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.
Good thing someone who can plan their attack and track their target for days or weeks, someone with absolutely nothing to lose and a single-minded purpose, would absolutely give up on their plans if they can't find a public picture of a company's CEO on the first page they check.
You say this while there is currently a bitter war being fought with drones controlled with X-box controllers with VR goggles. The next wars will be conducted via gaming.
(I mean, besides all the civilians who might get between our murderbots.)
If you just mount an industrial wood mulcher on the front grill you won't get as much damage from colliding with children and animals.
You know what would be a lot simpler and cheaper? Busses and trains and neighborhoods designed so that you can walk or bike to get basic necessities.
Yah this isn't something you break out on the first date, you really have to get to know the person and learn what their social views and politics are before you try to "subvert capitalism at the nearest mcdonalds."
I mean, good tho that he learned early. It's just too bad he's going to get a billion messages asking how to do this trick exactly and McDonalds Corporation will have to patch their kiosks.
We can't have nice things.
I fundamentally think you can't talk to them like adults in 90% of circumstances, and I am speaking as someone who was raised conservative and realized I had a brain around 22 because I saw too many friends die in an unnecessary war and things weren't making sense around me.
The conservative mind IS simple, you changed your mindset for altogether different reasons, and because you CAN change and adapt, you require a different approach, but for the died-in-wool, opinionated midwest conservative screaming about the bible and "killing the gays" they don't have any clue about policy, they can't form theory of mind, they were never trained to think in words and logic, they live in a world of reaction and feeling and cannot separate belief from choice when it comes to making decisions. IE: the WWF Wrestlemania Effect. They want a thing to be real, so they believe it and then believe they always believed it, because they don't have the mental capacity to hold a long-term mental narrative in their mind.
This sounds like I am being really harsh but I swear, at least for EVERY conservative that I ever grew up with, have been exposed to, and lived with, they are dumber than rocks. I am not essentializing, they are humans like everyone, but our society and system failed them, their parents failed them, and they were never given the proper perspective and tools to understand their own minds and how to look at the world the way you or I might. They have been essentially made into another species that thinks differently on a fundamental level and I cannot stress this enough, even if you haven't experienced this, either you aren't around many or you haven't had the blackpilling realization just how bad it is.
I went through some of the worst depressive episodes of my life when I realized how bad it actually is out there, and how few people really understand how bad it is.
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.