Hello my comrades have a good week 
Remember no crackers
Happy birthday, John Brown
and…
guess who :>
Happy bday to you
Tyyy
I’m getting to the point where I find conversations that boil down to “White Supremacy is bad” is getting really tiring. It’s like a solved equation. Yes it’s bad, but at a certain point we need to begin to think new thoughts. I just don’t want to hear another PoC tell me that “and the reason why XYZ is bad, is because of racism” OF COURSE IT IS DUDE! WHAT THE FUCK NOW!?! WHAT DO WE DO? HOW DO WE MOVE PAST THIS IN SOME WAY?
I guess i’m just tired of having racism explained to me. I feel like hades.
I think part of it might just be that there are people who legit just don’t think its a thing and therefore they just get used to telling people white supremacy is bad.
Which reminds me of a conversation two of my coworkers were having. I didn’t really catch quite everything that was said, but to summarize one coworker (conservative POC) was talking about how an older POC woman was debating him on ideas of relationships and family building. Her argument seemed to have ended with “gender roles and the idea of traditional families is rooted in white supremacy” to paraphrase his paraphrasing of it lol. And my other coworker (liberal or at least more lib leaning POC) agreed with him that that was a weird position to have. I kept wonder if the woman that brought up white supremacy even attempted to explain why that is, so I kept wanting to jump in on the conversation to explain a bit, but I was busy talking with someone else about something work related so I ended up not being able to.
Anyway, what I want to say is that there are still a lot of people who can’t make the connection and my hope is that people who bring up “thing is bad because of white supremacy” can educate people on why. For example, in this case if the person making that argument didn’t really have the time to explain why white supremacy informs a lot of conservative opinions on gender roles and trad families then at the very least recommend reading someone like Bell Hooks, who I think pretty eloquently lays it all out, especially in Will To Change.
Of course I can also see the hang up possibly coming from trying to explain what we do about it because a lot of the same people that say this also end up being massive libs who thouth that the US having a black president was going to change things and the only reason it didn’t was because racists got more racist and not that Obama was upholding one wing of American fascism.
My frustration is often with liberals who don’t understand racists revel in their racism, don’t care about hypocrisy, and think we can simply explain how racism is bad will change the racists’ minds. We all know this shit and we’ve known for decades. They know and don’t care. They actively decide they’d rather steal shit and hurt people.
And even worse is they think if we change whoever is on top, it will end racism. Libs will advocate for this immediately after they’ve mentioned systemic racism.
Hampton said it best: you don’t fight white supremacy with black supremacy. You fight it with socialism. But liberals wouldn’t be liberals if they advocated for communism, which they equate with fascism.
(I definitely think I just did the thing you mentioned in explaining racism lol…hope it’s not too irritating)
A clip of me practicing unclean vocals…
I usually don’t share clips of me doing any vocals because I’m not too confident in 'em, but I’m learning a lot. I teach myself everything I know musically, including songwriting, playing instruments, and vocals.
This is the bridge of Metallica’s song “Blackened,” which isn’t originally sung unclean because James Hetfield doesn’t do unclean, but I think it works well in this style.
I’m still trying to get used to my style of unclean vocals, but I really like the low, guttural sound I’ve learned to achieve.
Opposition
Contradiction
Premonition
Compromise
Agitation
Violation
Mutilation
Planet dies
Darkest color, blistered Earth
True death of life
…
Termination
Expiration
Cancellation, cancellation human race
Expectation
Liberation
Population, population laid to waste
See our mother put to death
See our mother die
Angel’s posts have inspired me to try and restart my journey into veganism. I was recommended a vegan diet by my doctor because of hereditary high cholesterol that’s been the cause of death for most of the men in my family. I started off okay but found it hard because I’m in a small rural town where beef is a huge part of life and the culture is still trying to understand vegetarianism, let alone Veganism. Seeing Angel’s posts have made me want to try again.
I figure it’s worth a trip to the city for some ingredients I can’t grow myself or find locally. There’s also more options than I thought because I recently learned vegan options have become more common because of new mothers requesting them.
I’m glad to hear about my impact here. I really hope it goes well for you. If you need any assistance about food or even anything else (like clothing or hygiene), let me know. 
🥳 tmrw 🎂 (it’s plant-based)
Happy B-Day! What ingredients do you use for plant-based cake? I’ve been trying to learn more vegan recipes.
I’m not actually having a plant-based cake… I was just joking that the emoji is plant-based lol 😅
Such is life
I think I know where the farmer’s market is in my town, gonna try going when I can just hope it hasn’t been gentrified
Nothing describes American culture better than the racist American president saying happy cinco de mayo while pushing racist shit against latino folks
I did an updated remix of my heaviest song, The Ultimate Fate of the Universe.
I think my production skills are getting less shitty… heh.
Too real… and I hate that it’s real, but that don’t make it any less realYou’d think they’d get it, being women, and understand white people treat non-white people the way men treat women. Hahaahahaaa nope! You’ll hear all kinds of awful, homophobic, transphobic, racist shit come out of white women’s mouths when they think it’s safe to do so, just like their male counterparts.
We need an emoji for that hexbear who said something like “whiteness is the black hole all liberalism, reaction, and bigotry orbits.”
I find that white marginalized people often have this awful tendency to use their marginalized identity to make themselves total victims while avoiding all accountability for their complicity in white supremacy. I’ve gotten plenty of shit from white cishet men, of course, but I’ve also experienced totally disgusting bigotry and reactionary shit from white women, white gay people, white trans people, etc. I literally couldn’t say this more strongly: I am Black before anything else.
Have Black people been hateful towards me? Absolutely! No group of people, of course, comprises entirely of perfect saints who are devoid of a capacity for reactionary brainworms. In fact, with that in mind, I don’t have a family anymore because of this, but despite that, I’d take being in a room FULL of cishet Black people over being in a tiny circle of white queer people. I’m dead fucking serious.
I’ll take my chances with a group of random PoC before I’d trust the white half of my family. They’ll say the wildest shit when I’m standing right in front of them that makes me wonder what they say when I’m not around to push back.
And white trans women are the white women of trans women
Can confirm this TOO much.
Carne de soya goes pretty hard, for the price and the shelf life love this stuff. Growing up I thought this was alright but now that I know how to cook second to beans it’s my top tier protein
For me, it’s been chickpeas… that’s been my top tier protein. Can’t go wrong with that, but I love tofu and TVP, too!
wanted to say made some chickpea burger and prob like them better than 
burgers nowI love me some chickpeas, that aqua faba is such a good addition for other things or as a thickener.
Basically my mom would make shrimp cocktail but instead of shrimp she made it with carne de soya instead. We still called it shrimp cocktail even if it didn’t have any shrimp
lol, like eggcreams
no eggs, nor cream
Yeah exactly unironically even
exclusion
i hate that i have roots from everywhere but i’m welcome nowhere. ostracized from my arab country because i’m only half-native, would be ostracized from russia because i’m not slavic and my skin is brown, i’d be ostracized from the only central asian country i have ties to because of their growing russophobia. also precluded from having a good life in all 3 of those countries because of trans.
anyway learning chinese and fucking off there just so i can add one more country to this lovely ostracismlist.
I never knew you were POC and ethnic minority but welcome :07:
Thanks
I guess it was easier to clock me on my prev account because I’d occasionally interact with the arabic speakers on the news mega, but that doesn’t happen anymore since they all left
Several of the people who said the egg prices were too high are funding that racist trash who called an autistic kid the N word and several similar cases talm bout “standing up to these communities”. Hows that economic anxiety going? This ain’t a surprise. The cop in France who killed the muslim Nahel Merzouk raisraised 1.6 million and it was started by far right politician.
Life’s been good lately. Not everything’s perfect - far from it.
But I like how things are going right now. There’s progress and can’t expect much more than that.
I decided to give an admittedly somewhat rushed effort at properly mixing the first song I ever wrote.
It’s like a suite with 3 movements. I rewrote the first movement entirely. At first, it sounded a whole lot different, but I revised it because that was really the first full piece I ever wrote, and I thought it could’ve sounded so much better.
- First Movement: 0:00 - 2:02
- Second Movement: 2:03 - 5:09
- Third Movement: 5:10 - 7:27
