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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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you present it more eloquently but I very much feel this. I think one big thing is the fall is so slow at first that it is barely noticable but its an accelerating function so eventually the veolocity was such that it was becoming very obvious. Its amazing that so many seem to respond at this point with the head in the ground reaction.
I'm forced to believe that, but it also makes my head spin. I believe it, because the general populace and a bunch of talking heads and (otherwise) smart comedians were doing 'business as usual' in the 80's and 90's. For example, mercilessly mocking Clinton for his affairs and that kind of thing, while meanwhile Nixon had opened the gates of capital elitism and Reagan had bull-rushed his way through, greatly dooming democracy right there.
But few people of influence were sounding the alarm, maybe because 'American greatness' had existed as recently as the mid-70's, and too many people wanted to sort of lazily believe that 'things go in waves,' implying that somehow, magically, democracy would right the ship. Something like that, anyway.
yeah there was a kind of oh this is just a thing and we will get back to normal. While the slow velocity was kinda fall we could climb back up and that was kinda true if you looked at reagan clinton. One thing though was bush sr. was still a saner old school type republican and actually did not do more damage and kinda started a recovery that made it easy for clinton. Increasingly we can't right the ship so easily. Its like if we get through this we might plug the holes but the ship will still be filled with water and republicans will of course blame it on the administration that plugged their holes.
Right-wingers have massive pockets of dumbass voters who don't have any real perspective on facts & reality, and just 'do what everyone else around them is doing.' You can hear people in Southern States sometimes talk about this online. Similar groups routinely fall for ragebait, and therefore insulate themselves from facts & reality in that way, too. The hope obviously is that the Orange regime and swing states haven't totally gamed the electoral process for this coming election. Otherwise the USA is lost IMO.