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The evolution of the idiot .. 3 comments
It wasn't just a fashion statement 10 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
It's hard to read tone from a Twitter post obviously but it seemed like a joke to me, playing on the stereotype of the southern racist redneck rather than condemning every Trump supporter as such. But what do I know, I don't have a Twitter so I can't go and ask Travis personally.
It wasn't just a fashion statement 10 comments
It wasn't just a fashion statement 10 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
There were a ton of arrests after each riot. So no, they didn't "get away with it".
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Kulkin presidency 2024 8 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I'd say pardoning war criminals and Wall Street goons is equally bad, just in a different way
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If I'm in the kitchen and nothing catches fire, it's an accomplishment 6 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I used to not be able to cook at all in my teens because whenever I'd try to help my mom, she'd just say I'm doing it wrong and take it from me to do it herself. Now that I live on my own, I've realized I actually really enjoy cooking and now I'm pretty damn good at it. Well, I'm still clumsy af so I spill and knock stuff over all the time but the end result usually turns out really good somehow.
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P e n c 1 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
To be fair you shouldn't wash jeans too often as it weakens the denim. Once every six months is enough unless they're dirty or smelly.
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Walking behind women 8 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I'm a woman but I'm rather tall, broad shouldered and dress in all black so I'm also aware that I might seem intimidating to some people (old people especially look at me weird. And this is even more true now in winter because I have this long coat that makes me look like a character from the Matrix lol). I usually overtake them tbh, I'm a fast walker anyway and I don't want someone's prejudice to make me late to wherever I'm going so I sure as hell won't slow down for them.
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2020's best diet. COVID19 4 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
If you want a cheap but still nutritious diet, I recommend going for legumes rather than rice. They're rich in protein and can be made into a huge variety of foods (not that rice can't, but you usually have to add more ingredients to make it taste like something). I'm typing this while eating homemade dal with feta cheese lol.
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Manlets rise up 3 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Some asshole: ha ha short men aren't men
The internet: noooo shut up, they're short kings!
Tall girls who are treated like freaks and mocked (especially by short guys): ._.
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Don't get me wrong, I think discrimination by height is wrong either way, but man, the venom and bitterness I get from some short guys is unparalleled. Not all obviously, not even most, it's a small minority really. Basically not all short guys are mean to tall women, but whenever someone was an asshole to me and mocked/insulted me for my height, it was a short guy. Some are just so mad at the world for making jokes at their expense they go and bully tall girls mercilessly.
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The internet: noooo shut up, they're short kings!
Tall girls who are treated like freaks and mocked (especially by short guys): ._.
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Don't get me wrong, I think discrimination by height is wrong either way, but man, the venom and bitterness I get from some short guys is unparalleled. Not all obviously, not even most, it's a small minority really. Basically not all short guys are mean to tall women, but whenever someone was an asshole to me and mocked/insulted me for my height, it was a short guy. Some are just so mad at the world for making jokes at their expense they go and bully tall girls mercilessly.
Black haired Beauty by Bolesław Szańkowski 9 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Wow, yeah, it's really striking how few people are aware that the Romani were also one of the primary "targets" of the Holocaust and there are so many Romani victims of WWII.
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Worthless hushed sexier Mandrill 6 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
We were so glad we got such a reaction because if we placed first in the last competition, we'd win the main prize (it was like a pack of candy, but also the bragging rights!) but the organizers decided to pull some "everybody is a winner, the poems were all good" bullshit, I guess not to offend the other kids' artistic sensibilities or something. So everybody got the same amount of points for the last competition, which means it basically didn't count and the other team kept their lead and got the prize! I was so mad back then omg. Those cunts didn't even share the candy.
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Worthless hushed sexier Mandrill 6 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Bruh this legit happened to me at a summer camp when I was 13. The organizers hosted a bunch of competitions of all kinds, some were athletic, dress up, building a sand sculpture etc, typical teenage crap. Throughout the day my team was always close second behind another team, and then came the final competition, which was to write a poem using certain words the organizers provided. Our team absolutely NAILED that one, because everyone went for happy cheery stuff while we wrote a dark, apocalyptic poem (it was my idea and I wrote most of it because I was an emo shit back then lol) which surprisingly didn't come off as pretentious trash but was actually quite good! The organizers and other teams were actually shocked at how good it was.
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Black haired Beauty by Bolesław Szańkowski 9 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
That's really sad. It's always bad for history to be forgotten because people don't want to talk about it.
I don't know anything about the education system of either Austria or Germany but here in Czechia we've never even learned about the Romani people at school, about their culture or history, nothing. So in a system like that it's easy for these harmful stereotypes to persist when the only "education" the kids get about the Romani is from their white trash racist uncle at family gatherings.
That's really interesting that people recognize you. Whereas most people are totally unable to tell my ethnicity. I'm a basic white girl from Czechia with some Slovak ancestry, so my heritage is basically all contained within Central Europe, but I've been told I look Spanish or Turkish (I'm pale as a corpse in winter but tan really well in the summer), Native American (bc I have huge cheekbones lol), Swedish (idk how they got that, I'm not even blonde) so really ethnicity is such a weird concept.
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I don't know anything about the education system of either Austria or Germany but here in Czechia we've never even learned about the Romani people at school, about their culture or history, nothing. So in a system like that it's easy for these harmful stereotypes to persist when the only "education" the kids get about the Romani is from their white trash racist uncle at family gatherings.
That's really interesting that people recognize you. Whereas most people are totally unable to tell my ethnicity. I'm a basic white girl from Czechia with some Slovak ancestry, so my heritage is basically all contained within Central Europe, but I've been told I look Spanish or Turkish (I'm pale as a corpse in winter but tan really well in the summer), Native American (bc I have huge cheekbones lol), Swedish (idk how they got that, I'm not even blonde) so really ethnicity is such a weird concept.
Black haired Beauty by Bolesław Szańkowski 9 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I'd also like to add this is also the case with Middle Eastern women, with 19th century male travel writers depicting harems as something sexy and promiscuous, when that's not what a harem is at all in the original sense. They didn't know what they were talking about of course, since men (apart from male relatives) cannot enter harems, so their imagination ran wild and they completely twisted the perception of these cultures as barbaric and licentious. Some of these Orientalist tropes are even used nowadays by far right political parties to depict refugees as backwards barbarians who have slave women in harems, so this kind of depiction has really done a lot of damage.
Of course it's the artist's freedom to paint or write about anything they want. But maybe they should've considered the implications beforehand.
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Of course it's the artist's freedom to paint or write about anything they want. But maybe they should've considered the implications beforehand.
Black haired Beauty by Bolesław Szańkowski 9 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I agree. I live in Czechia and discrimination of Romani people is still very real here. A lot of old people here always say that Romani people only exploit the social system and have a lot of kids so that they can get money from the state (which is especially ironic coming from the people who retired comfortably at 55 and got money from the state ever since, making retirement impossible for future generations who will have to work until we die bc the state will have no money for pensions).
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I mean admittedly I don't have to social distance too hard since I had covid recently and I'm immune for some time now, but still, I don't want to be that idiot who breathes down other people's necks despite having the 2m marks under my feet.