NewOldGuard

I dealt with so much abuse and bigotry being raised in the church. They’re words that remind me of years of the worst shit organized religion can do behind closed doors, and this is context that was known in this situation and intentionally disregarded because they don’t view my beliefs and experiences as valid or respectable.

I don’t expect you to know all the context and details, I’m just venting, but it’s a lot more than just words to me

I appreciate that ty for your comment. Yeah it’s a combo of my dad being an ex pastor and my mom being raised in what she herself described as a Christian cult that she recently rejoined, giving the evangelical vibes, and my mother being an alcohol abuser since I was a child.

I’m sober because of what alcohol did and does to my family, but I’ve never articulated that to them. I think my parents are aware enough to recognize their own alcohol abuse and its impacts though, and they take me rejecting alcohol entirely as a slight at them for that so defensively try to change me instead of reflecting. It’s a weird dynamic

I dropped out of uni and moved back in with them when I was 18, then when I moved out again they helped me get a car. So I feel on some level like I owe them for that. This is only my second year of holidays without living under their roof so I suppose I’m figuring out how to set these boundaries by experience

Yess I’m on the same wave, been sober since ‘22. My partner made me a lovely cold brew peppermint mocha and stuck a candy cane in it 💞

My earliest memory is watching my uncles and older cousins playing football at Thanksgiving at my aunt’s house when I was two. But my memory is very spotty and hard to place on a timeline until I started school, even then it’s crummy until about the age of 9

I also have a lot of gaps from the years 2011-2018 or so, yay trauma

CIA assassin loser vs Chad doin what everyone was thinking

All they’ve gotta do is download google messages* and it’ll work, that’s on them at this point

We’d jump the fence to our high school’s baseball field and smoke in the dugout at night lol

Or maybe what you’re seeing is people with principles choosing not to support those who violate them when possible? This project offers little utility over thunderbird and is run by people with shitty and public viewpoints so of course I reject it. I’m trying to support projects that reflect the type of community I want to be a part of, and this isn’t it.

The founder of this project says he created it because of “cancel culture” at Mozilla after he got banned from the thunderbird project for toxic and derogatory conduct. I’m good on that I’d rather stick to thunderbird thanks

It gets more common with age but it’s definitely normal to get random aches and pains when you’re young too. Just less of them lol

What leads you to say that the PRC doesn’t consider its current economy socialist? I’ve only seen it referred to in official sources as the “socialist market economy” which they specify is a specific stage of socialist development but still socialist due to predominance of public ownership