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[Tack]

Feelings!

How did this happen?

[Yoink]

Hey hey hey! I have BEER! Woooooo!   
This oughta go quite nicely with my Southern Comfort.

[Haspen]

After 2.5 months of not getting much than a pip of response while looking for a new job, today I got 3 calls from 3 different places all offering the kind of job (warehouse/packaging/otherwise manual labor) I want.

I feel overwhelmed a bit... Certainly happy tho!

I GOT THE ONE I WANTED THE MOST!


WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

[TD1]

Congratulations!

[TheBiggerFish]

Grats Haspen!

[Haspen]

Thanks :3

[Flying Dice]

vrey nice

But seriously, gratz. It's always nice to have things fall out so neatly.

[miauw62]

"if you're not part of [group] you don't know what real prejudice or pain is."

tbh the problem is that this is actually true if you look at the amount of people saying that women should be "flattered" because of catcalling and that sexual harassment "doesn't happen that often" etc.

a lot of people will just dismiss or minimalise racism or sexism because it never happens to them, and there's a big difference from "a few people are mean to me sometimes :c" and "random strangers call me a slut on a busy street regularly"

also it's just naive to pretend that cis white middle-class dudes experience prejudice to the same extent as basically any other group

Spoiler: Oh hello there // This is not happy, don't bother opening if you're not miauw. (click to show/hide)

Thanks for proving the point, though. Assume that only the suffering of people you deem to be "real victims" matters, then proceed to marginalize and trivialize everyone else. Also assume that only suffering caused by the "real problems" is important and that everything else doesn't exist or doesn't matter. Work hard to make people otherize each other based on your hierarchy of victimhood. Assume that empathy and sympathy don't exist and that people can only identify and want to resolve problems which personally affect them. Call everyone who disagrees with your highly specific and arrogant worldview a bigot because you can't comprehend people who want to try to address all social ills instead of making their own lives better while pushing everyone else down the ladder or blindly kowtowing to your pressure to allow you to do so.

Thanks for helping the wealthy and powerful continue to divide us and prevent us from ever tackling the underlying economic injustices that foment so many social problems and so much hatred. Thanks for pushing hate and distrust and dehumanization instead of understanding and cooperation. Thanks for trying to start shit in this thread.

If you want to do this again, you can PM me. I won't promise I won't quote you if you try to bait me and go crying for public sympathy again later, though.

Thanks for proving the point, though.

at no point did i say any of that so lol

Assume that only the suffering of people you deem to be "real victims" matters

nope

proceed to marginalize and trivialize everyone else

nope

only suffering caused by the "real problems" is important and that everything else doesn't exist or doesn't matter

nope

Work hard to make people otherize each other based on your hierarchy of victimhood

nope

Assume that empathy and sympathy don't exist and that people can only identify and want to resolve problems which personally affect them

nope

Call everyone who disagrees with your highly specific and arrogant worldview a bigot

nope

can't comprehend people who want to try to address all social ills instead of making their own lives better while pushing everyone else down the ladder

nope

blindly kowtowing to your pressure to allow you to do so

nope

i could add onto why most of these things are bullshit or the exact thing you're doing, but why would i? your post is just a bunch of shit i didn't say and some random insults.

and why should i have to pm when calling people out on their bullshit?

also i guess i should have a line here passive-aggressively "thanking" you for things you didnt do but i cant really bring up the effort so meh

[Flying Dice]

What is your malfunction? I don't care if you want to PM about it or talk about it in some other thread, but stop dragging your beef with me into threads where it doesn't belong. This is seriously not a happy-thread sort of discussion to have.

[miauw62]

i dont really have a beef with you, i have a beef with discriminatory bullshit :v

ill happily come and call people out on it whenever i can bring up the effort.

[Flying Dice]

Yes, yes, the trite babby's first ideology dog-and-pony show is very nice, but you actually don't need to inject it into every mildly relevant conversation. Especially not in irrelevant threads.

We can hash this out like adults on a thread which is if you like, or in PMs, but I'm not going to continue it here.

[sprinkled chariot]

Flying dice avatar, it is adorabru!

[miauw62]

dunno man the discussion i injected it into was pretty relevant, considering that it was about the insane amount of unrecognised suffering white people go through (lol)

also posts with 90% badly veiled insults and 0% argument are hardly what i'd call "like adults"

[TempAcc]

So, uh, as much as I'm all for making fun of people and watching them argue eachother to death, this is the happy thread so, take the babby throwing contest somewhere else, eh? _{I don't think anyone cares about the rich yurop opression olympics, either}

[Flying Dice]

Just did. There we go. If you ever feel the temptation to try to start this same dumb argument again, just do it in an appropriate thread and PM me the link. It's rude to shit up threads with off-topic bickering, and FWIW I'm sorry I contributed.

e: pfft, I don't even play any more but this is gold.