im so thrilled about the Sahel Confederation!! good things do happen!
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Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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We like to have fun here.
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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.
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I don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?
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Finishing up my 7th straight day at work
Honestly hasn't been too bad though, aside from one really busy day where I was covering work by myself.
Got my first date in a few years set for tomorrow, so my head is in the clouds
Finishing up my 7th straight day at work
Did they transport ye to Greece or Hell Joseon /s ?
God, have mercy on yer soul, not only on your labor but your date...
Mostly just due to needing coverage for someone's vacation and not having enough employees to be able to really cover for that. At one point we had enough people, but after someone left they were never replaced. There was a long discussion and a lot of, "yeah, we'll see what can be done" or "we need to see number to make sure you guys really need the help." 2 years later of being the highest volume shop netted us nothing.
That's the reserve army of labor system at hand...
Keep many a laborer unemployed and searching for work, and keep the rest overemployed, and, as Capital, ye will have good dominance over the two by their instability...
Good luck, comrade!
How'd the date go?
It was great. We had a lot of fun.
My partners grandmother unfortunately had to have surgery for endometrial cancer and they're flying down (masked ) with their immediate family to take of her and we're worried they're on the no fly list just for being Muslim :/
Either way TSA is gonna be harassing them
Welp, it goes smooth...
Fuck TSA.
It's 38C outside (100F) and it will get over 40 this week, god damn it
What's it normally?
This is normally, it's just summer, during winter it goes to 0, and spring and autumn are around 20-30
Why god damn it then? Seems fine to ye...
My goddamn offbrand crocs are sticking to the sidewalk
Ah... well, good luck finding some good shoes or slippers...
The thing is I have to get something that covers my entire foot or my feet will have a sandals tiger print from the tan
A lot of white people especially Europeans think colonialism ended 400 years ago or something, crazy because my own dad who is still alive was put in a colonial prison.
Are you Algerian?
you've asked me this before, and I answered yes before
OHHHH
I was on hiatus for a while.
My apologies.
Both my mother countries were coup'd by the United States.
But my parents are... mixed when it comes to politics.
ah
How do I not fucking lose my shit with people when they try to show sympathy for this racist piece of shit? The amount of lives he's ruined and deaths his actions have caused in communities I grew up in prevent me from feeling anything other then extreme rage that this motherfucker still gets to breath after being shot at. We die every fucking day because of people like him man fuck
Just a preview for when his image gets rehabilitated within the next 5-10 years and an even more unhinged fascist is running the show. "Remember Trump? I didn't agree with him on everything, but at least he isn't [insert fash of the moment]."
GOD DAMMIT WE WERE SO CLOSE THEY MISSED
Next time, get a firing squad...
I actually didn't notice. I was touching grass big time, building a greenhouse in my yard
🎵 they ask that you give every american
equal human rights
'fore you ask our leaders to give their people
human rights
i'll represent america as a human rights ambassador
but before i take such a post
you have to clean your own backyard first 🎵
~ Human Rights, Radio Free Grenada
🎵 they got plenty human rights in america
but some people got too much, while others suffer
the rich; the white; the bureaucracy
do anything they want, 'cause you set them free
but you frame the poor; the black; the minority
then made them suffer to get their liberty! 🎵
im a zoomer but I fully talk like a millennial. prob because I usually hang out with older people.
I grew up with older people.
I'm used to older people, tbh.
Also, hello again, Othello.
same, and hello!
Frankly, I'm glad that I grew up with older people, but it already hurt my socialization skills as a PDA Autistic person.
But I oddly don't regret it, even when considering that.
That's how I actually saw beliefs that were more radical than the "younger generations," at least when it came to economic issues.
Social issues were usually in conformity with the times (2000s, 2010s), but otherwise, lots of interesting stories.
yeah im mostly fine with it, but i feel uncool sometimes.
I feel like that as well a lot, but I've found a kindred spirit who turned out to be a friend recently, a journalist who wants to interview me and is interested in Marxism (who is also Latino and Autistic), afaik.
Wrote for WaPo, Slate, etc.
That, and a TTRPG group in my area, which I've been going to for almost a month now.
Let me tell you: continue to use Facebook to find friends in your area, including Nextdoor (you never know what group you're going to find).
On another note, I feel definitely queer, my gender dysphoria and pining to be a woman is growing bolder, I think; I know what feelings to identify and what they are. I saw a video by Alexander Avila (on YouTube) and it put a lot of things in perspective for me and dealt with internalized ableism and internalized transphobia. Things are moving forward for me in a positive direction...
...except I've been stuck in one particular situation since a month ago regarding people I know IRL and I'm waiting for a resolution on that because GODDAMN it is taking a lot out of me, practically aging me twice over.
Fuck I thought my cold was gone. But its back Its not that bad but its annoying. Maybe something allergy summer related ? I remember having a similar cold last summer.
who could have beef with me? im adorable!
I mean, considering your namesake, have ye checked for any jealousy from BFFs? /s...
very true lol
Everyone talking about the new Eminem album and I'm just here geeking out about Blu's new ablum.
My cousin straight-up talking about profiling. Ok, I get why she's attracted to chuds now
This mfer really interrupting the Copa to feed us bullshit