You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
If you fucks don’t do everything you can to overwhelm the midterms to primary every incumbent democrat, you better not complain when President Newsom rolls back 20% of Trump’s policies and decides that some trans people can be released from some of the camps.
The most important revelation I ever had about existing and being human was the understanding that our brains are not machines of logic and reason, despite being capable of performing logical reasoning.
The brain is, by default, a story telling machine. It just takes your memories and experiences and uses those things to explain whatever you’re feeling at the moment. Those explanations don’t necessarily have to make sense or be connected to reality, it just has this massive priority to weave a coherent story to explain how you got here, feeling this thing, doing whatever it is you’re doing.
In the early world of survival, this helped us. Seeing paw prints by your watering hole made you feel uneasy, your brain tied that to the time a saber-tooth cat killed your uncle. Emotional connection to a sense, an association, a story for why you should feel afraid.
In the modern world, the brain tries to do the same goddamn thing when someone you like ignores you or when you feel embarrassed in a social setting. Small things that spark the same survival response to weave a story together around it. Or you feel a sad spell from a chemical imbalance and instead of waiting for it to pass, your brain decides it’s because of your entire life, the people around you, and your lack of success.
From that understanding, you can beat rumination, you can challenge yourself, you can overcome addiction and do a lot of amazing things with your life, but it all comes back to understanding that your brain doesn’t work “out of the box” and if you want to make better decisions and feel better, you have to manually TRAIN IT to make you feel better and make better choices. You have to learn to control not your emotions, but your reactions to those emotions, to think through your thinking, to follow your chains of thought to a source. This is what a good therapist will do for you, set you on a course to retrain your brain.
A lot of people resist this because it feels “fake” and that you’re “fooling yourself,” so they resist change and training their own brains.
You are not your brain. Your brain however is very, very complex, with a multitude of voices inside of it each trying to get attention, you’re only aware of the top-most surface level that uses language to think, but the very best thing you can do for yourself is get in the habit of thinking about how you think.
It was the faux 2A who go to the range for a photoshoot and buy the Gucci gear who voted for Trump.
I am FINALLY starting to see some guntubers start to call this shit out, and call attention to the fact that their community is getting overrun with people who don’t actually care about proper gun safety and laws, and are only there for the politics and “masculinity” around having guns.
I hope this continues. I was first to speak up that we needed better gun laws in the US, but I also am a gun owner and have always been really disappointed how guns became a political issue and not a guarantee that these political issues don’t overpower us and take away all our rights.
The left needs to arm the fuck up. Political capital comes from force and patriotism, it’s a fucking shame the worst people have taken our most powerful tools for change in the US and used to get us here.
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I think for a good game, by a good company worth supporting, $30 is very fair and reasonable, especially if you get more than a few hours of play out of it.
We seem to spend $60 on movie tickets and snacks for two and leave the theaters after 90 minutes disappointed and never complain as a society beyond saying the movie sucked, but then going to watch the sequel because everyone else is watching it.
The only reason I wouldn’t personally spend more than $30 or so on a game is because generally everything more expensive is published by a major studio, and thus sucks ASS.
I have not spent more than $20 for a video game in over a decade. I have no idea who’s affording all these “AAA” titles that go for $50+, or who’s keeping that market alive.
There are some miserable, well-off parents out there in liberal America who just throw money at their kids and ignore what they do with it I guess.
Were… were you under the impression that companies who sell products of any kind have some kind of deep formula for making sure their pricing is only the razor-edge of what they need to price it at to keep a business running?
Are you insane? Have you ever sold anything? Have you ever run a business?
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Unfortunately we broadly allowed the bulk of our population to check out and the 2024 exit polling confirms it, they voted for all this because they had no idea what they were doing, and now this group of jackasses controls the military and we can’t really directly assault them unless we can radicalize a LOT more comfortable liberal middle-class people.
Besides, we can still turn this around. Mussolini (and a number of other dictators) were not defeated by a plucky band of armed rebels who stormed the capital, he was arrested by his own government and handed over to the opposition who executed him. Even the most corrupt systems can break if we apply enough pressure.
They are absolutely going to pull ahead on the world stage, whatever that really means.
But if you have lived in America all your life and been told how we’re the gleaming city on the mountain, the land of milk-and-honey and all that pabulum we’ve been fed for decades and decades, and then walk around in one of China’s newer cities you will have a radical culture shock. Then have a medical problem and walk into one of their hospitals.
Fuck, just walk into a public restroom or use their mass transit and you will wonder where the fuck your tax money is going.
Their space program alone gets zero coverage in the US and has done amazing things that will guarantee them the solar system in just a few decades.
Not saying they’re some kind of perfect nation, their human rights issues, their abuse of their workers, their racism and xenophobia are still huge and glaring, but it’s going to be a lot worse in the US before long.
I mean, yeah everyone is saying it but there’s no consequences so that makes it pretty apparent that nobody actually cares.
The US has broadly held up the so-called fight against racism as a purely performative, liberal status-quo exercise, but has barely actually cared about equality in any regard in their personal lives as a population, or we wouldn’t have had all the contention we’ve had, with almost nothing being done on a legal level to combat it. There are public figures who have said and done things that would have landed them in PRISON in other countries that we just finger-wag in the US and forget a day later.
These kinds of posts are deliberate, they’re not even dog-whistles to racists because again, nobody actually cares about racism in the US. They’re signals about “following the rules.”
Trump/Miller posting these was about demonstrating to their base that they don’t care about the rules, that they will break the country before they submit to the constitution and individual rights.
They are the kid screaming the N-word in the playground not because he knows what the word means, but because he knows how much attention he gets for it.
Cutting them to look like Mario Bros mushrooms.
https://ironchefshellie.com/2013/04/12/tutorial-radish-super-mario-mushroom/
the butter is undoing the idea of them being low-calorie, but you can use greek yoghurt with garlic and lime and seasoning as a dipping sauce you will have a far, far healthier snack.
It’s not going to happen and we all know it, it’s funny as fuck to imagine and on some deeply repressed level they know it, that’s why they knew it would get publicity.
You mean for the batter? Sure but we also need a lot of frying oil.
He needs to fund the rebuilding of our national security infrastructure
The administration doesn’t want our security rebuilt, if we did that Russia, China and other foreign and domestic agents trying to get their capital-seeking tentacles into our every-day lives, extracting our every last cent, won’t have a back-door into your personal information and shopping habits and profiles of your specific emotional vulnerabilities so the algorithm can feed you just news stories that validate and reinforce your feelings towards their specific agendas.
Honestly most people don’t even know what “deposed” means and figure it means something bad is going to happen to literally the richest person on Earth and I can’t stop rubbing my temples and letting out beleaguered sighs.
I’m sorry for your friend, and yes mortality puts life into new perspectives.
But I want to make it clear… I am not kind. I just have values I live by, knowing what your values are is your guiding star when you can’t decide to care about something or everything. I have a train-wreck derailment of people I’ve made angry in my life by sticking to my values and principles, and I feel zero regret about it, because I know my values are correct, and I don’t compromise at a certain level.
I am getting increasingly distressed by how alien this seems to modern generations, and how many people are open about the fact that they can’t decide or figure out how to build their values and seem to default to “attitude” over ethics.
Yah, uh… was the Tang white? Because that might not have been Tang.
Psssst. We’re all political prisoners here now.