All day every day for me. I have a lot of difficulty with paying attention to certain sorts of details and typos are for sure in that category.

What’s even worse is when I know how to spell a word and have used it for years of my life, only to have a brain fart one day and completely butcher it over doubts, half-formed ideas, brain fog or whatever else. I recently spelled ‘pacifism’ as something like ‘passifiscm’, looked at it and thought “WhAt a WeIrDlY SpELleD wOrD” before continuing on. Not a single thought more was spent on it until someone else, lightly and politely, corrected me on it lol

Edot: typos 😭

Someone who is both white and asian, would be my guess. That’s based on both the words it seems to be made of, as well as how I’ve seen OP talk about race in relation to attractiveness before. Bit of a fixation, seems like.

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Not to be confused with Harry Potter and The Wizard of Fuck. Very, very different story that

Not even a little.

Some unasked for advice; don’t waste your life worrying what other people will think of you. Some people will always find a reason to look down on you. Doesn’t matter how smart, diligent, kind, hard-working, or whatever else you are. Those types will always find a reason.

So just do what you need, then do what you want, and let the people along the way who like what they see into your life. I promise that this is much more conducive to happiness than wasting mental resources on people that will never really care what you’re doing anyway. Finish school and chase whatever it is you’re after! You fuckin got this, dude!

Good. Do not let these pigs have their way.

I have had an exhausting day and cant seem to conjure an appropriate response to this atm, but you have mustered some measure of glimmering hope within me. Or perhaps reminded me of somewhere I can look when I need it? Whatever lol

I wanted to offer my appreciation for that, so my honest thanks I offer to you. Thanks, internet person :)

You are not wrong. Violence will again become a necessity, as has always been true thus far. Still tho, as bad as things are, a mishandling of the situation could very easily make things exponentially and explosively worse.

Again, I dont know what the proper fix is. But I do know that violence begets itself and as long as we remain in this cycle, it will only be a matter of time before our ways out of that abusive loop are razed entirely. That final revolution (“revolution” in the sense of this cycle of violence tbc) will most likely be coming someday and, with the US military being what it is and with who is currently leading it, that day’s coming could be very near. People are scared to act because all actions are met with reactions. Whether or not it is what you want to be true or to hear, it still could get a lot worse than it currently is, and throwing oil on fire is a great way to hasten that potential future.

Something needs to be done. I agree with that with every fiber of my being. I just dont see violence sparking further violence as the fix many of us hope it could be. Knowing what devastation the US military will check it with is not a hypothetical, a suggestion, or parody. It is a dire reality that ill-advised/ill-placed violence can and will usher in if allowed.

It’s a common saying in gun culture that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. How do you stop a bad guy with more guns, missiles, and nukes than nearly all of the rest of the world combined? Good guys with guns can stand against that, but not for long and not in the “we are going to win this fight” sort of way either. They will be mowed down and turned to mush before they can even draw, if that is what the US military wants to happen.

I agree with your overall sentiment. I just cant find any reason to believe that what youre proposing will lead in the direction you are hoping it will, unless your hope is true and utter devastation.

Violence is, absolutely, necessary at times. I dont disagree with that.

What I meant by that was that every time this sort of threat has been resolved by violence, it only sets the stage for future violence, because the true problem lies in the systems we use this violence to uphold. Those systems need addressing and reconfiguring if we ever want to see things like this become cultural relics. My phrasing could have admittedly been better, but I do not think it is naive to see the problem behind the problem.

The gun nuts do need to stfu about their hollow ideals though. I’d say we are in complete agreement on that note. If they were to actually ‘walk the walk’ however…I dread what that may usher in tbqh.

I mean…yeah. Regular people will do whatever they can to put off or avoid having to become murderers, regardless of where they live. Even if the murder would be justified; regular, normal people just don’t want to become killers.

Obviously something needs to be done (or, more accurately, many things should have been done decades ago to prevent all of this cruel nonsense, but alas). Asking and expecting average people to kill just because it is the easiest way to envision out of this…that’s just not reasonable. Besides the social and emotional ask of it being monumental on its own, it would also be met with the greatest military force in world history, anyway.

Many US citizens refuse to respond with militant might for the same reasons other world powers are refusing to intervene with the same: the violence it will spark will kill way, way more innocent souls than what is currently happening. Many of which will die horrific, torturous deaths en masse. Entire cities left as smoking husks. Families erased from the gene pool. Terrors and horrors unimaginable would become the norm, as is always the case with war.

I can very much understand the frustration that stirs this line of thought, just as well as I can empathize with those being asked to pursue it. We all want this to be done with and we all want a simple, direct solution. There are very good and rational reasons to not provoke the US military, however. For foreign and domestic parties, alike.

Tbc, I dont know the most appropriate solution either, but asking regular people to become murderers because it seems easy/possible from the outside…that’s just not a realistic ask for many of the same reasons that no world military is going to invade the US mainland anytime soon. Not without a whole lot of pain and suffering first befalling those average folks, at least. Enough people here have to agree that there is nowhere left to run before the regular joe can be overcome by the killer within, and that is a reasonable and usual response to these sorts of things, all over the world.

And sorry for ranting on it. I am a pacifist, so the regularity and casualness of people telling me I should nut up and kill a politician is very disturbing to me on many levels. Again, I can understand the sentiment. I just can not sit with it morally, philosophically, or even on the terms of basic reasoning. The response would be overwhelming and truly devastating. I dont think further violence has ever really fixed this problem and I dont believe that’s going to magically change now.

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No. It is just one of many ways to divide people.

Looking down on people for doing what they have to in order to make a living is narrow-minded and rather ignorant, if not outright stupid, because it only takes one bad day to take the comfortable dressings of your life and strip them all away. With only one bad day, you could be worse off than whoever it is you look most severely down your nose at.

You are made of the same things as beggars, as fry-cooks, as billionaires, and as rats alike. Prestige rots just like everything else, and trying to disprove or outrun this basic law of reality is the domain of the insecure and the foolish. Do not allow yourself to be an insecure fool, if it can be helped.

Respect what it is that you really are and seek yourself in others. That is what matters.

Greed and the evil that its unstymied growth inevitably breeds.

After reading things like this, I sometimes feel a measure of envy for those who believe in heaven and hell. To feel assured that this absolute piece of shit will someday get exactly what he deserves must be very comforting.

Thanks!

Edit: Thoroughly beautiful track. I have slept on Highwaymen for way too long, it seems. I thought I recognized Cash’s voice (because how could you not lol), so I looked up the members to be sure and…holy guac. What a stacked roster they had going!

Thanks a second time, mate! I think this one’s gonna be sticking on me a while

This boy got bars. Song name?

Off topic, but describing Ed Zitron as having a “foul-mouth” is very funny when you compare how tame his word choice is compared to Robert Evans (his coworker/employer). Like, sure he uses cusses at times, but calling that foul-mouthed is just placing the bar pretty gd low imo

This image brings me a surprising amount of joy and envy. I wish to sup of the parmered sean :(

The US needs to change and so does much of the rest of the world. The two aren’t mutually exclusive and much of the problem as it now exists can only take this current visage because of both national and international groundwork laid before. Whether or not this country is capable of positive change, that change alone would not be enough to prevent this from happening again. We know this because, in different ways and at varying levels of effectiveness, what is happening in the US is also happening in a plethora of places all around the world, right this moment, for basically all of the same reasons and purposes.

As the person you responded to already illustrated, the problem is larger than any one country, and looking away from that is just as in the way of progress as the countless shitheads among my own countrymen who refuse to stand up against what cruelties this nation is currently enacting.

So, yes. US citizens definitely do need to do their part. We have a lot of shit to sort over here. But that doesn’t make it helpful to pretend that we are the only number in this elaborate equation. The wealthy dirtbags who’ve put us all in this position benefit off of treating it as such, as this allows them the same freedom to keep at it, but this certainly does not make it true. If the US were to properly fall and the current administration was erased along with it, do you really think this problem would be over? Don’t you think the stateside billionaires pushing for all of this would just leave and continue on elsewhere? And what of those who ar not and never were based here?Us dipshit US rednecks aren’t stopping all of them from all of that, no matter how this all ends up going down. Not on our own, at the very least. Because, in spite of our outsized effect on the globe, the problem is much larger than just us.

Ohh. Thx and ew

Ice barbie?

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