maybe 9/11 was just a marketing ploy for general motors to increase white male anxiety and sell more big pickup trucks ten years later
Tips for engaging with the US Military
if they live by u, like on a base, this is some good stuff to do. I can't confirm or deny if I or my friends have engaged in any of this:
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feed them dog treats: u can dress up like ur handing out free samples at the mall, and give the service members dog treats. it's pretty fun
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pretend ur out of gas: this is my personal favourite. somewhere near base pretend to have run out of gas. eventually a bunch of jarheads will show up to help you push ur car, stay inside slightly riding the brake. they'll keep trying, let them, but just like really wear them out. for a fun twist, start ur car after they get exhausted and drive away flipping them off
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set up online dates with them and then don't show up. this one's just funny and obvious
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send terrible Grindr guys to their room: only do this to bad guys on Grindr but this is also really funny
honestly this gives me the good idea about dating zionists to scam free drinks off them. that's not a bad idea at all like, i can totally be into "isreal" for like an hour, and then once he's spent like $200 on my drinks be like.........
psych š
from the river to the sea :3
after that he will wanna not talk to me anymore, which is honestly perfect. free drinks
Online dating is not immune to the October 7 effect, say Jewish singles
amazing article y'all lol
> Meet 26-year-old Amy. Sheās single, likes puppies and is looking for a date on Hinge. But itās not just good-looking men sheās after; she āgoes crazy for a free Palestineā ā at least thatās what her dating profile says.
omg
> Lauren cuts to the chase by simply saying: āNo Zionistsā.
the horror!?!
> Lee wants to āmake sure weāre on the same page about free Palestineā. So does Savanah. And Boris. And Michaela.
oh no!?!
> the majority but many profiles I see now say āNo Zionistsā.ā
AHHAHAHAHA
> divorced, 59-year-old Stephen downloaded Hinge last summer. A few months of swiping later, Palestinian flags started appearing.
oh the humanity!?! poor Stephen!!!
> āBut if theyāre saying āno Zionistsā that doesnāt leave much room for me.ā
you guys already have a homeland, it's called Brooklyn
> āItās like the signs that used to read: āNo Blacks. No Jews. No Dogs. No Irish.āā
omg so true bestie, so true
lol i spent $214 on groceries for the week yesterday :3 i'm totally splurging with my um, tacos, pasta, and salads i'm cooking, how fancy and luxurious.
Oki so usually I vote for my man
Juan Guaido
because if the US wants him to be pres of something so bad, well they might as well elect him.
but this year I'm too disgusted and over everything to even do a joke so I actually just threw it away :3
over 31,184 palestinians are dead today, I started out marching with my city and doing everything I could, thousands of us did but nothing changed, and now they're going after Latin Americans more aggressively than I've seen in my life, I hate this place.
so I couldn't even bring myself to make a joke this year
ya it really fucks with me mentally. nobody else in my entire life treats me that way (i left my own family over abuse/bigotry a long time ago), and like, idk. i guess i should've gotten out of it sooner probably, i just have very low self esteem
thanks everybody for all the replies :3
i know he always like attributes this behaviour to "mental health" (his exact term not mine), and like, i can probably see that, that could very well be true, but at the same time, he always makes time for the needs of his parents (who hate me and call me a "man playing dress up", i'm not, i'm a woman, and no i don't look like a guy, they're just assholes who know i'm trans so they say that anyways, and even if i did look like a guy i'm a woman so it shouldn't matter, and he doesn't stand up to them for me), so he'll like prioritise his parents' needs for stuff but never do anything for me.
when we're together he kinda always encourages me to drink a lot (for the obvious reason guys do that with girls), and that's also like really unhealthy for me and not really something i want in my life anymore.
and he told me "well i'll never choose you over my parents" in so many words, and it's like, alr dude, well peace ig, idk. i think i'll just kinda not see him for a few weeks and see if he says anything.
anyways thanks y'all i'm glad i have this place, i just needed to vent ig lol :3 <3
it sucks. I've been seeing this guy for like a year and a half, and like, idk, he doesn't act like he actually cares about me? it's really weird and i feel really sad a lot because of it.
he's nice ish when we're together but he never talks to me otherwise. he never texts me or calls me, when I text him usually he doesn't reply. he never like takes me out anywhere or wants to do anything with me, everything we do I have to initiate. he just wants to sit around on his phone all the time.
a few months ago he totaled his car, and he still hasn't gotten a new one despite having plenty of money for one because he's a snob and will only get a car he considers "cool" which he can't afford, leaving me on the hook for all our transportation, and despite him having a decent job and like no living expenses he's never once even offered to get a meal for us both. almost every time I take us out he criticises the food/place/people in the place/atmosphere.
two weeks ago I got surgery. I needed to go to another country for it. it was really major surgery and really scary for me. he didn't reach out to me a single time. never called, never wished he luck or asked how I was, still hasn't. yet he's on discord in my discord server all the time talking about other shit. I feel like I'm just not worth somebody caring about if this person who supposedly loves me cares more about discord and memes than like if I even survived anesthesia.
I'm only really with him still because he's not like actively abusive to me, dating strangers is scary, and I don't wanna hurt him by breaking up with him, but honestly I think I'm at a point where I need to just let him go and move on
anyways, idk :3 I'll be oki eventually
I mean according to the Bible I guess they're from "Tanki" and not liberal?!?
wow that's at least nice the wages are tied to inflation. I think the average raise among my friends was around 2% lol
Every morning i get to make this face as I read the "Associated Press" to see what drivel the upstream "news" source for the mayo empire has deemed fit to feed down to the masses, usually resulting in me making a face like this:
a few days ago we got this real gem
> Who wouldnāt like prices to start falling? Careful what you wish for, economists say
hmm well that sounds foreboding! what could possibly be bad about falling prices?
> Wouldnāt it be great if prices actually fell ā what economists call deflation? Who wouldnāt want to fire up a time machine and return to the days before the economy rocketed out of the pandemic recession and sent prices soaring?
yes! i think it would be good! i would like to be able to afford food that isn't spaghetti!
> Many economists caution, though, that consumers should be careful what they wish for.
why?!?
> Mainly because falling prices tend to discourage consumers from spending. Why buy now, after all, if you can purchase what you want ā cars, furniture, appliances, vacations ā at a lower price later?
um.... oki. so like, i can still spend less money? oki?!?
> businesses would face intense pressure to cut prices even more
oh the humanity!!!
> Itās certainly true that Americans can make their paychecks go further when prices are falling. If food or gasoline prices were to tumble, households would surely find it less painful to afford groceries or their commutes to work
oh my goodness imagine if those selfish people could afford groceries and commuting to work!
who will think of the businesses?!?! omg
anyways, i've spit all my coffee out. I love me some lib economic takes in the morning. so silly, so fun, we're so doomed. what a broken ass system
rant over y'all thank you :3
i do this, people can do this! lots of americans (mainly the white ones) just suck and are angry at eachother :( but in my mostly mexican neighbourhood, people frequently invite eachother over to parties and things
you really don't wanna see the survey where they asked how many of them wanna be Andrew Tate
I'm not optimistic about the future
When my son thought we hated him, he didnāt realize our love for Jesus (and for him) is greater than he could imagine.
Given today's controversy in the United States regarding Biden accidentally acknowledging trans people on easter Sunday, I have been in thought and reading most of the morning. I stumbled across this article this morning and it floored me. Except for ages, timelines, and the lack of physical violence and conversion therapy, this story could have been written by my parents about me. It is disgusting.
Throughout the entire article the author misgenders their child consistently, but that's not even close to the end of it. This passage is deeply disturbing, but I believe it's very important to call attention to the sick thinking patterns that go on inside these peoples' heads.
> During one conversation, when we said we couldnāt use his preferred name and pronouns, he said to us, āThen I canāt guarantee I wonāt kill myself.ā He eventually went to his room, wailing and weeping profusely. My wife and I were also crying, feeling helpless. Certainly, itād be easier to simply call him by his preferred name and pronouns. Certainly, itād be easier to celebrate the things he celebrates.
The parent, recognizing the emotional abuse they are inflicting upon their child and its effects even acknowledges that it would be easier to affirm their child's gender and not be an abusive asshole. But instead, the author doubles down and adopts a victim complex, "taking up his cross" so to speak of continuing to abuse his transgender child.
> When my son thought we hated him, he didnāt realize our love for Jesus (and for him) is greater than he could imagine.
This sentence is deeply revealing and it is the experience of being on the other end of this resonates with me to my core. My parent's didn't love me. They love an abstract idea of a straight white christian man that they wanted to create which never existed and never will. When they say "our love for Jesus is greater", the author is showing the exact same thing my parents did. His own hatred and rejection of his child's, not only gender identity, but entire self, is way less important than their well being, and is upheld by his professed "spiritual convictions".
I should note, there really isn't a coherent anti-trans argument from the Christian Bible. I've read and studied the book several times in my life, and it's hardly concerned with the ideas of gender identity, it's more about lineages and not eating shrimp, no, you cannot blame what you are on "Jesus".
At the end of the day, the white american evangelical is an abusive, destructive person who seeks justification for their internal prejudices by manipulating a religion, but it has little to actually to with the religion. It's the people. The religion doesn't make them hate, hateful people adopt it as an excuse.
I hope for the child of this author, that they have found a safe and healthy life away from their abusive family with people who love and support them. I know I have. It has taken me years, but I am a happy, successful, woman with a very full social circle and a great life. Sadly, not everybody makes it out of this so lucky.
And for every one or two like me who survives through all of the abuse, the beatings, the torture, and the pain of white christian bigotry, I fear many more don't get through it.
Sorry for the long post, I will never stop thinking on this topic. As I grow older, I work with younger transgender people in my community with similar trauma, and I try my best to never forget where I came from, and all of those who are still there.
Happy trans day of visibility everybody. If you're able to, help somebody else, and if you are struggling, please never give up. :3
What's even funnier is like they failed to catch something like 80% of the weapons snuck through in undercover testing a few years ago lol. so they're not even good at it.
one of the things that cracks me up about the bolting the pilot in the cockpit thing....... Latin American airlines don't do that. the pilot will come out, have nachos, go to the bathroom, and you know why?
because Latin American countries don't conduct themselves in a manner that people wanna hijack their planes and fly them into buildings
I used to do that but I switched to other methods cause it was too hard on my throat personally
it's always such a kick in the face when I go from Mexico to the US. I usually sink into a depression for the first two weeks or so due to the isolation and just kinda oppressive feeling of the United States.
usually the customs officers don't hassle me much because I'm white but tsa is always happy to help themselves to a groping, which is why I typically do not fly in the US. usually I cross in tijuana so I can deal with sane and pleasant mexican authorities instead of like getting groped for my sunscreen or whatever insane shit the US be smoking this week
that's a really good point honestly
I quit vaping on October 29. I started smoking cigarettes when I was like 15, and eventually switched to vapes but then my throat got all swollen and hurt from the vape and it was like way way too much nicotine. terrible.
so I got nicotine lozenges and went on those for a few months and now I'm on patches going down. I'm doing it like really gently so I don't upset my mental health, but omg I'm so happy lol
I think I'll be off the patch in another month. I did this really slow because nicotine withdrawal gives me extremely severe depression.
anyways if anybody feels like quitting nicotine, you totally can, and I really recommend it :3
oki ya it's a shitpost but fr like can the US please stop pushing this war on, like the only good thing I could see out of the coming yakubian election is maybe finally an end to this
wow Argentina is surprisingly high on there
also what the hell is going on in Peru? what happened?!?
I have a pretty unpopular trake on this state among MLs anyways lol. I think it's really important with California to remember that most of the problems in CA are pretty much problems in all of the US. Horrific anti homeless policies, selling out to business and developers, racist cops, unaffordable housing, are problems in most of the US.
Also note I live in a lower middle income neighbourhood of proletarian people of colour, mostly Hispanic and Black factory workers, landscapers, and construction workers. I don't live in the rich bay area.
At the same time there are material benefits to living here and a lot of the conservative out of state talking points are to obscure that.
- Is demographics. I can't stand too many white people concentrated together. I can't eat at Applebee's every day.
- Is working conditions. Most the US doesn't have overtime after 8 hrs, lunches, or anti discrimination laws. Wages are way higher.
- The state medical insurance is actually really good it's just means tested really low, so it's unavailable to most people.
- Quality of life, public spaces, things like hiking and stuff are accessible.
That all makes it like materially better than a lot of the US, tho with the problems it has, it still ISN'T GOOD, and it's not likely to get better either. That being said I've lived in a lot of states and have friends all over the US and I do think it's important to remember you'll have all the same problems in Texas with none of the good things, and I do value my community with eloteros and fruit carts more than like, racist pickup truck neighbours.
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