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[settlers-of-caltrans]

This article is fucking crazy lmao

[settlers-of-caltrans]

One App, 60 Men, 26 Dates: My Adventures in Alt-Right Dating

There’s no question that we’re living—and looking for love—in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided par

[settlers-of-caltrans]

Like what is happening, even the author seems perplexed.

[settlers-of-caltrans]

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[ashleythetraveler]

[gigglepuffpixie]

"They say horrible things about me and make everyone hate me and think I'm a bad person," he said. He was staring at a point in the distance, speaking like he was in some kind of trance.

"What did they say about you?" I asked.

He snapped out of it. "Oh, not me," he answered. "I meant Donald Trump."

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

bringing a sort of "slavery is still alive and well in US prisons" vibe to the office Juneteenth post that my higher ups don't really like

[hunter-gratzner]

From what I understand slavery was never actually abolished in the us. It is still legal and all.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not a bummer, say it louder

[decompose1]

i'm never going to stop feeling mad and betrayed about how level 1/"low support needs" autistics have become the face of autism and gleefully use their privilege over l2/3s to talk over us, pretend we don't exist, and use the slur used to hurt US while pretending it's their word to say. while level 2-3 and "high support needs" autistics have been so erased that a lot of people don't remember we exist anymore and blame us for our symptoms. i've never met a level 2 or 3 autistic who wanted to say the r word. everyone i know like me hates it because it hurts. level 1s can't accept that there are people who are really more disabled by their autism than them TO THE POINT WHERE THEY KEEP SAYING HOW AUTISM ISNT A DISABILITY it's so frustrating!!!! aspie supremacy is a disease. support ppl with high support needs

[raibura]

Consensus

Based

Yo ass is too grown

Remaining time: 5 days 13 hours

[capacity2]

How is too grown winning? This is what adults are for he literally solved the problem that girl had to get gathered up I’m sorry that’s such a nasty lie. I think it’s bc he’s a streamer with cat ears that’s putting yall off but if that girls uncle did this everyone would be voting based. But no adult in her life tried to help her the catboy did the right thing 😤

[relelvance]

I do think it's weird just because like this is a random girl in his stream and could have been lying

[capacity2]

And it would have played out differently if it was a lie. But she came crashing down quick ! Like the lying ass fraud that she is. Like she really could’ve gotten away with it. Absolutely not. It’s actually better that someone very removed from the situation did this bc if the uncle did it and was found out then the liars parents could get involved in a feud with the adults in the victims family n so on. Deploying the cat boy was a wise move she thought of everything

[funkyfeefee]

The thing about American "leftist" comedians is that they aren't actually leftist, they are the Imperial Court Jesters. They stand on a stage, point directly at the blood-soaked gears of the war machine, make a little tee-hee noise, and the crowd erupts. Not because they are critiquing the machine, but because the laughter is a pressure release valve for the people inside it. Take the video of that stand-up asking the defense contractor if she helped Trump bomb those 160 Iranian school girls, and everyone laughing, including the contractor herself. That laughter is ritual absolution. The contractor laughs because she knows she will never face a tribunal. The audience laughs because they get to feel "self-aware" without having to actually stop anything. The joke doesn't condemn the contractor; it humanizes her, turns her into a lovable scamp who just happens to have a job graphing the velocity of shrapnel through children's bodies. By making it a punchline, the comedian sanitizes the atrocity. The blood is scrubbed off the stage. The audience gets to say "wow, we are so edgy for talking about it" while the person who builds the bombs gets to chuckle and order another drink. It is not satire, it is a team-building exercise for the empire.

Then there is the YouTuber talking about Transformers, casually dropping the "Iraq war aesthetic" like it's a color palette. Desert punk. Military core. A vibe. This is what happens when your country hasn't had a war on its own soil in living memory; the violence becomes media, a backdrop for childhood toys. The explosions are no longer the sound of mothers screaming; they are cool action sequences. They are digesting the visual debris of massacre as a nostalgic fashion choice, scraping the trauma off and compressing it into a genre for their retro-futurist fantasies. The apocalypse becomes a mood board.

And finally, the girl recounting celebrity love triangles from her childhood, flippantly mentioning how the U.S. was "busy with the Iraq war or whatever." Or whatever. That single phrase is the thesis statement of American innocence. Over a million dead, a region destabilized for a century, an endless river of grief; and for her, it was the commercial break between pop culture segments. It didn't raise her rent. It didn't stop her Wi-Fi. The violence is geo-locked to brown skin and distant deserts, just background noise like a refrigerator humming. She has the luxury of forgetting because the machine doesn't eat her children, it eats yours.

Americans don't hate the machine; they love the output. They hate the mess of it. So they turn it into jokes, into aesthetic, into "whatever." Because if they stopped laughing, if they stopped scrolling, if they actually looked at the 4K drone footage of the aftermath instead of the cool explosion CGI in their movies, they would have to realize that the lithium in their phones, the gas in their tanks, and the comfort of their suburban cul-de-sacs are all greased with the fat of foreign children. And they can't handle that. So they laugh. They turn it into a vibe. They call it "the Iraq war or whatever." You can't deconstruct the master's house with the master's jokes, especially when the punchline is the corpses holding up the floorboards.

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

Can you all shut the fuck up about your dumb musical in my notes this is a post about real people and real relationships and I'm tired of fandom-brainers calling it a "hadestown reference" because your musical happened to use a common turn of phrase in a song or whatever y'all are on about.

[tofu-rebecca]

seeing "protect the action figures" as a response to "Protect the dolls" is maybe the most insulting thing I've ever seen, to both trans men and trans women.

[tofu-rebecca]

First of all, the term "protect them dolls" exists because trans women, and especially trans women of color, are killed disproportionally. you are literally "all lives matter"-ing this. Secondly, can we stop this stupid fucking trend of giving gay/trans men the worse version of something that already exists for women?

[tofu-rebecca]

I still remember having to explain to a lesbian that the term sapphic comes from a real poet who was a lesbian and had droves of love poems about women and is so influential her home is what lesbians are named after and "acheillian" comes from a guy from a story who might've fucked his friend.

[tofu-rebecca]

"The mlm flag is only so ugly because its the lesbian flag but with boy colors" ok well that's lame as fuck actually

[suziewoosy]

Literally !! get ur hands off my things get ur own !!!

[spiralmindz]

white kids get to have quirky racist phases black kids dont get to be kids

[spiralmindz]

black kids get their lives stolen from them if they defend themselves from white kids "going through a phase"

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

I'm just gonna start assigning rosary prayers when white people act bigoted. like they clearly want to be assigned some form of penance when they get called out, to the point where it causes genuine mental paralysis and panic for a lot of them. might as well tell them to start spouting hail marys and whatnot. like they're culturally incapable of accepting that they've done harm without being given an option for absolution.

[oneheadtoanother]

[bruzum]

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

why am i seeing the word 'amerindian' being used self-referentially in the big '26 what did you get mind-melded with a fucking 20th century white anthropologist

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

generally speaking, the cooler and better your offline political activities are, the more important it becomes that you do not post about it on your personal social media acconts

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

its always the white pagans

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

like really the european pagan wants to try and speak on the appropriation and destruction of indigenous lifeways and knowledge? you are the primary perpetrator of these harms idiot!!

[tboy-trash]

non-passing trans men still have privilege over trans women

[tboy-trash]

i appreciate people jumping in on the post earlier saying they've been pretty much universally read as a man for years because young trans boys need to hear that. but also. it doesn't matter if you can't even transition you still have privileges over a woman from your same demographic that's just how that works.

[tboy-trash]

everyone can misgender you daily and you can have "F" on every single legal document and yet who's the demographic most likely to be forced into sex work, murdered, and regularly sent to the more dangerous prison. trans men have privilege over trans women and there's no caveat.

[bigboyhammerhead]

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

its always the white pagans