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We have a lot in common TrickDacy.

It's reeeeaaaaally wordy, I recommend audiobook or read along with audiobook. It's not complicated language or anything it's just reeeeaaaally dense, i'd take breaks between pages to digest what I've read.

I just wanna stop feeling bad when Muta yells at me.

I recently read the book 'Dawn of Everything' which is a somewhat expose on some of the data about humans, human nature, and inequality discovered by anthropologists and archaeologists in the last 20 or so years thanks to modern technology, and while I'm weary of any "grand narratives" on human evolution like say 'Guns, Germs, and Steel', 'Sapiens', 'The Next/Last 100 Years' I find that the actual scientific evidence paints a much more optimistic view of humans and our politics without being shy about our wickedness. In short our so-called "development" isn't linear at all, and the limits to our societies is simply our imaginations. Human beings are destined for freedom and communion, the more our technology breaks social barriers the closer we move towards a global village. The difference is I don't think we've ever been closer to that, and that excites me. Consider this my thanks :)

Can't change the past, but we can make the future together comrade. Because doing nothing is doing something. Sorry you're having a hard time, I am too, recent Graves disease diagnoses basically has me out of work and stuck inside for the next year less I have a heart attack. Seeing that Nazi salute and everyone downplaying that has fueled a fire in me, which doesn't help my heart. I refuse to back down though and be complacent, especially if it means dying. Feels good to believe in something you're willing to die for though, beats being lost and used.

EDIT - I want to smile like this guy one day:

Oh I used to, and still do, go to a lot of protests. I make the choice to do so, and continue doing so. I agree they haven't moved the needle one bit, which is why I keep telling everyone at these protests "We should be doing this in gated communities outside the houses of millionaires and billionaires, not outside buildings they never go to block traffic for other workers." Would you go back to protesting if say an Occupy or BLM movement happened in gated communities, outside the homes of the rich?

They are, fucking teenage relatives is all they want.

Okay, keep working for your salary and don't show up to protests, see what happens. You'll either fight them eventually or take their side to pay the bills.

Don't get exhausted before the real fight, otherwise we're doomed. I better start seeing more of ya'll taking the day off work and risking your salary to stop Nazi's, otherwise you might as well be one yourself.

The guy who wrote that poem was the aforementioned complacent majority who was comfortable with fascism till it was his turn. It will be your turn soon.

I left reddit because I was banned for saying "People can vote." I find more nuanced discussions and less censorship here, it's just that in a free non-corporate space conservatism is just an unpopular ideology when one of their leaders does a Nazi salute at the conservative winning presidential inauguration. But go ahead, put on your boots and uniform and maybe your Father will give you a medal for owning the libs.

Wish the UK's right to defend itself wasn't banned in 1997.