same here, my friend. canceled 2 or 3 years ago. i'll pay for a month every now and then and end up endlessly scrolling through the wasteland after a single week.
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it's both, but understand that both mindsets are synonymous with narcissistic behavior. both lead to suffering.
and no one seems to think it could ever happen to them until it's too late. we are not special. we could become a page in history at any given moment.
that's also true. i think there are a lot of selfish people that understand that if america came to live within its means and stopped profiting off of a lot of other people's misfortune, that our collective quality of living would go down a little bit, and they'd rather see other people suffer than sacrifice any bit of convenience or luxury.
that kind of thinking is incongruent with altruism and those people need to be culled or reeducated.
no, and that's a stupid conclusion to draw from my statement.
yeah, i honestly don't have much faith in people. i'm 50 and i've been pretty radical left since i was in my early 20's. each new generation comes in thinking they're on the cusp of some great enlightenment that will change the world. they get complacent with that mindset until propaganda slowly erodes their morals and they accept the ever-approaching dystopia.
if you all had the perspective i have, you'd be planting bombs at every trump rally.
there is no dark cabal of illuminati engineering our dystopia. it's just shitty, greedy, unenlightened masses that love their shitty, greedy, unenlightened overlords, and until we cull those people nothing will ever change. they're not dying out. they're making new ones every day. we could have been living in a utopia by now. every problem in our society has a solution. we're just stuck in a left-right tug of war where no significant change happens except for more government/corporate overreach and degradation of the environment.
downtown st louis is actually pretty nice. i wouldn't recommend too many places in the south, but st louis seemed kinda nice.
people need to remember that part of the reason the country keeps moving to the right is because there are large swaths of the population that like it that way. it's not just the elite feeding the right propaganda to the people - it's the people looking for more and more conservative candidates as they watch their 'christian nation' become secular and their white cis male dominated culture become more open.
we need to stop believing that most people are by nature good. there are plenty of little fascist dictators in every small town community that want to see people suffer.
the truth is that we need a great culling of the rotten apples in every aspect of society.
what's truly insane is to stand by like a coward pacifist while they put the noose around your neck. some of you people are complacent to the point of being sitting ducks.
if deceptichum said not to vote, that's their mistake. please let me correct them by saying VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO, as you stockpile ammo and expand your local alliance. we have to use every tool in the box to fix this mess before it turns into the forever dystopia. i still believe in democracy, i'm just not sure it alone can save us.
FUCKING EXACTLY
it does more good to get rid of the bad elements of society because they pave the way for a better society. we'll never have the society that benefits all until we get rid of the barriers to it. everyone cannot be saved, and every minute we don't take direct action to fix our society dooms millions more that have yet to be born, if not billions (not even counting the animal life affected by it). it's a simple trolley problem. I temper my altruism with basic logic. you take the direct path to alleviating the suffering for the most creatures, not all creatures.