ITS A ME, OTHELLO! how is everyone doing this week? EM POC ONLY!!! CRACKERS GTFO

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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      28 days ago

      Hate how it’s always talked about as if it super cereal shit.

      Some mouth breather claims it’s somehow the most important issue in his daily life and another mouthbreather from a different political party has to wipe his tears and validate him

      Imagine the kind of absolute silverspooned loser whose biggest problem in life is some abstract idea of someone who doesn’t even have legal documents or the wrong skin color

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        And we know how much immigrants contribute to society, regardless of their status. They’re the ones getting fucked over the most. Even when the countless studies get brought up about the economy/expertise/price of commodities/etc., whitey STILL has to bring up “But we still need to get rid of the bad apples! Some of them really are drug dealers and pimps!” as if that has any bearing on reality.

        More drugs are manufactured, trafficked, and distributed by Americans than practically all of South America combined. How about the US stops sending fent and meth everywhere else? How about the CIA stops bringing heroin in from Asia? What about all the legal substances that are abused, like alcohol and prescription drugs? Blame is never placed on white Americans for creating their own problems.

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    28 days ago

    Does anyone else get irrationally angry at the mention of DE&I? I know it’s the latest right wing attack angle and I’m doing exactly what they want when I get wound up by it, but man, I cannot help but be infuriated by it.

    The whole reason why policies like DE&I get introduced is to combat anti-minority hiring/promoting practices where white males get preferential treatment. There’s something so perverse about taking something that is supposed to course correct a bias and flipping it into a narrative of “it’s giving minorities preferential treatment.” No, it’s not, it’s trying to reduce the preferential treatment you’ve always had.

    It just seems to boil back down to the bigoted idea that the white male candidate is the most qualified candidate by default, to which I say eat my fucking ass. It’s frustrating because I already have a hard time valuing myself in my own head without every aspect of the world - whether it’s love, or work, or even friendships - also reminding me that it doesn’t value me.

    Fuck whitey.

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      They want us to do 300% of the work for 50% of the credit. You can literally have your doctorate in a subject with decades of field experience and still lose out to some white failson.

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      These people are reptiles, some of whom are the very gatekeepers of capital (ie Recruiters + Hiring managers) who will toss out resumes with foreign sounding names and somehow convince themselves DEI is some Martian concept that’s not needed because everything is just in the world.

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      Yeah, typically when I hear a cracker mention “DEI initiatives” in that tone of voice (you know the one) it just makes me want to break their nose because it’s obvious what they want to say at this point, and clearly they think I’m stupid if they’re couching it in current-day white-regressive language expecting me to not understand what they’re saying.

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        I do know the tone of voice and I feel the exact same way. They’re just too cowardly to say it outright, so they need to invent dog whistle after dog whistle. But we know exactly what they’re saying, they’re not as smart as they like to believe they are.

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    Made some tamales for an elementary school’s multicultural thanksgiving. Second time making them and I fucked up nearly every step of the recipe but they still somehow ended up delicious. The kids ate all of them.

    I fucking love making tasty food for people. I’ve got so much masa dough and filling left that I’m probably gonna make 10-20 more. Might just hand em out to my neighbors lol

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    26 days ago

    Always funny to see literally tremble on slippery slopes. Committing genocides, distabilising entire regions that isn’t a slippery slope they’re the wrong ethnicity anyway. Surpressing the speech of groyper88, punching a nazi, doing anything at all to codify bills that would protect your vulnerable thats too far. Even as their country burns because of them

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    24 days ago

    White woman at my work has been making my job harder for 9 months now over a thing that should’ve taken 3-4 months agony-shivering

    Now I have a meeting with her and possibly my boss and a random manager Wednesday because she’s convinced a mistake I made was to purposely piss her off, instead of me just making a fucking mistake that I corrected based off how someone else told me to correct it

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        24 days ago

        If my boss can make it ill have the most important person on my side, if she can’t it’ll be like an hour of passive aggressive bullshit and/or white woman tears if I try defending myself because why the fuck are you 30 and taking things so personally at work

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          it’s amazing that white woman tears don’t work if you’re not a white woman, let me go into a meeting and start crying over real racism and bigotry and no one will care but kkkaren will cry over a slight that has to be targeted now i’m talking to hr

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            23 days ago

            Right like I wasnt allowed to cry over shit I decided to take personal for no reason, my tears are “unprofessional” and don’t get rewarded

            Also the cracker who told me how to make the correction and signed off in approval of said correction doesnt have to go to the meeting like let’s stop acting like it’s over the actual mistake and not one sided beef

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              Yeah that’s some real bullshit, you have a signature of someone in a position of power signing off on something, that shit is a done deal that’s not on you anymore. Otherwise why tf would you need a signature in the first place. Yeah they got you on some bullshit rn, but i hope it gets better or they listen to what you gotta say

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    29 days ago

    thinking about how in a time of need when i lost my housing no longer had income had to move back in with my abuser and i didn’t have anyone to rely on, that an east asian self proclaimed marxist “friend”(no more) of mine decided to randomly not be friends with me anymore because they thought my “mental health was horrible” (who’s mental isn’t completely fucked rn, if it wasn’t then THAT would be the problem + my mental is definitely better than the average person bc i deprogrammed and unpacked immensely and i deal with it in much healthier ways than most) from the advice of their 99% white peers (whom DONT know me) after they decided to move to one of the most notoriously white bubbled towns in the US. and urged me to “get help and fix it” as if i was some seeping toxic biohazard. i’m my own number one critic but i know they were just putting shit on me that didn’t have to do with me. it’s so easy for people with darker skin to be villanized and become the scape goat not just from white people but other “poc” literally for just existing and still being exceptional compared to literally any cracker. i’m tired of having to be the absolute best and holding myself to the highest standards just to be shown a little fucking love, or at this rate be treated like a human being. it’s funny because i’m genuinely in love with myself and who I am and the journey i’ve been through means everything to me and i’m determined to see it through the way i want to just like everyone else gets to without scrutiny, and for some reason the world really fucking hates that.

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      Many such cases. I can relate deeply with your experiences and these experiences sow a seed of distrust in absolutely everyone around you. I have a hard time trusting anyone or believing anyone has my back.

      Seems like the bar is extremely high for us and the only way to make it out alive is to hollow yourself out into a husk of a human being, one with insane mental fortitude and yet zero connection to love or anything delicate that anyone else is afforded.

  • Skeleton_Erisma [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Today is the day. Because my class is so large, they split the testing between two days. So if I don’t test today, I’m certainly testing tomorrow.

    I’ll be using whatever downtime I have to brush up on stuff.

    kitty-cri-potato

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    Update:

    My class is so large the DMV made two separate lists and I’m on the second list so that means I test tomorrow. Sure I’m really anxious but I have more time to study and the weather will be better tomorrow.

    Also so far everyone’s passed so that means if they can do it, I can do it!

    Once I pass, I’ll enter RSPT (revenue service prep training) and I’m gold!

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    Looking at the election results for Colorado is pretty depressing. Jill Stein only got 1187 votes. The libertarian candidate did better with 1760.

    I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Mountain states, like New Hampshire for example (not a mountain state but hilly and for the East Coast those are the only mountains except the Appalachians) always have a lot of libertarians.

    The results are not all bad , it’s why we have legal weed and mushrooms, for example which I very much appreciate as civil rights issues.

    Colorado is the reason that any states have legalized it. It all started here.

    But I was really hoping that the green party or any left of center party would do better than they did.

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      Im not an American. Is Colorado solid blue ? Just curious since I got relatives in the US im a bit of an ameriboo

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        Yes. Basically Californians moved here en masse. They did the same with Oregon (Portland) and Washington State (Seattle) .

        Colorado is a Midwestern mountain state. It happens to be the birthplace of the KKK in 1922 as well as many right wing white supremacist militias.

        But the population of Colorado doubles every decade and the vast majority of people who come here are liberals or libertarians.

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      have i even told yall? since the election, the amount of people interested in joining our branch alone is like 5x as many people we currently have. looks like we will probably only choose a fraction to join as members. we are learning about red flags too look out for and “chronically online” and “chauvinistic” were on there, its over for a lot of hexbear users lmao.

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      It’s pretty good. I’m still partial to Section 80, Damn, GKMC, and TPABF. He’s definitely getting older, though, and he’s choosing to let his music grow older with him. Kendrick has almost spent as much of his life being a famous musician than he has not. 2008 was 16 years ago and he’s 37 now. It’s interesting seeing him shift into topics about being a father and husband.

      Like Eminem is still doing the same shtick at 52 as he was when he was 25 (shitty attitude and views included). It’s really easy to fall into that trap of success, especially for musicians. Because Kendrick is more self aware, he’s going to put out albums where each track is high quality.

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        I feel the same way in that those other than damn are my favorite albums but man this one is tuff, i haven’t liked a kendrick album this much since untitled unmastered. i like introspective kenny but sometimes i need a lil something with it