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.
I'm in the same boat but I still find ways to do it, way too late in life, because as I said above, you need to take your years-away future as seriously as what you're going to eat tomorrow. It's going to get harder and harder to keep the grind going and you will absolutely need some measure of savings in the future. As long as you're making any money at all, even a few dollars here and there will help towards a better tomorrow.
They don't care, their goals have nothing to do with pleasing American people or even securing a republican electoral mandate. They have no plan beyond smashing every piggy bank they can get their hands on, and they've been wildly successful while we're all out here screaming about unjust military actions and Epstein.
They are getting everything they want and will face no repercussions past a few rats that won't flee the ship fast enough when the sinking starts.
Speaking as an American resident, this country needs a fucking enema.
Considering the only people at risk of starving there are the migrant workers and indentured servants to royalty, then yeah, we should probably give a fuck about the innocent people who didn't ask for this.
The people with wealth have already fled to their spring palaces, the people left to starve there are the workers and migrants.
that is a stupid reply, I'm not engaging anymore and won't see another brain-dead reply. I hope you never have to worry about this and would kindly prefer you keep your stupid-hole closed when adults are talking about these matters.
Stop living in videogame land.
If that's how you think this works, you're the one with the vision of some video game firefight. We are arming up as a message, not because we think we will win against a military force. But so that if electoral politics fails, we have power to back up our resistance. "Door-to-door meat grinder" is the worst five words any military leader wants to hear and we need to make that becomes the standard our political currency is built on.
The whole fucking reason that the hardline conservatives in the US have taken so goddamn much ground and got their clown messiah elected is exactly because they understand we don't live in a star-trek utopia and have embraced POWER to back up their demands, they carry the flag and own guns and declare their willingness to fight for the things they want.
It's not about "defeating the military" it's the knowledge that when they come for you, you will take as many of them with you and hopefully make it too damaging to them to continue the plan so that your neighbor has a chance. It's about protecting each other through sacrifice.
What are YOU doing? Asking for civil discourse? What era do you think we're entering? They are literally making databases of people critical of the regime. Get your head out of your ass and understand that people braver than you are actually willing to fight and die for the same things you want, so you get to decide what role you play in getting there.
Please stop being doomer about your future. This is the most common and dumb cliche delusion that people under 30 get stuck in.
Every single on of you "I don't plan on living that long" angst-turds out there are exactly the same as the evangelical christians who are planning for the rapture.
You will in fact live to 65 and you better fucking do something about it and make your plans now. Make realistic plans too, open a savings account with high yield, work on your education, get smarter, become social and emotionally intelligent, get therapy, fix your body and mind. These are your goals, not these fantasies I always see about either dying young or getting rich.
We need people who care about the world and community to make it better for the rest of us, if we work together it won't be so miserable that you want to run away like a fucking coward.
You sound nutter. YOUR world is subjective, but we live in a shared one and you can't hand-wave that away. I can't make out what you're trying to say in the first paragraph, but the second confirms it.
We should sell pharmaceutical grade placebos at the chemist shops. We should employ traditional and radical magical healing alongside material healing.
No, I want a better fucking world without magical thinking and bullshit "my feels are as good as your vaccine."
I knew a child who suffered severe brain damage because when he was 10 his father took him to a fucking shaman instead of a doctor for meningitis. Get the fuck out with your bullshit fantasy world, or keep it yourself while people who understand the universe actually build something that gives protection and health to our communities. I don't want to talk to you, don't bother replying. Go be a person in a subjective world yelling on a street corner about robot pigeons.
Don't have kids. Please for the love of fuck don't have kids.
We don't live in your fancy happy world where being the better person keeps you and the people you love safe. I hope you never have to realize how naive that world is. I will fight to the end to keep you safe if it comes to that point, but holy shit I will be pissed if you can't even shoot a gun. Stay comfortable and naive, i won't see any more messages from you.
I feel partially responsible for a lot of culture, from certain emojis to certain styles of writing and roleplay, and for that I'm very sorry.
The 90's were a pioneering time on the internet and if you had even a little digital art skill and a good sense of humor, you could quickly create entire movements of proto-memes and humor systems.
And people who rape children should be drowned slowly in hydrofluoric acid, but we don't live in a world where either of those things happen.
Good post. You won points by being both self-described anarchist AND realistic about what's really happening in the world.
I always say that about my belief in a borderless world or a world where socialism is the peak-goal for any system so that every person has equal opportunity. I know they're pure fantasy in the world we live in now, but I still hold those things up as values, this helps me communicate consistently about what I want for the world, even if it means achieving only small parts at a time. That's fine, just so long as I am part of that message that says "I want this better world."
We've already seen it, in Minneapolis a lot of people started open carrying AR's and other long guns and they were left the fuck alone. We 100% have to start forming real community groups looking out for each other with force to back them up.
Welcome aboard.
I mean, yah it's unstable now and scary and we are seeing things happening we never thought we'd see on US soil... and this is just the start. Even if the political environment changes around midterms and 2028, we still have a whole world that is crumbling from forces of unfettered capitalism and authoritarianism and a dumbed-down populace.
We are going to have climate problems that will be very severe, we are going to large numbers of people displaced and moving around, and nothing stokes violence and new regimes like displaced populations, and we have AI rising as a weapon that will make nukes look quaint, so we should all hunker down for whatever is coming next and take every possible precaution.
Your comments so far have been dumb and useless and naive. I'll pass.
The idea is we don't want to ever have to use them, but having them guarantees that any paramilitary leader or fascist movement knows that forceful removal of dissidents will mean a door-to-door meat grinder, and that is a VERY strong deterrent. Read history.
I mean, unless you think you won't be considered a dissident... not like they're not ALREADY making databases of people critical of the administration.
I hope to keep my guns locked away forever. I WANT them to be useless.
In the meantime, figure out what your plan is if this whole shitshow continues to go south, or if you think they'll say you're "one of the good ones" and let you go for some reason.
What you mean, you don't want your tombstone to read "Died by blunt-force trauma from an unregulated militia sweeping homes, but at least kept to true to civility and good manners, and that's what matters most."?
Haha just kidding, you won't get a tombstone, they have ovens for that.
What exactly do you think we're arming to defend against? Roving bands of goblins? Crackheads? Do you even read the news? Do you understand politics at all and the consequences? Do you KNOW that nations have fallen to authoritarians in the past, or does that seem like more "nothing ever happens" daydreaming and worldbuilding?
Sure, but there is a tendency in any powerful nation to eventually be co-opted by expansionist or corrupt forces that profit from war. Russia comes to mind but they're not the only country with weapons eyeing their neighbors, and we do have (or had) obligations to help allies.