• allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I have a little story to tell. Really short because my iPhone screen is dirty and I can’t type, but it’s something I want to expand upon soon:

    I’m a member of the lumpen (lumpenproletariat) class. Every one of my friends and almost everyone I so much as talk to is lumpen.

    It really feels fucking lonely. Until I met my roommates last year, I was the only non-racist, non-sexist, non-gross, rational person I knew. (I used to have a friend like this, who was so cool to hang out with, but they’re gone now…alive, they just won’t talk to me anymore. I think if I had the friends I have now, then, I wouldn’t have to miss them so much right now.)

    Anyways this post reminded me that I need to not be such a mean snob. When my friends are like this, it isn’t because they’re hardcore fash or whatever, and I need to be patient.

    (Another thing too is, a lot of us are so jaded and fucked off that we just don’t really care about using PC language. Homeless culture is very thick skinned.)

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      3 months ago

      lumpen are hard to radicalize into leftist politics. Most of the underprivileged people I know have very much internalized the rhetoric said about them and their only glee is in “tearing down” other underprivileged people.