Just remember - we'll get out of this the same way we got out of it the last time.
We'll do it just as soon as enough folks realize last time wasn't resolved peacefully.
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Ask McKinley how tariffs, imperialism, and abiding insurrection worked out for him.
The saddest thing, and excuse me if I’m sounding blunt or flippant. But as I shake my head, what low levels of ok’ness so many American people have been conditioned & duped into believing that “as long as I’m not bothered” then it’s all good mentality. Given the current & recent optics, gas prices are getting some a little worked up about stuff. But sadly I digress.
I think that might be the human condition in general, and why huge problems like climate change and economic collapse keep happening (almost) everywhere.
they don't know it's happening.
and they have no ability to do anything about it. how exactly is your average working person going to change gas prices? best they can do is try to drive less.
America has the problem all conqueror cultures have - they exist only as long as there are things to conquer.
The history of itself that America tells itself is a long series of self-serving revisionist narratives about how we're justified in our unjustifiable actions. White Americans tell themselves its totally okay to appropriate from other cultures what is lacking in their own. Whiteness is not a cultural identity and that inherent hollowness produces what we see around us. There is no community of whites like there is community within the cultures the white identity seeks to oppress (while admiring and stealing from). If left unchecked, white supremacist identity seeks to stamp out the oppressed they've exploited (then tell themselves all of that stolen culture was rightfully theirs all along).
The whole "bootstraps" culture is a community-destroying myth that Americans have perpetrated upon themselves solely to keep rich pedophiles in power.
you mean we'll have an economic collapse followed by a world war?
You are acting as if you are not already having that.
If last time's violence was so great, why did we still get this time? And every other time before that where violence bought a reprieve during which evil was given every advantage to regain what it lost and more? It has never solved anything for longer than a generation, and even then deals were being made in secret to preserve the evil, by the very champions of "good".
Because people stopped doing violence and said “violence is wrong, we can resolve the system through the system” except the system was captured by the rulers.
No solution is permanent. And violence isn't technically the fix either.
The problem is you can't solve certain problems from within the broken system. It's possible to go outside the system but without violence but it's rare. The violence is what enables outside system fixes to be possible and those have been of varied quality.
It's not what we do when we're violent, it's what we do immediately afterwards that matters.
Nonviolence often just means you don't get to make any meaningful changes at all, because they aren't going to just let you vote them out of power and into to jail.
The problem is you can't solve certain problems from within the broken system.
Violence is that system.
It's possible to go outside the system but without violence but it's rare.
Thanks. It's a lonely life sometimes.
The violence is what enables outside system fixes to be possible and those have been of varied quality.
To me it's rather that the would-be fixers have just been tricked into thinking this violence is the solution when it's not, causing their efforts to be short circuited. They might seem to get somewhere, but only far enough to satisfy their sense of victory or tire their whole generation out. Then the system which was never really beaten to begin with slides right back into our lives, putting the lie to the idea that violence was ever a useful solution.
To me it's rather that the would-be fixers have just been tricked into thinking this violence is the solution when it's not, causing their efforts to be short circuited.
I mean peaceful solutions seem to have the same problem. It'll seem like it works for awhile and then later generations realize that that issue was never really resolved. Just look at the civil rights movement. Supposedly solved 'peacefully' by MLK, but as we've all come to learn, the only thing that happened was that racists just grew quiet for awhile and waited for a chance to be racists again.
It's true, and it seems to be an unfortunate fact of the current state of the human animal. The capacity for and expression of such things as compassion and the desire for earnest cooperation is too new to humanity on the evolutionary timescale. Technology has developed much faster, raising the stakes of the periodic violence higher and higher. I hope the human race can weather it until the capacity for compassion becomes more widespread.
Because people got tricked into thinking they could vote things better.
But first they got tricked into thinking violence would get them to that point. Both failed to Solve The Problem.
There is no system you can set up that will not eventually become corrupt or compromised. Even the word "revolution" suggests its cyclical nature. It must periodically happen.
I agree. I then surmise that earnest efforts to avoid periodic systemic violence are the doings of the portion of humanity which is both capable of utilizing their prefrontal cortex, and have had occasion to develop it. They are a minority, a condition partly reinforced by said periodic violence. We need more time - time enough to evolve out of it before we render the Earth uninhabitable.
When they talk about the 50s, they mean 1850s.
More like 1776
We've got some new options in loosely regulated pharmaceutical beverages. It's no cocaine, but I do really love THC infused tea, hop the wave makes some great shit.
Then there’s all of those gas station pills
What's that?
They only pill-like thing at gas stations I know are m&ms
Look for the show by John Oliver..Last Week Tonight... He did a whole show about them recently.
TL;DW... they're bad!
Ty
Dude...have you had a Monster? Those things are basically liquid cocaine.
*laughs in adhd*
Yeah, I like to have one every once in a while so I can take a nap.
Well, as someone who also had adhd (and has snarfed my fair share of rails), coke has the same effect. I could do a fat line and then go straight to sleep.
There's a reason Adderall is the way that it is ;)
Does getting tired from energy drinks mean adhd? I have the same reaction with coffee unless i drink enough to have my legs shaking like im juiced up on meth.
Idk if it's indicative of ADHD, but i know that many neurodivergent people report a unique, or even paradoxical relationship with stimulants (myself included, obviously).
However, standard disclaimers apply: this is anecdotal evidence, I'm not a doctor, and definitely not your doctor. Check with them, there are usually quick easy screeners available to see if further evaluation is recommended.
Dude, have you had cocaine?
If you think that is like liquid cocaine... Oh boy you have no idea what you're missing out.
I've had plenty. Always made me sleepy.
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I don’t want fake American cocaine. I want real cocaine.
Well, go to South America then, because the shit Americans are doing is basically baby laxative.
It is pretty shitty ;)
Oh my sweet summer child...
I'd say worse. I've had drinks with coca and it's much more mellow than a Monster.
I've done lines in Latin America, and Monsters were way more fucked than anything i snorted there.
Run for office, you’ll get my vote.
No no.....vote for me instead.
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Best I can do is fake shrooms at the gas station
going back? we have been there for awhile now.
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