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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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I feel you. It's unfair but it doesn't have to be. If we made a law mandating the recuperation of all earnings exceeding, idk, 10/20/X times yearly min wage, we could curb these inequalities or at least make it easier for everyone to live without the fear of imminent poverty. And that's just a bandaid fix for today's society!
No one in power will ever agree to this peacefully. Just my thoughts.
"Violence has never worked!"
Except for all the times it has.
Improvements in human rights never come from peaceful protest.
The history of the US is slaves vs property owners. And the only leverage the slaves have ever had is numbers and orginized violence.
We badly need to evolve our idea of democracy to allow for it to work when the rich and corrupt self interests try to control it. the US governmental system isnt safe against those influences so it seems doomed to fail in its current form.
We cant just wait for benevolent strongmen like FDR (Roosevelt) to come along periodically and right the ship, followed by many decades of compounding corrupution. We were lucky to get Roosevelt and have the legacy of his influence last as long as we have. I'd guess that whats left of the new deal will be badly mauled or done away with by the end of trumps term, assuming we are even still a country with 50 states, which isnt looking promising. So its time to start thinking now about whats next.
Elect ME president and I will do it by sheer force
What if some powerful people give you billions of dollars to not do it? And simultaneously other people start sending you credible death threats if you go through with it.
Now imagine they're also threatening your family and that you love your family a lot.
The problem with power, is how it's effected by money and fear.
They can give me all the billions, I'll do it anyways, and then I'll tell em "no give backsies"
I hate my fucking family they're all conservative southerners
Well you managed to avoid the question...
Imagine the money was contingent on the action.
And like I said, imagine you loved your family, like for instance if it were your spouse and kid.
I dont care about the money Fear and threats would be even more motivation.