Remember, EM POC only!

Just brewed up the coffee, feeling like a doomer, but at least I'm about to be a caffeinated one.

How are all my fellow EM POC comrades doing?

  • Rania 🇩🇿@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    my favourite activity is watching crackers make shit up and believe it, especially the more "left leaning" ones, end up seeing stuff like "of course some Haitians eat household pets, but that's not enough to justify racism against them and there's good ones that don't eat pets" from time to time

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Picture of the average whitey when left alone with their thoughts:

      Show

      It does seem like they're addicted to outrage. Conservatives are constantly finding things to get upset over, but even libs will glue themselves to the screen looking at Trump's antics. I don't understand it. It's too exhausting to constantly plug yourself into the outrage machine. Like go watch a movie or something.

      I think the outrage culture probably exists among EMPOCs, though I'm struggling to think of any examples.

      • Rojo27 [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Like go watch a movie or something.

        Can't even do that because now they'll even lose their minds for the most minimal repesentation of anything other than CIS white people.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          I remember the IMDB message board would always be filled with chuds losing their shit any time a movie had anything other than white cishet straight men.

          There's a movie called "The Invitation" and it takes place in LA. A bunch of people were in the message boards complaining about diversity within the cast and I'm just like "That's a pretty typical friend group when you live in a city with over 1 million people?"

          • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            There's a movie called "The Invitation" and it takes place in LA. A bunch of people were in the message boards complaining about diversity within the cast

            To their lmayo $$urprise...

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        .......aaaaaaand I ate a ban from chapo for pointing out settler ideological fascist gun fantasies. Whitey got mad and used his mod powers to nuke my comments. Which admin do I talk to about that?

        They were doing the thing where they made up a scenario, freaked out about the thing they just made up, then got mad when this was pointed out.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Just got laid off from MEGACORP on Monday. They did a big "restructure" so now I'm unemployed. As my homie comically said I have become the stereotypical "unemployed black man" archetype THE MAN fears.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Ah yes, the "restructure". One of the earliest lessons I learned when I started working was that anytime corp talked about re-anything it probably means layoffs are coming soon. My first manager, who was pretty cool, was offered a lower position with less pay or severance. He went with the severance package and never looked back.

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        No plans yet, still getting my bearing. Never been laid off before. Right now I’m just focusing on getting my savings and stuff in order and making sure I have some runway. Other than that, find a new job of course

  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    I really hope the Alliance of Sahel States is successful and improves people's lives and conditions. The people in these regions deserve a win

    • Rania 🇩🇿@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Their situation is depressing, I can tell a massacre happened by seeing Africans from the Sahel in my area, just went through the border and haven't learned basic sentences or that [my province] isn't a good place to stay in.

    • weeen [any, any]
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      2 months ago

      Unfortunately the terrorism situation looks incredibly bad (France was already useless at tackling it though)

  • khizuo [ze/zir]
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    2 months ago

    Ooh, I'm early! Well I guess late, because I'm up doing homework.

    Doing okay, I guess. I've been better, I've been worse. This "college" thing is not really geared towards how my brain works, but I'm doing my best.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      This "college" thing is not really geared towards how my brain works, but I'm doing my best.

      Your best is all you can do. Keep it up, you'll make it happen!

  • Angel [any]
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    2 months ago

    Every day leads to me distrusting cracKKKers more and more, no matter how "left" they paint themselves as.

    • homhom9000 [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      Especially with how election season is going. Like I love joking around too but I have to side eye some of these jokes

      • Rojo27 [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        I got on the subway with someone that had a dog and an old white guy, at the top of his lungs, asked the dog owner if anyone has asked to eat his dog. Just fucking make it stop with the forced pet jokesdisgost

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    "Hate" is feeling kinda light this morning. They don't make a word for how I feel about settler trash anymore, or a brief enough verbal encapsulation of everything I want to watch happen to them.

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        Nooooooo. That's not nearly neat enough. These motherfuckers make me wish for a Hell just to know that on a cosmic level, even if it's after death, that justice would be done. There is not a word neat enough to embody "I have to wish for an entire metaphysical plane of eternal agony and torment just to deal with your fuckery".

  • khizuo [ze/zir]
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    2 months ago

    got a stim toy yesterday. wow, i should have gotten one earlier.

    • sneak100 [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      I'm glad you're finding it helpful! What did you get? I've been meaning to get something for a while but really not sure what would work for me. Maybe a fidget spinner from some material I wouldn't find upsetting would be a good start.

      • khizuo [ze/zir]
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        2 months ago

        I got a squeeze toy, specifically a "NeeDoh Nice Cube" (didn't choose that one in particular, I just got it because I walked into a toy store and saw it there). Very fun to squish.

  • khizuo [ze/zir]
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    2 months ago

    I like it when my makeup reflects how I feel inside (dead)