Sory for the late reply, have been training as a street medic and not on here as much; I live in North Alabama. Our building has been ‘condemned’ but they won’t shut it down because they have nowhere to move us, they are hoping the majority of our residents die before they build new facilities …e tc

Tanks! appreciate it

Rocket City Alabama :) I’m going to start my own security guard business, fuck it.

Yeah, it’s been in the prairie dog population for as long as I can remember (we moved to Flagstaff in '76 and it was there then, alongside Hantavirus )

xhs? You mean xhitter? I am banned from xhitter, FB & reddit forever lol. I’m glad he’s on substack, can you please provide me with the link in his Tik Tok bio? I’m not on Tik Tok either :(

Overall the weather feels all over the place.

Boy howdy does it ever. I am pretty sure Northern Alabama is experiencing Florida creep. I’ve been to Florida a few times, it feels just like it here now; and the gators are coming in force. We used to just have a gator sighting now and again but they are kind of moving in these days. It’s really really damp all the time , the air heavy with it like soup. I’m ok with it because: it keeps everything really really green. But I have to dry my clothes in my car lol (I don’t use washer or dryer I wash in my sink)

Amen. I stopped listening to podcasts and started listening to the people. I walk around the homeless camp giving out food and clothes and listening to them. We greet one another on the street with dignity and a sense of community. Boots on the ground is the only way forward here. Spread love, food, seeds, clothing, music, information, make community and make it TIGHT. I know all the clerks in my 'hood. I have their phone numbers. I watch their stores for them at night and they help me out when I am desperate.

Bold of you to assume a lib knows what Stalin looks like 😆

I know that feeling. Living in 3rd world - ish public housing and the directors do not look at you, don’t care to know your name, would rather die than go in your apartment. They wear the stupidest most garish clothing to a place where most of us get our clothes from the dumpster/goodwill/sidewalks. They drive BMWs and Mercedes up in here-- who the fuck is making that kind of money managing public housing? One starts to want to put sugar in gas tanks (in Minecraft of course)

I live in public housing in the deep south; in a building as old as I am (60+). It’s falling apart and should be condemned. Sporadic hot water- and when there IS hot water it’s 140 degrees and the cold water CUTS OUT all the time when the hot water is working- showers can scald you if you are not able to move fast enough.

The housing authority told us they were building new buildings and for us to hold on until then (6 years?) but they refuse to fix the boiler in the meantime. 6 years is a long time to think about not having hot water when you need it. And the only way to tell if there’s hot water is to test it, sometimes the only time you can shower with hot water is at 2 am or whatever. shrug

So people are rightfully upset, we are all senior / disabled/ living way below the poverty level. People tried to stand up to the administration of the Housing Authority and got tossed out of the meetings by a fucking police whom they had there just because they know no hot water upsets people.

The main dude of the HA is this tall bougie ass black dude who resembles one of the uppity gangsters on the Chi - fucker got mad when I left the meeting after seeing the cop loom over one of my neighbors when they asked too many questions out of turn. I got up and left and they told me later that that big GQ looking bougie dude (who wears sunglasses to meetings so, SO DO I) asked “Who is that , who just left this meeting?”

Later after the meeting broke up I was coming back from my walk (to clear my head from the rage at having a cop attend a meeting with old/disabled folks in it) and bougie dude was walking out to his car. I walked right past him with a giant snarl and dared him to say anything to me. He did not. He stared straight forward and kept walking.

I saw him again last week outside the admin building next door and I coughed loudly and spit on the ground next to his car. Fucker did not turn around but he could see me in the reflection. Bougie ass removed with a PHd in how to fuck over poor people. Threatening us with eviction (they actually have no where to put us all) if we get rowdy about the hot water.

Threatening us. Looming over us and having cops at meetings. Fucking fascists. No hot water, shitty guards at the door, (hell I walked in on one in the bathroom, he didn’t even bother to lock the bathroom door. He was on cloud 9 high as a kite looking at his phone with his pants down around his ankles and I laughed and said “I was just looking all the fuck over for you. I was thinking of calling your supe!” and he says “HUH?”

Our front door card reader doesn’t work, the parking lot gate doesn’t work, people break into the building by jumping the side gates, people let criminals in here all the time, it’s nuts. It’s basically 3rd world right around the corner from bougie ass downtown. There’s always a cop in the elevator going up to arrest someone, always paramedics taking OD’d folks out of here, and we can’t even have hot water.

So glad I served this shithole country in the Nat Guard

so glad I worked my ass off for decades under the table not knowing that I’d not get much Social Security if I didn’t get on the payroll, no one told me Until I was like 35. I’m autistic as fuck too. ADHD, CPTSD, PTSD-- yet I know what is right from wrong and this is bullshit. That all said I spend my days helping the less fortunate at the homeless camp bringing them food and clothing and materials I gather from the 'hood. The 'hood provides when the government does not.

Thanks for listening to my stupid rant -Zed

May I borrow your words. I am autistic and words fail me more often than not when dealing with emotional subjects like this. well said

What happened to CM? I have not been around

Yeah, for real. You are right, one would have been enough.

Lot of people in here defending it. There’s ghouls and then there’s people who send cars into space just for kicks and allow millions of their products to be sold with life threatening defects, whilst being a nazi. You all defend xhitter all you fucking want. I won’t go back. I don’t care who is on there, I ain’t supporting that trash.

I’m pretty anti-AI art but these made me laugh and I don’t find any harm in them being shared amongst comrades. I mean I have a wallet that says ‘BAD MOTHERFUCKER’ so you know I got a kick out of it

It’s good for a laugh, these Samuel/Lenins.

Yeah but Elon is literally a nazi. Openly a nazi doing sig heils on national tv. How can anyone support that shit is beyond me. shrug

Any American who wishes to know what is really going on must do a very deep dive into many rabbit holes to find what they are looking for. I started questioning the narrative at about 3o years old, which was about 30 years ago. I asked everyone “how does one learn the truth?” no one I knew could answer that. I would watch the news and be so confused all the time. I read a lot of books in my life from Dickens to Salinger etc, every classic I could get my hands on, I read, and I think that helped some. And I traveled to other countries when someone else would pay for it, which also helped a little bit. but it wasn’t until I found people like Lee Camp (who was on R.T. when I first found him) and he led me to Richard D. Wolff who led me to Chris Hedges. I now primarily listen to Richard Wolff and Chris Hedges-- and thereby get all my truth. But look how long it took to find them! I was a liberal up until I found Wolff. Which was about 2015. I also listen to Sam Vaknin on occasion. I refuse to listen to mainstream media but every liberal I know is absolutely engrossed in the cult of personality in which they sit around watching late night comedians while texting their friends about the comedian’s words and they think that this is being involved. And when someone like me who has been listening to Richard Wolff for a few years (he’s a Marxist economist if you have not heard of him) actually knows what is going on in the world and tries to have a conversation with one of these people (like my sister or brother or any of their friends) about current events I am told I am insane, stupid, don’t know what I am talking about and should just shut up.They refuse to listen. If it wasn’t said by their favorite political comedian or their favorite news anchor or People Magazine they refuse to hear it. Because to have a different opinion than those outlets would get them thrown out of their ‘friends’ groups. And that friend group is all they have, people who sit around eating chips, texting each other while watching TV – that’s all they have.

I don’t have any pearls. I like to stand by my convictions is all. As I said you do you

It will never fail to amaze me how you can prove to an American that all mainstream media is owned by CORPO and they accept that but they can’t rub two brain cells together and extrapolate how CORPO would want to control the narrative.