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  • The cautionary stories came about with the era of bored housewives who drank heavily and took pretty heavy prescription drugs…

    But they were also wealthy so rather than say OD or suicide they “fell asleep” in the bath.

    And I’m sure more than a few murders got wrote off as the same thing. A housewife that habitually passes out deeply could just got tossed in the tub.

    Because like you said, no sober person is staying asleep till they drown.

    But people hear the cover story and believe it, so they warn people about something that just won’t happen



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    Essentially the story is angels were god’s original creations. Perfect beings built to serve.

    But that was boring so god created humans and withheld knowledge from them, and commanded angels to serve at human’s beck and call, even tho the humans were complete idiots who lived a life of luxury free of any worry.

    Lucifer was basically Prometheus and “tricked” humans into learning stuff.

    Then God threw Lucifer, the humans, and a couple other angels out of paradise because humans weren’t dumb pets anymore.

    And somehow that makes God the good guy in the story.

    Personally it always seemed like God was a dick and Lucifer had our backs, but that’s why I didn’t have to keep going to CCD as a kid




  • Nothing is binary

    I took a bio psych class that got into neurotransmitters and shit, the professor started almost every class with:

    “Normal” is just the average, if anyone was exactly “normal” they’d be the weirdest most unique human ever

    Because a lot of people get freaked out about their own when they start learning about psychology or genetics, smacking them together and teaching 20 somethings is a recipe for existential crisis.

    Your brain is sorting people into binary groups because that’s an easy shortcut our brain uses for everything. But what’s normal at the gathering of the juggalos is weird almost everywhere else. It’s all subjective and there’s a lot more ways than one to be normal.

    Maybe someone is 99.9999% “normal” but they peel hard boiled eggs with their teeth like a psychopath. You’d never know till you saw them do it, but it would instantly recategorize them in your head as “weird” without a second thought.

    But everyone knows they’re actually a unique snowflake, so it’s common for people to feel like they don’t belong to just one group. When it’s that everyone has that level of uniqueness, it’s just too much for our brains to keep track of, so we throw labels on people and treat them as groups.


  • Trump did almost immediately…

    But that’s only because people who think they understand it but don’t keep saying “global warming” instead of climate change

    As long as naive idiots who think they understand keep saying “global warming” you can’t expect the other idiots to understand the problem.

    But good luck convincing any of them to stop using the phrase they learned 30 years ago, or to incorporate new information.

    In 30 more years they’ll all be acting like boomers because they never actually understood any of this, they’re literally doing the same as boomers and insisting what they were told in he high will always be true

    It’s incredibly depressing knowing it’s gonna keep happening.


  • Most people want to want for nothing…

    But once that happens, then you start wanting the extra shit.

    And humans are wired to never stop wanting extra shit, like through pretty much all of recorded history it has always taken a lot of work for someone to get to the point of wanting nothing once basic needs are met.

    It’s something people devote literal lifetimes too, and still might not truly pull off.

    Even if you meant it in a hyper pedantic way like seconds before death, they’d still all either want to live or want to die, the slice that truly wouldn’t care would be statistically insignificant


  • Eh, I disagree on both parts.

    Lots of information out there, but it’s the equivalent of a Forrest full of virtually identical berries, 90% of which are poisonous.

    And people are broke as fuck these days, you need wisdom to survive like that, and you earn it the hard way.

    It’s just that when they have to devote so much energy to meeting their base needs, they can’t be assed to think about more abstract things.

    Which is why the wealthy are never happy unless everyone else has nothing. When we’re comfortable enough to think ahead, we start asking why there’s any oligarchs to begin with. And their propaganda pitting us against each other isn’t as effective.

    People are wise, you’re just judging fish by how well they can climb trees


  • I highly doubt she said that…

    And I don’t understand why there’s indigenous people there like she was saying it to them.

    The tribe whose ancestral land she lives on thanked her for her comments and bringing attention to the matter…

    Did you just see this on Facebook or 4chan and you don’t act know what’s happening?

    Edit:

    As far as I can tell “EF news” doesn’t even exist, someone just picked two random fucking letters. Probably the name of a Twitter account or something equally stupid.



  • It doesn’t matter much who was behind Epstein’s operation

    What?

    Bro this thing existed before Epstein and was run by Maxwell’s dad back in the day

    He also worked for multiple government, and two of which was Israel and Russia… But also had direct access to Thatcher and Reagan

    https://www.wionews.com/world/epstein-files-robert-maxwell-mossad-allegations-1770127431656

    But Russia just bought in and Israel allowed it. It’s their operation and what Russia pays is nothing compared to the time and money the Israeli government paid into this.

    Like, you’re right that just being Jewish doesn’t mean anything, but that’s a crazy under-selling of it.

    The biggest reason virtually no government will ever criticize Israel in public, is they’re been doing this for generations.

    If Russia held all that blackmail because they ran it, why aren’t they releasing it? Or at least using it? They might have some on some people, but there’s no comparing the two




  • Last time I voted cops were talking to a guy in a red hat outside, but everyone was chill and they were laughing and joking so I didn’t pay attention.

    Everyone inside, totally on edge.

    I found out later that guy had taken his shirt off and yelled at poll workers which was especially problematic because he had a loaded gun tucked into his pants. No holster and I’m not even sure he had a belt.

    He might be there next time too, just in uniform.

    I don’t give a fuck, because I know what happened in the South when people caved to that kind of voter intimidation. I’m casting a ballet even if there’s bullets actively being fired at the polling location.

    All this shit does is make voting more important, that’s how we need to frame it.





  • It’s so if you don’t support the IDF, you don’t support your own children.

    If service wasn’t mandatory, the IDF wouldn’t get away with as many war crimes to their own populace

    You get everyone’s hands dirty, and no one wants anyone held accountable, because most have done something wrong

    Same way authoritarians always want a society where laws aren’t enforced so everyone commits them. The goal isn’t a crime free society, it’s a society where the govethas an excuse to arrest anyone they want