NeilBrü

The world is largely full of masochists ruled by sadists.

Never underestimate people’s desire for servility in the name of stability.

The vast majority of people have an exceedingly high tolerance for their own subjugation if it means they don’t have to think or act to avoid pain or responsibility.

Okay, I admit that I basically said the same thing 3 times with different wording. Personally, I just hope that I’m not as docile as I fear that I am.

Used to make that face back in the day, too.

I’m going to be flogged for saying this as well, but I don’t understand why you’re being down-voted.

I lost a lot of money being furloughed and was on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, and many old friends of my father in India died in that global cluster-fuck. Granted, there were many environmental benefits for our ailing biosphere, and I found many moments of peaceful solace as a result of not having to be in public, but average people were eviscerated by that virus on many levels.

I agree: despite the inevitability of another one, to wish for another pandemic is, at best, an idiotic, selfish, and angsty teenage opinion. Along with the obvious health risks, people now have even less trust in institutional health and scientific organizations, leading me to predict that the next one will be even worse because people refuse to think and learn nothing from the past.

Even worse, people regard their unbridled skepticism of expert opinion, research, and their own scientific ignorance as a virtue. We experienced the Dunning-Kruger effect at a global scale and will do so again because the average person despises humility and thinks they know everything about anything.

Kind of like a bunch of bratty teenagers.

deuce douche

Ah yes, “insert'Muh'MemeLanguageHere” argument/excuse that we all heard a bajillion times

They want power, over others, forever.

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Why do women avoid men so much?

They perceive men to be threats, nuisances, duplicitous, and generally contemptible, so it’s primarily out of fear.

Whether that fear is justified, conditioned, misplaced, or outright misandry is hotly debated, but it’s my opinion that the root of it is a very human epigenetic, prehistoric, and primal fear of the “other”; in this case, the “other” is a man.

Even the BBC is towing toeing the line.

I, uh, use Kubuntu LTS (--minimal-install, so no snap).

Are *buntu flavors risky for my workstation? Should I be considering Fedora?

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

• George Orwell, 1984

The practical ethos of every authoritarian in history (including the self-styled “champions of the proletariat”) is:

It’s not just that I have a lot; it’s that I must always have more than everyone else, and they must be compelled to desire this. Forever.

Almost like they’re, I dunno, Manufacturing Consent.

Pleasantly surprised.

You’re correct, but most people are stupid and will down-vote you for your reminder and me for daring to suggest they can’t comprehend you.

Try to remember that some people are more interesting than your phone

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How incredibly rich that you’re trying to tone-police my “attitude” and “high horse”, given your replies to me.

Make sure you wag your finger nice and hard while kicking rocks.

I’ve pinched my nose and voted for Democrats my whole adult life in every election, donated to campaigns, voted in primaries, written to representatives and senators, been a member of a Union, and attended town halls, marches, and rallies. Don’t ever talk to me about apathy.

Here is the DNC leadership.

Here are the next contenders for DNC chair.

Here’s a site to track congressperson’s voting records.

Go to and participate in the candidate forums in January. Ask pointed questions about what their strategy to contend with the GOP will be in light of the recent defeats. Watch who votes for who in the February DNC chair election.

Get the word out and vote in the primaries against representatives who willingly fellate corporatists and/or dance around the glaring failures of strategy, messaging, or are complicit in the disenfranchisement of the working class.

But honestly, anything I say will be just more food for your trolling, or you’re butt-hurt when people call out failures and controlled opposition. Whatever it is, kick rocks barefoot.

You just can’t help yourself, can you?

Again, I don’t advocate for apathy. I advocate for ousting the establishment DNC leadership by voting. Your reading comprehension sucks, or your half-assed trolling is obvious.