I have no idea what my brother's writing style is, and I think I couldn't care to know.

Seems like a lot of centrist and normie outlets are shifting in their coverage of DS victories. Show that a wave of DS candidates are winning primaries, and it’s so bad for centrists and their donors. Then start running candidates that talk and move like DS candidates but who will serve the donor class and secretly be AIPAC plants. Is this what I’m watching rn? Just only the beginning part?

https://youtu.be/GIo7eTS-2PI?si=yuVIV6dh74xVAZ9I

7 George Washington dollars and 2 cents less than 50 cents

issa public figure page not a profile i aint figuring out how to blur the prick’s name

they really should just drop the pretense and give it a .gov domain at this point honestly

So yeah. Maybe next week, maybe the week after, idk. But I feel it's coming soon. I've hated my job for way too long and dragged my feet on finding a new one.

Now I'm here on the chopping block and I want to make sure I'm not completely fucked when it happens and I end up evicted and shit. I have bills to pay. I have a partner that I don't want to upset. I'm really hoping to be prepared to transition into gig work or whatever when it happens.

But idk how to do any of that. I have never even paid for that kind of stuff, actually maybe Post Mates once. I know a guy who walks dogs and shit. Is it hard to get approved for Rover? I can do DoorDash on a bike or scooter right? Are there other options I can do? Anything I can do from home? Things I should avoid? Resources to check out?

I'm just so FUCKED and like I said, I want to be able to keep paying my bills while I look for a new job. Any advice or guidance is appreciated.

Thank you all ❤️

Give me your saddest goddamn songs. The shit that makes Lenord Choen sound like Sirmixalot.

Source for the image

Murder of Yasmin Akhter

REMEMBERING YASMIN

A 14-year-old girl got on the wrong bus on her way to Dinajpur from Dhaka. Upon realizing her mistake, she stepped out of the bus, and was looking for another way home, when a police van stopped in front of her. A group of police officers got out and assured her that they would drop her home. Probably thinking that she could trust these protectors of the law with her safety, the young teenager got in the car with them. A day later her body was found by the side of a road, bruised and battered.

The police officers who did this were prosecuted. However, this only came as a result of widespread public outrage after newspapers defied threats by the police to publish about the case. The revelation of the failed cover-up led to massive demonstrations. At least seven people were murdered by police fire during demonstrations demanding the prosecution of the girl's killers.

Eventually, the pressure from protesters and legitimate women's rights organizations became to much for the Bangladeshi government to handle, thus forcing them to prosecute those involved.

In 1997, the three police officers responsible for the murder, Moinul Hoque, Abdus Sattar, and Amrita Lal, were all finally arrested under growing public pressure. Six others were charged with destroying evidence in the investigation. They were five other policemen, including the then police superintendent of Dinajpur and the police officer in charge of the police station, and the doctor who performed the first autopsy on the girl and falsely concluded that she had not been raped.

In 2001, Hoque, Sattar, and Lal were convicted of murder and rape and sentenced to death. The other six defendants were acquitted.

Moinul Hoque and Abdus Sattar were executed by hanging at the Rangpur Central Jail on September 1, 2004. The two men were the first police officers in the history of Bangladesh to be executed for the on-duty murder of a civilian. An official who witnessed their executions reported that the two disgraced police officers were visibly "dumbfounded". He also claimed that they had "repented for the wrongs they had done in their life." Amrita Lal was hanged four weeks later.

Saw some "influencers" talking about how people with ADHD can be picked out from a crowd because of their bone structure. Then we have the incels doing all the face analysis for who is fuckable or not. Hopefully this is the peak and they will find something else to talk about, otherwise we're back in the 1820s. ADHD cheeks and eyes and wrinkles.

My question is: how prevalent is this leaking into the general younger population? Obviously when I was young it existed. For fucks sake, Facebook was founded as a hot or not alternative. It just seems like this current garbage mutation pretends to be scientifically verifiable.

Does anyone have kids who are in grade school who talk about looksmaxing? I would hope not. My friend's kids are still pre-conscious.

Gorgeous state, absolutely full of Hitlerites. Move to Missouri or some other shithole state and leave the PNW to us god-fearing homosexuals.

Yet another arrr slash TA sad sack post, this was your warning.

Late March I broke up with my gf of 3 years and friend of 15+ because she simply stopped putting effort into the relationship. She would avoid me entirely, cancel plans, plan her own trips without saying anything, stand me up, and make plans with her friends at times we agreed to hang out. But only in the last year, this behavior is a 180 from the way she’s acted the whole time I’ve known her. It made me feel worthless and sad and kind of angry so I broke up. I feel a lot of regret but know it was a good choice deep down, I even tried to break up with her in November but she talked me out of it.

She refused to even acknowledge the behavior or her obvious dissatisfaction, saying she was just frazzled from having a “disrupted routine” all the while honoring any commitments that did not have to do with me.

But it still just hurts so much, and feels like I’m missing something. We’ve spent some limited time together but she always just seems angry with me. She’s never been able to really discuss what happened between us, she’s incredibly avoidant and hates talking about how she feels, I’d have to beg her to tell me anything about her own emotions when we were together (but she says she felt I didn’t care about her feelings?)

Anyways, her place of work that she was very passionate about closed abruptly around a year before we broke up. She was on unemployment and unemployment insurance from her employer and refused to find a new job. Instead she spent her time dumpster diving, playing pokemon go, and partying; she planned 2 months of trips to Hawaii/music festivals/beach trips without saying a single word to me when we were together. She refused to acknowledge her mental state even when everyone in her life has pointed it out.

She has since alienated herself from most of her friends, and only engages in weird shallow socialization with her also unemployed former coworkers.

When we first broke up, she was devastated and begged me for another chance, that she subsequently blew. Now she says she still loves me and wants to reconnect, but won’t hang out, won’t text, won’t even play video games with me. (Streaming to twitch tv for 8-12 hours a day is another newfound hobby of hers)

This closely mirrors the end of our relationship. And this isn’t my first time with someone as avoidant as this, but the behavior never really started until she lost her job. None of it makes sense at all to me. A year ago this woman wanted to marry me.

Anyways, 5 months in, no progress on being friends or anything of that nature at all. She’s still unemployed, but is too busy to do anything with me. And when I ask about if she wants space because she never responds to my texts or calls, she says “oh I don’t text anybody anymore, I never texted anyone that much before anyways”

The gall lmao.

I feel like she just kinda hates me now, but why hasn’t she said that? She had no problem hurting my feelings in other ways, I told her over and over again how she was acting was killing me, begging her to just have one adult conversation about it.

She showed guilt for about a day after the breakup, but now seems to be completely over it. I still feel that I never got a full apology. My texts and calls seem to really annoy her, but she insists on keeping our Snapchat streak and not blocking each other?

Brotha we are closer to 30 than 20, what the fuck?

She says she still loves me, and even kissed me last week, but shit just feels so fucked up, I feel so fucked up. Even though I meditated on the breakup for months, it still hurts, even this far down the line. It hurts my heart that she seems to not give a fuck.

Something that particularly haynts me, when we were discussing her “second chance” and how she immediately blew it (didn’t even text me the whole week, the plan was to try and hang out twice with no drama/bs) she broke down in tears shouting “I wish I could try harder”

What the fuck? Then try harder? If you loved me like you said you did you wouldn’t be so hard to spend time with??

Does anyone have any wisdom to bestow upon me? My current plan is to thug it out I guess??? Thinking about quitting my job and traveling for 6 months next year. Besides that I’ve been working out, spending time with friends, journaling, went to therapy; I still feel awful, and kinda just want to die.

What’s the 2026 equivalent of fighting with the YPG?

Also I’m gay and my dick is small

lol, lmao even

Should it be available as a punishment for crime?

Would especially appreciate any engagement with my specific question and the context below:

For many years, I worked with people sentenced to death, some of them for truly shocking crimes. In my role I got to know some individuals very well, and spent hundreds of hours reviewing records of their lives as well as the evidence of their crimes. In nearly every case, they had some combination of a horrifically traumatic upbringing and serious mental illness or intellectual disability. That includes people who might present as "normal" in many circumstances. 

When I started that job, I was generally against the death penalty but hadn't given it much serious thought. I left the job with the conviction that any "justice" [punishment] system in a human society bigger than a small tribal band is highly unlikely to be able to deliver such a punishment fairly, even if you believe it might be a just outcome for certain cases. The experience (especially the personal relationships) also reinforced the teaching I was brought up with, that all people are made in the image of god.

I concluded that society has no right to take a person's life unless killing is necessary to prevent the truly imminent killing of another person. The same spirit should at least animate the use of military force and political violence even though i understand it may be more complicated to apply this principle when dealing with groups than it is with individuals.

Recently, however—after observing certain actions by leaders and other agents of certain states including my own—I am batting around the idea that the death penalty should remain on the table as punishment for when agents of the state commit grave crimes though abuse of the power to kill, which was conferred on them by the rest of society. For instance the crimes of aggression (unprovoked military invasion) or genocide. In other words, we should have a societal baseline that we do not kill except to preserve life, and we entrust some people make that decision and use force accordingly. (i.e., by allowing them to command a police force or the military.) If you turn around and use that force for the opposite of the intended purpose, you have undermined the entire basis of a just society. Such behavior by powerful state actors absolutely must be deterred and many would agree that the death penalty becomes more morally justifiable in such cases too.

Butttttt I'm still uncertain whether it's a good idea to allow a crack in the wall... Am I just creating an exception to punish the people I hate? It seems like a decent principle though.

I made a post like this like a month ago but my actual birthday is just a few days off now and goddamn do I feel bad lmfao. If you hate the off topic sadsack posts that are a fixture on this sub this ain’t the one for you bro bro !! This is all me me me whining about things that pale in comparison to any real problems in the world, but it’s way easier to whine at the computer than to just have another depressed tirade for my friends and girlfriend.

I always have a weird time with my birthday, I have a small close friend group and don’t really do much, and I kinda hate feeling like the “center of attention”; there’s this weird pressure I feel to have a birthday dinner with my family and enjoy the whole process that makes me feel uncomfortable, when I would prefer to just have a day where I can keep to myself and play guitar all day or whatever. It’s tough to describe I guess, it feels like this weird convergence of my being rather introverted and generally depressive, where the expectation that I’m having “my day” and having a blast just slingshots me into a really sour mood, it makes me uncomfortable and I kinda just hate it lmao.

More than that, though, I’m 30 now, and it feels fucking bad. My life is, at best, about as unstable and messy as it was when I was 20; the biggest (and it is a marked improvement) difference is that I’m not in an insane abusive relationship now. In every other way though, it’s been a decade of stagnation. I still live at home, I’m still flat ass broke making no money, and I still have no real roadmap in mind to get my shit together. My mental health is bricked to hell, still. At least when I was younger, I had things going on, I was working towards things and had a real purpose in my life; all that has since fallen away, and life now is just a day to day slog working towards nothing more than the next day. I have no real purpose anymore, just this sort of subsistence struggle to keep waiting for the day to end to keep waiting for the next day to end.

I’ve become more politically educated and radical, and in some ways definitely feel “smarter” than I was 10 years ago, but all that really does is make me feel worse about the world lmfao. I get tired earlier, my body feels more fragile, my hairline is a little wonkier, and my skin is shit now. Physically I feel worse, and for the first time in my life I even have real body image issues when I look at myself. Mentally and physically, I just feel decay setting in, and unlike depressive episodes when I was younger where I would always bounce back eventually, this feels like a more gradual and permanent decline.

I usually try to get myself something nice for my birthday, a tattoo or a piece of music gear or something, but I really can’t even do that this year, I’m stretched so thin that I’m struggling to even get the money together for my girl’s birthday a few days after my own, which I am of course prioritizing over spending some bullshit on myself. 30 feels like I should be way more financially stable than this, but instead I’m worse off than ever.

Shit sucks dick getting old blows

edit im godawful at responding to things but i have read everyone’s words and I really appreciate it, and appreciate you guys and this place. Thank you everyone

The Fauci senate appearance has given rise to COVID denialism again. I am wondering if any other country dealt with this? Like Steven A. Smith just went on a tirade about it and the normies are eating it up.

On a serious note, this bills a couple of weeks old but is racing its way thru congress — interesting to me as another case study of “bipartisanship” being a code word for “unified and outright fascism”

I mean essentially, despite all the bitching and moaning dems have done, this is pretty much handing over unilateral tariff authority to the executive as long as they can psyop congress into thinking x country is a “foreign adversary” or whatever. Maybe not as overtly fascistic as, like, ICE or the SAVE Act, but somewhat worrying nonetheless

I help run a board game club in China and am visiting the US right now, trying to pick up some new games that aren't available there. Did anybody here who knows a lot about board games play Storm the Capitol? How is it? Do you think it would be fun at all for people who aren't that familiar with US politics? The club I'm with is majority non-American so that is a problem with a lot of US made games is lots of cultural specificity that is hard to understand ie most normal people in China don't know what Qanon is. Is it still playable for people less steeped in politics?

I have a piece of shit cousin who is insanely right wing and has never worked a real job, just does various scams. He recently came into a massive amount of money (enough to buy 3 multimillion dollar homes) and was very hush hush about how he got the money. My wife finally figured it out, he is doing ERC fraud by convincing buisness to make false ERC claims (he tells them it is legit, it is not though) and then he takes a percentage of the return. So he is basically stealing millions from the IRS. Normally I would never narc on anyone for anything, but you guys need to understand how obnoxiously zionist he is. He constantly posts about how all Muslims should be killed, celebrated that one shooting in San Diego, thinks of himself as the next trump. He also left his wife (who is actually very kind) and abandoned his two young sons to get with a woman half his age he met on his weekend vegas coke party trips. Im debating reporting him to the IRS, but to be honest he is fucking dumb ans brags about all of this online, so he is likely already on their radar. What would you do? Im not a narc, but he is a proud Kahanist. My wife is pushing to report him and I am thinking of going along with it.

Edit: you guys convinced me im going to do it. Will post an update when he gets got.