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fuck sri lanka don't give two fucks. |
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We buy a lot of product from a company in Sri Lanka. It's been a total disaster. I've driven autos (tuk-tuks) all around the country. Was never impressed - but I do feel for the people. As usual, governments create suffering instead of prosperity. |
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mostly just a reaction to bbc world service just being a steady stream of utter disasters in far-away places, loads of them, constantly, to the point where i am like: is this the one in africa or the other thing? that so many i'm getting them jumbled up and at that point i just sort of throw my hands up in the air, and say: you know what? i didn't cause this, i cannot do anything about it, why should i care, why am i even listening to this? and turn off the NPR icecast floe but it's kind of like "care" is a muscle and it's tired of running a marathon some days. and nothing against sri lanka itself. just, oh hell no, not another cognitive/emotional burden. get lost sorry sri lanka has screwed teh ur produkt. |
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My happiness increases inversely to the amount of corporate media I consume. BBC/NPR/CNN/Fox/MSNBC/YouTube/etc That stuff sells you stuff while rotting your brain. It is so awful. I don't pay any of those companies attention whoring anymore. I am free and feel great. I am also always surprised when someone says 'I was watching BBC/NOR' - I just tune out. I know the next thing they say will be stupid - so I ignore it. Corporate media is the ruin of what's left of democracy, in my view. (sorry, feel better telling the truth) |
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^^^ typos from a rotted brain, clearly... |
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so i tune into NPR and it seems good at first: "...you might have to take care of an aging parent, you might have to keep that car until you're on a first-name basis with the tow-truck driver, you might have student debt... and you do these things so that when you get to the point you no longer can work, or want to work, you then have the resources to take care of yourself" and thus far i am thoroughly nodding and saying yes this is important conversation; there is policy there then they cut to the break and say: "we're talking about the finances of black women in america" and i immediately close the connection to npr's icecast. though i quite feel all of this myself, i am not a black woman, so i really have no business here |
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if it makes any sense -- like, zero personal bias, just a pragmatic assessment -- everyone is going through shit right now, and that makes it a rather poor approach to say "well i'm going through some shit because i'm a black woman" and stuff that noise can we just say "things are rough now" and have a hug and then "alright now what can we do about it" |
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tuned back in. bbc complaining about how only 20 of 400 roles went to latinos and james franco is playing fidel castro after sexual harassment allegations. i have to say i fail to see how these two things fit together, even though i'm not arguing with you when you say it seems the guy went over the line and should feel the heat for it then they cut to shouting out sponsors and this is why people just watch mr. beast on youtube; i hate that guy more than anything |
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i guess, it's a point about mixing concerns as a tactic to claim ownership over a grievance, with all the dividends provided. there are genuine concerns a black woman has that others in america do not. white actors regularly get cast in ethnic roles, the same way a school system will buy 40 licenses for windows 11 every year. james franco did something like "learn to do intimate acting scenes with james franco" and then obviously some girls sign up thinking it's just what it says on the tin and pay him a bunch of money for this and.. it's not what it says on the tin. but then you take it too far; you start saying "as a black woman, i have student debt," or "as a black woman, i have to take care of an aging parent" and at that point you are hardcore tuning everyone out from any sort of sympathy in your direction because like this youtube link will get pulled because it's doing weird ugly shit to dodge copyright cop and i've linked it because the ones that don't require age-verification because there's some f-bombs. i hate soccer moms |
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i guess i just feel like what i'm hearing is stuff like "the system is racist because james franco abused some poor girls and he's now been cast as fidel castro" and "the system is racist because i am black and i have student debt and an aging parent" and it's not like you can't find obvious places to call the system racist, but... step the fuck off |
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i guess it's kind of like i just put it all out of my mind; shrug it off. but eventually i just need to rant a bit and somehow i wind up here |
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i really miss when NPR was just weird cool interesting things like an hour journey into some weird specific ethnic music, when i could actually tune into 'wait wait don't tell me' by accident but now blink and you'll miss it. instead it's all syndicated TED talk BBC world poop |
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im interpreting this as "the problems I have are compounded by the fact that I am from a minority group"* and not "the system is racist because I am black and I have an aging parent and student debt" *they're most likely marginalized and are hit even harder by everyday problems. being part of a minority itself isn't the problem You talk a lot |
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Have you considered making a blog? |
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LOOOOL! |
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i piss on sri lankans and blogs |
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i'll be shorter: i'll get right around to giving a fuck about them and their problems shortly after i feel like i have a moment to take a breath and fight my own personalized pile of shit that america is dumping on me right now. that they are more fucked than me is not really something i have time to think about. that, frankly, anyone who does purport to give a shit is probably just virtue hoarding. and who the hell are you anyways |
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i guess there is the obvious converse: if i weren't so mired in shit in my own country i might actually have the capacity give a fuck about other countries; it's not that i lack the ability to do so |
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i guess i just reached a point where i got utterly fed up over hearing about third-world drivel when there's shit washing up on my doorstep and sorry i'm busy |
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I don't have time to think about other people's problems either but that's how I interpreted their statement. Just don't read the news |
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Continue describing the imaginary version of me you've invented in your head I find it amusing |
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I hope you'll get rid of your problems |
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my employer is from sri lanka and a friend of mine i hope you feel awful now .. j/k you are right to not feel responsible for the former president being a crook. my gf cannot watch the news btw. the state the world is in is absolutely terrifying and actually giving a fuck is not easy at all. just by your reaction i feel, you still do. |
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Y H B T Y H L H A N D (i was just tired of drowning in hearing it all, i ranted a bit, then i'm just bored and people are actually replying to this? no worries) |
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"...the flooding in pakistan, i'm sure you've seen the pictures" --BBC Newshour ummm, pictures? what flooding? but, rewind, i know someone from pakistan. wicked sense of humor. dead ringer for a friend from high school, like, "oh wow i have [that guy] back this is great" and i miss working with him for that reason. but then he's from pakistan and a muslim and none of this really comes up until he mentions he's going on a pilgrimage at lunch one day -- like ten people at the table -- and everyone like, wut? and after that we started asking questions -- mostly others did faster than i thought to; i just listened -- and the most fascinating stuff came out that if you're a single female and a pakistani mum is staring at you kind of funny, she's looking for a wife for her son. that he believes in arranged marriage because it's "convenient." which... ok, but... wow. that when he lived in pakistan, people would show up at your house with guns, and say give us all the cash, we're searching the house and if we find any you don't tell us about we'll shoot one of you. and his mum cracks halfway and gives up the stash. and they just wanted to get the fuck out of pakistan so then they do and run some convenience stores -- really -- and the guy was held up at gunpoint multiple times -- really. now he's a talented software engineer and quietly hilarious once you get to know him, and you'd never hear a hint of any of this unless you asked. was never about the people impacted. it was just jfdkgdfg i know pakistan has problems listening to this just making me upset |
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