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I'm just tired of constantly lowering my expectations only to not be able to reach them despite all my effort.

@jk vorrissey

@shoutcacophony I try to cut a path for marginalized people with what little privilege I have, but there's just so much in the way. It's overwhelming.

Conservatives think we just start out blaming others, the system. No. We start out immersed in The American Dream™ and think if we just work hard and keep clean we'll get somewhere.

Then the tenth year rolls by and we start to feel like a Mars rover, peering back at the landing site barely a 10 minute bipedal walk away.

I've been busting my ass on businessy projects for ten years despite stress and isolation and all kinds of nonsense and only _just now_ am I seeing results. There's "working hard" and then there's "okay maybe something's broken with the system and it's not just me."

No one should work as hard as I have for as long as I have with so little to show for it.

@ravenna The baseline of our wrecked little civilization seems to be "crushed under the boot." No one deserves to struggle as much as pretty much everyone I know and still have to keep struggling so much. You definitely deserve more than you have.

@ravenna same

Music, especially electronic, is cis straight dude central. I've thought about making up a new musicsona with the most bland, ordinary white dude branding to see how it goes.