General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 28
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Overall the weather feels all over the place.
Boy howdy does it ever. I am pretty sure Northern Alabama is experiencing Florida creep. I've been to Florida a few times, it feels just like it here now; and the gators are coming in force. We used to just have a gator sighting now and again but they are kind of moving in these days. It's really really damp all the time , the air heavy with it like soup. I'm ok with it because: it keeps everything really really green. But I have to dry my clothes in my car lol (I don't use washer or dryer I wash in my sink)
Amen. I stopped listening to podcasts and started listening to the people. I walk around the homeless camp giving out food and clothes and listening to them. We greet one another on the street with dignity and a sense of community. Boots on the ground is the only way forward here. Spread love, food, seeds, clothing, music, information, make community and make it TIGHT. I know all the clerks in my 'hood. I have their phone numbers. I watch their stores for them at night and they help me out when I am desperate.
Bold of you to assume a lib knows what Stalin looks like 😆
I know that feeling. Living in 3rd world - ish public housing and the directors do not look at you, don't care to know your name, would rather die than go in your apartment. They wear the stupidest most garish clothing to a place where most of us get our clothes from the dumpster/goodwill/sidewalks. They drive BMWs and Mercedes up in here-- who the fuck is making that kind of money managing public housing? One starts to want to put sugar in gas tanks (in Minecraft of course)
I live in public housing in the deep south; in a building as old as I am (60+). It's falling apart and should be condemned. Sporadic hot water- and when there IS hot water it's 140 degrees and the cold water CUTS OUT all the time when the hot water is working- showers can scald you if you are not able to move fast enough.
The housing authority told us they were building new buildings and for us to hold on until then (6 years?) but they refuse to fix the boiler in the meantime. 6 years is a long time to think about not having hot water when you need it. And the only way to tell if there's hot water is to test it, sometimes the only time you can shower with hot water is at 2 am or whatever. shrug
So people are rightfully upset, we are all senior / disabled/ living way below the poverty level. People tried to stand up to the administration of the Housing Authority and got tossed out of the meetings by a fucking police whom they had there just because they know no hot water upsets people.
The main dude of the HA is this tall bougie ass black dude who resembles one of the uppity gangsters on the Chi - fucker got mad when I left the meeting after seeing the cop loom over one of my neighbors when they asked too many questions out of turn. I got up and left and they told me later that that big GQ looking bougie dude (who wears sunglasses to meetings so, SO DO I) asked "Who is that , who just left this meeting?"
Later after the meeting broke up I was coming back from my walk (to clear my head from the rage at having a cop attend a meeting with old/disabled folks in it) and bougie dude was walking out to his car. I walked right past him with a giant snarl and dared him to say anything to me. He did not. He stared straight forward and kept walking.
I saw him again last week outside the admin building next door and I coughed loudly and spit on the ground next to his car. Fucker did not turn around but he could see me in the reflection. Bougie ass removed with a PHd in how to fuck over poor people. Threatening us with eviction (they actually have no where to put us all) if we get rowdy about the hot water.
Threatening us. Looming over us and having cops at meetings. Fucking fascists. No hot water, shitty guards at the door, (hell I walked in on one in the bathroom, he didn't even bother to lock the bathroom door. He was on cloud 9 high as a kite looking at his phone with his pants down around his ankles and I laughed and said "I was just looking all the fuck over for you. I was thinking of calling your supe!" and he says "HUH?"
Our front door card reader doesn't work, the parking lot gate doesn't work, people break into the building by jumping the side gates, people let criminals in here all the time, it's nuts. It's basically 3rd world right around the corner from bougie ass downtown. There's always a cop in the elevator going up to arrest someone, always paramedics taking OD'd folks out of here, and we can't even have hot water.
So glad I served this shithole country in the Nat Guard
so glad I worked my ass off for decades under the table not knowing that I'd not get much Social Security if I didn't get on the payroll, no one told me Until I was like 35. I'm autistic as fuck too. ADHD, CPTSD, PTSD-- yet I know what is right from wrong and this is bullshit. That all said I spend my days helping the less fortunate at the homeless camp bringing them food and clothing and materials I gather from the 'hood. The 'hood provides when the government does not.
Thanks for listening to my stupid rant -Zed
May I borrow your words. I am autistic and words fail me more often than not when dealing with emotional subjects like this. well said
What happened to CM? I have not been around
Yeah. I was abused by my nuclear family my entire life with the exception of the times I got away for a few years (college, army)-- but they always drew me back in again. My mentors all died; I suppose they'd had enough of life and gave up the fight. My nice brother and nice sister both died (Aids/brain tumor respectively) from capitalism. It's just... you know, frustrating to live under capitalism knowing exactly what is going on. Truly harsh. best of luck to you as well.
The time of monsters began with countries having borders I feel
I can tell you this, as a lifelong USian who has only been out of the country 2x (Scotland, and Canada)-- every time I see someone suffering on the news-- someone like, in Palestine, or the like-- I feel very bad for them but I also notice how they have family and friends surrounding them weeping with them. I am jealous of them for that. That's how isolated I am here as a leftist; no friends/family that I can even talk to here in the deep south. Not a single person I have met in this entire city I can talk to except on discord; and they can't even come to town to meet (too poor to afford a car). Talk about isolation, it's horrible. I am too poor to just move somewhere where I might find like minds and make community. I keep thinking about going backpacking across the US but I haven't got the courage up yet. I'm building up my fitness and saving up for camping gear, it's my last chance at finding someone somewhere I feel. Even when I lived in San Fran, Chicago, NYC etc the story was the same. Nothing but Liberals in the spaces I frequented. During the BLM protests I was participating in my ex (this is why she's my ex) said "I dont mind you going to those protests but DON'T BRING ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE HOME WITH YOU" -- this from a polish Jew from Argentina whose mom (a holocaust survivor) we'd just buried. Fuck me but it's lonely out here as an anarcho-communist
Me too. didn't find out until I was in my 50s and got away from the family that had been abusing me my entire life
That's great! I had my first Seder with my (now) ex and her mom who was a Holocaust survivor. It turned out to be her mom's last Seder, we buried her not long after. Very poignant and I am so glad she passed without seeing nazis marching in her neighborhood
More popular? Hexbear perhaps?
Is there any kind of talk anyone can point me to on working with/bridging gaps to the brown and black lumpen in the deep south? I'm surrounded by them here in the hood; but I wouldn't know how to start. Thanks in advance.
I've been studying narcissism and generational trauma for about 5 years now, my ex's parents were in the Holocaust and survived the camps; studying those two things makes a lot of light bulbs go on when hearing the news
What do you say to my theory that Zionists recognized the largely untreated generational trauma of the Jews that were in the Holocaust and their descendants as something to be weaponized ?
Rocket City Alabama :) I'm going to start my own security guard business, fuck it.