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  • Beardsley@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksHey Drake
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    5 days ago

    Well yeah, agreed, stark differences can be scary and difficult for children to comprehend without some explaination. But this tool a full-ass adult person who knows full-well the wallowed weight of that woefully wretched word.

    There’s a mistake and there’s being a piece of shit. He smells is all I’m saying.



  • It’s a hard pill to swallow. I spent the last 17 years doing everything I can to peacefully help make meaningful changes to society and to how we’ve treated our only environment. To how we treat each-other. I have voted in every election I can, stayed informed and educated enough to make a salient point (which is useless when your opposition simply refuses to accept reality), been to marches, hell I got punched in the chest by a biker nazi and watched the cops simply move him back to his side.

    I would consider myself nonviolent, not quite a pacifist, but mostly there. The main takeaway from my life is that there is no way to peacefully fight oppression. Thats an insane lie that your oppressors want you so badly to commit to. Why do you think American schools focus on MLK and rarely touch on Malcom X? And how foolish are we to quietly sit on a lawn or concrete and get the shit beat out of us, shot by rubber bullets, pepper sprayed, denigrated, and so much more. Look at history, tyrannical governments and rulers are overthrown, not peacefully escorted out. Peace and reason are weaknesses to them, and love that because thar makes you easy to manipulate and subjugate. The powerful have no incentive to treat us well when we so freely serve ourselves up, when they have nothing to fear from us.

    I’m not saying I’ll be downtown throwing molotovs any time soon, but I’ll jump at any opportunity to try to beat the ever living shit out of a Nazi, and I’m down to try an alternative to “peacefully protesting”.


  • People will feel the economic impact like a freight train here pretty soon, and hopefully that pisses off the idiot cult enough to make them turn on the republican party. They might not ever turn on trump, but I think his base will turn on the party quick once they start to really struggle. Then maybe we can rebuild some of this madness, invest in science and education, and have a reasonably well educated populas; and then maybe fascism will die.

    Most likely wishful thinking. I’ve lived long enough to see my political efforts fall completely flat or get reversed outright. The people who share my viewpoints either can’t be bothered, for some fucking crazy reason, or insist to “play by the rules”. Fuck the rules, they don’t play by the rules. It’s time to get a fucking spine and fight back, but we’ve been given too much bread and too many circuses, so much that at least half of us would rather collapse society than share or take less.

    We are vain, narcissistic, horrible little parasites that feel entitled to impose our will how we see fit. Yes, at the moment I mean this strongly about Myself and fellow Americans, but this disaster is far from unique to us. Countless species extinct, counteless lives taken, countless pain inflicted. Human beings are the apex invasive species, and there is no one at all to put us into check. It’s hard to feel like any of this is undeserved, and it’s foolish to think we deserve anything at all.

    I generally try to be positive, and you can save your fingers from debating with me. I just don’t care anymore. We could kill ourselves tomorrow and I would only feel relief for the life that will thrive without us fucking it all up. Fuck every last one of us.







  • It was always a bit of a pipe dream to think we could draw enough users to have a notable impact, because the majority of people just don’t care. Plain and simple. Fine with me, they can have their little racist narwhal, and I’ll be here reading bitter rants for amusement.

    I agree lightly on not deleting posts, but probably because that account holds 10+ years of my life. I also have a post that people follow up with me on once or twice a year because it is in relation to a difficult to get book relating to severe depression. A big part of me feels wrong taking a resource away from vulnerable people looking for help.

    I still check specialized subreddits when I need specific information, and I check for any messages to see if someone needs a hand. That said, I nearly completely lessened my contribution to a company I no longer respect, that’s a good enough for me.




  • They do it in order to humanize the corporation. It’s really only Wal-Mart and Meijer where I have seen legit greeters. Sams Club and Costco do it to some degree, entrance and exit, but its mostly to make sure you do have a membership, and that you didn’t steal anything. I will say, despite the depressing realization it is essentially a PR move, loss prevention “lite”, and likely a tax break; the practice positively supports disabled and old people, who otherwise would not be able to support themselves. You don’t ever really see young or particularly able-bodied employees doing this.