For reals: I HATE how unsafe they’ve made the world feel.
I realize you’re a little "normie" safe in your thought-bubble, but it’s time to wake the fuck up.
You’ve been mentally snowed your whole life. We live in a world made out of propaganda because the GOVERNMENTS that should be protecting us from scammers and dangerous shit are being taken over by complete fucking morons.
And don’t bring up that it’s an old timey version of a name for a real fucking medical condition. Stop associating real world conditions with slurs.
There are really useful terms that have bleak beginnings. Is it a slur? A pejorative? A one-or-two word phrase that you can use like a cheat code in a conversation where you don’t have to explain what you mean because you can say the word and when combined with context, it’s really easy to understand?
In the context, "moron" has a different meaning than people with some medical condition. So if when you hear the word "moron" you think of people with a medical condition… That’s problematic. You’ve got to overcome that upbringing. That is not the definition of the term that I am using. Update your HarperWCK biofiles. Regurgitate your headspace, fellas. Properly punctuate your pronouns. Meeble grobble beeble dobble. Merch me.
It’s crazy, man. I never realized how many dangerous people were running around loose, ready to break into your home and drag you out of your bed BECAUSE THEY CAN’T READ AN ADDRESS.
I keep reading and seeing and experiencing all these stories of people being attacked in their homes, their schools, their work, their MINDING THEIR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS.
And it’s getting to the point that the general public is being put on a hair-trigger.
Things are about to go off Alan Rickman The Sherriff of Nottingham-style. "With a fucking SPOON!"
And a massive amount of people are existing in their safety bubbles. Carefully curated media. No contact with the rest of the world at all. No financial pressures or societal concerns. Surrounded by a group of people with the same bubbles.
"The closest we get to the poors is when our DoorDash driver has a notable accent."
To be so comfortably wealthy and out of touch that you don’t realize what they’re saying on THE NEWS. The stations that EVERYBODY has access to.
It’s fucking terrifying. THEY’RE fucking terrifying. For no fucking reason.
I feel like they’re a bunch of crazy grifter people that somehow scammed their way into our lives and we can’t get rid of them. They’re always trying to sell us something, and it’s nearly always dogshit. Because they’re being terrible people. And like, they don’t even know.
They literally have no empathy. And I understand that’s a part of having had a neglected childhood. But they really should not be allowed to run for public office.
Are there not mental health checks performed before someone is presented to the public as a candidate?
I don’t want a bugshit crazy sheriff. A gun happy Yosemite Sam-level mayor. A Captain Planet-villain senator or congressman.
We don’t have to live in our favorite cartoons. We are a society.
I want boring politicians that truly represent the people living in their districts.
I’m so fucking tired of these out-of-towners popping in to ruin the local education system because of their personal beliefs.
Dude, your personal beliefs stop within your own skin.
Raise your children however you please, but please meet basic standards:
- Ability to read and write.
- Able to understand the terms of service.
- Some social consciousness, enough not to be a public nuisance.
- Ability to spot and avoid scams in all their forms and formats.
- Ability to recognize context and subtext and mood. (Because that’s what reading books in class is about. It’s about teaching critical thinking while sharing both the widely accepted opinions on the books AND seeing what the thinking process is of the people around you.
- Has been properly socialized with members of a same age-range peer group.
Just because you grew up in the 60s/70s/80s/90s/00s/10s… Times have changed. You are about to be a fucking dinosaur, and where are the dinosaurs? They’re not here anymore.
We "old" adults do not know the modern standard stuff. That’s why kids go to school: so they can build a place in society.
People need to know the local and wider spread laws. They need to understand why those laws exist and why maybe other laws need to be put in place.
They need to know how to write a resume (which is now called a CV?). How to file their taxes. How to count money and tell time and do multiplication and division and personal hygiene and awareness of common fucking shit.
I learned how to make turkey chili when I was in school. I wasted a semester in woodshop because there were only like two projects we were allowed to do. I was completely lost in my math classes because I had never been taught the basics of math–the why things are done a certain way.
And like, my class, the people that were in my grade–we were an experimental class. Like hundreds of us. 30 kids per classroom. We learned to read by sounding out the words. We were given one-on-one "tutoring" with kids from the seventh grade in the middle school.
And like, those 7th graders were in a completely different school facility with a different principal. I don’t think the way they arranged things was appropriate, but we were an experimental class.
My whole grade, they kept us in the elementary school for an extra year, which gave us one less year in middle school, then we were dropped directly into high school. There were very little real guidance, and I was definitely a child that needed guidance and structure.
And then the grade after us, they switched things back to the way it originally was where middle school was grades 7, 8, 9. So we never got that time to be "the top dogs" of the middle school. We were directly passed into high school with no preparation.
Elementary schools in our district were top-notch. Every one that I went to was willing to bend over backward to provide me with the learning accommodations that I needed. It was only when I entered "my new local school" that it was basically like I was dropped into a pit.
They chose my grade for experimenting with different kinds of teaching. And unfortunately it fucked up my education. So then when it was time for algebra and geometry, I did not have the educational building blocks that I needed.
Because every time a fucking new concept was being taught in the class, THAT is when they would take me out of class for one-on-one tutoring.
And I don’t blame the older kids that would sit next to me and try to explain concepts that I should have learned in the classroom, or at least with someone that knew what the fuck they were talking about.
I’m sorry, but a 7th grader is not an acceptable teacher of building block concepts.
And in that same way, you gotta accept that you are not capable of teaching a child. Go take some classes on teaching and THEN reassess things.
And don’t take some bullshit pay to play course. You’re not just cheating your children, you’re cheating yourself. Because you honestly wouldn’t be able to say that you did your best for your children.
And no, I’m not going to go on another unschooling rant. I have thoughts about the subject and you all know that. But "other places" and all.
You should want your kid to have the best up-to-date education. That is both a strong knowledge base with an ability to search for credible sources when necessary, AND the ability to communicate with people outside of their family and religious community.
And like, you can have your personal beliefs. But don’t use them to oppress your children.
Seriously, if everyday contact with people of their same age would result in your children completely turning on their religion and you and on everything that made up their whole self… Then you need to reassess the way you’re living your life and how you’re raising your children.
I am an agnostic. That means I don’t have a hardcore set of beliefs. I am fully open to the idea of the existence of a higher power creator known as God. Just as I am open to the idea of other religions being real and that aliens created us. I am open to all of that as well as to the idea that there is nothing.
That we live one singular life, then we go out in a flash. Because we are our consciousness. Our memories. Our thoughts and our feelings. But if we are not an eternal soul… Then this singular life is one to be treasured.
And performing kindness and graces are a blessing we give to other people.
Paying for the school supplies of a whole grade. What the students bring themselves can either be for their personal use or they can choose to add it to the class supply. I’ve seen it before where the crayons are split up into cups that table mates all share. (Even if they all just quietly colored and nobody talked to each other, the act of using a color then waiting to use another color or passing a color on to someone else… It’s necessary human socialization. If you’re super into "humans are animals" alpha-beta-gamma wolf-shit, then recognize that human children socializing with other kids in their age range is healthier than just sibling groups.)
Pay for school lunches. Provide a pool of money to the school that can be used by kids whose parents didn’t pay for lunch tickets. The kids don’t have to know their parents couldn’t buy them lunch or didn’t think about them enough to buy them lunch. They can simply go to school, learn life skills, eat lunch, and grow as people.
Pay for peoples’ groceries. Giving out gift cards is nice, but it could be counted as taxable income. In which case directly paying for peoples’ groceries might be a nicer thing. Ask people what they want, then arrange for the store to give it to them. You don’t have to know anyone’s address or personal information, as it would all be handled through the store. "I paid for these grocery orders" and it’s just a list of order numbers with the amounts you chose to pay.
Pay for peoples’ dental care. Some insurances don’t cover some dental services. Like, they’ll give you a root canal, but they won’t put a crown on it. With $20,000 you could help anywhere from 20 people to hundreds of people depending on what they need done. Maybe they only need a $20 copay covered. ($20 could be a family’s meals for a day. It could be a week’s worth of gas to work. It could be a multipack of socks or underwear. It could be clothes for a child.)
Pay for peoples’ dinner. You could pay for everyone’s dinner in the restaurant. Or you could count the tables and pay part of the bills of each table. Even if the people don’t need to have their food paid for, it will probably make them happier. And maybe they will be nicer to the people around them, speaking kinder words or pouring coffee for a coworker or complimenting their spouse or giving their kids a positive childhood memory.
There’s so many ways the downturn of our society can be averted. Changes that can be made to make life better for everyone. But of course there are some people that don’t want everyone to live a good life. They only feel like they’ve "won" if there’s some group of people that’s crying about it.
And it’s like, "Dude, you want to be envied by people. You want to avoid jealousy. Jealousy is what gets your whole family destroyed either physically or financially. Envy is when people look and admire what you’ve got and maybe wish they had similar."
It’s like, they want something similar NOT the same.
I see people do good things and I want to do good things.
But those Monopoly Menaces have completely destroyed our country and a big chunk of the rest of the world’s countries. And their whole thing is they want to "win the game of life" by having the most money and property and personal power.
And if everybody is pushing and shoving and scamming and grifting to get their way to the top of the financial mountain… They take and hoard their winnings. So that a small percentage of people have all the wealth while everyone else struggles to afford necessary means of life.
And now on top of that, we’ve got a party of personality people. They’ve all got their rabid superfans and some of them are ready to grab a gun at any moment.
Like, they blew up all those ballot boxes THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION so that people couldn’t get a replacement ballot. And I don’t even think they caught those criminals.
It’s very much a "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" scenario. They say their nonsense, their crazier more lawless followers take it is a command, and boom. A bunch of weirdos go crazy with grief ON NATIONAL TELEVISION and worldwide Internet when really they should just settle the fuck down. They for certain should not be screaming for civil war.
Like, "What the fuck, dude? What are you doing? Why are you doing this? You say you’re not racist or homophobic, or that if you are a bit you can understand that people are people and you don’t have to directly interact with them, but all of a sudden you’re screaming for streets running with blood? Why? Do you hate yourself, your family, your friends, your coworkers? Because even if you don’t interact with them, everybody has a relative that would match your hate profile, and they will be personally effected by harms done to the people in their life."
And I know, there’s a whole subset of people that are self-experimenting with the idea of having a lack of empathy.
They refuse to look at homeless people. They refuse to conceptualize the idea of poverty. They have been so emotionally stunted by neglect or abuse that they are unable to imagine why they might want to be kind to the people around them. Why they should care about people not in their family or friend group or financial level.
That empathy isn’t just about recognizing what other people are feeling and then reciprocating with kindness. It’s also mentally putting yourself in that other person’s position and imagining what you would do.
And it’s unfortunate that the first act a lot of new-poor people do is turn to crime. It’s like "’Weeds’ was not supposed to be a primer. ‘Breaking Bad’ was not life goals but a cautionary tale. They were showing how selfishness ruined whole families. That even if everyone is smiling and full of money, something died inside them that they will never get back. And the victims they left in their wake just have to deal with the consequences of meeting them."
And it’s scary because there’s about to be millions of new-poor running around, desperate for money and with massive collections of guns.
There’s financial bubbles about to burst. Jobs that are about to puff into smoke.
Because Monopoly Menaces are latched onto the economy, sucking as much blood out as they can before flying off to lay eggs. And those eggs are their children, their rocket ships, their mechanical god-emperor that is going to give them digital immortality after their body and mind dies. (And it’s like a current-level LLM of an immortality, spouting out what they might have said if they had no moral or emotional intelligence filters.)
And they don’t realize that they are human. That they are vulnerable to human vulnerabilities and weaknesses. That if the global economy truly collapses and wars break out, they and their families and their friends and everyone they know will be effected.
From not being able to find the ingredients you want, to not being able to get that purse or that little piece you need, to having to pay tariff money to the U.S. government to get the car or refrigerator or washing machine or dryer or microwave or air fryer that you want. Just an extra 10% or 20% or 40% or 50% or 90% that is randomly thrown onto things you need to enjoy your everyday life.
And people around you can’t afford the things they need much less want. And everyone is in a low mood and there’s mental grumbling and simmering anger building under the surface. And even if everyone pretends to be polite and pleasant and normal, underneath it all is a building sense of unease.
They have made the world feel unsafe by making the world unsafe. It is to the point that cars park too long nearby and I start worrying what the people inside are going to do. Do they have guns.
Are they people stopping to talk? To have sex? To do drugs? To eat a hamburger and make a phone call? Or are they the assholes that keep blowing up mailboxes? Are they robbers? Are they federal agents with the wrong house address?
I hate that they have made everything miserable. And it sucks that that’s the kind of people they are.
Miserable people living miserable lives, only finding joy in the misery of others.
They don’t want to live better happier lives. They don’t want their children to grow to adulthood with a sense of pride for them. Nah. They want to get the jealousy and disgust of the public. They want to become the representative in peoples’ minds of everything that is wrong with the world today.
I don’t know know why they want that reputation. It’s probably some kind of fetish.
But it’s proof that they have not been properly socialized. And with considerations to age, it could be proof of some kind of mental immaturity if they never grew out of it or dementia if it’s something they’ve developed. Either way, not people that should have the power to fuck up the world.
Especially if they think they’ve found some (flawed) version of immortality.
Hey buddy: An upload of your mind is NOT YOU. You’re still going to die someday, and if the soul and God are real, you’re looking at an eternity in Hell.
The digital god-emperor never said you have to be a dick to people in life. You can be a true philanthropist beloved by the people AND have your mind uploaded to some servers. That way if deities are real you can go to Elysium rather than be tormented for eternity in Tartarus.
If everything is like in "What Dreams May Come" where your mind creates your after life, you only have to think about yourself and the way you’ve lived your life to figure out how long of punishment you think you deserve before you can move on.
We live in the moment. Nobody living has a clear idea of what happens after brain death. If there is nothing, then we should live a good life for the joy of having lived a good life. And if there is a soul and an afterlife, then we should not be trailed by the ghosts of our victims, because they will pull us down to Hell.
Taking away medical care results in suffering and death. Just because it is not your hands personally causing harm, that harm is being brought into being by your action and inaction. Because you KNOW better than what you’re doing; people all over the place are SCREAMING at you about it. Choosing to be a shit human is choosing an afterlife of torment.
"But I’m an atheist!"–Yet if your beliefs are wrong, you have no protection from an angry deity and all the people whose lives you ruined.
You can be an atheist AND a good person.
I really have to side-eye the people that think the two can’t exist at the same time.
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