had a great time at the palestine protest, i loved all the speeches and flags and costumes. I got to take the amtrack and the metro, chigago union station was beutiful. I SAW A RAT ON THE STREET IT WAS HUGE. People at the protest were very nice I made great conversation. I got a new nice jacket and ate fried rice from a resteraunt with a michilen star! i had a really great convo with a uber driver. he was really cool, grew up in france, worked in geneva and all over south america, had an accent i couldnt place, some sort of west african maybe, he had many cool stories, he was also enoamored with the amount of leather daddies that had pro palestinain stuff on their leather gear, at a pride thing last week. It really goes to show how important it is for us queers in the imperial core to be loud and proud about our suport of the global south. he also love cuba and thinks cubans are the most reslitient and brave people in the entire world and he patted my partner on the back and told them they should be proud to be cuban. just a deeply cool guy who lives rent free in my mind, he said we were brave and should be proud for protesting!
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Congrats to the wholesome solidarity march you've attended..., and to your new transit, of course, I assume no trouble must've happened to you for a while
but on the other hand:
I SAW A RAT ON THE STREET IT WAS HUGE. People at the protest were very nice I made great conversation. I got a new nice jacket and ate fried rice from a resteraunt with a michilen star!
I don't know why you seem quite fond enough of The Big Rat and restaurant to mention that... I just find that funny...
Is it cuz it resembles this
and this
ive never seen a rat that big! or eaten at a certified fancy restaurant. and yeah i should have saluted comrade rat.
Should have invited the rat out for fried rice smdh
great to hear cde
Good stuff! Also, damn, the Cuba love is real. I remember when people hated 'em when I was growing up.
As for me, I, admittedly, left early from the D.C. protest because of how frigid it was, but I stayed as long as I could.
Good stuff! Also, damn, the Cuba love is real. I remember when people hated 'em when I was growing up.
Wdym, do you hail from Florida?
Cuba was used as the go to example of the evils of Communism pretty universally for a while.
What... Couldn't that propagandization be focused on any other isolated or more foreign AES country like DPRK and Laos because Cuba seems to be the most average and relatable socialist country, even if not under Western hegemony...
Florida
Nah, I just remember the 1990s/2000s/ and early 2010s period to be VERY anti-communist and anti-socialist.
Like, nobody had a good thing to say and I was radicalized in 2010.
I know many Cuban-Americans or Cubans living in the United States that are now very pro-Cuba, but yeah.
Just got some hot chips, I've got the bisexuality down, so now I just need to lie about something.
Uhhhhh. I support israel!
but have you charged your phone?
My phone ran out just after I posted, so you tell me
I think im doing good again. Fixed my sleep schedule over the last 2 weeks. Hope to talk with an old friend later tonight.
nice! ive been sleeping at a good time as well.
Yeah it doesnt fix all of my problems but its something simple I can do to at least improve my situation a little bit.
Light therapy has been a godsend for me.
Mine has been completely fucked over the last 2 weeks, because I keep falling asleep at random moments throughout the day with the lights and everything still turned on. It totally messes with my schedule. 
Oh God, what the fuck
Continuing on from my last comments about MLK from the previous EM POC thread:
This is why we really need to protect whatever gains we made in the past...
Obviously he means that it was a well deserved consequence of a conflict they started, although one that did not go far enough.
Found i accidentally finisher my math minor like 3 classes ago. Still taking this cryptography class though, way more interesting than whatever im doing in my major
Do a couple more classes and make it a major! I don't know how minors and majors work!
Majors are like twice as many classes as minors. In that doubling, all the courses that are kinda optional in the minor become mandatory. Scary things like differential equations and complex analysis become mandatory, and I don't really want to take them. In doing a minor i could just take the number theory courses and not bother with the other stuff.
You ever been into an area that gave you strong white supremacist vibes? I remember being interested in how some trades were in the US vs Guatemala and was invited to a meeting with plumbers. All were straight white men who looked like they would have lynched me if given the chance.
Are there any American poc in the trades who get that vibe?
I don't judge by appearances so I try not to fall into that rabbit-hole, but I have gotten that vibe (regardless of what I try to do) from people back in school and college.
And let me tell, they were definitely racist, especially toward me.
I don't know about the people you met in the trades, so to speak. Hopefully, for you, it's just a vibe and not an actual, well, reality.
(Disclaimer: Not saying you're judging by appearances and I get the fear completely.)
I started a new semester this week, my clases look pretty interesting so far, one is about the mexican economy, another is internatinal politics which looks like the most interesting since iy will include parts like the conflict between great powers which is always fun, an another about investigation tactics. Also another 2 which are Mexico political sistem and history of Asia but i still havent have those. Looks like its going to be a fun semester
Have fun in your classes
Hmm, an analysis of Mexico's economy... Well, pray to Dios that it's not libshit
And good luck, man 💯
that sounds super fun!
Sounds interesting!
lol The clip with Destiny pissed me off (watch up to around 5:20 of the video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfySywc-I8
I would argue that it's not far from people saying the same thing about BIPOC people in the halls of governance.
Frankly, we need more proletarians within government.
That means BIPOC proletarians especially.
Like, the Latino/a community has a lot of rich people that are there to just "represent" us but, well, their backgrounds are rich or gusano or even lawyers, as was said in this video.
We need working-class representation and especially BIPOC working-class representation.
getting real tired of hearing white leftist fantasize about bullshit. no youre not gonna take up a gun for a revolution you can barley ask the waitress for ketchup. its more cringe then when chuds do it.
Yeah, honestly, you can't just start a revolution by telling people to essentially commit a crime or shoot police the next day and get them killed.
Stop trying to get people to do something you're afraid to do anyway.
I saw this recently and hooolllyyy shiiiiit:
Also, I'm still learning Spanish to help with my organizing.
Always have someone who knows Spanish to help with organizing; it's incredibly useful when organizing with proletarians.
honestly been meaning to get into one piece. and yeah knowing Spanish would be huge.
Every org needs it.
Bar none.
Every org just needs Spanish skills or second-language learning.
Was really bored during the free period today. Wanted to do something, couldn't decide what...
Been meaning to learn Mandarin. Anybody know of any good websites or youtube channels?
I'm learning Spanish.
But maybe ask at /r/Sino on Reddit?
There's also a pretty good language subreddit for the language itself.
Turned my App blocker back on so I'm limited to 20 minutes an hour of Twitter. I want to shorten the time but being away from news too long makes me anxious.
Before the genocide, I was down to 15 mins an hour and working on going to 10.
Very mixed week. Thought an issue at work had been resolved, but my higher up is still pushing for me to give the coworker in question a write up. Not that what he did wasn't wrong, especially because it negatively impacted another coworker, but he did rectify the situation.
My friend/crush got back from work travel this week, so it's cool to see her again.
My dad has been in the hospital the last couple days and I spent last night with him. We often talk about how broken the healthcare system is in the US, but the experience from last night really drove home that point. Severely overstretched staff, patients, including my dad, going without medication/treatment for hours on end, limited number of beds leading to overflowing ERs. Whoever keeps on saying that healthcare is expensive here because it's the best in the world needs to be sent to a gulag at minimum. Shit's fucked and I can help but feel doomer-y about it
Taking some online classes got me brushing up on skills I havent used in a while.
Also Aaron Draplin is such a lib