I was out on a trip and had needed to go to the restroom. There was a line for the women's restroom (all of them were white) and one of them had their 3-4 year old son complaining about wanting to see his dad, who was in the restroom, in front of the men's restroom. I stood around for a second seeing if she would move her son out of the way and I started yawning. I didn't hear what the kid was saying, but from out of nowhere the mother say "Oh sorry, he said the n-word". And I'm like "huh". And she wasn't even speaking to me, instead the other women on line. I just turned back around because I had no idea what the fuck she was on about, but if your 3-4 year old is just dropping the n-word out of nowhere then I think you might have a problem
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It hurts reading nerdy trans tech blogs and then getting gut punched with anticommunist brainworms. They'll whine about how "win-it-all capitalism" is bad and then in their next article use the Stalin-Yezhov photo as the "most famous example" of clean-up photo editing.
This is what I get for reading white people's writing 
Been carrying around some of those red cards the ones that say to ICE "I do not consent to a search" etc. I really don't know how much it'll help but it gives me some ease also got some for my parents to have on hand. Seeing an article of how ICE agents are pretty much in it for treats doesn't not surprise me one bit 
The treats aren't even that good, I remember reading about detention center guards who have to work 80+ hour weeks for no benefits.
It's just a terrible country where it's either that or you fall into a spiral of despair. Become a nazi to save yourself type country.
Death to Seppoland.
this country sucks, I got some training in the hopes I find something but goddamn I keep getting offers on indeed for border patrol/secret service/fbi agent general pig fuckery not interested.
It always feels odd when I talk to white people about racism since I usually feel a need to soothe things over or doubt my own perceptions around them. It's either no engagement or being dismissed and both kinda suck. I guess the latter sucks more when I mention something get dismissed and someone else says it and they agree. One example I remember saying was the racism in the yakuza series and my friends dismissing me for it being a crime game but when another white friend mentioned it they were like "you're on to something there." Sometimes I feel I'm kept around as amusement 
and I'm too lonely to refuse.
A lot of these blokes think pregnancy after SA is a blessing so of course they think colonialism and neocolonialism is a good thing.
White queers not getting why I'd rather be in a room of 1,000 Black cishet people over a tiny circle of 5 white queers in and of itself proves my point.
I feel this, do wish I had more queer poc friends tho
They poison the well, they call you if you die of thirst, and if you get sick from it
and when you realize it's poisoned and that if you keep drinking it you'll only get sicker, you are ostracized for questioning the source, people feel insulted because they'd rather keep drinking the poisoned water because that's what they're used to doing and everyone else does it and now you're forced to find a clean well somewhere else instead of just banding together and cleaning out the well you already have.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-video/mmvo243104325675 Well done to him. I'm surprised they didn't charge the man stopping a clear hate crime with assault
At this point, I wanna marry tofu
Welp, thanks to all of you idiots that didn't want to vote for Mussolini, Hitler won the election
I've been practicing this line I love a lot, and I can hear the improvement with each take.
The original song is "22 Faces" by Periphery. It's around 2:54 in the song.
tons of sheet noises because I, as usual, recorded this on my bed when I was shaking a lot and unable to sleep 😅
Whenever I see something on the internet like "down with cis people" or something of the sort, I think about this tweet and I think about how many transgender settler child-killing nazis are in the iof.
And I think about how western theories & discourses of social justice have been revealed as completely inadequate in the age of al Aqsa Flood.
Written in English too.
White people love anarchism but hate communism for the same reasons why they love peaceful protests and hate armed resistance...
They love the lack of consequences and pretending to be heroic.
Western Academia/NGO/Social Justice Pipeline: replacing analysis of colonialism and post/neo-colonial class dynamics with identity politics and calling it radical.
(No I'm not against trans people...)
Settler feminism, settler trans rights, settler worker rights... All settlers before anything else
~~Well, tbh, I first thought this grafitti could go either way, from Falastini or Israeli. I don't see any signs of it being Israeli.~~
But ok, the main antagonism is Israeli settler-colonialism.
I don't see any signs of it being Israeli.
Haifa was ethnically cleansed by the zionists and the remaining Palestinian Arabs live in segregated areas, banned from displaying Palestinian flag.
If the grafitti was made by a Palestinian then that's actually even more depressing tbh but I think its very unlikely.
Oh shit... ok, now that I actually took a second look at the context, this is some settler sickness shit
I added the highlighted bit for the context and combined it into one image so I dont have to go searching for both in my camera roll 😅
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The caption saying Palestine is wild because people don't know geography or history.
I imagine it something similar to if an American police department did a "land acknowledgement".
Wow.
OOF
It's more lazier than that. It's like the occupying U.S keeping the name of Hawaii in the isles.
well, after months of deliberation i finally bought a one way ticket to portugal and planning to slowly make my way from there to either asia or africa. still have a day to chicken out and refund but i mean i've been desperately searching for a reason to not just up and leave the country, the bar has been barely above the ground, and still haven't found even one reason so doubt anything will change in the next day.
i'm not necessarily looking forward to it, still trying to get past the "i wish things were different" mentality. just seems like the only thing left to do besides succumbing to hopelessness. i'm hoping the journey will alleviate my misanthropic thoughts and lead to finding my people, but i know it's best to not have any expectations. i'm also worried about what happens when i run out of the very little money i do have or potential prejudice especially in europe but fuck it i want to do less thinking and more action
the only thing i will miss is my computer. still thinking if i should even bring a laptop since i plan to mostly camp
i'm not necessarily looking forward to it, still trying to get past the "i wish things were different" mentality. just seems like the only thing left to do besides succumbing to hopelessness.
Well good luck. Even the journey doesn't satisfy, in terms of finding your people, it'll alleviate you some what I suppose.
the only thing i will miss is my computer. still thinking if i should even bring a laptop since i plan to mostly camp
I'd wish you bring one.
People don’t eat out at restaurants because they save money.
While that’s true for me, my biggest reason is I don’t fucking like interacting with a vast majority of servers witht heir brainworms about ‘canadians’ and then having to fucking pay them for bad service
Am I justified in getting a bad vibe from this message this British leftist sent me?
[CW: Islamophobic/Pinkwashing/New Atheist Vibe]
Yeah I feel that. Ones thing that pisses me off with the left in the UK is the cosying up to radical muslims united only by pro-palestine and pro-workers rights. I’m sorry I don’t give a fuck how anti-genocide and anti-capitalism you are, if you think queer people are disgusting and women should be treated like slaves because “man in sky said so” I have no respect for you.
This person is not a leftist they're a liberal Zionist who we need to stay as far away from. This isn't a bad vibe, this is a confession of hatred.
Death to the UK.
I'm not convinced this leftist is any different to the liberals who reduce all politics and world events to “people who yelled at me in the comments”
These are the same people who will adamantly defend the important role of "white working class" in socialist revolution.
Am I justified in getting a bad vibe from this message this British
Let me stop you there.
Yes.
spoiler
“man in sky said so” the person knows nothing about Islam, not even the most basic part of it which is that Muslims don't see god as a man, and a "leftist" believing it's the fault of the religion or the believers of it for having reactionary ideas instead of the boot enforced on them, there's not a single Muslim country right now not facing either western interference or colonialism and comes with it illiteracy and the spread of reactionary misinformation, when Saudi Arabia doesn't attack israel even though Islam tells it to do so, they're not imprisoning gay people because Islam tells them.
An educated leftist should know
-the difference between reactionary ideas of an oppressed group vs the reactionary ideas of the oppressors even if they share it
-Muslims in the UK are usually descendants of ex-UK colonies in Africa and south Asia.
-the effects of infiltration and propaganda funded by western governments against minorities.
Another observation: "cosying up to radical muslims" and "women should be treated like slaves" I don't see that in effect, I don't see leftists in the UK lining up shoulder to shoulder with ISIS and the likes, unless they mean by radical Muslims Hamas and the PIJ who don't believe that women should be treated like slaves, or this person believes any man with a beard is an Al Qaeda member.
but idk
This chucklefuck is trying to blame the flooding death toll on DEI. The dumbest fucks on the planet 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-texas-floods-dei-death-toll-b2785957.html
Or, as DragonBallZinn said, he's playing bad faith as usual
Why after all make a more believable lie, if the hogs are still satisfied to even the most unrealistic ones...
Joke I saw somewhere
A conservative man catches a magical talking goldfish who says to him "I will give you one wish of whatever you want, but your neighbor gets double whatever you wish for". The man thinks for a moment before coming up with what he thinks is the perfect wish for the situation and says, "I wish I was blind in one eye"
Chuds talk about the left using lived experience as a weapon yet they use lived experience over and over to justify this genocide, to justify mistreatment of minorities, xenophobia. Their whole ideology is some warped lived experience immune to reality
They have one bad interaction with a brown skinned person and it’s hitler time but god forbid make a stereotype about them
lol it's like when chuds talk about being the only white kid at school and since they got bullied, that made them racist. Or they talk about how black people never tip, so that's why they never give good service.
"Is me being racist why minorities treat me like shit? No, obviously I'm racist because it's their fault for being mean."
shit or doctors deciding black people have higher pain tolerance. 
Mfs making assumptions of latina women being "fiery" due to third hand stories
Mfs don't even need to live that shit just hear old wives tales. If someone told em x group grew wings they'd be writing congress to investigate 🤣
"immigrants commit more crime"
-proof
"my third cousin's dog got his treats stolen by an african sloughi"
Legit wondered if the superman movie would be released in the US since its a movie about an immigrant 
Hell chuds are mad about the movie being about kindness
They will tell you superman is good because he is white christian american but if you post the smallville clip of clark calling himself an undocumented migrant they will start crying
Wait until they find out how Superman smashes the klan was instrumental in exposing the KKK badly. And that the creators of Superman are jewish. They will go belly up in rage
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"Leftist do lived experience"
Buys that bullshit trump said about Haitian eating pets or right wing news articles about cannibals
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