The game lets you become a god with the prawn suit. There's no need for a gun.

I told him to log off. I told him to find friends in-person. He refused. When you have in-person leftist friends, it's harder to hold onto the brainworms because there are actual social consequences other than being banned (which you can get around by making alts). It's why isolation can be a problem for leftists and why you have to work on your social anxiety. Though I suspect some of the anxiety he was experiencing was caused by feelings of being a bad leftist if exposed to other leftists. They would have found him out, pushed him into confronting his brainworms, and then he would have had a meltdown like this. That's really what the fear was, not talking to other people.

Don't isolate yourselves. Seek others.

I know what Kohls you used to work at. You let it slip once and I live in the same city you do. I just never said anything because I don't want to dox myself. I'm sure you deleted it by now.

If a hexbear can be this close to you in physical proximity by accident, then getting to know people irl has hope. If you think I would bully you for interrupting me or something, you're wrong. But you miss the chance to meet people who share a condition or interests with you by writing it all off as you don't care. It's a numbers game. Yes, most people here are chuds. But eventually you'll find others like you. That's why it takes time and work to make friends. You have to get past all the wrong answers to find the right one.

Being able to find one another and reach others is what makes us stronger socialists. I mean it's called "social"ism for a reason. It's not "alienated by myself because I don't care" ism.

How are you going to develop those skills of patience and conversing by avoiding it outside of obligations? Like what kind of medicine do you think you're going to take that will just make it go away and that you'll never have the problem again?

This shit is a process, speaking from experience. It's not going to be comfortable for a while, no matter what meds you're on or what CBT you go through. CBT will just have you practice talking to people. They're going to tell you to touch grass. The meds will manage the physical symptoms of anxiety, but it doesn't make anxiety go away.

I just don't know what you think needs to happen before you're ready to confront this issue. You're never going to be ready. So get that idea out of your head right now. And it'll probably never go away completely. So you either move or just stew in a dark room the rest of your life which will 100% make your condition worse (again, speaking from experience).

The real argument here isn't that you can't use reddit. The real argument is shooting down the idea that you can only socialize online or you'll die. That's the real thing separating you from people.

Also, who cares what we say? You're not actually beholden to our opinion.

But you don't find it tedious to talk to people you just said you need reddit to talk to people. You're talking to people right now. I'm a people.

But what if you found people in-person who could answer your questions and help you out so that you don't have to rely on internet strangers?

JP is the guy who resigned from his job at a university and cited cancel culture in his resignation letter. Like he voluntarily left but he wanted to be fired so badly. They just never gave him what he wanted. This is probably what he wants so he can spend the next year or so touring on being banned from twitter.

Bitcoin prices are about to drop again because markets are closed for the holiday. The only way to make money on Monday will be to sell your crypto holdings. If prices drop below $18k, this whole Elon Musk problem might take care of itself.

I used to buy good Christian capacitors. But now I see that RadioShack only has capacity for satan.

So basically, the EPA had authority over the reduction of pollution but now they're trying to curb emissions via lowering production. You can tell a power plant to not dump coal ash in a river but you can't tell them to turn down the generators in order to lower CO2 emissions.

Sounds like the key here would be to designate CO2 as a pollutant. Which rings a memory for me, didn't we just go through a little thing a month or so ago about classifying CO2 as pollution? So someone already had the tip that this was coming down the pipe and they front-loaded the discourse.

Of course they'll never accept the argument that CO2 is a pollutant. If they did, it would open up regulation on everything that produces it. The last thing the energy and meat sectors want is a path to regulation like that. Once you do CO2 then methane is next. Then there goes AOC green new deal hamburgers Stalin.

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This is why TERFs are wrong. They cite anti-feminism to go in on anti-transgender policy. Then they'll use that to go further. It's almost like these things intersect at some nexus rather than exist as discrete issues.

Martyrdom is a poor foundation on which to build a cohesive social movement.

Hippos have a lot of sensation in their mouths. It's like our hands in terms of ability to feel stuff (just not as dexterous obviously). They socialize using their mouths.

https://mashable.com/video/hippo-baby-mom-mouth

Are you sure it simply isn't an electrolyte imbalance? Tomato paste usually has a lot of salt, as with soy sauce. Too much salt can cause twitching. Too little salt can cause it. Too much potassium and too little as well. In fact, pretty much any electrolyte that is tied to your muscles will cause it. Dehydration can cause it too.

If you're on any anti-depressants that mess with serotonin, it can cause twitching as it's the neurotransmitter used for fine muscle movement.

It's an indirect outcome of material conditions rather than a direct result of them. Remember that the base affects superstructure and superstructure affects base.

The supreme court has always been anti-democratic. The fact that Roe v. Wade ruled in favor of abortion was the fluke. It wasn't supposed to happen but the cultural moment allowed it to. Post WWII social change in the US created the conditions for its demand. The Progressive Era created Justice Warren. That then setup the court of the Roe v Wade era. Those factors lined up just right so that the SC actually did something good and popular for once. The ruling class became acutely aware of this problem and since then the goal has been to make sure it never happened again. There became a political will to undo Roe and the Civil Rights Era because it was something the Courts were never supposed to let happen anyways.

There was also a political will to undo the Progressive Era and New Deal. Economically, this had been largely accomplished by the end of the 70s. Just like how abortions are effectively banned in certain states because they shut down all the planned parenthood centers and abortion clinics. The only thing left is do it formally.

Democrats don't have enough judges because they don't want enough judges. RBG didn't retire because feminism in her day was tied into careerism and professionalism. That's how capital was able to tolerate women in the workplace, if they became single-minded ghouls who only cared about having the top job. Democrats didn't want to push her out because they had the same views of empowerment.

Though, to be clear, Democrats would have inevitably nominated someone pro-life anyways. Democrats are conservatives and they have no desire to be radicals in any way. They want to reach across the aisle because the aisle is a purely abstract distinction between others and themselves. They have the same goals and are unaffected by the consequences of their actions, so they don't really see the difference between a pro-life and a pro-choice person. It's just a little high-school debate about morality they can have and agree to disagree so they can grind up the poor in a bipartisan way.

You really have to touch on a lot of threads here to get a comprehensive analysis. It would make a great Marxist thesis tbh. You could probably write a book about it if you really got into it.

During the Bush years we had a whole culture war over teaching evolution in schools. This isn't new, it's just something they're bolstering with institutional approval.

Sometimes you just own people and force them to do labor even after people realize it's probably a bad thing to do. Sometimes I write the wrong year when writing the date. Nobody is perfect.

Turn your parents into a terrorist cell.

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I always like go know where the bathroom is too.