no banana
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 
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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 🥰
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™
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?
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 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 
"you're trying to stop the russians so we don't have to fight them"
"sitting on trillions of dollars worth of minerals"
jesus fucking christ 
you can visibly see zelenskyy's depression
we keep flexing 24/7
they all seem so fucking useless. only the sinn féin/SNP seem even vaguely based and i can't vote for them.
on the "left" in my area we have a candidate for labour, green, lib dem, social democratic party, and the worker's party. ngl i didn't know those last two even existed.
i was going to vote workers party, because they're ostensibly socialists and they're the only party that's loud about supporting Palestine, but apparently they have some sus views on lgbt people and climate change :doomjak:
so then what? the soc dems and greens seem pretty limp, the lib dems are liberals (and fucked their entire voter base last time they were in lmao), and labour are fucking open blairites now. honestly at this point i'm back around to feeling like, since they'll never get any power anyway, the most impactful thing i can do is to vote for the worker's party anyway just to send a message on palestine 
UK comrades, who are you voting for? (or are you not voting?)
like i know these people are technically meant to be our allies because they don't own the means of production, but how the fuck do you spend more than my family's annual income on fast food? how are we meant to find common ground with people who are able and happy to do this? 
edit: turns out this is a repost. sorry. but still, i standby my disgust
people are really out here completely unironically explaining the polical compass as a way to understand politics AT A COLLEGE LEVEL aaaaasaaaa :agony-shivering: :agony-deep:
corbychev pls come back :kitty-cri: :long-corbyn:
imagine if the tories were tearing themselves apart like this while he was still in charge. at this rate their self destruction is just going to get fucking blair 2.0 in office :angery:
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