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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
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Sexual abuse
Though "Maggie May" has pretty dreary lyrics. And is about a real thing that happened to a 16 year old Rod Stewart
Sexual abuse
It's the more depressing cousin of "Maggie May"
Sexual abuse
I've been listening to Cayetana's version of "Age of Consent" a lot. I think it's about a younger person coming of age and standing up to someone who has been sexually abusing them since before they could legally say no. Which has been helpful in working through some trauma. I like their version better than New Order's because they put some actual emotion in it.
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me, instructing someone how to use the instrument I just invented, which is played like a kazoo but produces notes that sound exactly like Waluigi noises: blow it out the wazoo
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9/11
If you must wag fingers, go after people nosalgic for the fever pitch nationalism of beating Sikh cab drivers up for not having enough flag stickers, those who supported invasions, and people like Mayor Pete who use the forever war as a way to build their resumes. We watched the seeds sewn during the Cold War and the hideous imperial victory lap of the 1990s bloom in a society-altering act of violence that destroyed our parents' brains.
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The proto-stage of post-9/11 American fascism was made to stomp out objections to our obscene post-Cold War victory lap across the planet. All Bush's retinue of ghouls really had was an excuse, and the will to actually start crossing lines outside of "special circumstances" and let hypernormalization do its thing.
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We were always going to get here, somehow, specific collective trauma or no. We had it locked and loaded. We would have found an excuse to become what we are. And given how we treated the world, someone was going to take a shot at us anyway, so I guess that worked out. Ultimately, remember that while much is said about Obama inheriting Bush's powers, so did Bush inherit from Clinton.
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That episode was from 2000 or 2001. That's really what liberals were like back then, happy to watch the moves towards cops getting Imperial Stormtrooper powers to step on dissidents, happy to see climate activists jailed while losing interest in the people who gave us McVeigh. Then 9/11 happened and all the cops were just the WTO cops and everyone could be thrown down the same hole as someone who spiked trees or sabotaged construction equipment.
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9/11
Something I think about a lot is how absolutely ready late-90s America was to become Terrorism Power Freedom Flag Land. There's a West Wing where one of the characters lambasts stand-ins for the 1999 Seattle WTO protesters. He calls them dilettante hippies and then says "free trade stops wars." This is the event it was referencing, these are the cops and institutional politics it was celebrating.
My favorite ska album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_World_Trade
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Wtf are you scared of Josh, having a plane crash into your 2 story out in the suburban sprawl of Nowhere, Indiana?
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For months after 9/11, I could look north and see a cloud of pollution from the attacks hovering over Manhattan.
And for the past 18 years, there's dipshits who were never personally threatened by a damn thing going, "I was so scared that day, we need to murder and oppress Muslims"
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relatedly if anyone would like to help a trans girl (me) in NYC get a job in tech hmu
my primary coding language is modern JavaScript and Node, but my Python isn't too bad either
9/11
Everything you need to know about this country is that the same people screeching for war and about how awful and scary 9/11 was, were the same shits refusing to pay out money to help survivors of the attacks, and all the residents breathing in the awful air pollution that was there for months.
The same ones saying "Support our troops" cut funding to the VA because so many vets were coming home disabled, instead of outright killed, and they didn't want to pay for it.
9/11
I remember my Civics teacher being worried about the creeping fascism he saw as ol' Rudy got revved up about being crowned mayor for life, and Bush started passing surveillance laws, and white people were beating Muslim folks in the street. We had soldiers stationed in the subway with assault rifles for a long time. To keep us "safe".
9/11
When 9/11 happened, I was a senior in high school, I was a ferry ride away from lower Manhattan, could see smoke from the towers burning outside the window, and classmates were crying and freaking out that their parents were dead.
My biggest fear that day was that we were going to war, but fortunately everything turned out ok oh oops no, everything is even worse than I could ever imagined.
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
