Lerios [hy/hym]

no banana

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

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?

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

huh, in my country this is already the law. given our culture of drinking, i really don’t think it works lol. like, if a kid is bothering to try to get ahold of non-alchoholic beer they’re already having that behaviour modeled to them and thats the part that actually matters

you can register using something like cum@fart.com

why would you dox me

eve ate one (1) apple at the dawn of time and god decided to become sexist about it. deeply fucked up

period: *exists*

me: nothing that a litre of gatorade with 9 shots of rum and a pizza and drinkable tylanol and a can of monster and some weed can’t fix

period: *continues to kick the shit out of me*

just did this test with the “assistant” at my job (different AI) and it did the exact same thing lmao. anyway we NEED to use ai, its the future

capitalism is the best possible system

literally a few weeks ago at a work event we all drove off site to get macdonalds. they each spent over €10. for fucking macdonalds. i literally walked across the street to the corner store to get a drink for €1 and then waited until after work to go spend the same money at an actual nice indie joint for more and better food.

the same with taco bell and all the rest. you can get more for cheaper a bunch of other places, and the big brands are coasting off of their names (and driving those brands into the ground to squeeze out profits, as a capitalist will do).

incidentally, thanks american brands, for coming to my country and strangling everything else we ever had!!!

theres a guy at my work who’s been incredibly helpful to me and has taken up all of the training that this bullshit company neglected to give me. he is lowkey the reason i still have a job. he has a bit of shaky grasp of the english language and i try to be patient with that and give him a hand, i don’t think the rest of the team really talks to him because of his hit-or-miss english. sometimes we’ll stay on a call even after work hours have ended to chat about football.

and then, a few days ago, he tells me whats going on in fr*nch politics. this then rapidly progessed into open racism. he complained about immigrants not integrating, and the whole “there are parts of paris that the police are afraid to go to. because of the woke.”, and how some socialist freaks don’t like isreal and are clashing with police (BASED), and how all arabs are violent; its just innate, its their culture. he, not speaking good english in an english language company, had the gall to bitch about immigrants not knowing french

he even tried to bond with me by being like “don’t you guys have the whole knife crime thing? because of the violent immegrants?” FUCK OFF CLAUDE, KNIFECRIME IS OUR NATIONAL FUCKING SPORT ALL ON OUR OWN

the whiplash from the only person in this company who has ever been decent to me (and is also my boss’ boss) turning out to be a rabid reactionary is incredibly unsettling. i don’t know what to do, or if i could even keep my job if i mention this to anyone. it was unrecorded, outside of work hours, and hes my only source of support in this bullshit fucking job. so yeah, don’t ask, but they might tell you anyway

Steven Bonnell: No, no, I’m just saying that there were two tricks-

Norman Finkelstein: You said nothing, as you always do.

Benny Morris: No, you don’t know Israeli pilots-

Norman Finkelstein: I know, thank God.

FUCKING GET EM NORM the complete open lack of respect he has for destiny especially is phenomenal. he really has gone full joker huh

lmaoooo why would they air this? hey audience come watch us get owned

my general RPG setting notes/planning doc is 42k words long. i haven’t even had time to run anything in it yet lmaoo

given that the only time i’ve ever played a paladin it was actually just a very confused zealot barbarian, i can confirm that paladins are not real

also i love seeing your art on here! its a sweet little break in between all the politics lol <3

damn, this “purity” shit is easy for people who uphold their volcel pledge