedelic medicine become clearer, come find @Psymposia

The Epstein class likes psychedelics for different reasons than you do.

In convo w/ Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO, psychedelics investor & TESCREAList), Joe Rogan repeats the counterfactual claim that we could stop war by giving everyone MDMA. Sam: "I think if you could get everyone on Earth to…do molly…on the same day, that would be a tremendous thing."

Some of these psychedelic medicine research orgs are extremely sus and I think taking a look at which politicians are publicly in favor of this is illustrative. Many people seem to view psychedelics as necessarily healing or redemptive, but they can just easily be weapons of war

I am in favor of any step toward the decriminalization of psychedelics. Ive known people who got crazy sentences for having one or two flushes worth of psilocybin mushrooms. I'm also really wary of anyone touting psychedelics as a mental health solution.

@Radle @psymposia I've seen all the propaganda slop tropes before.

@NeseLSD @psymposia Easy there, Pfizer ….

Trump embracing psychedelics should clue the left into the fact that there are things going on in this industry that aren't in workers' interests or good news for public health. When the consequences of elites' control of psychedelic medicine become clearer, come find @Psymposia

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence. They understand individual violence. One person harms another person. There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain. What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination. The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead. They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones. And that architecture was designed. It was negotiated. It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not. This is violence. It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger. But the deaths it produces are just as dead. And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument. You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense. They will not thank you for it. They will defend against it with everything they have. Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position. It is an identity catastrophe.

Every American worker knows what freedom really means under capitalism: Freedom to be fired. Freedom to be in debt. Freedom to go hungry. Freedom to get evicted. Freedom to become a wage slave.

People assume fascists will gain empathy from psychedelic experiences of interconnection. But fascists often interpret interconnection as confirmation of natural status hierarchies, rendering "outgroups" as fully expendable: x.com/NeseLSD/status…

Trump's press conference on psychedelics was organized by the same people who arranged for this hit piece against us in the New York Times, btw: x.com/NeseLSD/status…

Right-wing influencers are advancing psychedelic medicine to "restore" healthy identity alongside anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapies" for gender and sexual minorities, as in the case of Jordan Peterson. This is a dangerous indication of where they're headed: x.com/NeseLSD/status…

Trump, Thiel, Musk & the rest of the Epstein class is interested in psychedelics as a means of killing the "woke mind virus." They're rolling back protections against conversion therapy. I have loved & studied psychedelics for 15+ years, but psychedelics can be used as a weapon.

Many think psychedelics are an exception to the devastation Peter Thiel is advancing everywhere else he's invested. It's another front in their class war, alongside AI, surveillance & military tech. They're building systems of control & persuasion for a future without democracy.

In my field, it's common to hear that we just need to get ayahuasca to Putin & Trump, or MDMA to Israelis & Palestinians, to put an end to genocides & wars. This logic creates a sense of urgency to scale the psychedelics industry as fast as possible, but it's not a real solution.