OhWell [he/him]

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Cake day: September 29th, 2020

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  • Biden said a few weeks ago after the checks were removed from the relief bill that the government wasn’t supposed to help people and no one should ask for a hand out .Several Dems came out this week to use conservative talking points about how “it’s too much” and “a hand out”.

    I can tell you this from yesterday, my entire family will probably never vote Democrat again. We’re all poor and the thought of $2,000 to pay off debt and get some help, that is a great deal to them. All I heard yesterday was how shocked they were that Trump of all people offered this. “This is what Democrats should be doing. This is what I used to vote for them in hopes that they would do. How did anyone truly think Joe Biden of all people was going to help us?” that was the words of my uncle who quit voting for them after the 90s.






  • Trump bombed Iran in 2017 and it was when all of the left was screaming that we were about to go to war with Iran.

    One of the biggest problems with the left is how they analyze everything in terms of foreign policy and imperialism like it’s still 2004. The war machine is not even close to full strength anymore. Anyone who has actually paid attention to American intervention and NATO in the middle east for the past 10 years can see where they have been getting their asses kicked in Afghanistan, and Syria was a major failure for them.

    Ask neo-liberals what they dislike about Obama and they’ll bring up his foreign policy and what a failure he was to them with upholding the empire. Trump gets all this blame for mishandling the empire and all this BS about a decline, but it was happening before he came around. In 2014, Obama was heavy criticized for looking weak against Russia after they invaded Ukraine and did nothing about it, and Syria was considered a huge blunder for him too.

    The US war machine has been declining for years. It didn’t just begin with Trump. The only difference is that the neo-cons around him were willing to defund NATO if it could make them a profit, cause that’s how they operate individually.


  • California’s prison system is probably the worst in the entire country.

    They have completely segregated prisons by race and gang affiliation. Their prisons have always had a lot of inner politics with the gangs and inmates, cause the wardens and COs are notorious for playing them against one another with their yard politics and escalating violent tensions (this is also how drugs are often smuggled into prisons more often than not. With all their super tight security with visitors, it ain’t getting in from that. It’s COs and Wardens hustling). If there is anything I learned from Big Herc and his Fresh Out/Prison Talk videos, it’s that.

    Furthering on, they have built so many prisons in California that in the past 20 years, they’ve been moving the for-profit run ones out of state with California prisoners. These are the prisons built usually out in the middle of nowhere, in a de-industrialized rural small town somewhere in Utah or Nevada. The prison becomes the main source of a steady job in that local community and it beats having to work at a dollar store or McDonalds for shit wages, hence why a lot of people in these small towns will end up going into police academy and working to become a CO. It’s easier for them to get employed at for-profit prisons cause they’re ran like walmarts.

    And last but not least; the forced labor in California, indeed is as bad as a southern prison. They are probably worse than Louisiana when it comes to that.