I am chuggin gin tonight (not an extended pattern of behavior to be clear) and honestly wtf. Everything is so cruel to the extent that it is almost rediculous.

So, I am a history student and tbh, the absurdity of modern class struggle is becoming fucking unreal to me. I genuinely cannot grasp how the bourgeois sleep at night. Like wtf. The human capacity for indifference is unfathomable. I am watching a video by coffeezilla where he covers the failure of a “bank”, which is technically not a bank, that caused a bunch of people to lose 10s of millions of dollars collectively. Maybe being raised by labor aristocrats sheltered me from the inhumanity of capitalism and thats why this fucks me up so bad but one guy losts thousands of hours of his life to this shit. They’re just fucking gone. How is this normal, how do most people accept this as their reality. I am honestly impressed by the docility of the working class in the imperial core. I think if I dropped a sumerian peasant into the modern United States they would immediately identify our society as fucked up beyond belief the moment they understood it.

idk where I expected to go with this post. shits just fucked up tbh and I cannot grasp why I see it and others don’t. I have little material reason to do so, yet I do and so many others who have a material reason to realize this do not. I think I will smoke tonight and watch an ancient history documentary.

edit: tangentially related but finding you guys made me hopeful for the world, thank you for being sane

  • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Hyperaware of it to the point that I’ve been basically paralyzed with fear, disgust, and ultimately apathy since late bush/early obama.

    I think learning about the Waco Horror (the lynching of Jesse Washington) was the big “We’re not gonna make it, are we?” moment for me. The mask of humanity sure slipped off everyone’s face with that one - they fucking broke his teeth out as souvenirs and took christmas card photos with the burnt corpse. Sort of shit that’s somehow both “eye-wateringly brutal” evil and “banality of evil” evil at the same time.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    the-deserter “It was real. I’d seen it. I’d seen it in reality. The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest, most courageous people in the world… You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know. That the bourgeois are not human.”

  • Bolshechick [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I break down crying about this shit at least once a day. There is so much injustice and cruelty in the world. I am constantly aware of it, it weighs on me at all times. I don’t know what’s wrong with other people, that they don’t feel the pain of others, don’t want to help, don’t care.

  • TheWolfOfSouthEnd [none/use any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    We aren’t seen as human to the super rich, they see us as shit and them as better than us. Simple as that. That’s why they should be taxed beyond existence or shot.

    Edit; I missed the word rich.