Looks like it matches up pretty closely to the Happiness Report:
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Ya’ll trolls make me not want to post here either. Its already as bad as reddit and sometimes worse.
You went into a thread titled 'Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’ and then you made this comment:
The point being if you want something, you work for it, not condemn the economy and give up.
The economy is fucked, provably, it's the worst time ever in history to buy a house. Your patronizing parroting of the mocked comment in the damn title didn't go over well? What a shock.
People are falling for Chinese Propaganda, sadly.
She was a massive thorn in the side of the Soviet Union, and both the CCP and Russia are terrified of her.
Freeland studied Russian history and literature at Harvard University.[18] During 1988–89, she was an exchange student at the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv in Soviet Ukraine, where she studied Ukrainian, which she is fluent in.[20] While there, she worked with journalist Bill Keller of The New York Times to document the Bykivnia graves, an unmarked mass grave site where the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents.[1] The official Soviet story held that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. She translated the stories of locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the Nazi invasion, adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Stalinist repression.[1]
While there she attracted the attention of the KGB, which tagged her with the code name "Frida", and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB surveilled Freeland and tapped her phone calls, and documented the young Canadian activist delivering money, video and audio recording equipment, and a personal computer to contacts in Ukraine. She used a diplomat at the Embassy of Canada in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the Soviet Union, and organized marches and rallies to attract attention and support from Western countries. On her return from a trip to London in March 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the Soviet Union.[21] By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high-level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union; a 2021 Globe and Mail article quoted the report by a former officer of the KGB, which had described Freeland as "a remarkable individual", "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals".[21]
It doesn't help that we won't elect a woman though, or basically anyone who isn't a white man. I say all of this as an NDP voter, she would make me consider an ABC vote.
Nah, because that’s just Antisocial Personality Disorder, which basically boils down to trusting your own judgement over society’s.
I am not here to attack people with Antisocial Personality Disorder, but it's definitely not just 'trusting your own judgement over society's', it also " is a personality disorder defined by a chronic pattern of behaviour that disregards the rights and well-being of others." The 'societal judgment' they're in conflict with is often the rights and well-being of others. I have an ex with it, and they had an extremely difficult time up until their early 40's, when they did improve a bit. We're still not sure if that's ASPD decreasing over time, or them getting used to dealing with it.
Again though, this isn't to attack people with it (who will suffer far more at the hands of others than themselves) but to hand-wave it as 'trusting your own judgment over society's' is... not accurate. From your own link:
People with antisocial personality disorder tend to purposely make others angry or upset and manipulate or treat others harshly or with cruel indifference.
Feeling no guilt about harming others.
Doing dangerous things with no regard for the safety of self or others.
I say all of this as someone who lived with someone else with ASPD. The one that caused our breakup was "Aggression toward people and animals." as they hurt me and attempted to hurt our cat in order to hurt me emotionally. This was a reaction caused by PTSD from their truly traumatic childhood, but I'd appreciate it not boiled down to some sort of Chaotic Good interpretation.
and bought a 3 bedroom with a 2 stall garage on a half acre at an auction for $38k cash.
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Apologies, I mentally did percentage of population, not percentage of adults/voters. The Fascists got 29% of voting-aged adults. I will say there is still a massive percentage of the population just watching this happen--voting against it is not enough. in Nazi Germany, saving children from torture was illegal. People are still talking about this like there's some sort of holiness to the legal system: there isn't. It's not a justice system, it's a highly corruptible legal system. Enough people can rise up and easily stop this, they're just too scared to do it, because man, one thing I've learned since 2016 is just how terrified the average American is most of the time. Then actual things to be afraid of arrive, and they freeze up.
It's not half that want them, it's like 20%. 80% are allowing them to do these things.
Sure, civil war, civil disobedience, call it whatever you want. They're putting children in camps, at what point do 'you' (the people of the US) stand up to it? Do they need to create death camps with ovens before you all react, or are you going to 'aww geez' at not wanting to stand up to them? The nazi's made it illegal to save children from being tortured to death, at what point do you say 'law' be damned, I won't watch this happen?
So we went from “pelase vote in November” to “some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”? Holy dystopian nightmare, batman.
When people didn't vote against Fascists? Yes.
And it's not about what people being 'willing' to watch others die, it's about people standing up and being willing to die for their less powerful neighbours. I'm middle aged, male (AMAB, anyway) and white. I'll stand between any cops, military, whatever and my fellow citizens. My grandmother (moms side) was in the Dutch resistance and was caught helping people escape the Nazi's and spend 1941-1945 in a camp; she never fully recovered and converted to Atheism from Catholicism on her death bed, stating 'no just God would allow what I have seen and lived through.' My grandfather (dads side) served in the Canadian army from 1939 to 1945, and went to every country we fought in. He never slept in the same bed as my grandmother because he had screaming, wake-up-fighting nightmares from what he saw. He drove a motorcycle, delivering orders, moving supplies, etc. He was driving in a ditch beside a convoy just before dawn, for hours, and the ditch was so bumpy he had to keep slowing down because the motorcycle kept slipping. When the light broke, they were finally able to see, and he realised he was driving over the bodies of women and children from nearby villages. The 'slipping' was because the bodies were decaying and the motorcycle couldn't grip, and he and his partner in the side-car took turns holding the handle bars while the other vomited over the side. They couldn't turn around because beside the ditch was a cliff, and the convoy was bumper to bumper; they drove for six hours, at maybe 5 km/h, sobbing and vomiting. He never told me the story, he refused to talk about the war with me or my brothers, but in a drunken stupor my father told us my grandfathers war stories.
We pretend it's somehow going to be different this time, like this time fascists can be appeased, this time they won't invade other countries, or take away all of your rights. 30,000 people are already in camps. We all know what is coming next. You can stand aside like the German people did, watch and wring your hands, tell yourselves lies about the 'clean Wehrmacht,' yet everyone knows what's happening. If we don't stand up to them, we encourage it to happen.
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The thing is you have to force them to do it illegally, brutally, while people can see it. If you give in, if you agree to things, it's too easy for them.
Yes, many people who stand up to them will die. It's already been allowed to get to that point. Yet if you sit back and give in, it happens so much more quickly, and much more brutally.
This is especially true if you're white, or at least not openly a minority. If you're a middle aged white male, make them go through you. It's dangerous, you might not make it, so make sure you're ready. White men standing up to them, constantly, is cognitive dissonance to them. They'll expect you to always be on your side, and when everyone isn't, they stumble.
If people constantly resist them at every angle they will fail. We will lose good people doing it, and we have to.
Two is “hey wait, I pay for everything and all you do is lie on the sofa and bitch that I’m not doing enough.”
I don't think I've ever seen a better Boomer->Millenial toxic masculinity example before. I guess I could just use an image of Married With Children, but this feels more poignant.
The rest of the world deserves Trump 2.0 far more than the average American.
And here's some American Exceptionalism, man, what a goldmine for sociopathic quotes.
Trump and Elon are literally European agents (yes, Elon is Euro in every aspect but place of birth, and the Trump-Putin connection needs no further explanation
hahahah, 'Elon is Euro in every aspect except the things that would make someone European'.
Have you ever been told 'no' or that you haven't done a good job ever in your life, or are the women too nervous that you'll backhand them for that to happen?
One of my family members was immune to the vaccine, and couldn't achieve the required percentage of it to actively fight off the measels. So doctors told his parents to have him avoid any large gathering that they could (fairs, pools, etc). So until he was finally able to get his vaccine % above (I don't remember the number) he didn't get to go to those things, and it was because there was an anti-vaxx group in his area. So this poor kid had two options: Risk the terrifying symptoms and side effects you mentioned, and be social, or never go to those events to make sure he doesn't, you know, die.
Fuck those other parents, selfish fucking cruel anti-vaxx morons.
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Okay bro wtf is that wall of text. They’re all communist, full stop. Trying to label them something else doesn’t change the fact that communism is a political system for psychopaths
Man, I had some hope you'd look past your propaganda and programming, but I guess not.
I wish you the best in the future; try looking into what you're being fed. After you work through the humiliation of accepting the easy lies of conservatives, please remember you're not the only one to fall for it. It's very common, especially amongst men.
Good luck, you are loved ❤️
I don't know who downvoted you, but whomever did go check out Danielle Smith in Alberta. She sure likes Trump, and Ford over in Ontario used Roger Stone as a campaign advisor.
Trump has created a problem for the Cons, though:
"The start of a tariff war with the United States is changing voters' moods. It's harder to talk about a broken Canada when there's a growing sense of patriotism," another Conservative source said.
Our Cons need bogeymen to rile up our Centrist voters. They rail about borderguards or evil carbon taxes (that are given back to the vast majority of Canadians) or whatever, only now we're getting Nationalist Cons rising up, despite their favourite leader Harper being a vanguard of International Conservatism.
We have an absolute issue up here with our Con voters, (when Léger asked Canadians about the Biden-Trump match up in the fall of 2020, 41 per cent of Conservative voters sided with Trump.) and they are extremely susceptible to Russian propaganda:
This is EXACTLY how you fight fascism. You just refuse to do what they say (even when it's 'legal' what they're asking) and resist. I'm so happy and proud of Ellen Weintraub.
Resist, follow this guide (yes it's dated, you can adapt it I believe in you), refuse to go along with them.
There are two ways to help fascists: Directly, and by passively following their new laws. Don't do either.
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Okay, what about ...
Look, I know you're in your young 20's, almost definitely white, definitely a man, and I was once each of those things, too.
You've gone down the Right-wing pipeline, you've nodded along, you've downed the kool-aid. From the sounds of it a light sprinkling of an extremely flawed, right-wing education system.
You are not experiencing your own thoughts. You're regurgitating arguments you've heard online; over and over again, you say the same things, respond in the same way, make the same mistakes. You hamfistedly wave at anyone who ever called themselves socialist and go 'see! look at these mistakes! They're all the same!' When in reality:
Although the emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally socialist state led to widespread association of socialism with the Soviet economic model, it has since shifted in favour of democratic socialism. Academics recognised the mixed economies of several Western European and Nordic countries as "democratic socialist".[34][35] Following the revolutions of 1989, many of these countries moved away from socialism as a neoliberal consensus replaced the social democratic consensus in the advanced capitalist world.[36] In parallel, many former socialist politicians and political parties embraced "Third Way" politics, remaining committed to equality and welfare while abandoning public ownership and class-based politics.[37] Socialism experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 2010s.
Let's look at Pol Pot, to go back to your whataboutism:
Ideologically a Maoist and a Khmer ethnonationalist...
Seriously, it's on his goddamn wikipedia page, dude. This, what you're doing here? It's embarrassing. You think you're standing up to those meany evil 'left-wingers' when in reality you're a Toy Poodle for fascism, yapping at what you're told to, always waiting for another head pat from your online friends that never quite comes, never quite seems to make you feel like you feel it should.
Conservative parties began because aristocrats felt they had lost too much power, and wanted into the parliamentary system. It's oligarchs now. Is that really who has your best interest? Do you think Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk or Trump care about you? That they will ever do something for you, at the expense of themselves?
Because over on the socialist side we're at the protests, we're at the strikes, we're demanding change, we're helping the poor, we're punching up at authority. You're ideologically marching alongside cops, brown shirts, Nazi's, and you what, think they'll spare you? At best you're meat for the grinder when the fighting starts.
Look into all of this. Really dive into what Conservatism is, why it was created, how it's been opposed to every advancement in society that you enjoy: shorter work weeks, shorter work days, actual safety for workers, workers compensation, paternity leave, health care, freedom to strike, etc. All of those are socialist-won, often through literal bloodshed.
What have wealthy billionaires done to make your life better? Why do you think they're so invested in keeping you angry at visible minorities, women, 'the left', the 2% of the planet who are transgendered, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community? Why is it your enemies are all exactly strong enough to scare you, yet so weak you can insult them for it? Why do you have to punch down to hit these terrifying enemies of whatever it is you hold dear?
I have no idea what you're trying to say here; are you saying that my grandmother, a Dutch Communist, had Antisocial Personality Disorder because she broke laws by helping people escape the Nazi's? ASPD isn't 'person breaks laws like theft or whatever' it's that they have no regard for any laws, and:
No evidence of this.
I feel like actively working while poor to help others for her entire life, at the cost of her own meagre savings and own body, and constantly putting herself in danger, precludes this.
I have literally no idea why you're trying to do with this. It's a nonsensical argument where you're taking combing correlation and causation.
If you want to see what it's actually like for people who have it, this is an excellent video of a woman who is both a diagnosed sociopath as well as a Clinical Psychologist explaining how it is to live with it (in this case Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder are used interchangeably.)