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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Gut shot, I’d say it reads as mooch behavior.

    When I was a sophomore in high school, my friends liked to hang out in a place called Coffee Talk.

    It was this home that was never demolished in an area that long before was redistricted as industrial.

    I’d go along. I had no money.

    It was a cool cozy place to be and I enjoyed chilling there with the company of my friends.

    They had a little money.

    None of us were inclined to caffeine (the thrust of the revenue of a business called Coffee Talk).

    Regularly, the crew would file in and would buy a 5 dollar red bull each that usually wasn’t even opened, and then chill for HOURS.

    I went through similar conversations. Most stressing “I feel the need to buy an extra drink to make up for you being here, and I don’t particularly like paying your way.”

    Coffee Talk wasn’t a youth center. It wasn’t a YMCA. It was a crew of about 7 working hard to host a cozy chill spot funded by coffee sales with an open mic stage to resist this landmark being demolished and turned into annex parking for one of the neighboring office buildings.

    My ass dirtied the seats. I disheveled the board game room many times.

    I hadn’t yet learned to have the situational awareness to see the difference between hanging at home, or at school, or at Coffee Talk.

    A big part of me getting my first job was so I could pick up an “antique” from Coffee Talk for 5 to 12 bucks since I had no desire to purchase a coffee from Coffee Talk, but i wanted to be at Coffee Talk with my friends, and it was a business, not a community center funded as charity by a mysterious benefactor.

    So… you can be a mooch, but your group doesn’t want to be told to fuck off because they are taking more than they are giving, so you risk getting dropped off the invites.














  • But if they did that, how would Biden subsidize the military industrial complex by giving billions and billions of dollars to Israel so they can buy American weapons and ammunition to continue the same oppressive slaughter of Palestine?

    The guns and ammunition need to be spent on someone, might as well be spent on the brown people half the world away, like every American “war” after the Civil one.

    And just to note, this abject dependence on the military industrial complex to enrich the 1% has not caused a consistent and constant slide to the right of the entire US Federal government. All 2 sides.

    And we couldn’t have done this for Ukraine at the same level because if we did, we wouldn’t be within sucking distance of Putin’s tiny shriveled peen.

    /s