EM & PoC Biweekly thread 07/07/25 & 14/07/25

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

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

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.

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 😅

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.

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.

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

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"

Am I justified in getting a bad vibe from this message this British leftist sent me?

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.

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 🤣

American "I am so depressed to be American. I don't recognize my country."

Us in the third world "

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Stupidest fucking thing colonizers say is "we developed the area, we built roads and..." motherfucker you think we don't know how to build a road? if I rob your house and build a second toilet in it for me am I doing you good?

Sadly a lot of colonized sprout this shit too. Even though it was purely for extraction and exploitation not for the benefit of the people.

Mi Gente is it time to leave the US? Like all bullshit aside is it time to get out financial consequences be damned?

I feel like "they just made the concentration camp budget 150 billion dollars" is as good an indicator as any. And even if it's not now there's no pathway I can see for improvement for this place. It will get there eventually.

Any time is a good time to get out of the U.S
If you can leave you should, waiting until the current fash policies personally affects you could be very dangerous
- Kinda hit me today talking to a coworker about how he has told his parents to start carrying their passports. And I was like yeah I've thought about it which is surreal to admit but that's when it sort of became concrete for me that I'm not safe here, citizen or no it doesn't matter you can get thrown on a plane and end up in ICE detention. Maybe you come back, maybe you don't.

Also recorded on the bed when I couldn't quite go to sleep... as a voice note to a comrade who likes listening to my singing

My voice was ready to give up entirely through this whole thing, but meh, I fux with the result decently ig

The aforementioned comrade said, "That's a track I love, man. I don't know why. Maybe I'm just a millennial, y'know. Even though I got the heart of a zoomer."

He said "zoomer" with a goofy high-pitched voice, hence the italics.

The leftist gaming club didn't gatekeep liberals, so of course they did a fundraiser for veterans on 4th. of July. It was a nice thought while it lasted.

Never trust gamers
- Definitely an example of what no theory does to a motherfucker. They're just going off vibes and aesthetics.

Saw an Instagram reel where a white woman said "the caucasity" and it made me cringe a billion different times in 70 dimensions all at once.

Is this normal?

Yes. Yes it is. I got psychic backlash from this

I remember growing up and thinking that most crackers were good and the bad ones were just an extremely tiny fraction of them because we all took care of the racists back in the 1960s, right? This shows you just how misleading our education system is.

Of course, I realized it's actually the opposite. Even when I meet a cracker who seemingly shows a lot of signs of "being one of the good ones," I still feel like they're racist as shit.

I've even had other Black leftists tell me that I'm too skeptical of white people. I really would hope that they, of all people, could understand the amount of damage that whiteness has done to me. I cannot even describe it here because 1) at this point, it's so heavy that I don't even feel like a CW/spoiler can prepare someone for the sheer weight of the racial trauma I have and 2) I can't even find the right words if I wanted to. It's just indescribably bad.

Even the good ones I met ask them about my country or others in africa and....dear oh dear.
- my country or others in africa
  ehm you mean cities in Africa, because Africa is a country

Looking forward to another day of training, mostly a lot of down time fixing up a office so gonna be listening to some audiobooks when I can or podcasts. Got my lunch ready mexican rice, frijoles de la olla and some carne de soya. Also got like an hour or two to kill when I get there so prob gonna get some study on hvac done. This whole grind to try to get a better lot in life is difficult keep hoping it's worth it in the end.

Now, you may be wondering about, and you too as well, but why in the late times, just an hour after midnight?

I shouldn't have drunk that chai very late

I know that feel...
I sometimes will drink a caffeinated soda or even coffee at night and say to myself, "You're definitely gonna regret this. Just stop," but I do it anyway!