What are your experiences? A lot of mine tie into "just be a white cis dude" theory so I want to know. I drink in public and shit so cool people talk to me often
I always weirdly get along well with various lumpen and criminal elements I meet. I'm basically the golden retriever of people and so when I talk to people I tend to be very genuine and enjoy talking about whatever. I was at a party in a rough neighborhood and just clicked with this dude while we were talking and drinking. I had a good time and eventually me and my gf left and I didn't think anything of it. Until I heard the next day that the guy was the gang leader of one of the main gangs in the area and everyone was legit shocked that I was talking with him and made such a good impression. I just thought he was interesting to hang out with.
I say this while in contrast to whenever I'm around petite/actual bourgie people I just cannot seem to click with them at all. I don't care about your expensive watch. I don't care about your trip to Costa Rica. I don't care about how expensive your purse is. They all just feel so hollow and vapid.
Yep. Basically just seem chilled and interested in people and they tend to be friendly. What liberals do wrong is judge people from the outset -- "they're bad/insane/dangerous/etc." and then avoid talking to the people they judge
the difference between whether or not members of the lumpen are willing to hang out with me and whether or not members of the lumpen try to chase me down with a hypodermic needle is entirely based on whether I am currently dressed cis.
The bourg really fucking ruined these people, it's so tragic. I know they're my comrades but as a queer person it's extremely dangerous to organize with them and it's best left to non-marginalized proles until we start making some actual inroads :deeper-sadness:
Jesus that's brutal. I'm sorry. I don't see stuff that bad often. I guess because I am cis and Melbourne/Sydney are less hellish than large US cities. Fuck threatening with needles but I understand why they resort to it (not against you, just generally). Scarier than a gun imo
i am the american dream: i am a bald, poorly-dressed and stout older white guy with a not-bright look plastered on my face at all times.
except for very rich people, who seem to instinctively not like me. the gift of fear, i suppose. or maybe it's just obvious how low rent i am.
Lenin was bald and white and poorly dressed sometimes . You sound cool to me
I can't give too much away but I know a guy from Shanghai and we differ greatly politically. We mostly just talk about cool apolitical shit. Sometimes about how Australia sucks. He is at least pro-China so doing better than most Australians
Also he pays for my drinks a lot lmao
I did a job for him once and it annoyed me so much I stopped talking to him for years
We're cool now. A legal job btw. I never told him but he knows
What's the go with this site? This story is pretty identifying
I look like I know what I'm doing most of the time. Getting arrested for a one-off thing (vandalism) last month was out of character for me. Not because it was bad per se but because it was reckless and pointless
I do silly shit impulsively sometimes. Crashed a car semi-on purpose once, etc.
I haven't gone out of my way not to be. VicPol has handled this phone. Probably too stupid to have installed anything on it. I was wasted but they had it maybe 5 minutes tops
Won't identify people I know though. I also said some extreme shit while I was locked up which I regret. But they didn't know what they'd caught
Good reason not to use ice*! They took my knife though
*I mean not to get caught with it. I was drunk that day, nothing more
Gonna burn accounts and try being chill and not looking like a narcissist or worse. Reading this shit I don't like it
I grew up with racist lower middle class friends. The few I still talk to have outgrown it. All I still talk to moved to Melbourne
I was raised petit-boug, so that one's easy - I'd take an open Blood or Crip over a boat salesman any day. My town has plenty of all three, if I'm interpreting all the people dressed head to toe in primary red or blue, and the boat dealerships correctly
I don't really have a lot of opinions past that. I think the US has put a lot of work into obfuscating its class structure, so unless I ever reach the point of methodically organizing people, I don't have much reason to get more specific than working- or owning-class
People in suits are 100x scarier than people talking to themselves on the street. You're lost if you don't realise this imo
Suit guys are middle men, the real demonologists know the devil wears Patagonia/marmot fleeces over button down collared shirts
Hahahaha I'm definitely not wearing this exact outfit omw to work :side-eye-1:
Spiritually true, though the "suits" here mostly wear high-end hunting and fishing gear. We're not a small town, but everyone here jacks off about hating "the city" anyway, so the fashion is whatever Stadium Country artists have been wearing this season
I know the type. We have them in Australia too. They drive drunk and don't respect me in my home fucking town. This is good I guess. Anonymity is desirable
This doesn't make me sound good but I'm very normal irl usually. Not scary looking. Like 6'1 and lighter than I was in high school. My dad is taller than me lmao
Without a doubt. Organized crime is just a part of capitalism and not a revolutionary force, but then, it isn't the Bloods' or the Crips' enforcers who get sent with drug-related ambulance calls in hopes of getting to arrest a poor person in crisis
if lumpen means the people I do drugs with, then yes, definitely
Yeah being nice to people and generally easy going seems to rub a certain class the wrong way. Like they know they can't use you for anything idk
Sex workers have good takes too. I saw a dominatrix once or twice (surprise) and she was doing a PhD in ____. Had good takes. Seems to have disappeared in recent years but probably doing fine I bet
Aware this sort of thing is bourgeois taste. Can't help it
Is Hunter shorter than Joe? Definitely cooler than Joe. I'm trying to not be like Hunter and not to brag, but succeeding lately. I think to truly grow up I need to get out of Australia though
An Australian insult I like: FIGJAM (fuck I'm good, just ask me). Tall Poppy Syndrome is a good thing in the right dose. Scandinavia has it too (Jante's Law)
This may explain why Finns and Australians are good shitposters
I guess so-called "middle." Parents were both teachers originally, they met at university
Fr. I've worked on farms. Ask me how much I enjoyed it! I innately know what kulaks are lmao
I don't stand to inherit much real estate value though because they don't live in the city
I don't talk while out in public so I don't really know. Mostly everyone is nice to me, since being an adult at least
the only kind of masking i ever got kinda good at was making small talk with bourgeois types.
i actually like the lumpen better than most. the working poor too. i've always identified with the lower classes though, am really from a lower class than my parents want to believe or perhaps hoped for me.
jokes on them though, i came around the back end of getting cracked at thinking as a skill, and now I'd rather jump in front of a train than work for...well most people that would want my "skill set" or whatever.
I basically went feral after quitting my last job. I can't stand work or taking orders from most bosses. Going to maybe try delivering food on an e-scooter. Then your boss is an app, but at least it's not full time. Also can do it in other countries
