theneverfox

It wouldn't. It's like banning decomposition... Good fucking luck, you can play with it a little, but ultimately it's just not possible

That's the annoying part. It's not performative.

From my perspective, it's like most people just mindlessly stumble through the world how they've been taught. They turn on lights not because they need it, but because it's normal. They trust the label on the back of products over their own lived experience of using it.

I like the dark. I like the sun. I like being able to see. I see just fine in the dark. Excess artificial lights make it so I see less. This isn't a me problem, this is you projecting

I'm not being weird or edgy. I'm not inviting you to comment, I'm being comfortable. I'm so tired of pretending, it's fucking exhausting. I don't need to come into the light, I want to be acceped as I am, not what you think I should be. If you ask genuinely wanting to understand, I'd explain that I like it. I'm so tired of explaining myself to people asking "why are you sitting in the dark?"

No, it's because consulting companies like McKinsey tell Microsoft, ea, and Ubisoft that micro transactions will make stock go up, then they go to investment groups and say micro transactions are the sign of a gaming company about to make money

They have all the metrics, they aren't doing what makes them the most sales or revenue. They're doing what makes the stock price dance

Yes. Literally brain dead.

When you collaborate with fascists, it always goes one way. They use you, then they turn on you. Every single time.

They must always be the victims. There must always be new enemies. If you join hands with fascists, you're just empowering them and volunteering yourself as the next enemy

What do you think this would even look like? They like the trappings of Christianity. They're not going to give up religion. They're just going to pick or create a more convenient hate-filled flavor and try to make it the national religion

There's a word for that. It's called collaboration.

I don't care what you want to do, working with fascists is the stupidest way to do it.

I read it and I still have no idea what this is

No fucking duh. Recycling was always a lie. Especially single stream recycling

Plastics can be recycled... It's just never viable to actually do it

My understanding is he told them to work through the local authorities

Which...I mean... Do you want the Catholic Church doing the investigation?

It's really not. The name Leo is associated with workers rights and human dignity, the guy has been directly calling out Vance and Trump, and the guy has strong ties to south America and was Francis's right hand man

The guy gave his speech in Italian and Spanish, not English. This is not a maga pope

You'd join hands with fascists against a pope put in place to oppose it?

Well he's already announced one with the easiest country, the UK. Well, more like concepts of a deal, but it's basically a done thing

No, that's my point exactly - I felt the inconsistency viscerally. My reality conflicted with what I never thought to question. It's the same for everyone.

My example was not to say I'm superior, but to say propaganda works. Even if you're educated. Even if you put in time to question your own beliefs. It slips in without notice, and you don't know it's there until you do

And the news, social media, the language of politicians - it's intentionally designed to give people a skewed version of the world.

Let me give you an example happening right now... The tarrifs. Markets went down, Trump approval went down. The markets recovered, people think it was a nothing burger

The ports are empty. The supply chains cuts are about to ripple through... But most people think that whole thing is over, that Trump just did a little insider trading, but the economy managed to hold up to it. So his approval rate recovered a bit

This summer, we're going to have empty store shelves. It's so obviously not over... But many, many people have mixed up the "economy" with the actual trade of goods and services.

That's the level of most people's understanding