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Weed gummy should cost 50¢ and be sold out of vending machines and at corner stores

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if you concentrate really hard you can exude all of your microplastics into a thin waxy layer, not unlike that of a babybel cheese

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UH OH 🥵HOE👨🏻‍🦳BIDEN🍆HAS DROPPED HIS ASS 🍑OUT⬇️🤤OF THE 2024 ERECTION🥺😱😥🗳️🔥 THE PRESI-DICK🫡🇺🇸IS EXPERIENCING😩😲SOME 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 😏HEALTH ISSUES👨‍⚕️🩺🤒INCLUDING MEM-WHORE-Y LOSS🤔❓CUM-FUSION 😵‍💫🥛😏 AND DIFFICULTY BREATHING 😮‍💨🫁 DUE TO COVID SIDE EFF-UCKS😰🦠😷. VICE BITCH IN CHARGE 👩🏽💋🙏COCK-MALA WHOR-ISS💅👮🏽‍♀️🚔WILL SQUIRT🦪💦IN HIS PLACE 🫦FOR THE UPCUMMING 🗣️ERECTION🍆🍆🍆WILL SHE FINALLY BE THE FIRST SLUT💅 TO CLAP THOSE WHITE HOUSE🏛️ CHEEKS🍑 AND BREAK THE GL-ASS CEILING?🔨 💅OR WILL THE ORANGE TWINK 🍊💁🏼👂EAT OUT😋🍽️THE POLLS?!?!✌️👅💦

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They had the audacity to hide this gem behind a Johnny Cash picture.

Savers in the Chicago suburbs.

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“Attention seeker”, aka human being

Went to see an old online friend…I’m plural btw

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if tumblr explodes you can address a letter to my url and place it in any hollow log. to be clear i will not receive it. but it is an action you can take

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That’s just the “Christian, father, husband” reply guys

Do you think theres someone out there on this site who is completely non lgbt yet has all their identity written out in their bio in the format of someone with detailed microlabels

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Mark Rothko, Four Darks in Red, 1958

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Stores need to make shoplifting more accessible to people with physical disabilities

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dude stop the fucking car

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This article is from 2022, but it came up in the context of Palestine:

Here are some striking passages, relevant to all colonial aftermaths but certainly also to the forms we see Zionist reaction taking at the moment:

Over the decade I lived in South Africa, I became fascinated by this white minority [i.e. the whole white population post-apartheid as a minority in the country], particularly its members who considered themselves progressive. They reminded me of my liberal peers in America, who had an apparently self-assured enthusiasm about the coming of a so-called majority-minority nation. As with white South Africans who had celebrated the end of apartheid, their enthusiasm often belied, just beneath the surface, a striking degree of fear, bewilderment, disillusionment, and dread.

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Yet these progressives’ response to the end of apartheid was ambivalent. Contemplating South Africa after apartheid, an Economist correspondent observed that “the lives of many whites exude sadness.” The phenomenon perplexed him. In so many ways, white life remained more or less untouched, or had even improved. Despite apartheid’s horrors—and the regime’s violence against those who worked to dismantle it—the ANC encouraged an attitude of forgiveness. It left statues of Afrikaner heroes standing and helped institute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which granted amnesty to some perpetrators of apartheid-era political crimes.

But as time wore on, even wealthy white South Africans began to radiate a degree of fear and frustration that did not match any simple economic analysis of their situation. A startling number of formerly anti-apartheid white people began to voice bitter criticisms of post-apartheid society. An Afrikaner poet who did prison time under apartheid for aiding the Black-liberation cause wrote an essay denouncing the new Black-led country as “a sewer of betrayed expectations and thievery, fear and unbridled greed.”

What accounted for this disillusionment? Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.

The article goes on to discuss:

"Mau Mau anxiety," or the fear among whites of violent repercussions, and how this shows up in reported vs confirmed crime stats - possibly to the point of false memories of home invasion

A sense of irrelevance and alienation among this white population, leading to another anxiety: "do we still belong here?"

The sublimation of this anxiety into self-identification as a marginalized minority group, featuring such incredible statements as "I wanted to fight for Afrikaners, but I came to think of myself as a ‘liberal internationalist,’ not a white racist...I found such inspiration from the struggles of the Catalonians and the Basques. Even Tibet" and "[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] also fought for a people without much political representation … That’s why I consider him one of my most important forebears and heroes,” from a self-declared liberal environmentalist who also thinks Afrikaaners should take back government control because they are "naturally good" at governance

Some discussion of the dynamics underlying these reactions, particularly the fact that "admitting past sins seem[ed] to become harder even as they receded into history," and US parallels

And finally, in closing:

The Afrikaner journalist Rian Malan, who opposed apartheid, has written that, by most measures, its aftermath went better than almost any white person could have imagined. But, as with most white progressives, his experience of post-1994 South Africa has been complicated. [...]

He just couldn’t forgive Black people for forgiving him. Paradoxically, being left undisturbed served as an ever-present reminder of his guilt, of how wrongly he had treated his maid and other Black people under apartheid. “The Bible was right about a thing or two,” he wrote. “It is infinitely worse to receive than to give, especially if … the gift is mercy.”

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We did it!

There are a few names I don't recognize, so if one of them is you (or if you donated anonymously): I'd like to send out physical thank-you cards. If you'd like, email me at emotionallaborunion at youwere dot cool with your physical address. If not, consider yourself thanked!

December 4, 2023

I don't post here much anymore, but hey, maybe you're one of my 2 to 3 friends who I mainly am aware of on this site, or maybe you're just a rando who has enjoyed the various John Darnielle quotations I've lovingly hand-transcribed. Perhaps you would like to show your appreciation by donating to my birthday fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Perhaps you have $1, or $5, or $500 burning a hole in your pocket -- but no, really, every donation helps and every donation is something you can do if you're not sure what to do in a world where half the people around you are trying to coolly, politely, _civil_ly explain to you that bombing hospitals is just necessary and some lives just don't matter.

My goal is to raise $4300 (since I'm turning 43) and with two more weeks left until my birthday, I'm a third of the way there! Donations will be rewarded with a loving, warm Internet hug.

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