TimmyDeanSausage

Millennial here. I have had several unaddressed health issues for at least 5 years. I can’t afford to go through another diagnosis/ treatment process because I’m still recovering, financially, from the unrelated health issues I had diagnosed and partially fixed with surgery a few years ago. I also haven’t seen a dentist in at least 8 years. I work way too much and I’m barely keeping my head above water despite doing everything right and living frugally. I’m hoping whatever is going on with me isn’t something terminal, and that I can last long enough to move to a country that supports its people. The US sure as shit isn’t it.

I haven’t made any assumptions about you. I’ve only pointed out things I saw in your posts in this thread. I haven’t read your posts elsewhere, nor am I interested in doing so. Glad you got it thought!

if they feel that a random man is likely to be dangerous enough that they would prefer a random bear

There it is!

Let me try again: You’re adding a nonsensical element to a thought experiment that doesn’t fit the context of the world we currently live in. Polar bears aren’t likely to become forest dwelling animals in our lifetime, if ever (they’ll probably go extinct first), so that part is irrelevant, and you’re still missing the whole point of the thought experiment. You’re trying to warp something in a stupid way and you seem to believe that you sound really smart while doing it. Check yourself. Your ego is making a fool of you.

Not trying to be mean. Just pointing out that you have some egg on your face.

You didn’t correct it though. You added a random element to an existing thought experiment based on the way the world is as we currently know it. That’s like “correcting” the trolley problem by saying “but what if aliens appeared with a second switch that saved everyone!?”

I mostly agree with you. My point was, I think you get a pass if you’re a wage slave. Some people work 12+ hours a day and have a hard time making time for anything outside of their hardcore work schedules. There’s a level of poverty that is basically crippling. People in that situation shouldn’t be looked down on because they don’t have the privilege to participate in things that don’t really benefit them anyways.

I completely agree that, if you don’t vote, you don’t get to complain. That goes for the group I mentioned above as well.

Yeah! Also, the various voter suppression tactics, gerrymandering, two party system, majority of elected politicians being in the pocket of moneyed interests, working class people being too overworked to want to bother with interacting with a system that consistently does very little for them… I mean, I vote in every local/national election, even when it’s just ballot measures, and I’m disappointed when people I know don’t/ can’t vote, but I also can understand why people with difficult situations don’t/ can’t vote.

My one exception is people that didn’t vote in the '24 presidential election to punish democratic leadership. Those people intentionally chose fascism and chaos, hand in hand with the maga crowd.

A lot of us are too poor to get out. Don’t think Canada is taking political refugees just yet :/

Look at all these violent leftists being outraged by senseless violence! When will their tyranny end!?! /s

Seasoned dog person here with some unsolicited advice you probably already know: it might be a good idea to try a harness instead. Some dogs have high anxiety, especially with something around their neck. A harness can feel to them like a good hoody feels to us, which can make them feel much more secure and comfortable on the leash. :)

Yeah, it’s pretty frustrating how many people with short attention spans think they’re sooo ADHD. As someone with ADHD, I spend almost every waking moment fighting my brain to make it comply. It’s fucking exhausting most of the time. I’m frequently super burnt out by things that seem effortless to NTs. We are not the same because you have tiktok brain.

Same! I know what vehicle most of my coworkers drive so I know which coworkers to talk cars/bikes with

Melee is actually pretty fun with the bene gesserit skills. You can tie multiple movement skills together to zip around a room killing enemies with super speed

I didn’t say I was special. I just experienced the vitriol as an American. I can’t speak to other people’s experiences.

But also, please use deodorant and stop being so rude to American visitors in paris. I get that a lot of us are shitty tourists, but some of us are just regular people who are there for work (and not paid as well as you’d think to be there for that work).

Edit: said France when I meant Paris cause I’m a stupid American ;)

I was about to start playing runescape classic before it got bought out. I played it as a kid and have friends that have stuck with it since they were kids. Friends told me to hold off because this new company is raising the subscription price. Seems like another golden parachute scheme for some scumbag ceo is underway…

Good. Glad you actually voted. A lot of people parroting the ideology you’re parroting didn’t vote, thus implicitly voting for Trump. The dems lost because of a number of strategic failings but, I agree, not outright condemning the genocide in Gaza was one of them. We can blame the DNC for that, and blame the abstainers for not putting up a fight against fascism at the same time.

If that’s your take-away from the points I raised, then I don’t know what to tell you.

By voting for Trump, you have insured the Palestinians are much worse off. At least with Harris there would’ve been a possibility of the US eventually condemning the genocide. Now we have the Trump admin cheering it on. So, how did voting the way you did help the Palestinian people?

I blame the DNC for constantly shooting themselves in both feet, especially when it comes to their insistence on running sham primaries. I blame the neoliberals in both parties for creating the propaganda and legal bribery industries that shifted the Overton window so far right in this country. I blame voters like you, for not being able to see the forest for the trees when the options we’re given are more neoliberalism, or blatant fascism. You chose now, of all times, to put your foot down with the DNC, because that’s what the bandwagon was doing. Now you think your rage at the system justifies a decision, that you made, that helped bring us outright fascism. Meanwhile, minorities like me get to sit here wondering why so many leftists were willing to sacrifice us on the alter of idealogical purity. If you were actually concerned about Palestinians, you would’ve voted for the option that had potential to ease their suffering. In other words, there would’ve been far more political pressure on Harris to do something about the genocide. Instead, we got Trump talking about “wiping it clean” for new development. If you want to continue to justify implicitly voting for Trump, by abstaining, then please explain how Trump is better for Palestine than Harris. That was your primary motivation for not voting after all, right?

… There’s an icon for him on the map…