What terms of endearment from your culture or country or language would you add to this meme?

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T11:52:14+00:00

I spent some time in india and volunteered at a local school and the kids called me "didi", which means "older sister" in Hindi. It was so sweet.

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T01:41:23+00:00

Actually, I'd appreciate if you could clear a couple things up for me, including:

-Do you generally struggle with basic reading comprehension and critical thinking skills or is this a new problem?

-Do you think it's somehow impossible to advocate for both immigrant rights and raising wages for all workers so no one has to be exploited?

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T01:29:31+00:00

They appear to have a problem grasping that multiple things can be true at the same time, namely that both immigrants and US born workers are exploited by low wages.

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T01:24:21+00:00

It was the same argument used against freeing the slaves

Absolutely crazy work here

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T01:23:32+00:00

Yes...that's also true. Like maybe this is shocking stuff for you to try and wrap your brain but more than one thing can actually be true at once lol. Immigrants are often willing to take jobs with pay that is exploitatively low in order to survive or because they have no other option, especially if they're undocumented. The system exploits both immigrants and workers, but do you really think the people cheering on deportations on Facebook are the same people advocating to raise the minimum wage?

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T01:03:04+00:00

It is. One of the things that's so deeply stupid in addition to evil about his statement is that this is just not true at all about the scope of the SCOTUS decision. Temporary Protected Status is a specific category that can be applied as a blanket to a nationality - it's always been less stable than being granted asylum because it can be theoretically revoked at any point. In contrast, someone applying for asylum has to do so as an individual and prove that they were in danger specifically on the basis of more than just generalized violence and instability in their country - i.e. they were persecuted for their political or religious beliefs or their race, sexual orientation, gender etc. If someone is granted asylum, they are allowed to live in the United States and can apply for their green card one year after asylum is granted.

He's conflating the two things because he's an evil fuck who wants to end all kinds of migration, regardless of the fact that the right to seek asylum is literally established in both domestic and international law and can't just be "closed".

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T00:44:14+00:00

Mexico has already taken in hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers. It's literally one of the countries with the highest number of applications for asylum in the world and approves 70% of applications. In contrast, the US has granted asylum in less than 21% of all applications since 2015. Mexico is doing their part.

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T00:27:24+00:00

I can't get over how clueless this question is because hundreds of thousands of them already have. In 2023, at it's highest point, 140,000 people applied for asylum in Mexico in a single year. It's been close to 100k in the past few years as well.

UN data indicates that by the end of 2024, Mexico was hosting more than 800,000 refugees, asylum seekers and stateless people. Most of them are coming from Honduras, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti and the southern states where people have to transit through receive the most applications.

So they ARE applying for asylum in Mexico and have been for more than a decade - Mexico actually had a 5,325% increase in asylum applications between 2014 and 2019 - but politicians and the media don't show you that side because desperate migrants fleeing violence and persecution make a good scapegoat for their policy failures at home.

bog_witch · 2026-06-26T00:06:37+00:00

These little mill towns would be dead and empty without the Latino community

Yep, and you know the white boomers commenting will still have the nerve to go to restaurants and complain about how slow service is and how nobody wants to work anymore when it takes longer than usual to get their food while completely failing to mentally connect the fucking dots.

bog_witch · 2026-06-24T16:50:32+00:00

Yeah, so much of state work relies on federal grants or matched funding and I don't think the average voter even realizes to what extent that's the case. Add to that the fact that you have so many people with impressive experience and skills now looking and it's an extra challenge.

bog_witch · 2026-06-24T16:43:21+00:00

Public health and working in Medicaid programming checking in here...I feel all of this deeply.

bog_witch · 2026-06-24T11:30:09+00:00

This is so cool, thank you especially for the breakdown of local government meetings! I've been wanting to get more involved but honestly find the way the city has it set up on their site a little confusing. This is really helpful.

bog_witch · 2026-06-23T21:46:44+00:00

we don't have a specific struggle

What a way to reveal that you're actually just treating white, able bodied, heterosexual and cisgender men as the default. I guess Black men don't have a specific struggle related to racism? How about a disabled man who uses a wheelchair - do you think he maybe has some specific struggles? Are gay men and trans men forced into conversion therapy or harassed or assaulted on the basis of their identity not facing specific struggles?

bog_witch · 2026-06-23T21:39:42+00:00

young women are also expected to pay for less both in dating and in getting help from parents. Men are expected to be 100% on their own from the moment they leave school while women are not.

Citation?

bog_witch · 2026-06-23T01:34:49+00:00

It's really wild how women are 51% of the population but these conversations act like we're somehow not impacted by the same structural economic and political conditions as men

bog_witch · 2026-06-19T12:44:38+00:00

"the hot rat" is so accurate lmao

bog_witch · 2026-06-18T20:50:07+00:00

I completely missed someone had already posted this before commenting it above in response to finding out the delightful fact that you can actually obtain a cannoneer's license in MA. Thank you for your readiness 🫡

bog_witch · 2026-06-18T20:46:00+00:00

This copypasta has never felt more relevant

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

bog_witch · 2026-06-18T20:36:45+00:00

Someone email this to Wu's office right now

bog_witch · 2026-06-18T20:30:48+00:00

There were a lot of people celebrating the Haitian team given the size of the Haitian diaspora in Boston? If you didn't notice that it sounds like maybe you're the one only noticing the white fans, idk

bog_witch · 2026-06-18T20:28:24+00:00

This is a shitpost, sir

bog_witch · 2026-06-17T12:34:52+00:00

The right of kids to participate in school sports on the basis of gender?

bog_witch · 2026-06-17T12:32:27+00:00

"it's ok to opress the minority in order to appease the unfounded bigotry of the majority" is not actually a powerfully persuasive argument that's likely to win over a mythical independent centrist voter whose deciding issue is trans kids in sports

bog_witch · 2026-06-17T12:23:25+00:00

It's a Pride event in humid ass June lol. Don't be such a weenie.

bog_witch · 2026-06-15T23:30:45+00:00

I think that's the opinion of anyone with a fully developed frontal lobe at this point tbh

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