7th grade in middle school when I told my (mostly white & christian) classmates on the bus to school that I didn’t believe in God and they all branded me a terrorist because that’s all we heard about politically in the years post 9/11.

Gotta thank them though because that pushed me into being politically aware (although some of you will be shocked to learn I was a /b/ poster all throughout middle school and up until like Freshman/Sophomore year of HS when Obama was running; to me this is not shocking because obviously 99% of /b/ posters during that era and maybe even now are middle schoolers)

Wasn’t a true leftist (read: more left than most liberal) until 10th grade or so, coinciding with my first few jobs lol

I mean yeah, aura farming is not 100% one thing because the nature of ‘aura’ as a meme is usually complimentary. I’d actually say that the Evola pic would probably resonate more with fascists (or young men who don’t know better) with just an ‘aura’ caption rather than ‘aura farming’ because like I said - aura farming is usually derogatory.

‘Yes bro we see the fit’ and aura farming go hand-in-hand. It is not usually meant to be complimentary. Imagine you have a friend who out of the blue posts a pic of themselves at some popular/trendy spot clearly framed so their entire outfit you’ve never seen them wearing before is in the picture - that’s aura-farming and most people would be like “yes bro we see the fit” in what would not exactly be a complimentary tone lmao. Now, if you complimented ‘aura’ on that post, you’d be a good friend in a way but i digress

what

i don’t think ‘aura farming’ can really be tied to fascism quite like you’re saying lol. I’m sure if you posted that pic of Evola on X and said ‘aura farming’ it probably would get a bunch of nazis gooning to it, but the actual slang itself was not borne out of someone posting Evola or anything like that. Literally one of the oldest usages of it as far as I could find was this tiktok of some kid doing the water bottle flip and hitting a strike at bowling lmao

edit: i wanna add that, in most uses, saying someone is ‘aura farming’ is not usually meant to be a compliment. Piccolo aura farming is the most common meme and the reason is because he always gets his ass clapped 5 nanoseconds afterwards. Someone like Ichigo or like, Lae’zel aura-farming is usually like “come on why are you aura farming right now” lol. (realizing all my aura farming knowledge is from anime & video game discussions and locking myself in the chamber until i’ve gotten it out of my system)

THIS USER IS ATTEMPTING TO AURA FARM

you’ve gotta live in the city for like 10 years at a minimum before you can even open your mouth about bodegas or the MTA so I don’t think this plan is well thought out

the Queens grandmothers are not going to be happy when you knock on the door to canvas and they ask you “where are you from” and you say “i just moved here” they’re gonna kill you

i say this as the son of a native NYC resident who moved out of the state (why did you fuck your children like this mother, we could’ve been living in Rochester or Albany since you didn’t wanna raise kids in the city, why did you move out of the state…) but every time she goes back, our cousins/uncles/her friends who still live in the city will NOT give her the time of day once she starts yapping about how X or Y has changed - except for the Chinese restaurant they all used to eat at around Christmas, apparently it was the highlight of their childhood and all of them will get real morose anytime one of them brings it up.

actually i changed my mind i wanna be part of Butch’s Tunnel Snakes

TUNNEL SNAKES RULE

Whichever gang snaps their fingers menacingly as they do shit; I think they’d probably be fun to hang out with and gentlemen all around

all of them but Rizzo especially

If you have the ability to - don’t let them into your job site. Lock the gate/entrance-way/park your vehicle in front of it/etc. As iByteABit said - warn any coworkers you know who would be targeted and come up with a plan/way for them to get out should ICE come knocking.

Less serious: shoot them (ICE)