same here with my family; half of them are white-passing that they’ve all intermarried with maga-white people.

and i know it’s the maga thing because my extended family is not white-passing and they accept me and my political views without conditions.

and there are others who have it worse that i do, so i don’t think it’s entirely about hardship.

for me: i think it’s about experiencing being a stranger to the “tribes” that the people who were close to me belong to. eg. my white-passing family members discluding me from the families they’ve started with maga-white people; or the leftists groups being wary of me because autism-affected socialization makes them suspect that i’m an infiltrator of some type; or autism support groups that think that i’m not “autistic enough”.

don’t get me wrong: hardship is definitely part of it; if i had a thousand dollars for every time a manager or interviewer suspected that i was incapable of doing a job because of how i look and/or how i think, i would be a millionaire who wouldn’t need to work.

i think it’s understanding (or atleast being aware) that social and political hierarchies exist and are perpetually on-guard for outsiders. after all: there are maga brown/black people and gay republicans who are clueless about their places within these hierarchies.

i suspect that being brown, autistic and queer did it for me since this trio guarantees that i will never fit into the dominant social groups within this country.

maybe they want to leverage their position as an american counterweight to china to get trump to drop the tariffs.

if not, they should.

the lack of tv coverage on the attack of an ice facility in alvarado texas is more telling.

if you come from a mostly white passing family like i do, these terms become both ludicrous and enlightening:

my white passing mother and siblings are treated as non-hyphenated americans and that has enabled them to join the maga fold and obtain a higher socioeconomic status.

my father, my other siblings and i are not white passing and the way americans treat us has kept us outside of the maga fold and keeps us on par socioeconomically with the rest of our extended family who are also not white passing.

we literally came from the same exact background, but our worlds are far apart from each other and it’s gotten to such a bizarre extent the white passing family members no longer feel comfortable spending time the rest of the extended family because of trump and their socioeconomic statuses. the children of the white-passing family members have never met their cousins and are incapable of doing so for most of them since they do not know how to speak the language that they descend from.

i suspect is a class thing; as in how much respect should they give you based on your perceived class based on the work you you.

it’s a little bit like how they treat you based on how you’re dressed.

lemmy has shown me the other side of this type of asshattery:

i made a career change a few months ago because i realized that my work was helping maintain all the fuckery that we’re dealing with in the west and it led to me to working 2 full time jobs at the same time for a while. during that time, the liberal lemmy users accused me of being unemployed because i was posting frequently to help alleviate the stress and they REALLY didn’t like what i had to say.

it made me realize that the people who are trapped into this group-think were your value as a person is defined by how you answer the “so what do you do” question is so invasive that they believe that it’s not possible for you to enjoy yourself with something other than work, while you’re working.

it also made me realize that they defined themselves as a human being by their work; which led to a further understanding of why job interviews are so screwed up. my autism forces me to have a different take of interviews and, up until then, i wondered by they guarded the positions w so much fervor; now i think i understand that it’s how they define themselves and they want to make sure that you’re one of them.

my inner pessimist wonders if this is enough to help the cubans and how long it will take for the americans to figure out a way to impose their blockade on the skies as well.

they wouldn’t be able to do it if the rest of us didn’t buy into their bullshit.

I didn’t know this site existed and it’s exactly what I needed; thanks for sharing

hasn’t worked well for north korea and even just the rumor of iran having them gets their leadership routinely assassinated and their factories bombed from orbit; they’re smart to stay away from it.

i wish china’s rare earth mineral blockade was severe enough to impact this episode of belligerence from isreal.

i think there’s plenty of blame to lay at the feet of those who proselytize ubi, but willfully ignore the reasons; like these; why it won’t happen and then demonize others for not agreeing.

it feels like the people who are actively pushing for it are wilfully ignoring these facts.

… money prefers silence …

probably the reason why it’s enabling genocides and imperialism

this is the imperial boomerang coming back; particularly the political violence that the united states enabled immediately after world war 2 to prevent leftist governments from forming in western europe.

I wonder if we’ll ever learn how it was done

i wish they would persecute the soldiers who so arrogantly post their atrocities on social media; it’s disheartening to learn that they can commit monstrous depravity and then go on vacation in brazil using the money they saved on a college education or healthcare insurance thanks to my tax dollars.

it’s wild how so many are unofficially cooperating with ice, using official police equipment and personnel to do so, while maintaining a false air of neutrality (since it’s unofficial) and it’s depressing to see how well the facade works on people who don’t pay close enough attention; especially so when they publicly take pride in how their “blue city” doesn’t (officially) cooperate with the ice.