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Yeah this is a couple who haven't really talked through their issues and may have some kind of executive dysfunction. A little time being very honest and crying through their own insecurities together would turn their lives around for the better. (executive dysfunction is a big word but common problem with anyone who has depression and/or anxiety. It just means you don't have a solid distinction in your mind between what you want for yourself and your life, and how your feelings just run away with you and make small things huge obstacles.)

They have no intention of occupation. They will raze every city to the ground to control the pipes and food. They just want the pipes and food, and people who don't allow that are just going to be ground up like so much meat.

Putin wants every territory that used to be Russia.

And then when he gets them all, he will want every territory that's near Russia.

And people will be like "Oh no, why didn't anyone DO something when we could?"

He means what he says and there is no nuance or subtext.

Well, there is a sort of nuance here.

In that he's also terrible at doing literally anything, and fails constantly at achieving promises.

He also has so many plots and schemes cooking at any given moment with so many other people and organizations that you absolutely cannot trust or predict any outcome. This is the real thing that nobody learned about Trump is that he is completely unpredictable because he can't be honest about the color of the sky if asked.

You're implying that people who post on 4-chan have no clue how the real world works and no idea what business is like and how people make money!

If someone wanted to make a fast buck right now, I bet a game where you go hunt down CEO's and virtually.... you know, accomplish your mission goals on them, it would be wildly popular.

That's the relevance and context of this comic strip, when it was first published in the 80's people hadn't heard of bungee jumping nor did it exist as far as I know, but people did see Nat Geo's documentaries.

Neither this meme nor your own lived experiences are good representations of what the average American struggles with in the healthcare system. Speaking as someone who lost a house and almost everything I owned due to medical issues in my family.

True facts I will never be able to purge from my accursed brain.

The married couple who owned the house in the 80's sitcom "Mr Belvedere" canonically met in Altoona. The premise of the sitcom was that a lower/middle class family ended up with a refined british butler who solved all their issues for them and brought them closer as a family. It was exactly how it sounds.

fighting words is useless if the power goes unchecked

I'm going to steal this.

In the meantime, I make deliberate efforts to NOT censor or filter my language if I'm not clearly attacking someone and someone takes issue with my use of... sigh... "crazy" then I know right away that person is NOT an alley to a greater cause, so if anything it does tend to save me some time. I rather let the sheltered kids argue it out with each other if the term "mad" is a problem or if doors should have five doorknobs at different levels to serve people of different heights. (I just made this one up on the spot, but fully expect to see it as the next major culture war flashpoint.)

The right has an advantage in that they don't even think in language as much. This all exists on a spectrum of course, and strengths can become weaknesses in other areas, but it's very hard to teach people that kind of nuance. But the lack of language-based thinking leads to more cohesive in-groups who don't pick apart each other's beliefs. They're able to connect with each other far easier as emotional monkeys, but this also leads to the reinforcement of primitive emotions like fear of strangers and people who look or talk different.

As someone recently diagnosed as autistic also, I have become fond of giving people "the pass" if they take issue with my ableist language. It's good for a laugh.

This is why Americans always vote for the wealthy, everyone imagines themselves to be "temporarily disgraced millionaires."

Aesthetic “Leftists”

Absolutely infuriating. These are people who spend a lot of time on discord, closely nurturing a group of diverse people of specific ethnic or gender/sexual identities because it makes them feel very progressive but makes no effort to see their "friends" as humans and won't hold them accountable when any of them become abusive or hassle other friends in the group. These are the college-kids who will commit all their energy to fighting a school-mascot which bothers nobody, while literal nazis march on another part of the campus. These are the ones who create campaigns to "take down" another popular leftist for saying something like the word "retarded" while actual threats to humanity rise in power. And generally just find it a lot easier to attack people ostensibly on their side than the actual challenge of fighting for actual community organization efforts against a rising tide of fascism and hate.

For these kids being progressive or leftist is entirely about preserving an in-club of specific people who can hate outsiders, but they feel they have a broader societal blessing for the exclusionary and wildly performative attitudes.