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Prismsblade posted...

Maybe if they were behind a noble cause with most of the country and goverments backing. But usurping our goverment, and democracy to seize control and overturn the election? Lol no.

And even if, despite all odds they did succeed, who would acknowledge his rule without military, government and police backing?

Outside of Trumpers in every arm of government installing him as president, I don't think Trump would have necessarily come back to power if Biden was taken hostage and/or killed. But he and his cronies like Marjorie Greene-Taylor and Mitch McConnell would have exploited the power vacuum left by Biden's death to upset the system, rile more people up to commit more violence and try to take power.

You just know that dumb fucks on CE would argue that no-one voted for Kamala Harris to be president, and that people would A) downplay the insurrection in the wake of a Trump-led power struggle for control of the country and B) post messages confirming and praising qanon for delivering them the future they were promised. With any luck, it would have led to a Kamala Harris presidency, and Trump would have been impeached to the fullest extent of the law and sent to jail. But that wouldn't come before the right wing fully mobilized to try and usurp the 2020 election.

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I had that crisis young, but it's been rearing up on me again.

One day my grandparents are going to die. Then my parents are going to die. Then I'm going to die.

It won't be like sitting in darkness for eternity, I won't see black behind my eyelids because I won't be able to see. I won't be able to perceive anything. "I" will be nothing - the electrical spark in my brain that maintains my personality will go out and I'll simply cease to exist. All that's left will be a pile of meat that someone else has to get rid of.

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...yeah, that's a no from me dawg

Smackems posted...

Well, we all go through "that" phase

Reminds me a bit of Blurred Lines/Wrecking Ball era Miley Cyrus.

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The establishment absolutely did throw a shitfit over this though. John Wayne tried to put hands on her over this.

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Prismsblade posted...

Without military backing idk what anyone actually thought they could achieve. Let alone enforce.

The President-Elect is there, they brought flex cuffs. They're there because Trump told them that Biden stole the election and that his win wasn't legitimate.

They also enacted violence against the Capitol police, which led to at least one of them dying.

I would say there's a lot they could have done without military backing if the winds of favor blew in their direction.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Hopefully you rally against the actions of the United States and protecting their international interests and proxy wars as much as you do against an Israeli wanting there to be peace and making no statement about the Gaza Strip.

Absolutely. America's actions in the middle east destabilized the entire region, and Bush's hunt for WMDs drew Australia into the Iraq War - most likely through the ANZUS treaty, though I don't know for sure. Since then, the US has enforced their military might with drone strikes and through the assassination of foreign generals. And the few areas where a US presence actually mattered, like when they were helping the Kurds resist Turkish violence in Syria, have come to nothing with the US's withdrawal.

You also have Saudi Arabia's conflict with Yemen, which is decried as a genocide by some - with the US acting on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The modus operandi of America is violence and destabilisation, and then they barge in and take prisoners without a trial or a warrant, and they stick them in places like GitMo to endure torture and unlawful detention for decades.

The same as I don't want China detaining Uighurs in re-education camps, or Azerbaijan to persecute and murder Armenians in the street, I decry the US's destabilizing violence in accordance with equally violent international regimes to protect their interests. I also believe that the US, by itself, is responsible for war crimes in the middle east that they engaged with for the sake of oil, and they'll never be charged with those war crimes, letting the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the past 20 years go unavenged.

So no, this isn't an isolated opinion against Israel. I understand that there's reasonable doubt whenever somebody goes all in on Israel and only Israel - for all of the evil committed by the state, Israel is used as a scapegoat by anti-semites to further their anti-semitism. It's a reasonable fear. But I think anyone with an ounce of human decency should be able to view what's happening right now and decry the violence being committed against Palestine, especially in the greater context of Israel's occupation and in the disproportionate amount of violence being levelled against Palestinian civilians by the IDF.

My feelings on Israel are in a similar ballpark to my feelings on China. I have no beef with the people, or in this case the religion - but the state can and should go and fuck themselves.

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zinezinzadan posted...

Real threat to America are compulsive liars, such as @Conflict . The guy calls random people he's never met names such as democrat, republican, etc, with no proof. He'll just assign you your thoughts. That's creepy as hell lmao.

What the fuck is your beef with Conflict? I've seen you deflect to him in 2 threads now.

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Yeah, why are people being mean to the woman who served in the Israeli military and who's refusing to acknowledge Israel's decades of occupation and violence against Palestine, instead bringing up her family's safety for sympathy and marketing this as a conflict between two equal warring parties? Israel bombed a significant mosque, they're kicking people out of their homes and there are fucking lynch mobs throwing rocks at Palestinians as they try to escape the violence. Israel are undoubtedly the aggressors here, and they're playing on colonial violence that they've been enacting since the state's inception.

Seriously - could they not have left Gaza alone and let Palestine have it, for all the land Israel already occupies that used to be Palestine? No, they're going to shell it to fucking smithereens and take as much more land as they want, and kick Palestinians out of their homes, and throw fucking flashbangs and grenades into mosques as people are praying. Those are not the actions of a morally grey warring party who's besieged by violence - those are the acts of violent colonizers, committing unnecessary acts of violence for their own personal gain and engaging in tyranny against people on their own land.

Gal Gadot served as an enforcer of that violence, and anything she says is filtered through the perception of someone who justified and engaged in that violence on the side of the aggressors. Fuck her, and fuck every "both sides" prick who's downplaying what's happening to Palestine right now.

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Prismsblade posted...

Cant speak for others but to me it was just one of many more riots we had that year it seems most others have instantly forgot by now.

Because most riots didn't pose a direct threat to America's senators and the President-Elect of the United States.

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She's not dead, she's just chilling on that island smoking blunts with the coconut crabs

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If the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake comes out on PS5, play that.

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I'm sorry, I was going by the topic title and the first post you made.

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lww99 posted...

no but I live next to a registered offender. Does that count

Next door is pretty close.

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One of my dad's brothers molested him when he was a kid, so I might have met him at a family reunion or something. I'm sure my dad wouldn't have spent long around him with me and my sister around if that was the case.

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I want to say "get out of America and immigrate to somewhere else", but the fact is that the people who are most affected by these shitheads and will feel the full brunt of their policies if they're elected again are too poor to move towns, let alone leave the country.

I hope that third party thing works out.

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DrizztLink posted...

So is the situation here that CE can't figure out that this is an older story?

Because that's my guess.

I responded to the first post, didn't realise this was an older story because the topic title is in present tense.

So yeah, went charging in without all the info. mb.

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I remember getting boners when I was like 5. It's just something my dick did, I'd be like "oh it's pointy now" and then it'd go down and I'd basically shrug and go on my way.

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I think the effectiveness rate is like 60% or something? So you're more protected, but if COVID wants to fuck your system up, it can. It's just got more resistance now.

It's not an ideal situation, but it's the best we've got.

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Flawless_Lee posted...

I mean it's already been like a month so that first option is out the window and not what I want.

Then it seems like you've made up your mind. Why bother asking us what to do?

I understand and sympathize that you don't want to hurt your friend right now, but if you've been fucking around with her BF before or just after their breakup, the ethical choice is to either break up with the guy and spare your friend's feelings or tell your friend and live with the fallout. I think keeping her in the dark about this, despite your best intentions, is a serious breach of trust and it's selfish - and if you've been seeing this guy since before they broke up, it's undeniably shitty and selfish what you've been doing. There's no way around that.

And the longer you leave this, the longer it's going to hurt your friend - it's shitty to ruin her birthday, but it might be shittier for her to realise you were fucking her ex the entire time before you told her, including when it was her birthday and you presumably celebrated with her and was all chummy the entire time.

You seem to have made up your mind about what you want to do, so by all means, go do that. But understand that despite your best intentions, you're not coming out of this clean and you're not an innocent party in all of this. If you won't do the right thing, then you should live with that.

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Flawless_Lee posted...

I mean it's not like my though was, omg I'm going to go fuck her boyfriend now! But that's what happened.

For sure, I'm not saying you went out of your way to hurt your friend. But the fact remains that you did what you did, and if you care about your friend I think she deserves to know the truth.

You have two options - you can walk away from your friend's ex and never mention it again, or you can tell your friend that you have a mutual interest. If you start fucking around with her ex behind her back - an ex that dumped her a week ago - that's an extraordinarily shitty thing to do to your friend. Either dump the rat or tell your friend.

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You should tell your friend and deal with whatever fallout comes your way. That's a shitty thing to do to someone.

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There was a recent development in this story TC. Apparently he also commissions drawings of upper class/soccer mom-type women - predominantly with long, blonde hair - cutting down trees in deforested areas. He has a complex about the women in any conmissions he makes being white and blonde - other hair colors make it through, especially if it's fanart, but allegedly he specifies that he prefers the women to be blonde and white.

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I said in the last thread about this woman - just because she's not rail thin, it's not out of the question for her to have lessened her caloric intake to dangerous levels due to mental health issues about her weight. You can be fat and anorexic, and you can still suffer the ill effects of anorexia like kidney damage without looking like a skeleton.

Vermander posted...

Whoever this psychologist is needs their license revoked. This is fundamentally impossible.

That's a fucked up way of looking at this. People who are made to feel self conscious about their weight tend to be the people who suffer from eating disorders. We have it in our minds that it's insecure teenagers and glamorous size 0 models who have a disconnect between their perfectly healthy bodies and their body image, and we have a body type in mind for the sort of person who suffers from anorexia.

But that ignores the people who are overweight, who do lower the caloric intake to dangerous levels, and who subsequently suffer the ill effects of anorexia - while still being fat. Because not eating doesn't get you to supermodel size, it fucks with your metabolism and puts your body into panic mode so it stores everything you eat as fat the next time you eat. And then the anorexic person panics over their weight fluctuating and fasts even harder, which fucks with their metabolism even more.

You can fuck up your kidneys without looking like a skeleton with a sheet draped over you. You can suffer the physical and mental effects of anorexia without being 60 pounds of skin and bone. This is not at all impossible, and it's revolting that it would garner scorn to the point of calling for someone's medical license to be revoked.

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people when it comes to fat chicks? Christ.

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kirbymuncher posted...

Can't I do both?

I might take one, depends how wet I already am

I mean sure, but do you want to be carrying an umbrella around if you're just gonna get on a bus and go to a building where you can wait out the weather? And will you use the umbrella?

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I still feel a pressure not to cry.

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We've had three Lizzo topics in the past week, and they've all got over 100 responses. The general atmosphere seems to be putting her down, calling her a hypocrite and saying she's bringing obesity and disease to her audience.

I'm just sitting here thinking about who must have hurt these people that they're so pissed off and unpleasant about a fat black performer trying to put some positivity into the world. Like Christ, you clearly don't like her, so why don't you spend your time listening to someone who you do appreciate? Why not spend time on something that does enrich your life, rather than something you're clearly bitter about?

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Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

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I understand why fundraising is moddable, you let one person fundraise and suddenly everyone's plugging their GoFundMe and patreon and the like. I think the rule stems from the old internet stigma against "e-begging", but like I get it.

With that being said, I'll gladly take some e-begging any day over transphobic users getting NKLs while the people who complain about it get suspended, holocaust and race "realists" who downplay horrific violence and genocide under the guise of "just asking questions" and users who outright admit to grooming teenagers on the internet and whose understanding of sexual consent by age steers towards "kids being mature enough to make their own decisions".

Mod history is one thing, but sometimes you need to see something really slimy and disingenuous the once and take real, solid action on it to prevent it from taking hold and fucking up the community. And again - it is understandable as to why fundraising is frowned upon on here, because then everybody's gonna want a piece of the pie and you're opening the platform up to potential fraud. But if you're gonna be that vigilant on fundraising, it'd be really nice to see users preaching about "black on black violence" or immigrant birthing rates getting hit with the same fervor. I'd rather spend time on a platform where everyone's like "subscribe to my *taboo fundraising platform*" than one where users are trying to preach and normalise the idea of white genocide.

Though I'll throw this out to the community - instead of falling for the next garbage racebait or what have you, can we seriously just mark it and move on instead of letting those threads get hundreds of replies?

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Star_FAQs posted...

ah here it is, from "Homer the Great"

https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E12/i2XzPKoyR0728OMJB7M75GQxw9M=.gif

And then he starts getting benefits from work, but instead of giving him a better parking space, they give him rollerblades to get to work faster.

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rexcrk posted...

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Still love the show. Of course there are going to be not great episodes when there are so many. But I hate how it became a thing to whine about the quality of the show.

Of course, my favorite part about that is how the last good season keeps getting pushed up. Used to be 8 was the last good one. Then it was 1-10. Then up to 12. Now I see people saying they only like the first sixteen seasons

I was talking to a friend about this recently. I think it all comes down to age and culture.

The whole "Simpsons got bad from season 9 onwards" thing feels like an American opinion, spread by people who were avid fans during Simpsonsmania. And sure, the show did change, and you're right to be concerned about the quality of the show and to assert what seasons were "your" seasons - I do the same thing for Doctor Who - but for example, I was born in 1995 and thus wasn't really conscious for the heyday of the show. But I grew up watching it regardless, old and new episodes, and I genuinely enjoyed the show going forward through each new season.

It helps that The Simpsons was like a religion here in Australia - tons of kids watched it for years past the popular "quality cut-off point" that the internet likes to put on it. Even if it's not the peak of wit, it was an entertaining TV show and it was something to watch.

When I was talking to that friend of mine, we got to talking about the season where we stopped enjoying the show. He said season 15, I said season 18. And something I noticed is that I'm 25 and he's 28 - so we basically grew out of The Simpsons at the same age.

And I think that has something to do with it as well. The quality of the show is one thing, there comes a time when your favourite era of the Simpsons ends and you lose interest, but the Simpsons is also something you grow out of and end up looking back on fondly. The people who normalised the standard "season 8 was the last decent season" opinion were probably around my age when season 18 soured me towards the show.

I've always thought that season 8/9 bullshit was forced and lame, the same way people tear Lisa to shreds as if she euthanized their childhood pets - which again, was a later opinion I only ever learned on the internet. The reality of the situation is that whatever point you decide that the show isn't "The Simpsons" any more is tied to your age and when you started watching the show, even if you had access to the older "classic" episodes through reruns.

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I'm hoping the new Switch is called the Super Nintendo Switch.

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mech dragon posted...

it looks like avoiding older men and not trusting them as easily as other people. When meeting my parents he gravitated more towards my mom than my dad and admitted that it would be harder for him to connect with my dad than my mom.

WELP


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A month or two ago I would have been like "eww no nsw or victoria are better lol". But due to sickness and other assorted issues, I've been watching a lot of TV and YouTube - and two things I've seen have made me come around on Perth.

The first one was seeing a morning show fluff piece about the 50th anniversary of Hungry Jack's. Hungry Jack's is what Burger King is branded as down here, and it turns out it got the name from a Canadian entrepreneur named Jack. He'd already brought KFC down under and found success, so he tried again with a different franchise - and in my opinion, changing the name to Hungry Jack's was a perfect marketing move for Australia.

He was actually in Australia for the celebration - he flew to Perth and went back to the first Hungry Jack's that ever opened. And he had a few words to say about it.

He said something along the lines of "Perth is an entrepreneur's dream. If you have the capital and a good idea, Perth is the perfect place to try and make that dream come true." So Perth intrigues me as a market testing ground - if you live there, you might experience something great before the rest of the world does.

The second thing that happened was that I got really into Tim Minchin again. He's an Aussie singer-songwriter who's known for his comedy, and I've recently discovered some hidden gems like Woody Allen Jesus (where he compares Jesus to an increasingly ridiculous list of things). I've been watching interviews and listening to podcasts, and one of the interviews I saw dove into his love for his hometown - Perth.

And the way he describes where he grew up, and the way the stars shine on the Nullarbor plains unlike anywhere else on Earth - it was intoxicating. It made me homesick for a place I had never been to. So I have that under my belt as well.

I would take $10 million to live in Perth for 15 years. I think it'd do me a lot of good, and I think I'd enjoy it.

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Proto_Spark posted...

Is a Switch Pro even needed? Its not like its still going to keep up with modern consoles or anything, it'll still be gaming as if its like 5 years behind.

You aren't buying a Nintendo console for the power.

I think it's time for an upgrade. The Switch has been on the market for 4 years now, and its limitations are starting to really show - like sure it was weaker than the current gen stuff already, but we're getting to the point of diminishing returns. As great of an idea as the Switch has been, I think it's getting to be past its prime.

An OLED Switch with a better resolution for docked and handheld play and a new chip would be a great upgrade. I only say "new chip" because the Tegra chip is getting discontinued soon, so it would make sense to buy into a stronger piece of tech while they're upgrading everything else.

I love the Switch, mountains of shovelware and all, but it's time.

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The grammar of that section looks scuffed as hell. I want to believe, but this is sketchy as fuck.

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80/80

It's raining pretty hard - not bucketing down in a gale, but it's heavy and consistent enough to be a serious pain in the ass. You're cramped up in a bus stop with about 12 other people - it's a decently sized metro bus stop - and you're all damp at the very least, and cold, and you all have somewhere to be.

Suddenly, a car pulls up and a guy in a plastic poncho jumps out. He opens up his trunk and starts pulling out umbrellas.

"Umbrellas! Who wants an umbrella? I'm giving them away!"

The umbrellas are all pretty standard - none of the compact brollies, just standard umbrellas with a point at the top and a hooked/straight wooden handle. He's got all different kinds - tartan umbrellas, rainbow umbrellas, solid colour umbrellas, black and white umbrellas etc. All of them are assumed to work, and he's genuine and earnest in his quest to give away his umbrellas.

Do you take an umbrella from the umbrella man, or do you keep waiting for the bus?

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It looks like a guy putting his dad on a pedestal and never even considering for a second that he could be a complicated human being or wrong in any way, to the point of becoming a carbon copy of his father.

That's mostly a joke - I actually think daddy issues in guys manifest in making friends with very brash, sociable people, and letting themselves get caught in their shadow. They never got that feeling of security or friendly banter from their dad, so they seek it out in the friends they make.

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Every topic, I swear to fucking god

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Christian RULES posted...

I can't believe WB would willingly sabotage themselves by giving up an OP Superman like Henry Cavill along with the Snyderverse for a black Superman.

This Superman isn't replacing the Snydervwrse Superman. They're doing a oneshot movie like Joker.

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I sure hope so, I love Superman.

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Should have bet on 3, but when 4's an option, gotta pick 4.

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SiO4 posted...

I have more in common with a boomer, or anyone, with the same mindset as me, regardless of class.

Maybe so. But what if class affects your mindset?

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RIP woman fan shot up to 6 vaccines

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SiO4 posted...

Ya, that's the problem, they all became yuppies.

((Except for the cool ones, that do still exist))

I saw this opinion a while back that generational conflict is just another way of obscuring class conflict. Because there are plenty of people across generations who share viewpoints and values and senses of humour and all that - people who get along and essentially have the same goals in life, despite coming from very different time periods. The boomers we mention disparagingly represent a difference in class moreso.

It's like a Karen yelling at a service worker over nothing. She's acting that way because she believes that she's been wronged in some way and that she deserves to be treated better - that by the store policies not adhering to her needs or her specific situation at the time, she's entitled to lash out for not getting what she wants.

The Karen feels entitled to something she isn't owed, and she lashes out at people who have no choice but to sit there and take it. She believes herself to be deserving of special treatment, and when she's told no, she becomes belligerent.

That's not a generational problem. Plenty of people who've lived through poverty, regardless of generation, don't behave like that. Some working class people lash out because they've had a bad day, sure, but others lash out because they've internalised this idea that they're entitled to someone's time, or services, or even money. And it tends not to be working class people making the most ridiculous of those demands, because it's usually working class people dealing with that shit.

It's people like stay at home soccer moms, people who live in mcmansions and gated communities. People who've moved up to the good life, or who were born into it.

It's not just "boomers", and acting like it's endemic to an entire generation is missing the point. It's boomers who buy into social classes, and believe themselves to be in a higher social class than others. Maybe they feel like they earned it - take NinjaBees' dad for example. Maybe they were born into an economically stable lifestyle, and they mistake their good fortune for a universal life experience that "the bad ones" simply weren't able to spin into gold like they did. They're the ones making outlandish demands to service workers, even when store policy and the law aren't on their side. They're not the only ones doing it, but when you think of a Karen, do you think of someone getting pissed off because their order was wrong? Or do you think of someone arguing with a store employee over the return policy because they want to return a pair of underwear they didn't like the look of?

Either way - the issue isn't just generational gaps, or the issue itself might not apply primarily to generational gaps. It's an issue of class. You have a lot more in common with a baby boomer in the same class as you than you do with someone who's the same age but in a vastly different tax bracket.

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We're going to be paying off our government's debt for at least two generations. Our parent's generation saddled us with billions of dollars of debt, we'll work as hard as we can to work it off, and then the rest will be up to our children.

Unless the governments of the world collectively get into EVEN MORE billions of dollars of debt, in which case our grandchildren will die having passed it on to their children. And so on and so forth.

The world is collectively $281 trillion in debt. That's 355% more money than what exists in the world. We treat finance as this natural force that balances out and makes sense, but we made the financial system. It's completely artificial, and it's a total fucking farce. There's literally more debt than there is money to pay off the debt - how the fuck are we meant to recover from debt if there's more debt than there is money?

But the politicians who don't represent us, who cater to a population who's going to die before they face the consequences of the world they made, are going to keep stretching these artificial forces to their limit. And one day, the other shoe's gonna drop, and it won't be the people who got us into this mess that'll have to clean it up. It'll be us.

We're completely and utterly fucked, the world's going to hell in a handbasket, and nothing we do matters. So honestly, do whatever is in your power to make yourself happy. You at least owe it to yourself to be happy.

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In my opinion:

Take some time for yourself. Don't get caught up in a spiral of self-loathing and shame over what happened, but if you do, try and hash out why you're feeling bad so you can come to terms with it.

If you're having trouble identifying the exact thing that's making you upset, imagine you're describing the situation to somebody else. You might intuitively be able to put it into words that way. Identifying the cause can help you understand how to fix it.

Put your own feelings first, because if you try to feel better while putting other people's feelings ahead of yours, you're gonna have a really bad time. ESPECIALLY if you're trying to be the bigger person and put her feelings first - YOU need to heal right now. Make time for YOU. Don't worry about feeling selfish unless you're in a place where you're doing alright - then you can worry about being selfish. Until then, take the time you need to get back on your feet.

And it's not easy - it's a process. Much easier said than done. Rome wasn't built in a day, and that's okay. Seeking support from others is a good first step.

Apologies if your situation isn't that serious, but I wanted to dump some stuff in case it is. I recently spent a week losing my mind over something shitty, and I think this is the process that helped me come out the other side.

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