I feel vexed
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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i know it's probably a good idea to leave my school's discord server (full of blue no matter who white libs) but i feel compelled to stay there and keep arguing with them. like, it's not even that i think i'm going to change their minds. it's that i feel like i just can't let the absolutely ghoulish stuff they say slide without presenting some challenge to it.
the white people at my school are deeply unserious. a whole saga has happened this past week that i don’t have the energy to relate right now, but it’s mostly just solidified that i want nothing to do with the vast majority of white people here.
if your not in a party you shouldn't call yourself a communist
I actually agree with you. I feel loads of folks on the left would disagree though.
I hope all my EMPOC homies stay safe. Shit is getting weird. Please plug in with some friends/family/comrade and build healthy networks. There is a real see and unseen vibe shift. Stay woke
Training has gotten really busy and intense.
The agency has a really high expectation of me and do does my family, I'm nervous but confident.
Just trying not to cry
Keep calm and carry on, tovarshi. If there's a clear work pattern, follow it
I'm gonna do my best!
@[email protected] Marunong ka mag-tagalog ba?
No q_q
I have European brain worms and haven't been around my relatives enough to learn. My university taught Tagalog but the class was always full.
Ah, shite... btw, wdym Euro brainworms, I thought ye were American?
I am, but I'm half-European half-Filipino ethnically. I was raised with the white half of my family.
I usually pull my punches a bit IRL, but if anyone brings up the joke that was made about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally yesterday I'm straight up going to say that any pasty white boy that calls Puerto Rico trash when his country has had a direct hand in impoverishing it should go fucking die in a ditch. Word for word what I'm going to say because I know that its going to come up at some point. I'm fucking tired and irritated by American politics.
Get they asses homie
It's the exact same energy as when I hear Euros degrade nations in Africa and the Caribbean, as if colonialism hadn't haunted these places for ages.
Hear a lot from Fr*nchies, "oh we pillaged you and genocided you for 132 years yet you haven't landed on the moon in 62 years? pfft failed state" like dawg you left us with a literacy rate of 3%, no factories, half the agricultural space used for making wine, millions dead missing and wounded, unfair trade deals, and a thousand other things.
God and then people wanna wonder why the only people I hate more than Amerikans are the French like cracker motherfucker give back all the gold and uranium you stole and we'll see who fails then
translating a french tweet from a white frenchie gives you the lost page columbus's diaries
Remarkable that they ravage countries in africa and WE are the ones seen as savages. This is a fucking stupid world
and a thousand other things.
Imma guess the French were so butthurt, they sanctioned y'all as well...
couldn't find anything rn, I don't remember if they did after the independence, but they did sanctions during the 90s
Forgive me for 
but this song's lyrics now resonate with me, after hearing that racist remark
"Ang sarap na pugutan ng ulo kung sinuman ang t*nginang nagsabi ng 'Basta Gapo abno' "
translation
It'd be nice to behead the motherfucker who said that Olongapo is just a shithole
The word "terrorist", that's all I have to say today.
The word "gay", that's all I have to say to you right now.
https://hexbear.net/comment/5558402
bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhcrackerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsssssssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. ok doing my stupid psl homework now and then all my chores and college stuuf
And they just kept doubling down on asking about what you already told them to go do.
:doomer:
Don't worry, whites expect you to spoon feed them everything going on in the US, too. That is, if they listen at all. Can't even get most of them to read Letter from a Birmingham Jail despite it being...a letter written in one night from a jail cell.
thanks <3. and yeah i think imma disengaged from the whole discussion. i probably could have been more patient and linked some stuff but idk seeing those pictures that came out of sudan yesterday got me fucked up. and yeah im gonna take a break from trying to fix heaxbear. the crackers should show they are worthy of the effort first because i have been trying to make this place better for over a year and.. idk, will it be? i mean i so glad we have the em poc com back, thats my proudest accomplishment, but i think ill mostly stay here and lurk the news com. plus this site DESTROYS my productivity. i actully put off real organizing work to argue with people online this morning.. not good. even if it wasnt much time not good at all.
It's not on you to be patient and explain things. Your responsibility is to protect yourself. It's their responsibility to not be a racist/ignoramus/homophobic/chauvinistic/etc. If they get hurt (physically or emotionally) when you defend yourself, that's their problem.
thanks comrade, ill keep that in mind. 
Vibes are shit. Death in the family last night. Worst part was it was natural causes; there's no one to blame, no one to go after for it. Just an empty hole. A drying socket.
love u
Weather alert… it’s raining.
Flooding is getting worse as they build more developments in the area. I have my ritz and peanut butter
May RNG be with ye!