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any brand that achieves that power will rapidly become reputationally identical to the Democrats

I don't think any resistance brand can survive a brush with achieving any kind of institutional power without losing much of its popularity. That kind of popularity is based on distance from power and how much people can form their own shape for it in their heads without the interference of reality.

I don’t have the attributes required to move anywhere without it being a marriage thing I think. And even then I might be too disabled for a lot of countries

feeling pretty personally doomed and/or damned

I wish there was a single way for me to get out of the country

oh yeah I'm fairly certain I read every single music entry Encarta had

I was also raised by Encarta. Still in the MindMaze, in many ways.

without clarification I'm going to assume that 3 can also be used pretty effectively for superspeed

I'm not sure there are easy solutions for overcoming this basic lack of empathy that guides a lot of these guys. I don't know how early you'd have to intervene to raise them to see other people as full people. But 18 is probably too late for a lot of them.

sometimes experiencing other people and other ways of life makes them worse. I would bet that a lot of the younger guys in this administration have experiences that you'd think would be enlightening to the average person, and they nevertheless managed to distort it into supporting their worldview

couldn't understand why they goofed off and didn't see the class as important to their lives, and was just generally radicalized in the wrong direction by the entire experience. I don't think the white guy psyche has easy solutions for preventing radicalization

re: idea of nat'l service for young people, I'll never forget reading the blog of a young idealistic white guy lib going to teach English in Africa (won't say which country to protect identity) and reading as entry by entry he became more hateful/fascist/racist; he couldn't stand his students and

And you're probably both sane and technically literate enough that you know none of my comments have contained any imperialism apologia. Do let me know if I have assumed wrongly there.

I was responding only to your explicitly stated belief, I don't know what else you believe and in the context of this specific conversation, I don't care. Your explicitly stated belief that I initially responded to is harmful and it's harmful no matter what else you believe.

is your sense of scale so actually impaired that you don't know what the "not equal to" sign is?

okay is this a bit where you misread me in the exact way I said you would?

brave to use the word "denial" when you have your hands over your ears/eyes at everyone telling you that things are getting objectively worse. "things are getting worse"≠"things were great before". but you'll continue to misread it that way because it serves your ego somehow, god knows why.

again, I know you have no sense of scale, you don't have to keep telling me

no but you're an idiot and an existential threat to me and yourself, apparently

the threat to those I love has increased many times over. you are indifferent, you don't care, you are utterly fucking bored.

yeah "ok girl", as in I am a disabled indigenous Mexican-American woman on medicaid who considers you personally and your specific attitude an existential threat to my well-being and the well-being of people I love because your sense of scale is so off that you cannot see how the threat to me and

you think having no sense of scale makes you seem wise and caring but it just makes you seem indifferent

Taylor is living dangerously these days. A mere four feet apart and unmasked! Guess she didn't want to risk being misunderstood while talking up Trump.

any chance of a signing in Chicago?

looking like maybe the answer to “what the fuck is wrong with me” is autoimmune something or other

it should be more consequentially shameful to post like a revolutionary living in exile from within the walls of a mansion you own

it's so weird how a smoky eye makes guys automatically ten times friendlier to me

like I get why the signs of general poor health would be dismissed in someone who's like "yeah but none of this is really causing me any problems" but why dismissed when someone's like "I'm dealing with a bunch of sudden acute symptoms that are escalating and stripping me of all quality of life"

anyway it fucking rules that there's something pretty obviously wrong with me and every medical professional I see is like "yeah actually a bunch of weird stuff did show up on your tests and but actually it's not weird in the context of the fact that you are generally unhealthy"

a night in the hospital, how fun