You can block me then. With how blocking works on this site, there’s no point in me blocking you since you’d still see me stating the things that make you uncomfortable.

If you asked teen me how long I’d think I’d love, I’d probably say till my mid-late 20s then kill myself. I kind of just let life take the wheel after high school cause I figured putting in time and effort with further schooling was a waste of time and money. So I worked retail…for 11 years…at the same job with no promotions. Now I’m almost 31 working at a slaughterhouse with diagnosed anxiety problems on top of epilepsy and possible autism. My therapist is helping me get in a better mindset, but I don’t know if I could ever see myself doing any schooling.

This is just the weird version of Bad News Bears or The Sandlot.

I know it’s more the general “you”, but still damn. I’m doing the best I can from a deep red state and area (Missouri district 2). I do tons of various volunteer work alongside working with a local socialist group assisting in education and organizing protests. Dems are trying to get something here, but they have an incredibly hard battle if they want to beat Ann Wagner, let alone the duo of Josh “Jogs” Hawley and Eric Schmitt. Last time we had a Dem representing us was for 2 years back in the early 90s and the current one has held her job for 13 years.

This is the most thought out take I’ve seen and it makes me angry it won’t happen

Same here. Blorp was the first result when looking up Lemmy on the Google Play Store and I’ve had 0 issues since.

Yet the Dems want it to defend and worship Newsome if he gets nominated cause the Dems think they can still win on “lesser evil”.

Rarely is any food I like good for me.

I eat at Long John Silvers whenever I’m in the area of it. It’s one of my favorite fast food places alongside Culvers. If they opened one in my town I’d probably eat it daily/weekly.

Having to directly harm people, whether with a weapon or even spoken words, is my line cause I’m bitchmade and can’t hurt anyone. Anything else comes down to the paycheck amount. I already work at a slaughterhouse (the cows have been dead for at least 1-3 days by the time I’ve seen the carcuss) making $50k paid hourly with benefits. You want me to do anything else, the starting salary better be at least $62k paid hourly with benefits. I ain’t doing over 40 hours without overtime pay.

I loved Glass Castle. Probably had to read it for a few classes from what I remember and loved it every time.

I legit have never wanted to sell anything. I don’t even like selling my time, but I gotta cause I don’t feel like living in the woods.

My mother was constantly on her phone playing games or scrolling social media/TikTok/YouTube. Even when her favorite shows were on she barely paid any attention.

I know this is most likely a sign at a hotel, but I can’t stop thinking of like a YMCA or neighborhood pool having rooms just for fucking.

I’m not asking for AOC. I know the people here view her and people like Mamdani as traitorous communists (not to mention the racist smear campaigns ran against Cori Bush who was one of 2 Missouri government officials against AIPAC). I literally just want an acknowledgement of the genocide and to say they won’t accept AIPAC money or vote alongside conservatives as a whole no matter what (all of them just single out Trump which to me sounds like they still view the GOP as worth saving).

Oh you don’t register with a party here in Missouri. You just tell them which ballot you want when you go to vote between Democrat, Republican, or Independent. This does mean we get postage from every party either asking for donations or just the usual “why my opponent sucks” ads.

This is just the kind of stuff that keeps so many of us from even bothering in red states. I vote every chance I get in big and local elections, but damn is it hard to have it feel worth the time waiting in those long lines just to either vote for a moderate dem that most likely won’t win or a third party that even more likely won’t win. I feel better just working with the smaller political parties in my area that aren’t aligned with the major 2 to do things cause at least they understand what’s needed (shout-out to the upcoming May Day general strike that none of the Dems running here have acknowledged). They just don’t have the funds to run for an individual state.

Recently it’s been “It’s Easy M’Kay” from the South Park movie. Been listening to the songs from that film a lot and for some reason that’s the one my brain wants to keep playing over and over.

That last part reminded me of the common response from libs when Biden wanted to take 6 years to raise minimum wage to a pitiful $15/hr was “But doing it immediately would hurt small businesses!!! We have to do it slowly and tell people to suck it up even though it still won’t be enough by the time the $15 gets here!!!”

I want to vote in the primary, but every option I’ve looked into in my district just looks to be more of the same conservative light nonsense. I do find it funny that one of the options has a site that looks straight from the 90s, at least the one Ballotpedia links to. This is the closest to a “progressive” candidate, but getting any of them to speak on AIPAC is like pulling teeth.