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EM POC WEEKLY THREAD 10/14/2024

Remember, EM POC only!

I still don't have power, so I spent a lot of time at this cafe that is open late just to ensure that I have a full battery. I stayed there until they closed.

As utterly fucking frustrating as this is, it seems as if Tuesday/tomorrow is the latest I can expect to have power. So many houses around me already seem to have it.

I might be able to actually sleep with ease again as my room won't be disgustingly hot anymore. I could complain about it for ages, and I could get a lot more vulgar too, especially considering the whole fucked up context of the American government being more invested in putting in billions to fund fascist operations in Isn'trael and UKKKraine instead of providing relief to their own citizens that just endured the wrath of a very rough, cheek-clapping hurricane.

Ay, ay, ay...

How are you all doing?

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I love my people to the core but I hate when Black folk use Malcom X, W.E.B. Dubois, or lite Pan-Africanism as inspiration and aren't even at least a socialist. Like what are you even doing?

Anyone sometimes feel like you forget how
this site can be until you see something that makes you go like
and other HBs are just giving it a pass?
I don't know how to phrase it, but...
- I think we discussed it on one of these threads before, but some of Kelly's comics stray uncomfortably into heavy sterotyping territory and no one seems to really say anything. And I get its satire, but you can be satirical without leaning on stereotypes.
  
  https://hexbear.net/post/3696232
  Yeah, something something a wee bit of a Freudian xenophobic slip comes out of em...
  Now of Hexbear, I've prolly been too used to the
  to notice it but I think the only one that slightly irks me is when it came to c/vegan making a meme against POC? carnists who claim their diet is part of their non-west culture
  It's not bad on its own, but it kinda rubs the wrong way with me (admittedly I'm not a vegan so I'm not qualified to constructively criticize it)
- No I get it. Some post make me pause. I like to give the benefit of the doubt but that's so hard to do with wypipo

me when the local communist party are trots:

they called china state capitalist and imperialist
- tho at least i got a chance to talk to a chinese guy after who tagged along and we had a good conversation abt china and the global south

I hope you get power soon angel
- I hope you find some power!

In tiktok i saw a drama from dragon's den that was about some
s trying to sell gentrified boba tea saying all others were unhealthy or had unknown stuff in them.
Crakkkers love to steal stuff and then say the original is bad
- I've been seeing this around too. My question is, literally what makes their tea more special than going to a shop and getting it fresh? It's literally tea, why do they act like they're inventing something new.
  
  its only because its canned and bottled its not even the first company to do it, they implied that all other boba tea has strange and unknown contents and theirs is safe because its bottled
  also they said "its not an ethnical product anymore" as a positive

So sorry you're going through this Angel, hope the power comes back on for you soon.
Well, I'm busy being disabled I guess. I'm pondering whether or not I can go to my school's communist theory meeting today or if I'm still too crashed out to do anything.

reading war of the flea and I reached the part about isr*el, cognitive dissonance

nine sols is such a good game but the ppl around it saying it’s based on taiwanese mythology are so annoying lol. no, it’s chinese mythology that han chinese people brought over, not indigenous Taiwanese mythology from any of the indigenous Taiwanese peoples. it’s literally just mainland Chinese mythology and people are insistently calling it “Taiwanese”. that’s erasing indigenous Taiwanese people and also just plain wrong.
- "Taiwanese", huh from that rogue province?
  "Taiwanese" to me, strikes me as a broad term for provincial self-identification in Taiwan
  Could refer to waishengren (usually pro-unity), benshengren (usually it's separatist proponents) or indigenous people (yuanzhumin)?
- i'll be honest, i haven't played it myself, i've just watched playthroughs of it and hollow knight fans generally seem pleased with it.
- Taiwanese Han culture is just Fujianese culture. The "patron goddess of Taiwan" has more temples dedicated to her in Fujian. Xiamen and Kinmen are identical in culture even though one is administered by the PRC while the other is administered by the ROC.

I've been so busy with the bus agency
Lots of paperwork and the most intense part of training hasn't started yet. I'm excited but nervous. Mostly nervous because I haven't driven any vehicle larger than a panel van.
But we had a bus driver meet and greet today and lots of them have never driven a large vehicle before they started.
So it was reassuring, this change of career will bring the best out of me.

Looking at how the climate will end up, even in the best case scenario my country and many others in Africa are fucked in the long term. This being caused by the same nations that have exploited us for fuck knows how long, dehumanised us to the point of lunacy and so much so that they have fucking pseudoscience dedicated to it, have been behind a fuck ton of destabilisation in the government, benefitted from the brain drain of some of the best and brightest yet still treat em like shit. Not to mention the same groups wiping out entire continents of indigenous people.
All this for most of the wealth go into the hands of bloodsucking execs, pedos, genocidal kleptomaniacs, racist manchildren. The more I think about it the more puzzling it gets.

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