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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Well, a white woman asked me out a month ago. I was going to swear off dating, especially dating white people, but she seemed really nice and I'd been enjoying talking with her so I said sure. It's been going ¿great? I don't understand, this is so surreal.

She made some comment early on about being worried she didn't know enough about anti-racism for me and I said, "that's a fair concern. Are you willing to listen and learn? To support me or at least not get in my way if I'm in some fight with mutuals over them being racist or oblivious? To not peace police me either in personal life or in my opposition to our fascist government?" She said yes, and has been honestly doing so much better with it than any previous partner, even a more radical one. I'm shocked. She's not as politically educated but is getting up to speed quickly because the nature of the political moment is so radicalizing. She even managed to learn to say my name correctly with the phonemes that don't exist in English.

She made some comment about feeling like she wasn't doing enough, and I pointed out she's stepped into a major logistical and support role for me and the work I'm doing, way beyond what I'd expect of a partner. But she wants to be supportive and is good at logistics. I told her: "If I am the tip of the spear, you are the shaft."

What the fuck. Life's looking up for me as the world goes to shit. What the fuck.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Congrats then possum-party

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You occasionally meet the rare white person who genuinely has at least some degree of John Brown energy. Is it common? No, but when it happens, it feels surreal and you will be pleasantly surprised.

Happy for ya heart-sickle

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also good on you for setting your boundaries early

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I literally said "I'm too old and burned out to so anything but healthy relationships, so this is how I'm doing things. Meet me where I'm at and we can have a good time, if not then the relationship will have to break.". And it seems she's actually stepped up unlike my ex who talked a big talk about wanting healthy relationship dynamics but was lying the entire time.

Life is surreal

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Never liked how in some "left" spaces a few people brag about "banging a marine's wife", why are you bragging about being intimate with the partner of an American soldier? like

  1. idk enough about sexism to give a proper take, but isn't that you seeing her as his property instead of a separate person?

  2. if she accepted marriage to guy who murders people for the U.S. government, why are you having a relationship with a person like that?

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  1. Yes and also maybe it's an attempt to weaponize right wingers' own misogynistic beliefs against them.

  2. Exactly. I'll sleep with a military wife if she earns redemption for sleeping with the enemy, namely, by killing her imperialist husband in his sleep. Not before then. I'm not giving orgasms to my ideological enemies

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[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been quiet fired from my retail hell job for certain, it takes me years between jobs between blacklists and just being unemployable of applying non stop to grab anything, and when I do its only a piece of shit. I'm just an old man forever unemployed, always applying to the void never getting employed.

What was bad today was some little college age shits at work that are the new closers were like 'tee hee if you could do your job', not my fault I'm no salesman and probably too neurospicy for this line for work. I wonder if at some degree they were put up for that little bit of bullying to cause me to quit (oh precious children, it will take a lot more than that, stuff that would end up on Worldstar) since when I first joined some physics major had the same quiet firing happen and people went from being friendly to flipping and being monsters toward him though he was a nice guy, competent etc. Then again one of the closers is a neonazi, which fits the local population better, so maybe not.

Anyway, my state's unemployment website is infamous for glitchy and I can't even get started, I'll have to fight that tomorrow. I'm glad I have at least here to shout at the void about things. For being a permanent member of the lumpenprole I'm sitting in an ok position for yet another round of semi-NEETdom and have some small reserves for bills, soon as this week's joke paycheck of 70 dollars goes in I can reapply for foodstamps.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mood being lumpen is rough 😓, feature not a bug and all. I always feel no one really earns their wage and are just kept around because they're liked at least that's my take from being neurodivergent too. My last job was mostly so many extended families in positions looking out for each other mixed with lovers and shit, one of the top sales guy I think was outed as gay so they got rid of him and the company has been going down more and more fuck that place.

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Retail hell job, wouldn't surprise me and wouldn't be the first job that chased me out soon as they caught wind I was trans, though I think here its merely management chasing kpi so hard they closed the store this weekend due to their golden children not coming out with the -45 snow storm rather than bring in reliable workers that will show up and live down the road. This job was so bad for my social anxiety, one doesn't merely exposure therapy their way out of it, I'm still as anxious as when I started 3yrs ago.

At least I got an unemployment claim started, got that going for me lol. I may not be able to ever improve things for myself, but sometimes I can give others glimpses of theory or knowledge to make their lives easier I guess.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't I know it my free time in between plasma appointments is just reading and taking advantage of some online courses for hopefully getting a job one day

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plasma isn't a bad call, I wonder about being a phlebotomist, but the market out here is brutal, and then realistically the social aspect one thing to tell someone we can't accept their used undies, another when its their very body wildin out and something they have little control over.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I've some very nice phlebotomist that helped me out, good advice like keep your feet leveled/now bow your head or them breaking out the big cuff for me during screening. It's a little nerve wracking first times mine is 4 cities away so if I can do it I wasted gas or bus fare. The rates are also annoying they'll pay out like 40 for the first and 80 for the second but if you can't make both you lose out.

StillI keep at it to help my family out best I can, they'd prefer it if I didn't but it gives us some breathing room on bills/food

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

For an interesting tidbit while snooping around I found documents showing its a corporate decision to remove low kpi workers, it used to be as long as you tried and were reliable, oh if only there was a place for me to leak this stuff where workers at this store would see, reddit is such a piece of shit.

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What sucks about living in a semi-sovreign state is that if the government does something you disagree with, you're not allowed to protest, you can't protest inflation going up no no no, you're a "freedom fighter going to take down the evil irredeemable regime" who totally wants [fascist America goon] in charge, meanwhile the U.S. is the same ruling government as the one that genocided the natives and enslaved black people. Only the U.S. is allowed to have stone wall protests, other countries have to be nuked when there's pro-lgbtq+ demonstrations.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

CNA course is scheduled for early March

🙂

yesterday I had sleep paralysis, the demon was an American agent

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Good morning to everyone on this site who isn't wh*te

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

White "communists" who want the benefits of socialism while only dreaming of their individualist communes on native land are such a plague

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

CW: casual racismDue to saying that China is not the second coming of Nazi Germany I’ve been getting DM harassed by some debatebro edgelord on reddit-logo with assorted slurs included

Unsurprising this is the first comment when I click on their profile:

Of course it’s some cracker stemlord dipshit

anti-cracker-aktion

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

"Interesting" you just know they're about to spew some bullshit. Anything to deny they are the new reich.

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[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Love seeing some good art made by a poc on my fyp and then clicking on their profile to find out she's a conservative christian who's pro-ice and even drew fanart of the pig that murdered Renee Good. Gross.

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

I've seen an uptick in maoist standard English on reddit-logo these past days in regards to ICE. I mean good on them I guess just curious where this goes for white libs

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Accidentally ended up on r/jewish cause I was googling to see if a creator I liked had said anything about palestine (he has, even before october 7th and even donated money to palestinian aid orgs like pcrf and unwra) and ofc these crakkkers are all shitting on him (who's also jewish), saying that the media has brainwashed the non-jewish left and "jews who wanna be part of the cool club" to hate all jews and to genocide them starting in pissrael and support palestine (lol sure buddy), unwra is teaching kids to want to kill every jew (def not israel giving them valid reasons to hate their occupiers and colonizers due to their own actions) and how "but what about ukraine!!" (we gotta center white people folks! especially ones who have gotten tons of economic support from the west and whose adversary has gotten sacntioned to hell and back) so yeah lmao these people are a lost cause. These people will hide behind their identity all day to never confront reality and will refuse to stop prioritizing their feelings over literal thousands of dead women and children. It's deadass infested almost every jewish site/org/whatever and they don't see how much antisemetism they're creating by saying opposing the mass slaughter of children is "antisemetic". If any muslim ethnic group did even 1/100th of this they'd be fucking wiped by literally all sectors of society, hell, any poc group but these people get a pass cause ig only their genocide matters and all others are just a fact of life. Fucking sick and tired of people who act like antisemetism is somehow more morally urgent than any other kind of bigotry and racism. White colonizers get your unwashed asses back tf to europe and stay there. But we can't have these convos even on hexbear and other supposed leftist places our you're literally hitler even tho you're not the one supporting the material conditions that are actively contributing to antisemetism, even tho we can say similar stuff about groups who collaborate with the west like kurds. Prolly cause they're not white majority. Fucking props to anti-zionist jews who have to deal with shit from all sides, I'm sorry. Sick and tired of westerners, unlimited genocide upon the first world.

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel an increase in power level with me observing each instance of @vegeta1@hexbear.net using the thats-why-im-confused emoji

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