LeylaLove

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

JPEGMafia is way too chronically online to have any plausible deniability on this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Fucking rediculous

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is true. Individuals rarely make massive differences. There's actually a type of rap song that explains this very well. It's describing drug dealing dynamics more, but war profiteering fits the profile. Songs about being a drug dealer (war monger) making big moves and all the money while contributing to the destruction of their community, but also knowing that they are disposable and if they die another person will just replace them. Drug dealing is a desperation thing, so it's a different situation, but I'd definitely compare war mongers to drug dealers in how they're important to the community, yet ultimately damaging more than they help.

Kissinger is the ultimate example. Kissinger may have been the American death dealer, but in the mind of Americans, he was still important and good because we really could have gotten worse. I never quite feared Kissinger, he was ultimately a profiteer above everything else, as such he was predictable. I fear the guy who idolizes Kissinger and replaces him in the world, without understanding how calculated Kissinger was. Kissinger is pretty much one of the only people in history where you can assume anything that happened because of him was fully intentional. He was pretty much every bad thing you could say about him, but he already knew that shit. Maybe I'm just odd, but I'll always pick a competent sociopath against a completely unhinged idiot. Kissinger was going to fuck up lives and it's unavoidable, but at least he won't fuck up everybody's life. I bet Kissinger's sequel is going to be an emotional war hawk that will fuck up everybody's life on the planet. We're going to see the US declare war on some nation in South America or Mexico soon.

But anyways, here are the two songs I think of when thinking of this. Sure there are more like this, but these are great songs.

Ice-T - New Jack Hustler

Sleep on silk, lie like a politician My Uzi's my best friend, cold as a mortician Lock me up, it's genocidal catastrophe There'll be another one after me, a hustler

Freddie Gibbs - Thuggin (This is the single version, not the studio recording)

My uncle last bitch put him on the glass dick Tried to rob a man to feed his habit, he got blasted I live on borrowed time, my expiration date I passed it So lock me up forever, but this shit is everlastin'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I hadn't thought of that but that makes it so much cooler

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty big on homebrewing. Mead in the style of tepache (low alcohol, the fermentation is for carbonation) is my personal favorite.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actual actions mean very little in American politics, Biden hasn't had a racist enough aesthetic to benefit off his racism electorally.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

At most, Trump being a de facto NATO leader would have slowed down aid given to Ukraine, but that's the most I'd expect to see.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

"Loving you is easy.. because you're beautiful"

"See Brendan, I'm gonna kill you now"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

As a massive Pokemon fan, Pokemon's lore is just straight unhinged. They even say Pokemon used to live as equals to humans, and some would even have romantic involvement with humans. And GF expect me to believe that they want to be in the ball?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Can't forget Lavender Town, a town pretty much dedicated to mourning dead Pokemon.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Always gotta suggest Chapo because I used the subreddit for a year without knowing about the podcast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

How else do you expect me to feed my gambling addiction? I've already sworn all my money to the casinos through short term loans, I've been banned from the slots. I'm immune to such diseases due to other circumstances, but goddamn if it doesn't feel like pulling the lever!

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This is definitely a modern favorite

 

I've been using my OnePlus 6t since launch and love it, but I am very interested in Linux phones now. I've been an early adopter before, but it's finally getting where I think I need it to be to try. I pretty much only do basic phone functions and emulation. Would a Pinephone Pro have the power to run something like a Wii or 3ds game? What about an older ported game like STALKER? Curious just how much it could do

 

I remember hearing this melody during a Sonic Rush sand level and it absolutely SLAPPED. I have not found it in the Sonic Rush soundtrack though. Anybody recognize the crudely whistled melody?

Edit: found the song, Angel Island zone act 2 in Sonic 3. However I didn't have Sonic 3 as a kid so I find it very odd that I remember the song so well and with other additions. Misremembering, or maybe it got remixed for a newer sonic game

 

It's been a slow trickle ever since COVID started. Just progressively losing any hope of having a good life long term. Hormones got banned in my state and I feel really dysphoric. The people in my life don't care about me. I could die right now and I don't think anybody would even realize for a few weeks. Idk man, what's even the point anymore?

 

Yesterday was supposed to be my step kiddo's first day of school, but he got a tad sick yesterday so we decided to keep him home. We sent him in for his first day of second grade today though! He's 7 and hasn't spoken yet, but he's made so much progress the past few months. He's finally figured out how to put on his own shoes and pants, he has a tablet that he watches Sarah and Duck on 24/7 (he does not watch any other show, except Nathan for you, he loves Nathan for you every once in a while for some reason) and he's recently started playing sound clips through tapping certain parts of the play bar. When he needs a diaper change it's "Duck has a wet bottom" or when he's sad, he will get on his tablet and tap on the spot on the play bar to tell us he's sad. There are multiple small examples of this he'll do throughout the day and it's just so fucking amazing to see him learning to find ways to communicate so much better before he goes into school. He hasn't quite grasped the screen talking the school does with him, but he's started doing it through his show and I'm so happy he can finally advocate for himself to anybody that can hear. I just don't want him getting bulldozed by this worls because he's not able to scream "STOP" and doesn't understand the construction signs.

Other parents can chime in, this community is quite slow so feel free to comment any rants about your kid. But I'm curious if there are any other special needs parents here?

I know it doesn't compare to how he'll feel when he's older, but being the parent of a special needs child is isolating. While everybody else's kids are learning all these new books, maybe starting extra curriculars, I'm changing diapers, potty training and teaching him how to use a fork. There's nothing wrong with how long he needs to learn these things, but other parents just can't understand being on these topics for 7 years. It makes me feel like I'm alone, and it just spirals because it reminds me of how few people he has that can truly understand his experience. I'm only 22, although I was also non-verbal until I was 4-5, I have no experience on parenting, let alone parenting a child with special needs. I'm just scared that even with the extra experience I have being a nonverbal child, I won't be able to really understand enough to show him the love he deserves.

Maybe we'll be 20 years from now, and maybe he won't be able to tell me, but I'll just realize that I didn't have enough patience for him as a kid. There would be no way to know I'm actually apologizing to him, there would be no real way to tell if I was apologizing to him for him or just selfishly apologizing to make myself feel better. Like if I end up crying while apologizing to him, he will start crying. There is no way for me to know if I made his day better or worse by talking about it with him so I just never do. Anything I do with him is, for his sake, completely permanent. How do you guys handle this feeling?

 

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