SadArtemis [she/her]

The Nazis had their blood flag, the YanKKKees can have their “mud flag.” Same-same lol

Yeah :) there are lots of sites where one can read it for free online, FWIW. Personally I like MangaDex.

Feels good having these around now… go ahead, eat up, you deserve it

Good point, hopefully not for that part. If Yankeestan collapses tomorrow it will be 250 years too late.

I used google translate to understand this- but in regards to the travel I would be interested in chipping in (to my understanding flights from Egypt to Canada would be around the 1000$ CAD range, probably others can find for less), by the end of the year or into the new year certainly. It would be best if others can also be found to pool resources, perhaps from here or elsewhere (and I’ll ask around about what might exist here).

I can ask around here what can be done to help, in regards to the lawyer and whatnot. No promises though that anything meaningful will come of it, so no need to translate this.

You can tell him I’ll do what I can, and that I also have received immense help before and would not be alive without it (though my situations were nothing like his). And that I also know how it is like being too proud to beg, etc. And I appreciate his response, and wish for the best for him and his family.

Thanks, I love the series. It’s wish fulfillment and hits a lot of cultural and (traumatic? shitty upbringing?) relativity sweet spots for me, however flawed it may be.

Ah ok, no worries then. In regards to the pooling of money, I would still be interested in knowing what minimum amounts could be meaningful and if such a process would be of interest (and am still offering to try to look up and try to connect him with resources here, since he wants to get out).

What amounts would be meaningful to him? And would he be open to, say, starting a GoFundMe or alternatively finding other ways for people pooling money (say, sending you small amounts till it adds up to something significant and then you could send him in one lump sum) to aid him, as most people can probably at least spare small amounts (which may be little even after currency conversion, but would add up to something) and would want to?

Also- though best not to get his hopes up yet (and hell if I know if I even could), so probably not best to mention/translate this part yet- but, from seeing another comment in here talking about marriage as a means of escape- I would have to talk to others and figure it out, and I’m trans and not exactly looking for a relationship (in a poly relationship) so it wouldn’t likely be a real thing if anything were to come out of it. But from the sounds of it, he is open to the idea of marriage as a means of- well, having a more secure place and perhaps more resources to save his family?

This secondary part can probably be mentioned, on the other hand (and maybe others might have interest in offering the same, or pooling together our efforts/resources to work towards the same). But if he is trying to leave Egypt as it sounds, medium-term (ie. over several months, by the end of the year) it is probably not out of the question that money could be pooled (and while I’m poor I could hypothetically aid in such a way) that he could be aided in purchasing a ticket to a western country, despite all the problems that also exist here. If he has interest, while I have no experience in this regard I also could certainly reach out to people and look into what resources may be available to aid him in doing so to get here (in Canada), and what resources there might be to help him through a refugee/etc. process. I have the time and am willing to offer it, and I imagine others do for their respective regions as well.

My condolences to anyone living in the geographic boundaries of ““Alberta”” (as someone who was raised there and has since escaped to equally shitty pastures)

The fascists are mask-off as usual, tbh. It’s concerning, but I suppose I have some hope, if nothing else, that they will bring punishment down on all their heads (hopefully not through nuclear war) in due time. They, and anyone backed by them, are the ones who deserve to die (no statement of intent nor incitement, the world will carry on and they’ll just keep pushing the entire world and even their citizenry to the brink till something happens)

I hope someday we’ll be seeing the same thing being said in press releases about Holocaust Harris, the black slaver, and all the other genocidaires in the US govt. In their case it would all be true, of course.

“Harris was a terrorist with the blood of millions (of Arabs, Russians, Ukrainians, etc… the list is pretty long but particularly the above 3) on her hands (the blood of many African-Americans and other racialized Americans more directly on her hands, as well). Across decades, her hateful simpering (no one can call it leadership, she’s a literal clown) played a role in destabilizing the entire globe and led to the killing of countless innocent people in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, Venezuela, (etc…) and around the world. Today, the world has a measure of justice.”

Crickets got done dirty, they’re just happy chirping bugs!

Crickets and butterflies deserve better too (S tier). Grasshoppers are right where they belong, though.

TIL of .

what is even the fucking difference between fascists and libertarians?

First as a tragedy, then as a farce (for all the libs, libertarians included, that have come since). They’ve been kicking a dead horse for almost a century now tbh, though I suppose there’s a sort of (deeply tired and terrible) humor to it, as they can always discover new pathetic lows for humanity.

but the part about “unjust peace” resonates with me in some way.

I used it because it resonated with me as well (it’s a term described by MLK, lambasting “white moderates.”)

Personally you nailed it- everyone knows (for the right or wrong reasons- hell, nowadays most can recognize at least some of the right reasons) that the system is wholly unsustainable, and wholly unjustifiable. Anyone with the decency to recognize it (sadly this is less common) can recognize the sheer and utter horror of the system- something that has always been present, but which now has reached such intolerable levels once again not seen in a century. And people are sleepwalking, or even if they are aware, trying to look the other way, and it’s like living in an upside-down, bizzaro world.

So I can put on a face and do the individualist lifestyle dance to a point, but sometimes it feels like putting on a brave face for a kid. I know that would probably sound demeaning to people and places it applies to

Maybe it sounds demeaning. In truth (while I’m aware sometimes there are good reasons- maybe even “oftentimes” depending on context) it’s both accurate and deserved IMO. We’re doing the song-and-dance while modern-day Hitlers like Genocide Joe, Holocaust Harris, and the mean orange man (and the league of western fascists- equally irredeemable ghouls ranging from Macron to Trudeau or Scholz, etc) march us all to armageddon (and compared to what else is on the table, that may be an optimistic outcome- a quick death). And as you said, the default position- even if it’s not fascist, or even has some awareness and criticism of liberalism, is still just poisoned, biased, or will happily look the other way (for “peace,” after all) as all of the above trample over any notion of basic human decency.

While I agree entirely, a part of me wishes I didn’t.

Not all people are my “fellow” humans, at most they’re “humans” (and they are) but that’s the most I can give them. And here in the imperial core the bar is so low, and yet so many people fail to meet it. And I’m still kind (unless someone is a ghoul I’ll be kind unless given a reason not to be) but I feel nothing positive from it towards such people (not that that’s the point), rather I feel silenced, and it eats at me when I have to see the results of the “unjust peace” (not that what’s going on in the world or even within the cores can be remotely described as “peace”) and live in it, particularly with the Sinophobic sword of Damocles hanging over my head (ethnic Chinese myself), or with literal industrial genocide going on and the west goosestepping towards WW3 and open fascism.

I don’t have the emotional availability to deal with all the… microaggressions (that may not even necessarily mean anything or be intended), or the “western-isms” or just plain liberalism. I can be kind and will be (unless given proper reason not to be- it would be so much easier if it were just simple that way) but I only feel I lose something from it. Honestly I feel I need to just insulate myself within (or rather, from) this society and live, or get the hell out (which may be a necessity if things get bad enough).

Sounds depressing, but it’s more of a flip of a coin or something (and if politics and all the demagoguery landmines present in the current cultural context don’t get brought up it’s probably going to be fine). Sometimes there are decent people and I’m reminded of why I like people, other times I’m reminded of just why I’m so utterly repulsed, disgusted, and alienated with this society (even if perhaps my issue is more with the system and context than necessarily individuals who may or may not be so offensive- I can hold my ground if nothing else). Helps that I don’t speak too much with just anyone (and intend to become more selective yet, for my own mental health’s sake), I suppose.