how are we doing today gang? i think i caught a cold from flyering at pride last week. honestly i feel a little bummed that pride month is over, june is my favorite month and there aren’t any more good holidays till Halloween. I guess I’m ready for summer to be over. come chat vent and joke! em poc only!!

it feels like this year is flying by, and I haven’t done much.

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Yeah it really does. But I feel like after a certain age it always feels like time flies. Although coming to that realization doesn’t make me feel any better

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From whenst did it come to ye…? High school?

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7 points

I don’t really remember. Maybe once I got settled into my first job and I came to the realization that I had settled into a routine that felt unbreakable? So about 10 years ago.

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I just paid my rent and holy shit-

Im tired of living hand in mouth

Im tired of my pig fuck landlord gouging 80% of my monthly income

Im tired of my cruel shitbag manager telling me to work harder for less money.

My depression is turing into hate and rage

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Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief

Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart; enrage it.

  • Malcolm, Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 3…
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All my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth

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I’ll say, Def didn’t feel great for my race to be a specific topic question during the debates but solidarity with Chinese, Latin American and Palestinians folks for also being the byproduct of political fodder.

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What debates include race as

political fodder ???

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5 points

I read this like 30 times and I don’t understand what you’re saying. I’m assuming you’re asking why and my answer is pandering. If you’re not, carry on, don’t mind me having a brain fart.

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Overall I’m doing fine. Feeling a little burnedout from work, but I hung out with coworkers in the middle of last week and things are going well with my crush too.

I went to a small family gathering for a couple of my cousins’ kids high school graduation. It was ok, until everyone decided to go down the Christofash talking points rabbit hole. Anti-communism, misogyny, and queerphobia just flying out of peoples mouths in quick succession.

Also my mom today told me that one of my cousins’ chud cracker husband was being racist. I had heard him say some dumbshit about someone not speaking “real English” after coming back from the bathroom, but I had no idea what he was referring to. My mom said that he was talking about an artist from our country who was singing a song with some lyrics in English. I really don’t like him, but my cousin seems to just gravitate towards shitty crackers. Her first partner when she moved here was a cop and I don’t remember where she met her husband, but he’s some redneck from the South. I shouldn’t be surprised though, most of my mom’s side of the family are evangelicals, so high chance that they’d have shitty worldviews.

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Evangelicals

Every time I hear that time, I get irrationally angry… are these relatives gusanos or smthn’?

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Nah. Most of my family is from a country that hasn’t really had a major leftist movement, but its just generally pretty conservative.

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Is it Honduras or Panama?

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13 points

MY cold is almost gone it seems

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Life to you, Comps!

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