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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You know the drill, come, vibe, vent, whatever you want! Is anyone else ready for winter to be over yet?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rant incoming(CW: Internalized homophobia, islamophobia, mental health)

I'm back in university and I feel even more socially numb than ever. I have a lot of intrusive thoughts about mental health and shit. I'm never going to open up about it all to any counselers because my parents drilled into me not to talk to any mental health ppl or doctors or else they'll "lock me up" again and throw away the key while they'll have to pay and suffer (I was hospitalized once in HS due to similar feelings). It surfaced when one of my profs was like "you should talk to someone if you feel anxious" during their syllabus lecture and I just felt like complete shit.

I've never seen any other ppl in my family actually deal with their mental health in the ways that I read about. It's more respected in muslim families to shut up and keep all the emotional shit within the family and within yourself than it is to do therapy. I used to do therapy (weekly 1 hr sesh) but all my relatives would give me shit for it so I stopped.

Idk i think most of this is just I can't even envision a life as a happy queer south asian man without feeling like im a pervert violating male bodies (go figure). Like i literally look at my skin color and do a inner racism. Instead of admitting this to anyone I'll just scroll on this stupid ass site and stress read theory and pretend im more clever than all those mental health professionals. Im also a spanish major which is just ripe for major imposter syndrome as I take classes with people who are about to graduate and I feel constantly inadequete with my abilities.

It sucks literally not being able to articulate my queerness inside and outside of my family. I hold so many reactionary brainworms about mental health even though I should be a "progressive"

I could find clubs which is probably the best thing I could do for myself. Yeah I'll leave it at that.

Being queer and brown is the worst shit ever

Winter is fun, it actually isn't as cold right now as it used to be back in the fall. I still hate walking in snow because half the time it's actually ice and you're now about to fall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

clubs were my lifeline in college. you can always vent here at least. yeah i dont get snow, so its just too cold to swim and no upside.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying to do meet-ups through meetup.com and stuff.

Are there any other way to find clubs and meet-ups IRL?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

depends on what youre interested in. Local comic shops host dnd games that often need members, and MTG. theres local theater everywhere. team sports are a great option like roller derby, and there are lots of queer friendly sports teams with chill environments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Oh nice, thanks for the suggestions.

I'm looking for board games and TTRPGs.

Book clubs too.

Video game groups too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Still waiting for your response to the above. @[email protected]

I could really use some advice here.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

confession time, i never finished Settlers, ive only read half. i dont really like the writing style too, but it hits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"To their white surprise" is a wonderful phrase And it's nice to have a widely publicised work that doesn't coddle white people. I don't agree with the conclusions of the book, and I think it paints racial and ethnic issues with too broad a brush in many ways. But overall its a book that's very necessary for The Discourse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

i gotta incorporate that phrase in my rants lol. and yeah its good, i gotta finish.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I don't like Settlers, even though I'm BIPOC.

I finished it, but it's not that good of a book and it misquotes Marx and Engels.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

i really liked the astronomy club on Netflix. funny lighthearted and relatable humor. edit mixed up the name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I could go for a comedy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember the context exactly but I was having a discussion with a Portuguese acquaintance about ethnicity and I kind of implied that we were both in the "POC" category. I was wrong, in hindsight, because it turns out Portuguese people are considered white, but christ, I've never seen someone be so quick to turn around and say "well, I'm white, actually," as if being casually lumped together with a non-mayo was so offensive. Sometimes you accidentally catch a glimmer of what people really think and it sticks with you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've seen Spaniards who are quick to hop on the "I'm a POC" bullshit. Didn't think the Portuguese would be so aversive to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I was surprised too but I also don't want to make excuses for being ignorant about the differences in cultures, which is what led me to make the comment in the first place. But I Googled it after and apparently it is something a lot of people confuse and get wrong. Maybe that was why he reacted that way and I'm being too quick to condemn, but you know, sometimes you can just tell.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Putting in a request for a vacation for sometime in February. Not sure if I'm actually going to go anywhere since my dad is still feeling a bit weak from his hospital visit and I've been helping out at home along with my mom and brother. I kind of don't really want to do another staycation though. The last time I traveled was 2018... fuck. Its nearly been 6 years obama-sad

Recently talked to one of my friends from my old job. It's been a few months, but he hit me up on discord. Went out and got a mic since he prefers voice chat, but I still haven't gotten around to talking to him again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

i should hit up some old friends, i just feel so annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Same~

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I've always had that problem too. I tried working on it last year with some success, but that idea that people would be annoyed at me for reaching out to them is still present deeper-sadness

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I was talking to another person who is POC and is really terrified of Gov. Abbot in Texas and him using the "nullification" excuse (pre-Civil War rhetoric) in order to continue to do whatever he wants and oppress other POC all the while.

I told them that I'm Latino and I can relate and then realized that there are probably a lot of Latino/a people suffering in places like San Antonio, where they logically should be the majority (and increasingly making up the gamut of the state of Texas) but, through the curtailing of voting rights, gerry-mandering, policing, etc. aren't really represented in the state. Frankly, where I live, I probably got it a lot easier than a lot of other people like me.

White supremacy must be dismantled; "white democracy" just isn't democracy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And I think this is the reason why dictatorship, in the more older definition of Marx's time, makes sense to describe it...

We live under a dictatorship of the white-settler capital, mainly represented by United States...

Plus, always remember:

the term "democracy" was used to self-describe Athen's city-state system, despite having:

Only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military training as ephebes had the right to vote in Athens. The percentage of the population that actually participated in the government was 10% to 20% of the total number of inhabitants, but this varied from the fifth to the fourth century BC.[25] This excluded a majority of the population: slaves, freed slaves, children, women and metics (foreign residents in Athens).[28] The women had limited rights and privileges, had restricted movement in public, and were very segregated from the men.[29]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I find that people who say fitness culture is inherently reactionary have spent most of their time working out in gyms within majority-white communities.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

R E A L

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

who even says this

half the athletes in the US are Black

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

US leftists do. I've had Anarchists say this to my face. Funniest shit ever.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

megans new song is so amazing. nicki is having a total meltdown online. delicious. this is gonna be all I care about all day today. i hope drake, pardi, and tony are crying.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even know they had beef. Without knowing anything else about it, I immediately side with Megan.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

GOOD instincts, this all started when nicki dissed her on the last album UNPROVOKED saying CW , gun violence, sex offenders regerstry mentioned

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that Megan lied about getting shot and had big feet, the lines didnt even really make sense they were trash. megans response is AMAZING. this was the best line "These hoes don't be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan's Law" which is AMAZING SHE KILLED HER. Nicki LITERALLY has like OVER A HUNDRED anti megan memes and tweets in UNDER AN HOUR, shes making a fool of herself on twitter, shes sharing police footage of megan after she was shot. making fun of her (dont look them up), which just makes her look like a monster. I truly hope this is her downfall.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the twitter era is really something else lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

this is what we have instead of rappers shooting each other lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nikki Haley?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that would be funny as fuck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

i mean ted cruz has already tweeted about her a bunch. wouldn't be the first time a politician targeted her. although she had the best response by torturing a white conservative senator in one of her music videos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

hahaha nicki minaj.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My potluck dish was close to a disaster. I bought jerk tofu and it dried out by lunch. Looked like crap but it still tasted good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Noice

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I want winter to stay because cold for us is 69 (nice) degrees Fahrenheit. The summers are always awful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I love the summer.

SAD doesn't affect me much as in the summer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

anti-cracker-aktion qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Shoot to kill, the kkkrakka...

"Kill the kkkrakkka", Julius Malema

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

lmao

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah fuck winter. Slowly getting warmer again. Got a new track suit I want to wear next week.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nah, I don't want winter to end so quickly... It's been only one month of 🌨️ hell and one month of edging (edit: towards snowy dats), pls, another month of snow to go down...