Yes I am a skinny “quirked up” white boy with long hair who grew up in sheltered white suburbia and smokes too much weed. Yes I am a college student who was introduced to communism online and rapidly became radicalized.
It’s such perfect ammo and it is ruining me
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just go to the gym dawg and then you can be a swole quirked up white boy and the stereotype is defeated and if anyone says anything to you just flex
embrace himbo thought
this but unironically
Death to America
I was going to the gym and I was relatively built but I stopped going to the gym and stopped eating as much bc stimulents, diet changes, and a sprinkle of existential dread. So my weight dropped. I will get back there though
it’s cool bud im a too online commie white boy and my favorite band is death grips sometimes you just gotta stop worrying and embrace it
Hmm, I’m afraid the only cure is to transition
Trans gun loaded with estrogen and ready to fire.
I would challenge you and say that your issues is less being a stereotype and more that you are insecure and feel like your personality or feelings are somehow less valid because you fall into a “type”. Do you not like having long hair? Do you not like smoking weed? If you like those things and feel like these are good representations of your truest self…I’d focus on surrounding yourself with people who embrace you for these aspects.
I used to be super insecure when people started labeling me as a “himbo” because I had this idea in my head that cynical snark was a more valid or unique personality type. Trust me: nothing worse or unattractive than being a fake person. Embrace being the quirky long haired pothead child of suburbia if that’s who you are. You are valid comrade!
To add in, I only have positive associations toward “himbo”, and now I realize a lot of the context is negative, and I don’t want to use it anymore because it is seen as insulting, and often just is insulting.
I really appreciate those kinds of people, who I see as strong, confident, and sweet. I have always rejected the the of those people being “dumb”.
When you live a life seeing physically intimidating people as oppressive, it’s a great comfort to meet larger people who are kind.
Love me small comrades, 'ate fascists, simple as
you need to embrace it, it’s the only way, pick up a guitar.
I play bass but started with an electric 6 string. The first music I learned was metal
Terminal case
Truly
6-string and bass don’t have to be mutually exclusive, and in my case, they weren’t.
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
That is a gorgeous bass
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.
U sound cool af
You are too powerful and society has attempted to hem in your strength by dehumanising you, making you feel ashamed, and convincing you that you are nothing more than a stereotype. If you weren’t a threat to them, they never would have bothered doing this in the first place.
Give that stereotype your hardest goddamn “Yes and…” and proudly say “Yes I fit the stereotype and I’m much more than that as well; if you are threatened by my stereotypicality, you can’t handle me at my full humanity.”
Chiming in to say I cherish every post & comment I see you make.
Longtime lurker, but now I get to say how empowering I find your thoughts!
That’s so kind of you to say. Glad to have you on board officially with your very own account.
If you’re interested I’ve soft-launched a little project that is basically an extension of a lot of what I do on here with regards to supporting positive mental health and neurodivergence. It’s a little online drop-in peer support space being held in a game called Webfishing. You can find out more about the project here and there’s information on how to be a part of it, if it’s something that you catches your interest. I’m actually prepping for the next session which is happening in a little under 9 hours from the time that this comment has been posted.
Thanks, Webfishing sounds neat. It looks like I just missed it, but that’s okay.
I’m becoming more conscious about security concerns lately, and some things are just too much effort to do securely. Sadly, Webfishing seems to be one of those things.
I’m using AirVPN and Mullvad Browser on Ubuntu, so if you have any OpSec tips or resources I’d be happy to read them! I’ve gotten a little paranoid since I worked a US MIC job (after becoming a communist, but I needed the money). I can’t believe they let me in, and the stress of being ‘found out’ for understanding how evil the empire was, along with the guilt of my participation in it as an office drone … was just too much.
I respect that. The better your OpSec, the more you encourage the comrades around you to improve theirs.
so if you have any OpSec tips or resources I’d be happy to read them! I’ve gotten a little paranoid since I worked a US MIC job
Good. I think this is justified paranoia.
As for OpSec tips I can’t really speak to the government end of things besides really getting serious about the right hardware, OS, and software (and VPN of course but you’ve already got that covered). With the way dragnet surveillance has been in the west for the past 20 years especially, I don’t think there’s any stopping them but the best things you can do is to make it much more difficult for them (hardware, software, OS, VPN) and to not give them cause to pay close attention to you in the first place.
As for reactionaries? Well I would never engage in the act of doxing anyone because that’s against the law and if we don’t put our trust in the law to protect us then who can we trust? However a close friend of mine used to be involved in doxing fascists and I learned everything I know about OpSec regarding non-state agents from him telling me how he went about the work of doxing fascists and the methods he used to connect the dots etc. etc. I think one of the best ways to teach OpSec would be to work on doxing fascists so you would learn very quickly what to do, what not to do, and why, but that’s against the law so I couldn’t condone it. The other problem is that doxing is usually pretty tedious work of trawling through a trove of mostly-useless data while picking out one or two crumbs that may or may not form a piece that creates a comprehensive picture, at least for deeper doxing and not the doxing by opportunity because some dipshit was posing for a photo in front of their work vehicle with a nazi flag or something, so it takes a particular type of person to really get engaged in this work and not find it intolerably boring. At least that’s what my friend told me anyway.
So that’s a very long way of saying that I don’t have any books to point you towards and that OpSec against the feds is all about mitigation whereas prevention is very much the name of the game when it comes to reactionaries.
Interesting! That’s very comforting actually. Like how knowing how to physically defend yourself, requires you to know how people often attack.
It’s maybe… reassuring? to realize that if somebody really wanted to track down this account, they could, but they’d have to work their asses off finding scraps of data. As long as I’m using my VPN each time (and not using an OS I consider compromised like Android or Windows) there’s not many crumbs to leave, unless they go directly for the VPN servers.
Finally, I’m still self-censoring somewhat to not be targeted. Like you said, why give them a reason to notice you? I want to be around for a long time, and I’m not too keen on inflammatory comments anyway. Why give a Fed a reason to do all that digging, when you could just blend in. Comments and posts likely to get flagged aren’t going to build communism anyway. I think my way is to work diligently and quietly, first to get myself secure, and then work outwards towards mutual aid, education, and helping in any way I can.
Maybe that’s selfish, or cowardly, but I’ve been through hard times, and I want to at least have moments of peace in between the barbarity we’re subjected to. Isn’t the whole point to work together? I’ve been burnt out on two decades of putting everything on my shoulders, and I can’t do that anymore. I deeply want to help more than I do, but I can’t light myself on fire to keep a comrade warm.
It seems you have a good friend, shame I couldn’t meet them. Somebody really should tell them that doxxing fascists is against the law and is therefore wrong.
if your a white boy the only thing to do is memorize all the fortnite dances and do them in public randomly. Embrace it.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing? This is like every guy I’ve had a crush on.
Not bad, just an easy target
Are you also busted with the sauce? With a little bit of swag, etc?
And so on
Being non-stereotypical has haunted me a lot more, but we all vibe a bit differently!
Many such cases
In my experience that Roald Dahl poem about how a person with kind thoughts can never be ugly is the truest thing I’ve ever known. I put a huge premium on ways to calm my judgements up to and including swallowing my pride and doing roleplay with my inner child to redefine my narratives.
Take one day a week where you can take yourself less seriously so you can laugh and thank the magic rectangle for the providence to deliver you from cringe by showing you communism. If you can’t “separate the art from the artist” then explore that. Do you have a community of people who rely on you to win the day so you have to shoulder the burden? Or perhaps have you grown really attached who you perceive yourself to be in relation to others - are you in love with your narrative? Others might be full court pressed by your responsibilities which sucks and we should work together to make society better so these people have a world worth persisting for.
What if instead, you smoked too little weed amd were introduced to communism irl?
You’d be me.
Then I’d smoke more weed
