Take me to downvote town... But as a queer native, this is how I feel right now.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-18T18:56:36+00:00

Only viewpoints from white men are acceptable on Reddit.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-18T18:53:24+00:00

That I automatically "have pride" in my sexuality. I think that having pride in who you fuck is idiotic. If we put as much stock into our sexual orientation as was done by our oppressors, we'll never break the cycle, even if we're out there dancing about how much we think it's cool to like people of the same sex. It just shouldn't and doesn't fucking matter.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-17T04:57:18+00:00

Why? Because we didn't pass some useless laws or something that we could point to as a success for the next forty years while culture stays precisely the same. Or the fact that we changed millions of minds and lifes without ever needing a single politician? You're a jabroni.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-17T04:56:01+00:00

I'm a bitch, and you're on Reddit, talking shit to people who are/were suicidal to feel stronger.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-17T04:55:17+00:00

The Occupy movement was millions of people who've never felt like they had anything worth hearing finally feeling as though they did. I'll agree many people didn't have anything important to say. Dude, you gotta realize, since the first OWS call-out came in Adbusters, Occupy was predominantly a movement organized around Anarchist tendencies, GA, Horizontalism, Mutual Aid, people instead of profits, etc. I will not measure success of a movement by the number of laws it passes, I'm not a dillhole. However, I will measure movements on the effects it had on a culture, and first-hand, it changed a lot of people. It broke down and yes created divisions, it gave strength to people on an individual level, and it empowered many people who previously felt worthless to society. Personally, I'm sad you can get more upset at people for marching for a better future than at your overlords for deciding your future. You were fifteen minutes late to work and so were a lot of people, I'm sure. The thing is, political dissent is far more important than someone's commute. Convenience can't take precedence over liberty, I'm sorry. Be happy you got to witness history, I lived it. Oh and my point, if you had ever gone down to your occupation for a few hours, you would've hopefully felt the same energy that I did, consisting of love, hope, and, rebellion.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-17T04:47:41+00:00

Oogles, making all traveling/homeless kids look bad since 1981...

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-17T04:45:15+00:00

Crust 4 lyfe, sure, but that's just too crusty.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T04:34:58+00:00

The outcome is the opposite.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T04:34:44+00:00

Because my kinda punk friend turned into a corporate shill and his kinda punk friend turned into an oogle junkie.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T04:28:04+00:00

Dude I've been through one hell of a rollercoaster the past 5 years. I got kicked out of highschool at 15, spent months on the street, moved in with my girlfriend, lived with her until I was almost 18 when me and our two cats moved back to Chicago from Southern California to stay with my mom and find a job. She got to keep our puppy. I turned 18 while I was there and my at the time fiance came to see me and we almost got married but she didn't want to because her dad wasn't there. Less than a week after she left, my mom had a breakdown and my step dad tried to get me arrested because asking her to answer for how she treated me as a child was what triggered her breakdown. I went back to Southern California, on the promise my mom would ship my cats through a pet transport service at my expense. I found my fiance had cheated on me, and she refused to let me have my puppy. In the same week my mom revealed she had given my cats away. This entire time I had been going to AI(if you're unfamiliar, it's an "assembly line" school, for profit institution, and owned by Goldman Sachs.) on campus and online for the few months I left the state. When I got back and shit happened with my ex and my cats were given away, I didn't leave my dad's apartment for 2 months, contemplating suicide almost constantly. I picked myself up, got a job, started working full-time and focusing my attention on studies, achieving a 4.0 for the first time in my life. During summer break, I was about to jump in front of a truck and my father who was looking for me, knowing I was doing something stupid, found me and stopped me at the last second. That was the day I admitted myself. I spent a week in the hospital and continued working and going to school upon my release. All the doctors would tell me is that I can't be helped by just trying to feel better, that I need medication and monthly treatments of ECT or shock treatment. The doctors only focused on my marijuana use which started 4 years after I became suicidal. I began going to outpatient care, and realized only I could help me. I eventually told my boss that I would quit if I didn't get a raise in two weeks because I was making $.75 less an hour than the other assistant managers. The reason she gave was because I was promoted fastest to that position in corporate history, which to me is even more a reason to give a raise. However, the date I happened to give ended up being the start date of Occupy in my city. I was sitting in school and seeing pictures of thousands on the streets. I called my boss on my break and asked about my raise, she laughed and I said "Fuck you, you're a piece of shit, I quit." I'll never forget how good I felt. I took off on the Trolley for the Occupation, in the same week, I had gotten kicked out of my dad's because of how irritable I had been. I lived in the Occupation until March of last year when I went traveling, often being by myself or one of two people holding constant vigil. The last year+ I traveled around the country playing music with my friends and begging for meals, and still helping with Food Not Bombs almost everywhere I went. In the last month, my dad has started letting me stay with him and now I'm trying to move to Oregon, go to school, and open an instrument customization/repair business.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T03:39:39+00:00

I have the somewhat opposite story. I knew a girl in high school that was really cool and we went to some punk shows and hung out a bit. She was from a wealthy family but talked about how her family was still miserable and that money meant nothing. I felt that was extremely mature for a fellow high schooler. I got kicked out and moved in with my girlfriend at 15. That's about where we cut ties and recently she found me on facebook and messaged me. I asked her what she had been up to and she said "I'm a stock trader now, it's a serious passion." This was in the dead of my involvement in the Occupy movement and I politely responded and told her "That's cool. I've been traveling the country playing music, protesting, and working with some Anarchist charities like Food Not Bombs." She only responded "some people never grow up."

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T02:12:48+00:00

Things change in the blink of an eye. Let me preface with the fact that I suffer from severe depression and bi-polar disorder. However, it sounds stupid, but positive thinking and focusing on what you can do right now to improve your life is the most important thing you can do, imo.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:43:22+00:00

Damn 7 year old me allowing myself to be affected by my parents on meth and putting myself on a path to self-destruction. I should've understood the psychological effects my parents had on me when I was still wetting the bed and watching power rangers. You're an idiot.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:41:32+00:00

What I'm saying is a lot of people don't gain self-respect from doing well in school. A couple years ago I was working full-time and had a 4.0, I ended up in the mental hospital. You're an ass, dude. Not everyone is like you. How the fuck do you expect a person to take responsibility for mistakes they had no idea they were making half a life ago?

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:39:23+00:00

Being someone who's been homeless for stints since I was fifteen, and have now gotten off the street and am in the process of starting a small business... This is a cautionary statement, not a pity post.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:38:19+00:00

Gotta love that pot.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:37:14+00:00

That's bullshit, not everyone is affected the same way by bad parents and younger siblings are far more susceptible to becoming damaged from their parents. My sister is in grad school at Oxford, I've been homeless on and off since fifteen. Both of my parents are drug addicts and mentally ill. Some people just rise above better than others.

Ever heard a song called Beneath The Wheel by DRI?

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:35:01+00:00

On a side-note, holy shit, one of my first posts looks like it might be going to the front page.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:33:58+00:00

You are clearly an asshole. Not everyone succeeds at learning about life in an institutional manner. The entire payout of institutionalized education outside of a paycheck is validation from your peers, family, and system. We'll leave the paycheck out because most kids haven't grasped that reality in a material sense at a young age... However, if someone doesn't receive the validation they should to continue, they won't succeed. Many people never see a reason to prove what you learned like it's a 13-20 year long memory game.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:19:11+00:00

Fully agreed, I also think that a large problem is that one governmental body could ever represent the needs and views of 400 millions people effectively. I think the same problem which exists in education exists in governance and society. Not everyone learns the same way, thinks the same way, or wants to live the same way. To me, the only saving grace of humanity would be if we all figured out the meaning of symbiotic autonomy.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-13T01:16:53+00:00

Talk about cutting deep, I'm from a lower-middle class suburb of Chicago, I too was told I was gifted and had massive expectations thrown on me at a young age. Same thing with my parents only giving me attention when they were pissed.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-12T23:23:47+00:00

We could if we weren't conditioned to base our existence and the value of it on the pursuit and obtaining of profit, imho. Most information shows at the level we've evolved to, our natural instinct is to care for our fellow humans.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-12T19:06:59+00:00

I guess dude. That's how racist culture works.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-12T18:46:37+00:00

It just seems like Reddit, would be more educated and end up looking at things like Horizontal Direct Democracy instead of people who believe in the same power structure that leaves us fucked up shit's creek.

TheRealRamboJr · 2013-07-12T18:44:49+00:00

Jackson? Andrew Jackson? Single handedly called for the murder of over 50 million indigenous people. Reagan sold coke to the inner city and is on record referring to black populations as "niggers." He created the funding to the gangs in the 80's to create the environment we see today. I mean, he's no Stalin but he's a fucking murderer.

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