It's official, I'm going to be a bus driver!
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Congratulations bus driving is always good. School, Public trans or something else?
I'm a very private trans 
It's gonna be public transit
Let’s go that’s definitely the best route to go through. Opens the door to a lot more job with the city/whatever, keep your ear out for new positions that sound interesting, there’s always something.
Something something (joke about crazy bus or desert bus)
Thank you for your service. As someone who uses public transport a lot.... you folks are the real heroes 
ayy nice
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I'm gonna go first: I'm getting closer and closer to this utterly amazing, beautiful person that I have been giving so much love to as of late. Her heart is growing for me; she is getting so much more excited to talk to me and spend time with me, and I'm just feeling blessed that I shot my shot. A part of me, initially, was like, "Nah, no chances, Angel. Just don't say anything," but I'm glad I didn't listen to that part!
ALWAYS SHOOT YOUR SHOT. Happy it worked out for you. The worst regret is to think "what if".
nice! always shoot your shot 
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Watching how the bottom fell out of the Uncommitted movement with Kamala's anointment might've broken me. Like... There is an undousable, indestructible hatred brewing in my gut for everyone who still calls themselves Amerikan, and I don't know how to mitigate that anymore. We're going back to Zero-th Reich standards, and these motherfuckers just cheer and cheer and cheer for it.
Are we damned? Do we even deserve liberation anymore? I don't know how to answer the questions my internal monologue asks anymore. My faith is eroding.
I've always thought things would get much worse before they get better, meaning a lot of suffering is coming our way. It's a shame that most of it will hit some of the most oppressed people. But I'm hopeful that once the empire crumbles, there'll be a new dawn.
'Darkest before dawn', eh? On god, I'm becoming a bunker rat... Here's hoping .22LR stays as cheap as it is rn.
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Usually in wars, a family buries a soldier. but in wars against America a soldier buries his family.
Rania over here barrin up; that needs to be a tagline 🔥
Sometimes I watch white people instinctively clump together with each other and immediately distrust them.
I'm going to put forward a motion at the next cookout to change the plural for white people from 'a gaggle' to 'a klan' specifically out of that sense of distrust
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A white non-vegan tried to whitesplain veganism to me today and I think I deserve financial compensation for that tbh.
What a fucking coincidence! Me and my white partner (both vegan) have been involved in awful social media drama because of this. Tons of white non-vegans were saying that "It's offensive to call what animals are going through as slavery!" and when I expressed disagreement as a black person whose grandparents were born in their country of origin when it was still a fucking British colony, they called me her "token." They kept making these complaints about "white veganism," and now we're involved in drama mainly because there's this very upset white woman who is using her drones to harass us and she is shittalking us and other vegans on her livestreams obsessively as well. We're working on getting her booted because she apparently has a long history of bullying people, so this is just a part of her whole schtick. And, yes, she is the person that this post is about. Every bit of this drama is deeply unserious yet also seriously frightening at the same time. These people are so concerning that it almost feels like some very depraved, elaborate trolling scheme.
What is it with white non-vegans and thinking they're morally superior to everyone? isstg
Gotta love how these people literally said that """"white veganism"""" is a form of white supremacy. It's fucking absurdly ironic.
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We should make a News or Megathread on Malawi one day. Its an African country of 20 million people and I bet a way to high amount of folks dont even know it exists. Mind you I dont have much knowledge on it either.
Here is its flag which looks pretty cool I think.
agreed its a beautiful country
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Once you get labeled as "bad" by western white liberals, there's literally nothing you or their governments can do to prove otherwise, more than a 100k likely dead in Gaza and they're still acting like Hamas is satan
they're still acting like Hamas is satan
Alotta projection from the Great Satan and the 'Little' Satan
Another day, another butting-of-heads with another cracker mod who feels comfortable calling me out of place and out of name without ever once having actually been in community with me. What prompts white 'leftists' to go all literally demiurge over the places they consider their fiefdoms? Like, is this residual redditism? What makes crackers so prone to powertripping? I really wanna know.
Cause the more I think about what happened the other day, the more it pisses me off; like-- the guy I was taking to task got pinched for ableism in the first place tryna hide his laziness behind "uwu I'm autistic" when I've never once seen that dude around the neurodiverse comms; never once seen that dude on any hexbear or lemmygrad comms for that matter-- and then here comes the big-dicked demiurge of the comm, demanding I lower my standards of communication 'cause it doesn't match his. And when I try to leave it at a 'agree to disagree' level, he bans me for a lack of 'proper deference' to the M next to his name, I fuckin guess.
I'm so tired of crackers.
...unless it's Ritz.
Yeah, no, a sheltered white "feminist" recently told me that I have "male privilege" simply because I'm trans. Claiming to be a "feminist" while believing in bioessentialism so hard that you think being born with a certain type of genital automatically ties you to a certain spot in the gender hierarchy is absurd.
She was horrible in a lot of other ways too, including insulting other cis women such as my girlfriend, saying ableist things about autistic people, and just being an all-around asshole in every way imaginable.
As stated verbatim by my indigenous friend who is also a cis woman that watched all of this unfold over some social media drama my girlfriend and I got into:
as a white woman telling a minority of multiple facets they have any “privilege” opposed to her is CRAZYYY.
Yeah, no, a sheltered white “feminist” recently told me that I have “male privilege” simply because I’m trans.
Somehow, this doesn't surprise me. This current wave of feminism has a totally unaddressed issue with bioessentialism so bad that even if I wasn't AMAB and comfortably in a fluid state, I still wouldn't want to refer to myself as a feminist anymore for fear of being lumped with white TERF-adjacency. You have my sincerest condolences that bullshit happened to you, though-- and because I didn't drop in on that thread celebrating your recent partnering, congratulations, too; I think I've told you in the past that it was genuinely a matter of time.
Also, I'm tired of Ritz too; I've always considered Townhouses superior.
I'm so fucking relieved that I'm not the only one who has noticed that this issue does seem like it's not being addressed at all. I've been feeling delusional for ages for feeling like your average feminist (at least the white ones) has an absurdly transphobic, bioessentialist point of view. They also, oddly enough, tend to be cisheteronormative as fuck. This isn't even me talking specifically about the more mask-off Rowlingesque TERF types. This is what I'd say about mainstream liberal feminists who have not even the slightest sense of materialism or understanding of feminist theory. I've been feeling more comfortable thinking back to womanism more than anything else because of this.
This is what I'd say about mainstream liberal feminists who have not even the slightest sense of materialism or understanding of feminist theory.
I'm a cisshit hetero guy. Not to toot my own horn, but I find myself being more radical on women's issues than a lot of women. There's a large number of """feminists"""" who say things that promote rape culture, ignore obvious signs of sexism, using sexist words, etc. And the slut shaming. Holy shit. It's so ingrained into lib brains I don't know if you could even take it out by scooping out gray matter with a spoon.
I'm preaching to the choir, but "Believe all women, unless it's a woman who was assaulted by a man we like (such as Biden or Clinton), in which case fuck her she's a liar." And putting conditions on when a person can have an abortion (there should be zero prerequisites).
Sgdyudjdxixcuufudisbrhudsiosjsiaj it's all so tiresome.
I’m preaching to the choir, but “Believe all women, unless it’s a woman who was assaulted by a man we like (such as Biden or Clinton), in which case fuck her she’s a liar.”
That was exactly what radicalized to an unfixable level honestly, was watching a social movement made to address the most monstrous excesses of patriarchy get totally fuckin scuttled the minute it tried to turn its gaze to the political arena. People I'd seen fucking howling about all kinds of Hollywood and Silicon Valley elites suddenly went silent the minute Tara Reade started talking.
And that's just the silent ones! That's not talking about the men and women who went straight piranha, accusing her of all kinds of skullduggery and deception; all the way to the point that she had to flee to Russia the same way Snowden did. That was simultaneously the day any last 'blue' drained out of me, and the day that I stopped trusting liberal women; especially the white ones. Started sounding to me like the kind of misleaders we have; the ones that don't want to change the system, but just want to sit on top of it.
Led to my mantra, regarding women and how I interact with them. "Unless your feminism looks like that of bell hooks, Ion't want to hear it."
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White Guatemalans are the most insufferable people. No I don’t care that your grandparents moved from Denmark and that’s why you have blue eyes. Now go away and get some damn sunscreen.
"Grandparents moved from Denmark" sounds super sus to me knowing the kinds of movement between European nations and the Global South between 50 and 90 years ago, but that's probably just the cynicism and distrust talking
Wouldn’t surprise me with how her family are pretty vocal supporters of the far-right here.
I mean, even if we could take it generously, most likely, SSettler...
Greetings folks.
Im back from my vacation. It was nice but im happy to be back home. (Will write more on it). Just saying hi to the new thread.
I'm so lucky that I have a fantastic falafel place near me. I've had some really awful falafel before and now that I know the joys of a good falafel sandwich I can never go back.
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Liberalism means not talking about things like cause and effect, even when it's blatantly obvious.
Rant about Isreal,Antisemitism
It seems the primary contradiction for antisemitism, at least in this moment, is isreal. We cannot target antisemitism until we solution isreal, which is nothing short of disarming and returing Palestinian land.
Why does it feel whenever this conversation starts, we devolve into land acknowledgement like statements that materially mean nothing like "It's Zionism not Judaism". As I do strongly agre with the statement, when laws are being passed saying "Actually zionism is Judaism and calling someone a zionist is antisemitic", then must we continue to put this asterisk on our statements? The topic is now, the Jewish religion has been hijacked by genocidal freaks who want to hide behind their religion to commit evil acts. Freaks who successfully used their power to give themselves political cover, in the legal sense. Note, this is the same framing people had no issues spewing about Islam when suicide bombings and terrorist attacks were on the rise but they hold their tongue now.
I'm really tired of having to center Jewish voices and feelings( even anti zionist ones) when it's Palestine that's the victim right now. My heart does go out to anti zionist Jews though, it must be lonely to be in a religion that has powerful people progressing a genocide. But the victims right now are Palestinians and anything less takes away from the current issue; a state propped up by foreign funding is allowed to commit countless warcrimes while genociding the native population.
This has been happening for ages in the UK and it's insane.. Jeremy Corbyn got labelled an antisemite years ago for the even mildest anti Israel statement, it's a disgusting but effective strategy
However it's working less and less now, people are less likely to care about 'the protests make me feel unsafe' types when they see photos of the babies Israel is killing
Meeting my Girlfriend later today. I got them a gift from my vacation (nothing super fancy) I hope they like it.
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