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My cousin caught some illness like the flu and died when I was little.
Except he didn’t, I just had a dream where I “remembered” that it happened and then woke up in bed fully believing it for a few minutes. I wasn’t even grieving it, it was like it happened a long time ago. He is fully alive and nothing happened lol.
Those itsy bitsy little crab spiders are cute :3
Happening to me too. I thought it was my VPN.
This is clearly AI written. I can’t check the math myself, but it feels true though. I don’t know about the $140,000 number but I do personally know a couple with children who is struggling, and the mother literally can’t work because as soon as she starts working, all her money just goes to paying daycare. So all she would be doing is working to pay to work. It’s pointless. And yet things keep getting more expensive and they are starting to not make it…
I’m also currently in a position where I can’t work, and because of this I receive free healthcare and was able to enter the $0 SAVE plan for my student loans (though that will go away soon). I’m starting to slowly feel better, but I’m afraid once I start working again those benefits disappear and then I’m stuck paying ridiculous amounts for worse healthcare and other BS.
I honestly used to think that way and would have like, John Wick fantasies of justice against evildoers until I realized it was a trauma response to being abused lol. So many traumatized people running around hoping they could be a John Wick.
Dr. K - Streaming Culture Is A Time Bomb
The video is long but this guy is a psychologist who points out that as there is more and more injustice in the world, people are basically projecting their rage onto easy targets. People feel totally powerless to change anything about the people in power, so they direct their anger towards regular people who keep “getting away with it!!!” Like people who park wrong, people who start car accidents, somebody robbing a gas station. They wish for their punishment because they know greedy CEOs and corrupt politicians never will be. They project and displace their anger (36:00) . The Internet is basically a big angry mob now.
There’s also the way the algorithms/dark pattern design/clickbait is perfectly calibrated to activate your strongest emotions. Rage bait, outrage porn. They keep stoking the flames. Then when you’re in a state of anger and rage, you lose access to empathy.
And in general this is on top of a “just world” view where people are good and people are bad and bad people deserve punishment. It’s why prisons are so terrible.
got any good recipes with tofu?
That’s basically how I’ve felt. It’s been very confusing. 2008 happened when I was a kid, so I’ve never really known what’s normal.
Literally same except I do know what caused it and it was kind of inevitable, but also yes, the adults managed to make everything worse too. 
I want to have hope sooo bad… and I understand you’ve helped with his campaign and say he’s the real deal. But I thought the “reform or revolution” question was already answered. Are we wrong about that?
Like, I don’t see how this ends well unless it’s all part of a much larger plan to get a revolution going. Is there a larger plan? You don’t have to say what it is, if it’s like op sec or whatever.
I could see it if it’s like, a plan to radicalize more people:
Mayor tries to do objectively good shit and gets ratfucked --> people get angrier and say fuck the system (but they could just end up getting more fascist)
Mayor gets some good things done --> hey socialism is cool, maybe we should join! (join what exactly tho? no vanguard party?)
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Talos Principle is great. I love their soundtrack.
When is it gonna pop already?! So sick of it
Absolutely. The contradictions, before I knew what they were, felt unbearable, because the system clearly doesn’t work but I was brainwashed with the “humanity has always been selfish and awful and it was inevitable that things would be like this, and this is the only possibility because nothing else has worked.” If something did not debunk that belief, it was going to kill me. Liberalism is a VERY dark place to be unless you’re a blissfully ignorant treatler.
Is it me or is the whole island about to pop off? It’s entirely vibes because I’ve never been there, but I’ve just been hearing so much horrible news, and you know, it’s an island… isn’t that kind of like a pressure cooker?
What would this do exactly? Is this the guy who controls interest rates?
Yep, sounds like fascists…
It’s kind of confusing to me how the president and supreme leader seem to be saying two different things. I’m not sure who he’s trying to appeal to. Is he trying to look good for like, international law reasons…? Is it a dual strategy, like I try to calm them down, while you do resistance stuff?
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Reddit put me behind a login wall and then it won’t even let me log in. I think it’s just broken now.