just when i thought i'd seen everything, i see this tweet. how do you americans all feel about this.
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I'd argue America invented racism, at least systematic racism
White Americans live in a bubble
You think there was some dumb German dude back then who didn't know about politics or cared about Hitler but just liked grilling brats and drinking hefs with the boys?
Just kinda gave myself a laugh imagining some dark comedy about that.
Been happy for my old training mates finding work but I'm feeling stuck right now, still waiting on news for my truck and if the warranty is gonna cover the transmission or not. I can't really commit to anything until I know I got reliable transportation and all the real jobs are 3 or 4 towns away from me. There is something that I might be down for, my old place of work is looking for someone with a particular set of skills. Seems to be data entry and while I don't know much of that I could probably fake enough and look stuff online for it.
To the Americans here, if you're given a choice of immigrating to another country, anywhere you desire, and never coming back, would you take it? I was wondering why everyone around me kept reassuring me that things will get better after a few years, but then I realized they were either whites, church-goers, or 🍊 supporters.
I think things are bad globally, minus a few countries, and there's no actual escaping. But if things get really bad I'm going to my parents country.
I'm going to the DPRK the first chance I get, become an american "defector" and tell everyone about how the president is a pedophile who kidnaps people to foreign countries (wait I forgot to lie)
Being a materialist and realizing that poverty is a war to rob the working class peoples of their current and future lives has disabused any liberal notion of "giving up" anything.
My parents were immigrants, I'll likely be an immigrant as well, best spend my life building socialism with the skills Ive gained in the West.
Yes, I definitely would. Things will only get worse.
The only reason I don't is family and logistics, like work, etc.
I don't think things will get better, but I don't think I would leave anyway. Fighting is both necessary and I love doing it.
The smart answer is "Hell yes".
I am not smart. I am territorial. I get very attached to what I know and love and do not want to leave it. I am probably autistic.
I had asked myself this question in 2015 and 2016 because Trump was so scary. The wave of genocidal white supremacy he was riding looked so powerful, and I thought that staying here might mean death. I had a friend in Canada urging me to move up with her. But I thought about it, and the answer I arrived at was basically, "this is my home, this is my land. The insects I love will not be somewhere else. The birds I love will not be somewhere else. The trees I love will not be somewhere else. The people I love will not be somewhere else. Sure there's probably other good things elsewhere, but it's not what I've known my whole life. This is my home, and if I'm given a choice between dying to stay here and living somewhere else, I will die here, and I'll take as many of the fuckers who want to expel or kill me with me when they come for me."
A ridiculous sentiment for the child of two people who are halfway across the world from their homelands. But I'm not my parents. I'm me. And even though my life has fallen apart here, this is still my stance. I just don't want to leave.
this is how i wish i felt but unfortunately i don't feel compelled to this place at all. probably because i wasn't born here and despite numerous attempts i have no friends or real family here, no genuine connections, only painful memories and unrewarded struggle. but i always find myself punching the air wishing i did have a reason to want to stay, if there was just something to give me some ounce of belonging or hope
nothing wrong with wanting to leave tbh. youre living in the great satan for goodness sake.
Absolutely ICE is only gonna get more and more aggressive and I fear for my family. I very much doubt liberals will ever do anything meaningful about ICE/border patrol, ideal scenario would be we somehow lived in china but more realistically prob mexico since with the new president things seems to be getting better there at least.
yes, i mean i'm about to try that (not so legally and HOPEFULLY never coming back) myself very very soon so we will see!
there are so so many stupid people who think they know so much
YT people especially libs being obtuse on that Sydney Sweeney jeans "genes" ad at a time white folks openly making white only towns, funding a genocide or two, banning black history books, putting latino migrants in concentration camps with gestapo, doing remix of the Madagascar plan.. "Oh all of this shit poc in your country go through is imagined is just in your head nothing wr..
I wish more white people would move to a white only town and get the fuck out of society and away from the rest of us. All they do is whine all day about seeing minorities, then leave. They can take one of the many cities we don't care about. Like whatever going in in Idaho or Wisconsin.
Whitey will still find a way to blame everyone else for their problems. There are still de-facto sundown/whites only towns scattered across the US and they tie themselves into knots trying to figure out what's wrong with society (the answer is always capitalism, but that would mean racism is also wrong).
One of these towns isn't far from where I live, complete with its own chapter of the KKK. Poverty is rampant because jobs were outsourced, so there's nothing left. Rather than blame capitalists doing ghoul shit, they blamed a non-existent black population. When that didn't work, they moved on to a non-existent Jewish population. Finally, they found Irish, Italian, and Latine people they could blame, which they continue to do, despite chasing all those groups elsewhere.
Backwoods white folks are so useless
Shit theres like... Several white only towns in south Africa. You couldn't make shit up.
Every time, to this I think "Tito, get the mine shaft" 
White supremacists sure do love to gaslight POC like this!
And when you point it out, they deflect with thought-terminating clichés about how you're just trying to "play the victim."
Oh, geez, I wish that me being a victim of this shit was all just an act, as they claim. I really, really fucking do.
Facts. Every. Damn. Time. See it with the slight narrative change on Gaza like these mfs didn't paint opposition to that as antisemitism at every step. Mfs whitewashing their crimes against Jewish people with Palestinian blood. I couldn't write more effective evil if i tried.
The multi ethnic group of children(non-white) were playing around the parking lot. As I walked by one of the Asian kids said "I got you N****" to his soccer partner, I'm assuming one of the Black kids. They were all elementary aged, when I got inside I couldn't help but bust out laughing because it was the same growing up. The kid will probably grow up and understand the weight of the word, or say he never said it, or keep using it with his Black friends. Who knows, but funny it's still the same.
Judas Priest... I think someone should give the child a tip, lest he learns the hard way. OOF
Yeah good luck to him, won't wish bad on a kid but he'll get that lesson one way or another
I hate the white cracker treat brain. "I come here to escape real-world problems." Motherfucker, if you can turn that part of your brain off, it's not really a problem for you, is it?
I do not get the privilege of telling the cops "Yeah I don't feel like doing a racist ableism right now. Can we reschedule this for Thursday?" with them responding all "Okay that works for us, too! We'll be back to do our racial profiling then! Please meet us again right here."
If I can't rely on the people in this space to not whine about how something happening is affecting their ability to consoom without thinking about the thing, it means I have to keep my guard up. You get to zone out, while I have to go through the effort of watching what I say in case some fuckwad thinks it'd be funny to send false reports to ICE/the FBI/local police/Social Security Admin/the IRS as the least harmful scenario that could play out.
It gets even worse when you try to bring up politics in their favorite escapism, I'm in the weird case where I do like it and see a lot of potential in some lib media but I have to remind myself it's still lib media. Racism is just here is usually some dumb fuck saying something and the heroes giving an epic clapback instead of anything systemic tear down of institutions that keep minorities down. Hereos can stop a world ending threat but "oh no don't fight the cops they're just doing their jobs" it's only a few bad apples shit.
tfw their escapism is part of your problem
it's why increasingly I just can't enjoy any cape shit
Can't spell escape without cape 
Yeah, it's getting rough I want to enjoy slop but having to actively fight my brain is just too much effort. On a related note I have been enjoying dungeon meshi again, the way the show handles racial issues and colonization is pretty good 
Been thinking of a fanfic I wanted to do for RWBY for the longest time, I like the show with a big asterisk it's racial issues are complete garbage to the point I dropped it for a while when it was coming out. I like the setting, some of the characters, the action but I kept hoping it get better. I stopped watching in volume 7 and mostly been consuming fanworks since then. I do enjoy some of them very much and I found one that at least handles race stuff better but I rather try making something instead of just consuming. I've been told I got some decent writing skills so I think I'll get back into writing something.
Something I forgot about is that I'm also arranging a (dj0nt) cover of "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey/Phil Collins for the album. That'll be easy though since the song is already written. I just need to construct it my own way 
Been hanging out with my mom these days and it's been a real chill time. Cooking mostly as she helps me perfect my tortilla making skills, protip is when mixing the wet stuff into the dry only add a bit at a time take out what you mixed add more wet mix that take it out and so on. Once you got it down you mix it up. Doing it like this prevents overmixing though as with family recipes I'm really hard pressed to give any actually measurements of anything other than the flour we use.
Glad Hulk Hogan dead but annoyed with all the white people on 
saying "I don't agree with his views but you're a piece of shit for celebrating his death" dear lord the amount of 
giving a shit about him is astounding. Like you're clearly defending him if you keep asking for us to respect him after he died for his family like nah no dice.
I couldn't do anymore disrespect to his family than him sleeping with someone else while married and it being in a sex tape if I tried 
Fr it's like his defenders are just there because they are also racist, family defense is always so missing the point.
100% agree it's such a coward move on top of the bigotry. I think the funniest comment was "he has a family" and people responding "hulk hogan didn't give a shit about them when he was alive why should I now" civility politics means telling poc and minorities to take it on the chin and never the oppressors to act decent towards us.
a person with white guilt will never reach the level of a self hating poc/third worlder, not even comparable.
white guilt is just virtue signalling at best and a self indulgent treat for masochists at worst
if you really feel bad about it then give me your house
This is gonna be a weird thing to say, but I can't trust most feminists to be "misandrists" or "man haters" responsibly.
To clarify what I mean by this: Obviously, I, of all people, get saying things like "I hate men," "I hate white people," and/or "I hate straight people" out of seeking catharsis about the grievances you have with people in privileged positions acting like shit. I'm basically the leader when it comes to complaints about cracKKKers
However, my issue is that, like I said, I can't trust mainstream feminists to do this responsibly. What I mean by that is that I can't expect them to do in a way where they're actually making a systemic critique rather than just leaning into some extremely individualistic framing of the matter that inevitably pans out as essentialist bullshit that endangers trans people and POC.
For this reason, I get skeptical a lot when I see "man-hating" content online—not because I disagree with the message itself, but because of the way this message has been exploited. I don't expect your average person who yaps on social media (or IRL for that matter) to actually be revolutionary and educated about oppression from a systemic perspective.
not weird at all, and honestly applicable to most rights movements. i think it points at the bigger problem which is that it's a very small minority that is actively considering and dreaming of a world where we ALL can live with each other in an equitable way, heal, and thrive.. most people just don't have that intentionality whether or not the movement originates from a valid place of discrimination or fear of safety. most people are concerned about them and theirs, and for most "theirs" does not mean general humanity or even animals/other living creatures for that matter. doesn't mean i won't support the movement-- i am just cautious because there's always the racist feminist, the transphobic immigrant advocate, the corporate anti-zionist, the animal slaughtering peace activist, etc
Told this woman I have a crush on her, and she said, "I appreciate it, but sorry, I'm straight."
I still continue to be baffled by how feminine people perceive me to be. That's all I can say about that.
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