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I actually really quite like this little smiley face. I didn’t know it was part of a bigger, more cynical marketing scheme...though I guess I should expect that. I’m in my 30s but I saw it a lot growing up.

I like that fella on the right. Whimsical creature. A horse is just a horse, of course.

I look like my grandma. I'm 32. It's all good!

I liked the ones that were like Nintendo Wii fan. Demonoid user. Night elf player. God yeah bring these back

Psychology has nothing to do with 99% of my problems which are external and material. If therapy helps you, that is wonderful. It's only ever been an obstacle for me on my way to inject my legs with juice my body should have made when it was born. It has not given me comfort nor hope for living in peace in a fascist country ignorant of suffering and community.

My wife’s coworker complained to her recently that she’s gotten sick like twice since she started working there about a month ago and since we are the only people who ever wear masks 100% of the time we are outside of our home we have gotten sick maybe that many times total since 2020. They don’t care.

Surely even Americans would revolt

I like your post but no, they wouldn’t. It is not a matter of simple disillusionment, for USians it’s practically faith. I can’t overstate this. They will kill everyone “lesser” than them before they go after anyone above them, because no one is above them. I don’t believe any revolution will happen here that isn’t purely aimed downward.

Wonderful. Stick to this person like glue if she remains as cool as she sounds.

Man fuck you. You don't deserve to use these words. Let me tell you a little something about direct action and what participation in a struggle of liberation looks like.

My wife works in this little crappy Chuck E Cheese knockoff arcade downtown- pretty much the worst place to be all things considered, but we don't have any other choice for income and it pays well enough of any minimum wage job we've ever had. She's been there for a year and has never once taken off her N95 indoors or around other people for any of her eight hour shifts (and her combined three hour commute to and from the building). She has been the only one to do so. When she describes to her coworkers, the wonderful working class of the United States, that she does it to protect me, an immunocompromised person in her family, and when she describes the dangers, shows them the data we have surrounding current Covid trends, they will all say "yeah wow that's bad"- and then we offer them a mask from our personal supply of N95s and they go "no thanks" without hesitation, every time. They have mandatory "safety meetings" every few months and we've brought Covid and masking up at every one of them in addition to casual conversations with her coworkers. There is no plan to change policy. There is no plan for them to bother themselves for the sake of others, or even themselves, at any level of the social ladder, institutional or interpersonal. One of her coworkers talked about driving to Seattle a few weeks ago for a concert with someone who tested positive for Covid, but that they weren't worried because "it was probably a false positive". One of her coworkers complains that she started a couple weeks ago and has been sick twice. My wife has been sick that much the entire year she's worked there, because she wears a high-quality and well-fitting respirator at all times.

Last year we wanted to go to an event nearby and asked the organizers of what was planned to be about 40-50 people if they would require masks because I was an immunocompromised person and wanted the best chances to avoid infection as much as possible while still being able to participate. In their messages they sounded sympathetic, assuring me that they would and that those who saw what I said would wear them for me that weekend. We were two of maybe four people in masks there. They didn't do anything for us, and people who said they would mask were not wearing them. So we left.

But go on and fucking tell me what Fred Hampton and Ho Chi Minh think, bitch. You want me to be optimistic about this? Tell me what the fuck you've done!

I deleted my earlier comment but no, fuck it, this shit is stupid. I'm sick of this patronizing nonsense. Call me a fucking doomer because for the last four and a half years I've been begging, BEGGING, all of you to make your stupid fucking orgs accessible to me and to people who don't want to be/can't be infected by Covid and NONE will do it. NO ONE. Your pride marches aren't accessible, your organization isn't accessible, your demonstrations aren't accessible, your recreation isn't accessible! None of you give a single shit about solidarity with the lowest among you! So yeah, I'm a fucking doomer! I'll stop when you all stop dooming me!!

Hey quick question are any of these orgs still enforcing masks? Making them accessible to the most vulnerable among us while a virus that is disabling & killing hundreds a day is still spreading? No? Wow, funny, that.