Today I moved into my first stable housing since October 4th.

On that date I returned from a trip to visit a friend whom I had just learned had advanced cancer. My then roommate and close friend for two decades took the opportunity to declare that I had moved out. When I tried to come back I was shouted out with threats of calling the police and having the locks changed on me. The day before I left, I had explained why I was in such emotional distress by explaining the situation with my friend and my relationship with him. In the process I came out as bisexual. In hindsight this seems like the reason he acted so viciously towards me. I left my cats in his care while I was on my trip; he repeatedly threatened me with sending them to a pound (and then when I told him I had flagged them and he would be arrested if he tried it) or just releasing them outside. He dumped my possessions next to a dumpster and told me I had two hours to collect them. When I came for my cats he stuffed them into cardboard boxes and taped them shut with no air holes.

Since then I've been living in hotel rooms. I picked up a job as an amazon delivery driver. And even working full time only slowed down the rate at which my savings was getting eaten up. Finally I found this place, 30-60 minutes away from my work and willing to let me keep my cats. Because of the generosity of one of our comrades here "C" coming through with a couple very timely loans, I managed to keep my cats and keep from sleeping in my car all the way to now. I'm broke, in debt to multiple sources, but I managed to keep from being outside. And I managed to keep my family together, even if it's only cats at this point.

The story doesn't end here. I have a civil rights complaint that was accepted by the state's civil rights department. I'm going to bring a civil action against my old friend as soon as I have the money saved up for a lawyer. I'm going to finish studying for my certification and find a job in IT before/after I'm done with that. But the part of the story where my existential security is at question is now mainly over.

If I had any left lmao.

the post of the guy with the milk has me thinking. has anything written anything at length about how RWers in the west seem to have a lot of hangups relating to childhood? there are a bunch of weird things that they have done/picked up on that seem childish to me, or seem to display an inability to move past childhood:

-the brief milk obsession that seems to rear its head again every now and then (oedipal?)

-the frequent focus on what's going on in schools and colleges, often in lurid terms: furry hysteria, transphobes often discussing locker rooms/bathrooms

-obsession with gaming, anime, star wars, etc. hobbies/interests that most people pick up as kids

-charlie kirk's diaper thing a while back, i think crowder has also dressed up as a child/baby in public too?

-doubling down on things instead of confronting them, like going on all-meat diets as a reaction to more people questioning the ethics of animal agriculture, and then doubling down on THAT and going on an all raw meat diet. also the pro-tobacco fringe that seems to be especially popular among red scare, "post left" types

-aversion to sex and sexuality

-"this is what they took from you" captions accompanying images of kids playing N64 or riding bikes, nostalgia more broadly

-"trad" stuff presenting essentially a dollhouse version of motherhood

idk if there's anything there but it seems like enough that someone could write an interesting essay about it. tie it into alienation and the nuclear family/suburbanization and the end of the american dream maybe. like all these people want to live life like a 1950s burger ad, the only time in their life where they've felt close to that was in childhood, and now as adults they see that the whole one-income, two kids in the suburb thing isn't possible anymore so they just retreat into memories of childhood (consciously or not) and get angrier and angrier about it

Notice when she was telling people to go to China there was no sign saying "stop Asian hate" around

I don't know if people understand what dorks they sound like when they say things like women are more subject to group think and pathos like actual real life Jordan Petersons.

Unlike with hitting people, no one is ever pressing charges because they got a wedgie, and also the punishments better fits the crime of being a whiney little baby boy.

Example:

Based individual: Supporting LGBTQIA+ rights is good and sexy.
Cringe loser: Too many letter tho 😏😏😏
Based individual: Click the period you predictable loser lmao
Cringe loser: I am very owned and now must log off until I learn to not be cringe

I'm an mspaint artist #wow #woah

Folks share your savory spicy sauces with the rest of us so we all can get the rumble rumble tum tum tums together!

Stolen from here: Favorites hot sauces by State (on instacart) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hot-sauce-by-state_l_65a99626e4b041f1ce6553d1

Also which state buys the most hot sauce

Also do you wonder if something you've said is in the book of sayings?

I'm imagining his jerk ass being all about that work/grindset mentality while wearing those shitty sunglasses you see the carvlogger clowns wear and vlog about getting his Boulder to the top in the most annoyingly hype grifter manner, but once in a while trolling his chat by letting the Boulder slip at random times nowhere near the top so he can have some entertainment in his cursed unlife.

yeah bro its so fucking democratic that we get two choices that are exactly the same every four years for a leader that will do nothing, and whose policies we have no direct influence over even senators we cant do shit about like alexandria orcasio cortez who is supposed to be 'one of the good ones bro for real\l hahahahahha" cant even vote against blocking a fucking strike like seriously? god damn it this is such a fucking joke if i hear one more shitlib say "OH GOLLY GEE YOUR NOT VOTING??>?>S?>F?SD YOUR HANDING THE ELECTION TO FRUMPALD DONALD!!! HE'S GONNA DESTROY DEMOCRACYYHY~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" FUCKING WHAT DEMOCRACY YOU FUCKING HUMAN CNN RSS FEED donald trump can't do shit to the status quo and even if he could why the hell would he attempt at overturning a system that keeps the public complacent to become a 'dictator' or whatever and then just get couped anyway to any libs that stumble in to my incoherent rant of anger after being told that not voting is "destroying democracy" literally for the 15th time today:

THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE IN DONALD TRUMP AND JOE BIDEN BUT OPTICS AND VERY MINOR POLICY DESCISIONS

even if the democrats wanted to meaningfully change anything they're too much of fucking wusses to do anything radical then trying to pass a bill and when it doesn't work throw their hands up and say "OH DARN! guess well ltry next time!" but when it comes to funding israel? They get PUSHED TO THE FUCKING RIGHT ON IMMIGRATION TO FUND A GENOCIDE. WHO THE HELL IS SURPRISED BY THIS? "OH WOW! THE DEMS GOT PUSHED RIGHT???? REALLY???? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING!!!!!!!"

oh but trump is so much worse for trans issues sure, but BIDEN ISN'T DOING ANYTHING AGAINST THE RAMPANT ANTI-TRANS LAWS IN LOCAL SYSTEMS. NOTHING!!!!!!! FUCKING NOTHING AGAINST ANY OF THE BILLS IN SCHOOL BOARDS, STATES, NOTHING

HOW DO YOU HAVE A MAJORITY IN THE SENATE AND NOT EVEN TRY TO DO A SINGLE FUCKING THING ABOUT TRANS ISSUES ANYWHERE

i could add more but i gotta go to work maybe I'll expand on it later

Article 2: https://dzen.ru/a/ZAMm-1FOKAPDsVIU

Just two interesting articles that I found with interesting concepts.

You can use Yandex Translate (translate.ya.ru) to read them. Just paste in the left box, select Russian -> English and press the link in the right box.

"I feel like this is wrong, but I don't know enough about ~~stars~~ The Middle East to disprove it"

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzJ0odAP_l-/

Taken with my iPhone 12 Mini (I am not joking).