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People need to realize that not everyone that sees things differently than you is malicious. Some people truly just don’t understand or see what’s going on around them. A large part of the reason America is so divided right now is because people with different viewpoints can’t/wont talk to each other and come to an understanding of why each party believes what they believe. Most people have more in common than they realize, and not everyone on the other side wants to see half of the world burn. Some people do, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a fraction of the majority.
And it takes 8 beers?
ikr I’m 7 years sober and ready to throw molotovs lmfao
Used to be you thought you could trust the government and they pulled shit like the Tuskegee Experiment.
Now you actually can perversely trust the government. Just pick the shittiest thing you think they can do, make it worse than that, and they’ll do it. No secrets. They can’t keep them.
That’s a good point
That was a short lived trust. Go back further and you had things like the Boer War, even further all the medieval wars of conquest in Europe. It used to be that medieval peasants had just as much to worry about with their own “friendly” soldiers as with the enemy soldiers, since both sides in a war would pillage the countryside in order to gather food and resources for the army.
Trusting the government is a modern invention. In some cases it’s justified, but it should never be an unconditional trust.
The best sort of trust comes from knowing what the incentives are for all parties involved. If everyone is behaving rationally, then you can trust those whose incentives align with your own. One of the big issues we have right now is an outbreak of extremely irrational and erratic behaviour.
Reverend insanity read like a highschool murderhobo novel, but they were rightly pragmatic on all governments and organizations being about accumulating resources to the top.
Ah the government, my oldest and most trusted friend! -Nobody
My family: “Politicians are so full of hot air that we could use them to solve the energy crisis!”
Also my family: “Did you hear what that politician said? It’s so great, I’m glad they’ve got their priorities straight!”
Of course liars are only lying when they’re saying things I don’t like! They’re definitely telling the truth when I want them to!
Eh, people still trust the police in circles wider than piefed. Imo police are the armed wing of the government
They are the boot
I don’t need any beers to start a counter to that discussion. Fuck the government
30 on 30
True story!
All I see in this image is anti-vaxxer
The current government in the US is anti-vax.
You really need to take off whatever goggles you’re wearing that cause you to perceive everything as whatever highly specific wedge issue you want to feel outraged about.
Why are you married to this woman
Her job is to make sure he still has friends tomorrow.
Those aren’t friends they’re people who will betray you and believe with every fiber if their being that they’re helping
It’s beneficial to hang out with normal people too. Even if you have to use social skills to keep hanging out. You lose that link and lose a tether to reality.
Not reality they’re fucking dangerously delusional if they think that shit
Suppose it largely depends where they are from, gonna guess USA for you, hehe.
Less evil doesn’t mean not evil
Who hurt you dog?
I dude the government I kinda said wtf like really badly and I’m not even the worst off
Dude honestly. Same.
It fuckedmy shit up when I was still a kid learning others got it even worse from same was like wtf and it’s getting even worse how
As a kid; parents, the church and community we lived in that turned a blind eye to it. As an adult; myself, both due to poor exposure to healthy relationships as a child and the naivety of believing that institutions like employers, health care, or state agencies existed for the purposes of social support. Ironically, now I spend most of my time with dogs, who’ve never hurt me 🤷♂️
Some people think that social cohesion is more important than social advancement. They’re obviously both important, as you can’t start a revolution if everyone hates you, but right now we’re so focused on getting along with everyone that we forget that we need to use that cohesion to force our country to do what we want, not just hold hands as our country forces us off a cliff.
For some reason I doubt this was the thing racing through his head when he decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.
Obviously relationships are multifaceted, but when you live in a time that will later be remembered for its instability and war, it’s important that you’re on at least a similar page as your partner concerning such subjects.
Country? That’s a dumb limiting thing. Why stop there? Why bind yourself with borders that will never be a tool of virtue?
Sure, that’s the goal, but honestly, even the country is far too big to start. Getting the ball rolling at a city or maybe even a small town level would probably be best, then build in people from surrounding towns to get it up to county size, then state, the country, then continent, then world. Trying to build the final stage as step 1 is just making a hard task harder. People like to join an existing movement rather than feel like they’re starting from scratch, and getting a few people to work together to start is a lot easier than millions.
But the idea of working on their organizing units is insane unless you’re trying to be them its not like I don’t talk yo people around the world every day
That’s why you start small. A country of people won’t join a small-town movement, but they’ll be a lot more likely to join an existing country-sized movement. It’s a snowball effect. Not sure if you’ve ever lived somewhere cold enough to actually roll up a snowball, but it only grabs a small amount of snow compared to the size of the ball when you roll it.
A small ball won’t pick up a lot of snow, but it will pick up enough to grow into a larger ball that picks up comparatively more snow to grow larger and pick up comparatively more snow, and so on. It doesn’t take long until you’re picking up clumps of snow several times larger than the initial ball like they’re nothing.
If you tried to just pack all that snow into the ball from the start you’d be there all day, but starting small and diligently rolling will easily result in a huge ball so long as you stick with it. Obviously people aren’t so easy to gather, but the principles are the same.
You’re still thinking in their terms units of organization why tfshpuld I rsspe t their borders San Diego Tijuana are same city to me like Victoria Seattle it’s not smart to do that ‘country’ is stupid
I mean, who gives a shit whether I say “A country’s worth of people” or “100 million people?” If you’re going to be that pedantic about it, we’ll never be able to come together to rise up in the first place. I speak in terms of geographic locations because that’s how revolutions start. One person in real life teams up with another person in real life, who together team up with other geographically nearby people on a local scale before moving up to larger and larger scales.
No matter how much a person in Seattle wants to help a movement that’s currently confined to Tijuana, they won’t be able to do anything tangible unless they physically go there and help. They could alternatively start up their own local movement in Seattle that eventually merges with the Tijuana one, or wait until the Tijuana one grows to reach Seattle, but neither of those helps the Tijuana one right now. Technically they could go online and spread awareness of the Tijuana movement, but the whole “thoughts and prayers” thing is less of a tangible helpful act and more of a way to pacify us by making us think we did something tangible, and rest on our laurels.
