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So are we just completely fucked for the next few years?

>>2472690
Biden passed several trillion dollars in various packages ostensibly to help the US and yet and it did very little to help the US except line the pockets of his rich friends

lol i just want to end it all right now, i’ve been trying and failing to find consistent work for over a year with an okay resume (many years of experience but in dumb stuff, besides two office jobs). i got a summer job that’s only on weekends that will pay okay but i need to move out independently with my wife after i finish school and thinking of paying rent/etc while going through grad school right now just makes me want to die. i have 0 familial help and my wife works/goes to school also but we have no good prospects right now. seriously hope every trump voter dies incredibly painfully, soon. fuck every retard who voted to regress the economy during a widespread cost of living crisis. ‘oh it’ll just be painful in the short term!!!’ well everyone is already struggling, especially those of us who have no generational wealth. god i just want to be dead instead of having to live through this.

>>2473282
Yes and braindead trolls are going to tell you it's all going to be fine, just invest the money you need to survive into the stock market.

>>2473273
It's been proven that actual tariff amounts have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump "tariff" formula. The admin's formula is simply a country's trade deficit divided by the country's imports. Countries who sold a lot of stuff to the US but didn't buy as much even if they had low tariffs on the US got hit harder than countries with higher tariffs but who simply didn't sell or buy anything from the US at all. He's malding at countries like Cambodia and Bangladesh who sold us (or rather, sold American companies) cheap clothes but aren't able to afford to buy American stuff in return.

>>2472205
you have hentai brain

>>2473279
now they call women who dont wear make up "misogynists" because looking down on the ritual submission that is the performance of femininity means you must hate women

>>2472205
mento illness is a hell of a drug

>>2473248
>>2473250
>acting like your special
>for they're special day
real big thinkers defending makeup ayup

>>2473299
Most people on this planet really are meant to be ignored and treated like non entities. But yes, this is “pop culture”.

>>2473196
the fact theyre talking about their moids going to a prostitute as the same as jerking off reveals that they dont see the prostituted women (who are often underage) as "human" at all its fucking bleak

>>2473196
how many times will moids repost this video on social media about how totes based japan is for being degenerate

>>2472710
My skin is crawling because I know people like this

>>2473216
I was going to ask why he's wearing the Spirit Halloween werewolf gloves, until I read the phrase "alpha papa wolf" lmao.

>>2473224
Is the reverse true too? Can japanese women buy sex and that's not cheating?

nonas who are unable to immigrate out of Canada, how do you cope with the way things are escalating in our country? My copium is that Im diaspora and in comparison to the current state of my native country, things in Canada are so much better than I can ask for. I especially feel guilty for my mother who worked blood swear and tears to immigrate to a better country and have her efforts allbe for naught. I dont want to continue this cycle again and again of packing up and constantly chasing after a “better place“.
Recently I struggled on identifying what I would consider a “home”, whether it be Country, Province, city, town, home, suburb or apartment.

>>2354304
Old post but come to my shows nonna we never manage to get cover out of anyone. But jokes aside Quai des Brumes still usually has fairly low cover, La Ligne Verte usually has free shows (some are even good), Casa is still okay sometimes. To be fair though cover is getting higher because musicians are paid absolute shit and when people will easily spend $30 for 2-3 beers at a show but not want to pay the musicians $10 for 2 hours of music it won't even cover the uber/cab fees to bring the instruments to the venue. Plus fewer people are going to shows because no one can afford it so the cover has to be higher due to lower turnout, it's a vicious cycle. With the gov't cracking down on noise laws you need to rent studios 40min out of town just to rehearse and that costs a lot of money too. I'm really sad that all the venues that doubled as popular resto-cafes like l'Escalier and Reso closed, because those would bring clientele regardless of the shows and there were enough people to make it PWYC.

>>2354396
The entire economy of Canada is basically 'landlords' but it sucks especially in a city like mtl that runs entirely on low rent. No one would live here and accept the 30% lower wages and shit weather otherwise.

>>2459994
Every single Canadian I know cares about troon shit. The reason we don't vote on it is because all the parties are exactly the same, not because people don't care. Have you even gone outside, talked to another person, etc.

>>2466888
I'm in a similar position to you. I have citizenship to an EU country and I could technically move but there are a lot of reasons why I practically can't for the time being (financial, language barriers in EU countries with good job prospects, etc) plus my home country where I do speak the language is a shithole worse than Canada in almost every possible way which is getting worse and scarier every year. My family also shed blood sweat and tears to immigrate here and my mom says all the time that her biggest regret in life was moving to a different continent than her parents, so as their only child I really don't feel like I can leave the country and abandon them here. They are both kinda unwell esp. my mom. I actually seriously considered moving to my home country earlier during COVID lockdowns but then it turned into a bigger shithole than Canada basically overnight so I gave up especially since I don't think I could find a good job there for my qualifications and my spouse doesn't even speak the language.

I'm not really coping with how things are escalating here to be honest and I still think about moving to Europe all the time as a long-term goal if things get really bad, but I really don't want to learn a 4th language (I feel like my language learning capacity ended at the third) and uproot my entire life to go somewhere that has a lot of the same issues as here just because they might have less of an affordability crisis right now. I guess I'm coping by trying to see if I can get a good job and make a lot of money and make the best of it while I'm here since there are many things and people I love and care about here. But it does feel bleak and I don't really have hope anything will get better, especially after reading all the 'guys what do you think about voting for Carney in the next election!' posts here. Yes all the parties are the same but Canadians never learn, just keep playing into this Liberal Party has the mandate of heaven and divine right of kings schtick over and over again while they continue to be morePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2468566
>Have you even gone outside, talked to another person
I could ask you the same question. I have never met a single person in my life, outside of university campuses, that actually give a crap about trannies. Especially not in the realm of politics. The average voter is infinitely more concerned with the American situation, the economy, and immigration trends, in that order, than they are concerned about trannies. The social currency of troons is overestimated and overstated on social media, and on LC too. Passive indifference is not the same as active support.
>I have citizenship to an EU country
It is incredibly difficult to have sympathy for people that have foreign citizenship, especially EU citizenship. You can move to the EU, and work and live wherever in it, at any time you so choose to do so. You could even bring your parents with you. The majority of Canadians don't have that choice.
>the whole world is likely going to shit
This is what typical Canadian cope looks like.

>>2466888
Your mother didn't immigrate here to give you a good life, she immigrated to give you a chance at a good life. If you want to take that chance, you can do it. If you don't want to take the chance, your children might. A lot of people don't want to leave Canada forever, but they choose to leave temporarily for the financial benefits. For example, I have a friend that moved to the USA to work for a few years so she can save up enough money to buy a condo back home. A lot of Canadians I speak to are in the camp of: "I'm not leaving forever, but I have to leave for a while." Leaving doesn't have to be a dramatic event, it's not like if you emigrate somewhere else for a few years you won't be able to call back home or visit.
>Recently I struggled on identifying what I would consider a “home”, whether it be Country, Province, city, town, home, suburb or apartment.
I suggest reading The Need for Roots by Simone Weil. It focuses heavily on the importance of a person's roots and the need for belonging. It might help you out.

>Canada has the most unaffordable housing in the 38 most developed nations that form the OECD.
>Canada has some of the most expensive telecommunication costs in the world; Canada consistently ranks as the country with the most expensive cell data.
>Canada has the lowest amount of acute care beds. There are 2 acute care beds per 1000 people; France has a ratio of 3 per 1000, and Germany has a rate of 6 per 1000.
>Canada's largest airport, Toronto Pearson, has the most delayed flights of any airport in the world.
>Canadians drive the most fuel inefficient vehicles in the world. Per kilometer driven, Canada burned more fuel and emitted more CO2 than any other nation.
Source: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/worst-in-the-world-here-are-all-the-rankings-in-which-canada-is-now-last

I'm very badly craving fig bars, sand, soap and clay. Im heavily considering eating the air dry clay i have. I saw that there's a type of Mexican cup called a barro, that's made out of an edible clay. I think I might try to find some.

Tiana is so sexy

Simple milk and cookies

>>2472554
I wanted to eat those pastries so badly as a kid.

I crave it

>>2472177
all the supersitions various cultures have with mirrors is really interesting to me

>>2472343
There's been a few times i've fallen asleep facing one of those adjustable makeup mirrors by my bedside and it gave me nightmares before I even knew it was a superstition. I also used to get nightmares whenever i'd sleep facing the wall consistently until my late teens. No idea what that was about.

>>2472995
I bet he was raised by a single black mother who did everything for him and now he resents her. Many such cases

>>2472177
she's right though

>>2472435
There's been a wide mix of topics on this thread anon, the COVID thing just came up last weeks after months of people talking about other things. 'It gets heated' seems like a weird excuse not to talk about a conspiracy in the conspiracy thread. I wouldn't mind if there were more specific threads for specific things but there used to be a COVID thread where discussion of vaccines and similar was banned and people were directed to this thread instead so farmhands clearly prefer for the discussion to happen here. People will argue 'it doesn't belong in the thread' no matter what people discuss in this thread because it seems like such a wide range of topics is discussed here from like random philosophical gnosticism talk to glowy stuff to COVID to sexism. But I guess people with an issue should post in /meta/ since the thread OP just says
>Do you have somewhat schizophrenic beliefs that worry your friends and family? Tired of getting red-texted for "tinfoiling" about recent events around the globe? If so, you've come to the right place.
>Discussions surrounding government cover-ups, entertainment industry secrets, odd predictions, political intrigues, etc., are all welcome here.
Personally I think the COVID shit is a proven conspiracy and less 'conspiracy theorish' than half the stuff talked about in random /ot/ country and politics threads, not a 'conspiracy theory' at all but I'm sure a lot of people in other threads would disagree with me, so…

>>2472444
Ayrt, I'm not against covid discussion… I'm against it having a containment zone where it can just be a 24/7 infight instead of having little breaks.

>>2472449
Oh I get it, that makes sense. I just check up on this thread every once in a while and if it's something I'm not interested in I leave unless I have something I really want to post about.

>>2472440
I have seen it too. I have bizarre mini sleep episodes from time to time where I just continue to dream about what I am doing right now and sometimes it's using my phone. It's very confusing because I don't know what I actually did and what I imagined.

>>2473184
Wow that's scary. I only had one dream like that when I had a high stress job. I kept waking up to do a task, but I was actually dreaming doing the task. When I finally woke up for real, it was very strange.

I just had a dream where I saw my phone. I was trying to turn on my VPN, but I couldn't make sense of my phone's lockscreen. I've only recently been seeing my phone in my dreams… how odd.

Despite all reassurance I can't help but feel like you hate me and only keep me around to be nice but you'll grow too sick of me one day, especially after today because I don't even know if we can even be around each other despite how much I like you.

I am so ridiculously beautiful

I miss who I thought you were. I know that person never really existed, but I’m still sad for what I thought I lost.

Lying about your dreams to sound more quirky and passive aggressive, genuinely why are you still mentally in middle school? It's pathetic.

It really sucks living without you because no one will ever live up to you and how special you will always be to me. No one is the same. I will never experience anything like that again, I don't really have words for it either and there's no way to tell you. You were the only person who understood that intense pain and hurt and made me feel like I wasn't alone in the worst things that had ever happened to me. I have accepted that this will never happen again, and doesn't happen for most people. I mostly wish it never happened so that I don't have to live with this void. Other people aren't the same, can't be and won't be.

>>2472957
it literally looks like her nose is dirty… reminds me of lucinda kek.

>>2472797
I too have uncommon taste in husbandos but I would vote for Leon too because he is iconic and he is the most popular fictional guy across all the boards.

I fucking hate anime and male weebs

>>2473145
Anime and manga - actually all of japanese culture - are inherently pedophilic and rapey. I actually firmly believe japanese men cannot understand consensual sex with adult women, it's simply not part of their culture and not what the male citizen wants. Anime and manga have zero cultural value and are actually poisonous to whoever it touches. It creates extreme brainrot in men and destroys women's self esteem, leading them to either isolate or whore themselves. I hate anime and wish it were outlawed in every civilized society.

>>2473203
Kek you're so dramatic.

>>2470393
ich vermisse es nach cons durch die animexx event galerien zu klicken und leute auf unvorteilhaften fotos zu petzen

>>2471487
ich war mit vielen cosplayerinnen befreundet und der Volkssport war dann, nach der Con zu gucken, wer versehentlich vom füßemann fotografiert wurde. das war so ein alter creep, der auf jeder con war und nur cosplayerinnen fotografiert waren, die barfuß waren. man hat sich aber einfach nicht sein Gesicht merken können, sodass man sich halt wie bei jedem anderen Fotografen hat fotografieren lassen und nach der Con kam dann das böse Erwachen, wenn man in füßemanns "Connichi 2007" Ordner auftauchte. good times.

>>2472615
In meinen ENS war burkhart auch. Dazu haben wirklich alle deutschen Cosplayerinnen, die über 15 Jahre dabei sind, eine Geschichte.
Es waren früher echt eine Menge Creeps unterwegs.

>>2470073
SchülerVZ war meine Seite. Immer nach der Schule Mitschüler stalken und durch dir ganzen Fotos stöbern. Ich vermisse es.

>>2470073
Also PULL hat mich schon nostagisch gemacht, ich habs geliebt und bin irgendwann vor dem Crash zu lolcow migriert. Ich habe tatsächlich aus nostalgischen Gefühlen letztens mal wieder Animexx gelurkt. Ich weiß noch als ich damals zu einem Animexx Treffen gegeangen bin und mich dort so furchtbar gefühlt habe, weil alles verschwitzte Naruto Cosplayer bzw einfach Akazuki Mantel drüber geschmissen und fertig dort waren kek
>>2472947
Omg Schueler VZ! Ich war auch bei Studi VZ und vor alle dem Schueler.cc. Dort hatte ich glaube ich meine erstle persönliche Kuh für mich entdeckt. Sie war "emo" und hat aller paar Tage eine Foto Galerie mit 30 Bildern hochgeladen um zu beweisen wie edgy und cool sie einfach ist! Good old times.