If it so happens the Democrat is in the Epstein files more often, it will be a great way to piss off libs to tell them the Republican candidate is the lesser of two evils. You may not like it but you have to be practical and vote for the lesser evil since you can't let perfect be the enemy of good.
QuietCupcake
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where did those kids learn to be so mean and cruel?
The same place they learned any of their social interactions: the other humans they interacted with or witnessed interacting. Obviously that means their parents first but also the community they are in, from extended family to neighbors to anyone they see their parents interact with. And in our modern era, it's not limited to their family and community, but literally social conditioning from the media they're exposed to. Even toddlers will reenact what they see on a television or computer screen. I don't remember all the age milestones of where children become capable or aware of what, but they can mimic the behavior of others they see from a very young age, earlier than kindergarten.
They were too young to be exposed to all the propaganda
No they weren't. Why would you think this?
I've learned from many years of being around these people that many of them are just hateful disgusting leeches at the end of the day I truly believe our species has this baked in [selfish and greedy]
That is not a materialist view of reality. You save it by saying
capitalism encourages that behavior.
Which is the key, but which you seem to just say in passing rather than recognizing it as the counter to the rest of what you were saying.
Greed and selfishness may be "baked in" to humanity, but no more so (and arguably much less so) than empathy, compassion and social altruism, no more so than kindness and a very human desire to be helpful to others. What is truly "baked in" to humanity? Adaptability. Humans are highly adaptable to their material conditions (technically, all life is highly adaptable to its material conditions but humans are also highly adaptable to the emergent property of their social conditions). An evil and cruel system based on a capitalist mode of production is going to produce and reproduce a sick society which is going to produce and reproduce sick and twisted people. That's what class struggle ultimately aims to rectify.
Sorry, somehow I missed this post and essentially posted the same thing again. 
I really appreciate the citations the author included at the bottom and they're well worth skimming. One of which I'll point out below, though it may be somewhat tangential to reasons for masking, I think most here would agree it's worth highlighting:
- Like bombs and bullets, COVID is used as a tool of genocide. Israel denies Palestinians vaccines and medical treatments, destroys Palestinian COVID research and treatment centers, assassinates Palestinian COVID experts, and creates conditions ideal for COVID spread. Most Palestinians don’t have access to the $1-$2 N95’s that Westerners take for granted.
Nabil, Nada. “They Survived the Bombs, but Not the Virus: Fatal Illness Spreads in Gaza.” Middle East Eye, 2026,
www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-survived-bombs-not-virus-fatal-illness-spreads.
Mahase, Elisabeth. “Gaza: Israeli Airstrikes Kill Doctors and Damage Healthcare Facilities.” BMJ, vol. 373, 20 May 2021, p. n1300,
www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1300, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1300.
This is excellent. It really nails it. Do you mind if I crosspost it to Hexbear's c/COVID com?
TBH a major part of why I wanted a gaming PC was so that I could pirate games. I can't do that on a PS4. Even though I only ever buy games on sale, I still wince at how much I've spent over time especially on some games that I just ended up not liking and never playing, games that would have been free if I had pirated them.
There are also a lot of games that make sense on PC that just don't work with consoles/controllers, like most RTS games. There are a lot of games I would love to play that are on console, but I don't get them because it's the mods that make them worth playing, but I can't install mods on a console. I don't play any multiplayer games because I'd have to pay a monthly fee for PS+ that I'm just not willing to pay, but playing those games multiplayer on PC is free.
I don't really care much about having the greatest bestest graphics ever (although higher frame rate on anything is easier on my headaches which does make a huge difference), and if I can't run the latest AAAA slop, then whatever, that's fine, nbd. But I do care a lot about having some control over the hardware my games run on and thus the games themselves, and there is just none on console.
I feel your pain. I've been saving up for over a year to try to build a gaming PC, my ancient potato laptop already having been on its last legs for a long time. But I guess it would be foolish to try to do that now, which really guts me. For anyone reading this who has a better understanding of these things, should I:
- Try to build what I can now, as quickly as possible before it gets even worse?
- Wait for the bubble to pop when prices on all these things will inevitably drop again?
- Totally scrap my dream of being able to post in c/Games about anything that can't be played on a PS4?
Oh noes! You wouldn't want to have your misconceptions challenged, you had better run along now.
Hank: It feels like the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was tying everything to the stock market. Let's have everyone's retirements and the entire economy be based on 10% of wealthy people feeling like they can spend. If asset prices drop substantially, people get conservative, and that becomes a reinforcing loop.
Kyla: That's a big worry. A lot of people's wealth doesn't come from labor income anymore; it comes from owning stocks or a home. The Federal Reserve's wealth breakdown shows that for the top 10%, most of their wealth is from things they own, not from a job. The "wealth effect" is important for maintaining the economy. If the stock market corrects, there's a concern people would stop spending, causing a big contraction.
I hate it when libs get so close yet somehow always remain so far away from actually getting it.
I don't really know anything about her, but this post hit my nostalgia button so I looked her up on wikipedia. Some cool things found therein:
In February 2012, she and six other Greenpeace activists boarded an oil drilling ship at Port Taranaki, and remained on it for 77 hours to stop it leaving for the Arctic where it was going to take part in oil exploration.[49] She was subsequently arrested and charged with burglary
Xena's ambiguous romantic relationship with travelling companion Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor)[35] led to Lawless becoming a lesbian icon, a role of which she has said she is proud.[35] She has said that during the years she was playing the role, she had been undecided on the nature of the relationship,[36] but in a 2003 interview with Lesbian News magazine, she said that after viewing the series finale, she had come to see Xena and Gabrielle's relationship as definitely gay, adding "they're married, man".
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So would I in those circumstances. And I'd like to believe he knew what was about to happen and was prepared to be martyred. And maybe he was, but there is a fact that to me really throws a wrench into that narrative. His daughter and toddler granddaughter were also murdered in the attack, if not in the exact same strike (though possibly, I am not sure), then in a simultaneous one. It seems like if he were so certain that it was nearly inevitable that he would be martyred in these or some other strikes, he would have made sure his family was more protected while only he remained in a vulnerable position.
Whether he knew and was ready or not, I don't think his daughter and purely innocent granddaughter were ready and willing, and obviously he did not wish this for them. Which is why the whole thing about people trying to make it more... acceptable, or not as bad, that he was martyred this way, since he was ready will never sit right with me.