gosouthyoungman
I moved to a developing country to escape the hostile, isolating culture of the US. Ask me how!
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gosouthyoungman
11mo ago
If you pull the lever, the trolley rolls over a nurse named Karen who is accused of stealing five bicycles. If you do nothing, five pregnant black men die. Go.
This is kinda an esoteric question, but what do I need to do to be a real human being?
When I say "real human being", you can substitute "good person" or "good Christian" or "first class citizen" or "allowed to exist". I ask this because I'm drunk, with a phone full of girls, and I could get anything I wanted, and yet somehow I feel like people back in America would still treat me the same. So, if a woman needs to use her body to validate my right to exist, what does she need to do? Maybe she needs to say "I love you", or we need to not use a condom, or I need to get her pregnant, or marry her, or something. IDK, anal maybe? Does she have to be white? What would be good enough? Because, when I had sex in the USA, it still wasn't good enough for you people to treat me like a real human being. I was still a problem. My sexuality was still a shock. I thought if I had sex with enough women, if I was validated enough as an actual physical human being, you all would stop being nasty to me. But somehow, even after over 100 sex partners, I still expect to be treated like shit in America. So what gives? What would be good enough? Will I ever be able to return home? Are you all ever going to stop being monsters, not just to me, but to men like me?
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
I thought Paul Pelosi's attacker was a gay lover/drug dealer.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Do you think it's okay that some people have AI companions, or do you think that those people should be forced to suffer eternally for no fucking reason?
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
This is a mindset that creates misery. You cannot be dependent on what other people think about you.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
It makes sense that Djibouti would have a high fertility.
gosouthyoungman
10mo ago
Shit, knowing what I know now, if I got teleported back to America with $0, I would skip meals and scrimp on every luxury until I saved up enough for a plane ticket to southern Mexico. I'd honestly risk death to escape America if that's what it came to.
gosouthyoungman
10mo ago
Sex is illegal in American culture. There's probably someone in Skookum's life that will shame him for trying, whoever he tries to talk to, however he tries to talk to her. You can go anywhere in America and still find the same pattern. Maybe these rules only apply to a certain class of men, but they apply across all English-speaking subcultures.
Fortunately, there are other places for us to live.
gosouthyoungman
11mo ago
I'm glad :)
gosouthyoungman
11mo ago
So where am I allowed to make a joke?
gosouthyoungman
11mo ago
Sure sucks that what I'm skilled at decides whether I get to be a human being or not.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Are you sure about that? The heater has to have some flow through in order to turn on.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Is Jacobin rat-adjacent?
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
I really hope you're right, that sounds grand!
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
I'll try and let you know.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Yes there is a mixer. Usually with a tankless water heater, all the water is flowed through the heater and there is a knob to control the temperature. This one is different, it is in a closet (not accessible while showering), and it uses a mixer tap to control the temperature and pressure.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
I can tinker with the heater if I'm careful not to get caught. It doesn't seem to have any controls on it, but there are some valves controlling flow in and out.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Some people seem to think that you need to have a "personality" in order to have a right to live.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Someone on Twitter asked an interesting question, which was essentially, why is this topic so fraught? And the best answer I can give, is that it's the first topic (maybe) to be "born" in the forge of Postmodernism and Critical models of power at a popular level. Sure, they existed in academia before this, but I do think there was this divide between these ways of thinking and a much more transactional, retail, boots on the ground level productive politics. Frankly, it's possible that the other candidate for the "First topic" is COVID, and I do think you see a lot of the same patterns in that debate as well.
Please help me understand this paragraph, because I'm having trouble. By "this topic" I assume you mean either trans issues generally or something more specific. If this topic was "born", what is it's "birthday"? 2020? 2014? 1969? Is the birthday when the public first becomes generally aware of the issue? How long has the "forge of Postmodernism and Critical models of power at a popular level" been operating? 2020, 2016, 2014...? What other topics might qualify as being a "first topic"? Russiagate? Gamergate? Brexit? Ukraine War?
I only ask these questions because it sounds like you have an interesting model, but I can't put the puzzle pieces together in my head.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
I was making a childish pun about the pronunciation of the name Djibouti.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Imagine the top 0.01% of horrible-to-be-around-ness.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
Americans act like sex is illegal under Federal law.
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
I've definitely gone all the way without ever hearing "no". (Sometimes it's "yes yes yes" all the time haha.)
gosouthyoungman
1yr ago
I generally fantasize about things I want, yes.
Why is Lex Fridman single?
(I apologize if this is brief for a top level post. I just want the community's take on it.)
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