Death to Israel.

Not a man but I am in the age range. I mean it may be the case that more people are turning to parasocial relationships and falling into manosphere holes because of the internet. But also idk, maybe we’ve got to take stock of how misogyny plays a role into all this? Most men (and I truly mean, like 99% of them) don’t want to unpack the way they hold privilege and power over women. In decades past in which men were reading books more, they also had legal control over their wives? Women were gatekept out of academia for centuries. We live in a patriarchy and that needs to factor into any analysis of men as a social class that happens.

had quite a few arguments with white fascists.

I love it. Not all Brutalist buildings are winners, but that’s the case for every architecture style; and when it’s done well it’s some of the most beautiful stuff in the world to me.

Watching minecraft youtubers in 2020. Unironically. And a lot of them have turned out to be disgusting people and I want nothing to do with them anymore.

Friends of Socialist China

I think Black Agenda Report deserves a mention.

Douyin makeup getting rebranded as K-beauty…

Rain World… post-apocalyptic world trying not to get eaten by lizards…

Oh yeah, I’m of the opinion that the whole system of therapy is fucked and that good therapists are fairly hard to find in a system which seeks to uphold the hegemony of a conception of “wellness” under the doom-spiral of capitalism. My last therapist was an older white person who had absolutely no advice for me dealing with a horrific anxiety disorder, severe OCD, ADHD, autism, and constant retraumatization from covid, capitalism, and the difficult family situation I was living in. She actually victim-blamed me once in the aftermath of a moment of physical violence and then when I confronted her about it later, she denied it and tried to gaslight me. She also kept harping on about me wearing a mask and taking covid precautions. I also had no idea of how to even breach the subject of being a Chinese trans person with her. It was such a bad experience that it put me off trying to find a therapist again for months, and now I’m trying again but with OCD-specific therapy this time.

I’m sorry.

Wuhan family let’s go, my mom was there just a few weeks ago.

Haven’t been to Yunnan myself, but my parents have. They seemed to like it. According to them, the climate was quite temperate compared to the rest of China (which can get boilingly hot in the summer) thanks to the mountains.

Because “America” is a settler colonial entity violently occupying many Indigenous nations and the Black nation in diaspora.

The wall is too kind for these murderers.

I’ve watched a few of those videos, they just made me nostalgic. Hopefully someday I can go back for a visit, it’s been a while.

You said it “probably” doesn’t taste anything like paneer.

You’ve self-admittedly never tried it, and now you’re shitting on people who just want to enjoy their cultural cuisine in a vegan way. You’re really dipping into reactionary anti-vegan territory here.

Eh I’ve seen a lot of non-white vegans use tofu in creative ways and what works for them works for them? Like sure if someone’s going to make shit food then blame the tofu then yeah they’re a shit cook but that’s not inherent tofu substitutes as a concept. I’ve made some vegan dumplings with tofu and no they’re not fooling any meat eater because I’m not trying to do that but they tasted fine and even my meat-eating parents enjoyed them (and for the record I literally got the recipe from Chinese food blogs, this isn’t white people shit.)

I’ve seen scraps of this conversation float around, doubt it’s any sort of serious discourse but in so many discussions about vegan cooking there’s inevitably some sort of enlightened Tofu Enjoyer (who is sometimes themselves a vegan) who has to say something about how vegans try to use tofu as a substitute for too many things instead of enjoying it “as an ingredient in its own right”. As someone who does, in fact, enjoy tofu “as an ingredient in its own right”, I just find that take really annoying.