Being able to tell people to back the fuck up and not having to smile at people all the time at work has been great. Everything else about this plague def sucks though.
I have exactly this thought process. My family's fine people, but not having to go home for christmas means I can just drink champagne by myself, a much more pleasant experience.
FOMO is my bane, so not having to hear stories of wild parties I'm not at is hugely relieving.
everything being shut down has made me realize I'm not actually introverted, so I guess I'm sort of happy about that?
I had to pause for a sec while gardening this morning and I thought to myself, jesus christ 250k Americans died from a pandemic during the last 8 months and no one gives a shit. Despite how low my expectations are for this country, it's just surreal how our lives have changed since March, but in the same time nothing has changed. Shit is just insane, I remember shitposting on the old sub about how all candidates will die except Tulsi, but now everything just feels distant. Being bored and unemployed really opens up more room for just thinking and making sense of how senseless everything is
the fact there’s been no talk of public vigils or flags set at half-mast just blows my mind :/
It's tragic, and the worst part is that it's the new normal. Thousands of people dying every month is fine as long as things keep running more or less the same to benefit the rich.
Who are they, also? It's 1 in 400 Americans now and I didn't know any of them. Which means some folks must have known a lot.
I'm elderly by Chapo.chat standards (38) and I've been getting hit with some madeleines lately. Thinking back to the major life changes that happened 10-12 years ago and I'm struggling to grok how close that is and simultaneously how remote. After dissociating for most of the Bush era I had a fairly normal decade (interspersed with personal "decades when nothing happens/weeks when decades happen" time dilation moment) and post-Trump I've starting to feel aging as the elimination of possibility.
Kids are extremely unlikely now (they never seemed like a good idea but when you're 29 you can envision building a decent enough future to send a kid to college). I'm never going to ride the rails around Europe. Odds are I'll never take a vacation outside of the US - if I ever take a vacation again at all. I can feel the window closing - and my dreams narrow with it.
(Mostly I'm just amazed my friends and I drank like we used to (really up until 4-5 years ago). Up to ~31 I could close down a bar, hang out for two hours afterward and then wake up at 7:30 for work. I had one margarita to-go in the last month and felt sick afterward. )
I'm not saying it as an inherently negative or depressing thing - it can be, in certain ways, but in others its simply an accommodation.
At 19 I was studying photography, my theoretical path was grad school, teaching, gallery shows. (Except I was studying at a state school with no juice in the art world so... not really.) At 38, I'm saving up for my first good camera in a while - my path is more sociology than gallery. I want to document the disappearing human landscape.
I never had an active desire for children - it's more a recognition that even if things lined up for the right forever relationship, socioeconomic status and age make them less plausible.
Hey buddy I'm just starting to experience those physical changes you mention at the bottom. I hope you can still experience some dreams and happiness, I've known some awesome 45+ year olds that have solo fostered kids, even for a couple years, can really help those kiddos and give you some contentment. Love to you comrade!
I don't have a great response, but this resonates with me (a few years younger). I kind of coasted through the Obama years, and it feels like I'm aging 4x as fast under Trump. Similar thoughts on traveling and children. I hope you figure things out.
just found out my dad DONATES MONEY to the police. like damn imagine being that much of a bootlicker
Tell your dad that you want to help him with his donations and then steal the money
My gramps has sheriff academy or something stickers on his truck, for like three or so different years. Theyll low key and you'd only notice them if you were walking along side the car on the driver's side. Considering getting some made up as cop camouflage.
yeah my dad has a "[redacted] PBA supporter 2020" sticker on his car, I figure the cops might go easier on someone who has that. idk where he gets it though, maybe they send it to him when he donates
Pretty sure they let anybody make stickers these days. Would be funny to steal the design, but change to text to be chapo chat or even anti cop.
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/VbVquvegAn.jpg
ACAB and all that. Like, law and order my ass
Having one of those stickers is a get out of jail free card for tickets though
jesus fuck i just got a biden campaign text that does not even mention biden or harris by name, why are liberals so allergic to committing to a candidate? is it because they know their guy is dogshit? is "vote for my candidate" too political? politics, in my election?
it was just like "Have you made plans to vote? As you know, compassion, decency, and competence are on the ballot." and tbh that's just asking for a swift dunk in the form of "yeah I know i saw la riva on the ballot" lmao
just did, anyone want to take bets on if I get:
a) ghosted
b) escalated to a supervisor
c) thanked for taking part in democracy
d) escalated to the FBI
Ghosted for sure. As soon as you break the script the human robots can't compute.
Luckily as a Canadian I did not have to vote in such a circus, our choices and results were not better by any means but at least I could vote for only my MP and be aware that my vote wasn't for any imperialist. Was kinda weird though that my local communist party had a shit line on a few key issues and the candidate we had left the party and immediately began uncriticaly repeating some lib shit, but also left for good reasons.
The party is very centralised and didn't include indigenous rights as a large enough part of the platform, it was however still very much there and still a much better take than any major party had (actually called genocide what it was rather than just hand wave it as 'the past'), just was also weird that there was a very "nation-centric" focus that often placed english in quebec in the same category as Inuit and Metis. I think the other communist party made it more central, but I don't recall them running a candidate in my area and since they don't publish an entire novel as their platform they're a bit more accessible too. They also both seem much more about electoralism than revolution (maybe for legal reasons, canada is a fuck), and that doesn't sit well with some people.
Iirc the rules for this party are that party crit happens within the party but a unified party line should be presented and you aren't supposed to speak out about the things not put on the platform if it isn't a question asked of you - or at least if you do it has to be you speaking as you, not you speaking for the party. Its a bit dumb of a rule, understandable to prevent infiltration candidates that just try to sink the party with infighting, but it's very unmarxist to not recognize the need to deal with settler colonialism as a core part of a marxist party in a colonised land.
Is this the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) or the Communist Party of Canada?
They have to have it fixed. I mean, it would be obscene if that happened.
I get it though. Even though I am in zero percent shape if someone offered me to fight with the man I couldn't turn it down.
Mike and Jake aren't fighting. They're at the same fight but against different opponents. Tyson probably has 50 pounds on Paul and actual world level talent, there is no way they would fight
Cultural-Marxism is so last decade. We're into Cultural-Maoism now.
I saw an article about Zoomers on COMMUNIST TIKTOK making fun of their parents, much like during the Cultural Revolution, where children threw their own parents under the bus in the name of "revolution". Still think TikTok is okay, liberals?
Is anybody else here fundementally anti Zoom for no reason in particular and have therefore also been exceptionally lonely for the past few like 7 months
I have just a default distaste for Zoom and Discord, but think it's because i always have this in the back of my head
Yeah I get google meet through my work and like that way better (it's gsuite google hangouts, like hangouts but slightly more sophisticated — in particular it has really good auto generated closed captioning which is really helpful since I have a. audio processing disorder)
I'll say "zoom" for the normies but then just send them a meet link when it's time to get going
If you learned2code like I did you could also setup your own zoom or hangouts style webapp pretty easily, I spent some time playing around with the webrtc protocol awhile back and got something functional after a couple days
A good friend is a union organizer and she is on back to back zoom meets for 6 hours a day. I pour one out for her nightly
Not looking forward to going back to work with college kids that partied this weekend. I'm already anticipating having to tell my gooniest libertarian (in his defense he at least doesn't know what it means) coworker to stfu up and put his mask on
city council candidate was asked about making the streets more bike friendly and he starts talking about opening up the streets to golf carts. boomers love golf carts so fucking much its insane
Imagine being able to buy a car, but it can't even go on roads or anything.
i know someone who insisted on a gas powered golf cart because its "better" somehow
Imo, it should have never been quarantined. Can you imagine how many users it would’ve had? lol
I made a therapy appointment and it's on Monday morning and I am terrified! Have barely been able to sleep for the last couple days, tonight included. If this goes badly I don't think I'll have the strength to try this again.
Hope it goes well for you and you get something good out of it. Rooting for you comrade.
Noooo don't be worried! You are taking care of yourself by talking to a professional. If you don't feel like you're connecting, ask for someone else. Their job is to help. ♥️
Good luck I hope it goes well! I had some horrific therapists and then ones that helped me completely change my life.
I almost got fired for letting my homeless friend take coffee/soda and my boss treated me like a fucking lying criminal. He used to buy me breakfast/dinner after my shift. I'm gonna start looking for another job because fuck this.
What shithole country do you live in where you can get fired for helping homeless people
Prediction: when/if Biden wins, Trump will bitch and deny it for a while, but will ultimately give up and go out with a whimper. QAnon followers will then conclude that since Trump, as they understand him, would never simply surrender to the deep state without doing the Storm, the Trump who leaves the White House cannot be the real Trump, but only a clone. The real Trump will of course be in occultation, waiting for the right moment to return and execute Barack Obama and Nellie Ohr, but he will still communicate with the faithful indirectly through his da'i. There will also be a Zaidi/Khawarij sect who believe that it really was Trump, but that by conceding office he annulled his right to be Trump, and that the mantle of Donald Trump has now passed to another scion of the Ahl al-Bayt, possibly Barron.
I thought we were in a golden age of Q with the rise of Save The Children.
The victory is the Deep State over Trump would be 100 percent confirmation
The year is 2045, the aftermath of the Third American Civil War. The Southeast is under the dominion of the Rojasid Successorate, ruled by the son of Scotty the Kid, who revealed in the midst of the last war that he was not just the emissary of the hidden Barron, but in fact Barron himself, and therefore the rightful president. Every year, thousands make the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, where they throw bad food at an effigy of Graydon Carter and drive a golf cart seven times between different holes.
In the American battle of Karbala (Kansas), Don Jr, Eric Trump and other Trump family members and friends march up to a Kansas City Fuddruckers to take it back from the unjust QAnon traitors who stopped recognizing Barron's Imamate. After a long battle where Eric Trump valiantly brings soda to his brother, but he sadly dies after getting bullets to both his eyes. Don Jr is then ran over by a Chevrolet pick-up and killed, while Tiffany gets captured and dies unceremoniously in St. Louis a few years later. The shrines of Don Jr and Eric are visited yearly by millions of Americans that prove their allegience to Imam Barron by visiting the shrine of the two martyrs
Eric Trump valiantly brings soda to his brother
Absolutely halal brother, Trump as the chud Mahdi is just the type of quasi-religion that this cursed nation makes. There will also be a Sunni-inspired QAnon sect, which shows up after Trump dies for real. They will believe that the mantle of conducting the Storm can be transferred to one of the companions of Trump. Pence is Abu Bakr, Giuliani is Omar and Kushner is Ali after he married Ivanka
