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Dax - Dear God.

It's an amazing rap song about question beliefs. The rest of his music is mostly country.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/dear-god/1480917084?i=1480917085

As someone who has felt exactly the way you describe and am now on the other side of it, here's my advice.

1. Do not give up or shy away from that feeling that you need to completely get away from your present surroundings. You don't want to look back in 10 years and wish you had taken the opportunity when you could.
2. Don't foolishly think that getting away like this will fix everything. It will help, but new problems will also emerge and if you haven't addressed the demons in your head, you'll never truly escape them. Therefore...
3. Get the treatment you need and make sure it works before you end up in the middle of nowhere with no options and no escape. The gun is only a concern because it's convenient. When you're desperate, anything becomes convenient. The ocean becomes convenient. Get your brain fixed.
4. If you already tried to get your head right and it's not working, get to a state where Ketamine is legal and schedule an appointment at the clinic. It is life changing and worth every penny of the $2400 it costs.
5. See number one. Fucking do it!

Meanwhile, a near full recharge, from 10% to 97%, takes about nine minutes.

It's pretty impressive.

America has a 40% approval rating for Israel's actions in Gaza. That is an astonishing number of people in favor of genocide.

This is cultural appropriation of my kind.

Of course, but this is a different voice than we are used to.

The only people on the list already voted for him three times.

I prefer peace, but that option is dwindling day by day. The most peaceful option is voting, yet millions of people were denied the right to vote in the last election, and Republicans are gearing up to do it again in the midterms and beyond.

Peaceful protesters are being arrested or executed. People peacefully voicing dissent are being labeled terrorists, and the DOJ is being weaponized to go after peaceful political opponents. People peacefully and lawfully navigating the immigration process are being jailed, separated from their families, and deported to places they have never been before.

They have already chosen violence. While I prefer peace, if they want to remove all peaceful means available, then the only option left is to fight back.

Going forwards I don't really know what I want to do about it. I don't think I'll stop making layered satirical comments

Definitely don't do that. I also like to make comments that mix puns and subtle references to niche culture/news wrapped in a dry delivery. But I am also fully aware that almost nobody will get the layered references, and sometimes that results in downvotes. It's worth it when someone gets all the nuance though.

The person who thought I posted an article about George Floyd obviously wasn't going to respect my time by considering anything I wrote.

Having not gotten the satire myself (or even recognizing that satire was in play, in which case I might have tried to interpret your comment differently), I took your words literally. That's totally on me as I often miss the cues. But from that perspective the article was genuinely confusing as it seemed unrelated. I could be wrong, but I assume the other commenter was in the same boat as me and not trying to be inconsiderate of your words or time.

I'll take the downvotes, but my Autistic ass didn't get the satire, so I appreciate the explanation.

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Wow. Thanks for the kind words.