EM & PoC bi-weekly thread 28/04/2025 and 05/05/2025
EM & PoC bi-weekly thread 28/04/2025 and 05/05/2025
Hello my comrades have a good week
Remember no crackers
EM & PoC bi-weekly thread 28/04/2025 and 05/05/2025
Hello my comrades have a good week
Remember no crackers
Every Islamophobia wave has whites cry about suicide bombing as if it's the worst crime imaginable, exactly what's the difference between suicide bombing a bus and air striking that bus? Assholes watch liveleak footage of western helicopters mowing down rows of civilians and are unphased and make movies glorifying it then they give Muslims the stereotype of being the bombers.
Funny you say that cuz on Lemmygrad they're having a "Wretched of the Earth" reading session.
Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white skin when in the black it is branded.
Truth is that the west an America never cared about queer rights, they made the Arab leaders strip dance for israel, yet they still permit them to kill gay people.
And white trans women are the white women of trans women
Can confirm this TOO much.
You'd think they'd get it, being women, and understand white people treat non-white people the way men treat women. Hahaahahaaa nope! You'll hear all kinds of awful, homophobic, transphobic, racist shit come out of white women's mouths when they think it's safe to do so, just like their male counterparts.
We need an emoji for that hexbear who said something like "whiteness is the black hole all liberalism, reaction, and bigotry orbits."
I find that white marginalized people often have this awful tendency to use their marginalized identity to make themselves total victims while avoiding all accountability for their complicity in white supremacy. I've gotten plenty of shit from white cishet men, of course, but I've also experienced totally disgusting bigotry and reactionary shit from white women, white gay people, white trans people, etc. I literally couldn't say this more strongly: I am Black before anything else.
Have Black people been hateful towards me? Absolutely! No group of people, of course, comprises entirely of perfect saints who are devoid of a capacity for reactionary brainworms. In fact, with that in mind, I don't have a family anymore because of this, but despite that, I'd take being in a room FULL of cishet Black people over being in a tiny circle of white queer people. I'm dead fucking serious.
Latinoamerican tiktok is making fun of the spaniards for their reaction during their big blackout, like they were panic buying essencials, some went to the streets scared that they wont have light again calling it a "historical event" and doomsday posting a lot.
it was really funny, specially since it lasted like 6 hours
Pretty wild seeing
putting "I'm legally here" in their dating profiles.I remember pre-BLM when White women used to have in their profiles "I'm not racist but I don't date Blacks or Mexicans, sorry, it's just cultural differences" then years later see the same profile floating around post-BLM and it was missing the disclaimer. Haha
Like Paul Mooney said, I like my crackers a little salty. I prefer they just announce it, not that I'm interested in dating anyone White anyway.
Then they never question why they have these """"preferences."""" They'll say the same weasel shit about trans people, too. I do not understand how a person can reject entire groups like that.
I don't mean to hornypost, but Tyra Banks, Hunter Schafer, Salma Hayek, Ana de Armas, Halle Berry, and Pam Grier are all hot. How the hell do you match with people like that and be all "Sorry not into ______" as though they're beneath you? You're on a fucking app you should consider yourself lucky to match with anyone lmao.
Happy birthday, John Brown
and...
guess who :>
Happy bday to you
Tyyy
Hap birth!
What up homies
I'm hoping to get a job offer today... maybe I'm being too hopeful
Annnnnd of course they never called me even though they said they would. I shot a follow-up email. Maybe that's futile, but meh.
Other thread closed, but I was gonna ask if your local org has paid positions like canvassing? (I'm guessing you already looked into that). Or you could do wrecker shit in the local Democrat organization lmao.
The other was if there's a temp agency where you're at. They're always looking for people to put on your payroll and you will get a lot of work just by not being a fuckup. A lot of the places I temp'd wanted to hire me after working for a week or more until I made the mistake of telling them I was going back to school in the fall.
For comparison, I got called into one job at 10 AM after not getting the usual 6 AM call to assign work because the other temp didn't show up. Makes you look good for doing nothing when your colleagues are doing stuff like that.
I actually worked with some lib org that does canvassing but work was incredibly limited, and they continued to misgender even though they claimed trans acceptance. I got hired by one temp-to-hire position but they forgot to tell me that I need a driver's license to work with them and had to stop the onboarding in the middle of it... was really pissed.
Several of the people who said the egg prices were too high are funding that racist trash who called an autistic kid the N word and several similar cases talm bout "standing up to these communities". Hows that economic anxiety going? This ain't a surprise. The cop in France who killed the muslim Nahel Merzouk raisraised 1.6 million and it was started by far right politician.
I like how the overall nature of thsis site is shitposting and struggle sessions while the newsmega has entirely different vibes. Much more serious in comparison.
then there's a little pocket over here where we complain about everywhere else
it was gonna happen eventually with the grow of the site
Nothing describes American culture better than the racist American president saying happy cinco de mayo while pushing racist shit against latino folks
I never knew you were POC and ethnic minority but welcome :07:
Thanks
I guess it was easier to clock me on my prev account because I'd occasionally interact with the arabic speakers on the news mega, but that doesn't happen anymore since they all left
Carne de soya goes pretty hard, for the price and the shelf life love this stuff. Growing up I thought this was alright but now that I know how to cook second to beans it's my top tier protein
For me, it's been chickpeas... that's been my top tier protein. Can't go wrong with that, but I love tofu and TVP, too!
More to that HR at that medical receptionist job giving me a hard time at my current job, apparently one of the decision makers that interviewed me thought it'd be precious to write a bad review (and I know it was her due to the content of the review), The patronizing horseshit to my face wasn't bad enough, the review was so bad management at my job posted in the breakroom by where you clock in. I knew this retail hell job was on limited time but yikes, so whenever someone naively asks what's the worst that can happen when you apply to a job well there's no limit to the badness that can happen.
To make matters worse management thinks I'm not concerned about it and made comments about it to other workers, I may have anxiety especial the social kind, but I'm good at dissociating and looking stoic. I always wondered what my constant dissociating looked like to others, guess at least I learned it looks like 'calm', great to know. Just because I'm not bawling doesn't mean I don't feel anything, my other jobs you have a show of emotion or disability and its firing time. I think its like that with all jobs tbh.
Atp they must want you to dance for peanuts and put on a show for them, because i don’t get in what world you being externally calm and collected is a bad thing.
Me neither, when I overheard that I was like 'wut'. I'm supposed to dance and sob for an abusive minimum wage part time job.
Apparently they done fucked so badly when corporate visited today they took the review of shame with them. I still don't know how long this job will last, but at least I know for certain I don't need to worry about any 2weeks nonsense, I'll just ghost if a miracle happenss and I find something else. Wish I took a picture of that review to build a case against the medical hr for being unforgivable assholes. I never thought corporate would side against them.
Angel’s posts have inspired me to try and restart my journey into veganism. I was recommended a vegan diet by my doctor because of hereditary high cholesterol that’s been the cause of death for most of the men in my family. I started off okay but found it hard because I’m in a small rural town where beef is a huge part of life and the culture is still trying to understand vegetarianism, let alone Veganism. Seeing Angel’s posts have made me want to try again.
I figure it’s worth a trip to the city for some ingredients I can’t grow myself or find locally. There’s also more options than I thought because I recently learned vegan options have become more common because of new mothers requesting them.
I think I know where the farmer's market is in my town, gonna try going when I can just hope it hasn't been gentrified
🥳 tmrw 🎂 (it's plant-based)
Happy B-Day! What ingredients do you use for plant-based cake? I’ve been trying to learn more vegan recipes.
I'm not actually having a plant-based cake... I was just joking that the emoji is plant-based lol 😅
Life’s been good lately. Not everything’s perfect - far from it.
But I like how things are going right now. There’s progress and can’t expect much more than that.
I don't know if it's off the mark or something but does it feel weird seeing talks about the Indian and Pakistan escalation specifically thinking because they're nuclear powers, they're going to use their nukes. I don't keep up with war technology, but I'm sure only the white man used nukes. Not all world powers are as bloodthirsty as the west.
But I could be wrong and in my feelings.
Nukes will be off the table until it's a question of the other country is seen as an existential threat. Like if either of them decides to do full-on genocide or complete eradication of the other's government, WMDs will be the only way to survive.
I don't think either country, even with their chud nationalists, is willing to take things that far. It's more like they're hoping for an excuse for them to carpet bomb a city or blow up a lot of military hardware, then reverting to the status quo.
I would assume that nukes would be off the table, but it does still make me feel a bit uneasy about things.
Yeah I'm worried about war starting and those implications but I'm not worried about nukes dropping
The countries are next to each other, so I assume they wouldn't want to deal with nuclear waste on their door step, they share waterways they'd poison each others wells.
It's gonna be a long one! When it is done, it might even surpass the track that is currently the longest which is 7:25. Right now, it being around the 5-minute mark gives me 37 minutes of debut album material.
The structure of it right now is:
I was thinking of having it continue with some sort of bridge that brings back the instrumental intro, like the acoustic lick but in a chuggier fashion. I'm thinking more about how in "...And Justice For All" by Metallica, it starts off with a clean lick and then that same clean lick comes back in a chuggier form later in the song.
After that, one more solo that uses the verse as the backing track instead of the chorus, one more chorus, and then an outro of some sorts.
After this, I plan on writing 2 more tracks and I'll consider the debut album instrumentals written. One of those 2 tracks is gonna be rather short, like 2 and a half minutes.
I did an updated remix of my heaviest song, The Ultimate Fate of the Universe.
I think my production skills are getting less shitty... heh.
I'm getting to the point where I find conversations that boil down to "White Supremacy is bad" is getting really tiring. It's like a solved equation. Yes it's bad, but at a certain point we need to begin to think new thoughts. I just don't want to hear another PoC tell me that "and the reason why XYZ is bad, is because of racism" OF COURSE IT IS DUDE! WHAT THE FUCK NOW!?! WHAT DO WE DO? HOW DO WE MOVE PAST THIS IN SOME WAY?
I guess i'm just tired of having racism explained to me. I feel like hades.
My frustration is often with liberals who don't understand racists revel in their racism, don't care about hypocrisy, and think we can simply explain how racism is bad will change the racists' minds. We all know this shit and we've known for decades. They know and don't care. They actively decide they'd rather steal shit and hurt people.
And even worse is they think if we change whoever is on top, it will end racism. Libs will advocate for this immediately after they've mentioned systemic racism.
Hampton said it best: you don't fight white supremacy with black supremacy. You fight it with socialism. But liberals wouldn't be liberals if they advocated for communism, which they equate with fascism.
(I definitely think I just did the thing you mentioned in explaining racism lol...hope it's not too irritating)
(I definitely think I just did the thing you mentioned in explaining racism lol...hope it's not too irritating)
Nah you’re good. You at least end with Hampton. Hampton as you’re closer is never a bad thing 😀
I think part of it might just be that there are people who legit just don't think its a thing and therefore they just get used to telling people white supremacy is bad.
Which reminds me of a conversation two of my coworkers were having. I didn't really catch quite everything that was said, but to summarize one coworker (conservative POC) was talking about how an older POC woman was debating him on ideas of relationships and family building. Her argument seemed to have ended with "gender roles and the idea of traditional families is rooted in white supremacy" to paraphrase his paraphrasing of it lol. And my other coworker (liberal or at least more lib leaning POC) agreed with him that that was a weird position to have. I kept wonder if the woman that brought up white supremacy even attempted to explain why that is, so I kept wanting to jump in on the conversation to explain a bit, but I was busy talking with someone else about something work related so I ended up not being able to.
Anyway, what I want to say is that there are still a lot of people who can't make the connection and my hope is that people who bring up "thing is bad because of white supremacy" can educate people on why. For example, in this case if the person making that argument didn't really have the time to explain why white supremacy informs a lot of conservative opinions on gender roles and trad families then at the very least recommend reading someone like Bell Hooks, who I think pretty eloquently lays it all out, especially in Will To Change.
Of course I can also see the hang up possibly coming from trying to explain what we do about it because a lot of the same people that say this also end up being massive libs who thouth that the US having a black president was going to change things and the only reason it didn't was because racists got more racist and not that Obama was upholding one wing of American fascism.
Kind of having birthday blues due to the isolation... no one IRL to celebrate it with. Gonna go to the park, get some sun, and hope that makes me feel better.
A clip of me practicing unclean vocals...
I usually don't share clips of me doing any vocals because I'm not too confident in 'em, but I'm learning a lot. I teach myself everything I know musically, including songwriting, playing instruments, and vocals.
This is the bridge of Metallica's song "Blackened," which isn't originally sung unclean because James Hetfield doesn't do unclean, but I think it works well in this style.
I'm still trying to get used to my style of unclean vocals, but I really like the low, guttural sound I've learned to achieve.
Opposition
Contradiction
Premonition
Compromise
Agitation
Violation
Mutilation
Planet dies
Darkest color, blistered Earth
True death of life
...
Termination
Expiration
Cancellation, cancellation human race
Expectation
Liberation
Population, population laid to waste
See our mother put to death
See our mother die
Pokemon channel on yt started airing episodes in spanish, tuned in for a bit and it's solid. Even the songs were pretty good though hearing some of the english names of the pokemon said with a bit of an accent is goofy but love it all the same.
I decided to give an admittedly somewhat rushed effort at properly mixing the first song I ever wrote.
It's like a suite with 3 movements. I rewrote the first movement entirely. At first, it sounded a whole lot different, but I revised it because that was really the first full piece I ever wrote, and I thought it could've sounded so much better.
Pakistan has 247.5 million, India has 1.438 billion I can't imagine Europe doing anything but shooting refugees on sight.
edit: nothing ever happens
What the fuck is happening comrades is this war shit serious?? 🤢
Should we be stocking up on food and stuff??
PoC & EM should probably stock up on stuff as a habit because fascism is colonialism turned inwards. The chuds will have it out for us regardless of international diplomacy. People escaped Nazi Germany by having things to trade or use for bribes. Though I'm not sure how easy that will be, given ICE agents' feral nature.
Rate my desktop wallpaper pls