i watched the 2020 primaries like a particularly bloody spectator sport on the sub, and then 4 years later i'm trapped here by my reliance on our iconic selection of emotes.

like who the fuck could ever possibly need so many weird, hyper-specific, and self referential emotes? me, apparently, since i find myself missing them when i'm on any other site/discord/whatever

when were you when hexbear dies?

i was sat in badposting eating coffee flavor doritos when pjotr ring

‘chacha is kill’

‘lol. lmao even’

no banana

seconded. my job is utter bullshit but we've always had free coffee and cookies. people are literally getting laid off rn but the coffee yet flows

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already seen it, somehow this was one of the first things that came up when i googled "amsterdam isreal" this morning

i had to log tf off because that second sentence very nearly gave me a rage induced heart attack. like, we don't have an emoji for how much that made me want to burn my whole building down

ngl, shoutout to the people that said "nah, we don't vibe 🥰" and left it at that. like, that is the sane way to use the torment box

that does unironically seem like part of how liberals operate. "you know our country is free because everyone hates the government "

many of their left wingers are more radical than Occupy Wall Street (and even Bernie)

thats an understatement. i have told friends about the maoist reforms and been met with "when can we do that here lol". i can big up Stalin and say that billionaires/CEOs have it coming and get literally 0 pushback. talking to older people about the uhygur bullshit gets me accused of genocide denial or fake news and is always an uphill battle, but people my age take "well obviously the news is saying awful shit about china, its owned by ultrarich americans who have a vested interest in lying to you lmao" as a fairly obvious answer. i've only ever encountered pushback from one zoomer and it was requests for sources from a ex-right-voting centrist at work.

i know my sample is biased by not being in the us and being openly a communist, but i don't think the problem is that the zoomer left (or, imo, the vast majority of zoomers who aren't straight up fash) aren't amenable to socialism, its that we are MASSIVELY disillusioned. no one under 30 in the west has actually been helped by the political establishment. nothing has ever gotten better, and the current projections are that nothing ever will. we're not against the far left or whatever; we're just absolute and utter doomers

politically i feel fucking high, like, this is the type of week that reminds me why i follow politics (in a jokerfied way). i'm not inside the great satan so really this only affects me through watching libs become disillusioned on the internet. the despair in me says that somehow none of these will stick and nobody's getting radicalized, but the meltdown is fun at least. plus, usamerican will be be more likely to give a shit about the world for a few years and trump's admin might get us closer to peace in ukraine (which is a lot more relevant to my area lol)

but on the personal side of things, i continue to be fucking useless. this job won't hold out for another year and i'm desperately trying to apply to PhDs to actually do some good in the world, but my god i'm awful without a clear, set deadline, which these don't have. i've always done everything the night before it was due and now i'm looking at blank pages and just... not filling them. for night after night i do NOTHING. i don't even play video games or sew or do the things i actually enjoy, i just have to sit around despairing that i'm not doing what i need to and want to. people have been telling me to get adhd tested for a literal decade, and this is the first time i kind of regret not listening (a guy at work says he knows someone who could sell me some adderal, but thats Very Illegal here and also idk....). personally i don't think i'm adhd, i'm pretty sure i'm just a lazy bastard who's never had to try academically, but still, any advantage might be nice 🙃

plus, i've now learnt that doing anything (like getting into a phd) when you have a dayjob SUCKS. my job is a scam tbh but even so, my noctural ass is having mad trouble staying up past midnight, and turning to energy drinks to fix it seems like its me immune to energy drinks. it just feel like theres infinitely less time in the day

thanks for giving us somewhere to say this sort of shit and reminding us to take a minute to contemplate, comrade corgi

yeah literally. i'm getting up early tomorrow (or technically today) to net myself a solid hour+ of hexbear/forums/news over breakfast before work. its not even my country and i hate both major candidates, but the spectacle is fun 🥰

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god i've seen so many of these sorts of things over the last few days. americans are so thoroughly deranged over this election that they can't read??

there were legitimately a fair few people in the notes genuinely upset about this. everyone on this site is under 30, how are they this Boomer™

god it'll be so fucking warm real wool for decent prices is so hard to come by now, if you don't buy it i will

me: yeah everything is fine, i have a sleep schedule now :)

me: *accidentally naps 7pm-2am*

i've heard about these and i'm interested. i'm not in the US but i am in a very large city, so they presumably exist, but i've no clue how to find one - fetlife was my only lead and that appears to be kind of dead. i picked up a flyer for a regularly scheduled kink party at pride, but that seems to be pretty intense and have a very high bar of entry (expensive elaborate dress code)

if i can find them, would it be weird to go to one of those as a virgin? i don't really know what i'm looking for or how to talk about some of these things 🙃 would it be safe to go alone as a visibly afab person?

damn thanks for tagging this comrade. this sort of thing can make trans spaces really uncomfortable for trans/nb afab people and i've never actually seen anyone bother to warn for it before

the american people

we're not even in the us. i pointed out that the war is american bullshit and is entirely being executed for the sake of american interests and they were just like "yeah lol ¯\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯"

its even more pathetic when the running dogs of usamerican empire are foreigners that don't even reap the full benefits

I LOVE TALKING ABOUT WORLD EVENTS WITH NEOLIBERALS

"i bought stock in northrop grumman at the beginning of the war and that's paid off massively :)"

he said this while giggling about how uncouth and naughty he was being. he's 23 and well informed and non-white. i'm going to [FEDPOST REDACTED] every single person at this fucking job. soulless freaks.

to do a phd and go into a job that actually helps the world i'm gonna have to take a 50%+ paycut

to be fair, everyone here loves and values the NHS, even the vast majority of conservative voters. the only question is: do we love the NHS more than we hate immigrants?

the answer is spectactularly predictable

i've been wearing nike trainers most of my life because there's an outlet store near me where all the mismade or "out of date" or whatever nikes get sent. the pair i have now has lasted me 7+ years of daily wear and i got them for £20. if you can find a decent outlet store they can be really helpful for this sort of thing