• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    Took some days off and decided to fuck off to my hometown for a few days. Time stands still in a weird way here. Like, life moves on but at the same time almost nothing changes. I see the same people I saw years ago when I still lived here. The stories people tell me are the same stories. It’s as if they outside world has no influence on this little area of the world. It’s both comforting and yet extremely boring at the same time. I feel at home while at the same time I feel like living in some sort of dream state like it isn’t real life.

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    Is there a group of people who use the downvote button as an emotional confirmation tool now a la reddit style?

    Am thinking of my recent encounters with still no responses; and many others that have completely hid behind the “disengage rule”.

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      i never interacted with r*ddit but my first ever post (my introductory one) for some reason has a fucking downvote, i will never understand why

      do people hate me this much? are my shitposts that bad?

      my effortposts based on a hyperfixation i have barely get traction but my shitposts sometimes skyrocket. and i still get downvote. hell, i literally don’t get anything in my foss game posts. i don’t feel like writing them anymore cause of it.

      i planned on making a post based on a comment i made here on c/games but what’s the point if i’d just get zero looksies and thus zero interest in open source games that i personally enjoy?

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        Nope groups of pathetic fucks who call themselves proudly “plague rats” (anti-vaxxers) or whatever other fucking garbage shit. Wastes of time that I have to deal with in person every single day. Why bother sometimes when people just shit out of their mouths, right?

        I just do it anyways because fuck it and fuck them. Really all there is to it.

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          what the fuck is a plague rat? they don’t die in 3 seconds due to severe poisoning

          i genuinely do not understand the phenomenon cause i never heard of it

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            Am wondering if it’s some proud “anti-vaxxer” bullshit. Lack of response only gets more and more suspicious.

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              i know people who are anti-vaxxers. they’re extremely vocal, i think the ones you are talking about are a different kind compared to the ones that i know

              they use me as proof that vaccines cause you autisms and shit and that vaccines are “the devil”

              romania is starting to get more and more anti-vax cause of covid. like they already don’t trust the government much, so now far right romanian news outlets are all in on antivax shit because “the leaked 8chan”. my entire family became anti-vax cause of some incidents surrounding me and “autistic traits”

              “they injected you with adhd!!! they made you a vegetable!!!”, i heard it all

              fucking hell. i don’t wanna mention chemtrails and flat earth, i know people that believe in those too. i talked about it some time ago here so idk

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                That’s really shitty, I’m really sorry to hear that. I despise people using others specific inherent traits (disability, personality, etc) to confirm their beliefs.

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                  the fuck i ever did to them, i just got born with all that and they think it’s the measles vaccinvaccine lmfao

                  i know that capitalism allows these conspiracies to exist to undermine leftist thought but i will never understand that. i know the reason, but my brain refuses to understand it. like, my entire family believes in chemtrails and blame them for every sickness they get. it makes no sense realistically but they believe in it with all their heart

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    something tainted my algorithm and ive been getting bombarded by clips from this lib called sarah paine doing “psychoanalysis” on Stalin and Mao lmao. The west is just so cooked if they have these people as respected thinkers.

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      sarah bread lololololol romanian for bread is paine lololololol

      jokes aside, i have relatives that believe in dimensional aliens and fucking REGRESSIVE HYPNOSIS

      LIKE THEY SHOWED ME A VIDEO OF SOME LADY BEING POSSESSED BY DEMONS PRETENDING TO BE CHRISTIAN ICONS/MURALS THROUGH HOLOGRAMS… ALL IN A FUCKING ZOOM CALL

      1 HOUR LONG

      sorry for talking about this shit, i saw “psychoanalysos” and thought of the “alien cultist soul freeing 2d rock 5d alien 3d person fellow all religion is demons sucking your soul energy” stuff some relatives of mine believe in

      people believe in this shit because capitalism forces everyone to not go to the left path, only in the fairy tale world or some shit

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      I been getting clips of her too. I could only watch for a couple seconds before I had to stop because I couldn’t stand her smugness

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      You can go into your history and delete things you watched to try to fix it. I started trying to tweek my algo and then just turned the history off all together.

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      “Hey, lib-buddy…think this source is dogshit propaganda…” “THEY’RE MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU!!!”

      Been through that quite a bit.

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    my chinese teacher saying vietnam is troublesome country but laos is okay made me chuckle 😂

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      Fuck that.

      I’d spare some, but last time I promised, I fucked up, unfortunately, and now I still don’t have the money,.

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    Not that I particularly care much for the mainstream media, but Trump apparently signed an executive order, stamping out the last few vestiges of democracy this country pretended to have.

    Time to start learning Mandarin.

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    Getting into it with someone IRL and having them straight up say that “Of course America will be able to actually catch up and compete if we get some of the loose baggage off of us!”

    (This loose baggage is things like D.E.I, trans etc)

    Despite the unpleasantry, I was able to get them to at least admit that cutting government programs isn’t gonna make us somehow compete with China. Nor spending billions on programs that only cost China hundreds of millions. Decent progress, despite the bad-taste in my mouth.

    The thing that makes me genuinely shocked though is that there are a lot of burgers who think that by just being as racist, homophobic piece of shit settlers even harder that somehow that will absolve their country of struggle and decay. Somehow that will solve all the issues…it’s the “third column” holding our country back…apparently. I suppose all the propaganda of “China bad” in terms of convincing burgers of their wunderwaffe compared to “inferior chinese products” really did take a toll.

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      I think it’s a result of declining material conditions and concessions being given to oppressed minorities coinciding at the same time. The two are separate things, but timing wise they coincide so it’s really easy to falsely link them as cause and effect.

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        I feel like this is the key to neo-liberalism/crypto-fascism today. Without this move class consciousness would be way more advanced in western nations.

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        Yup. It also confirms and validates notions about tradition to them; “truly things were better back then with no woke!”.

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    I have nasal pads and they… fucking work so far?

    I feel a difference in the way I breathe through my nose.

    I’m going to use this with my CPAP machine.

    (Also, if anyone has a CPAP machine, let me know, because I need to get that damn thing to work; I can’t sleep with it so far.)

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    The downside of working for an org that is trying to help as many people as possible is that I see a lot of people and I am once again sick. I used to never get sick but ever since I see a 1000 people a week my body decided to say fuck that.

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    It seems the EU is actually butthurt by the US-Russia negotiations and they are now willing to send troops to Ukraine, which is just waiting for incidents to happen.

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    How do you directly/privately message the mods of a community? Or do you have to DM a specific mod? I know of the report feature for specific posts, but thinking of broader message than that.

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    Am feeling better. Am glad I have a good immune system because my family apparently is still struggling. Have an extra day to recoup because of the genocidaire holiday, so one thing at least.

    Bananas, veggie soup and elderberry is champ. Shoutout to those powdered IV packets. Already forgot the brand-name. That fucking sucked; I have no idea where that came from but I have a sneaking suspicion it was being around a group of people even while I was wearing a scarf/mask. Genuinely was horrible, never had a chill/heat cycle happen what felt like every minute before. I had COVID before and this felt worse, all though I don’t think it was COVID because I didn’t get nearly as bad “brain fog”. Who knows, been able to stay inside thankfully.

    I rewatched CCK Philosophy’s “Violent End of the German Revolution” and the Urban Guerillas one. So many bad-ass people lost almost entirely to the annals of history. It makes me sad, but hopeful in a way if that makes sense.