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  • Yes, yes. Once again they are suggesting we, the people, do all the work, because they are too busy to care about us. We have to do the recycling, because it would be too onerus on the producers of waste to change. We have to do the overseeing of unsafe practices by industry, because it’s too costly for the government and hard to ask their friends to stop doing terrible things to save a few dollars. We now also have to protect ourselves from authority, God forbid we ask the government to remain accountable for something. What is the point of having a government if they are not going to do anything but enrich themselves? Are Americans capable of asking questions, or do you just eat what you are fed without even blinking? Wake the fuck up, you don’t live in a country, you live in a billionaire making machine, and you are the fuel, not the product.




  • Which is exactly why the Democratic party stagnates around indecision. Every issue is “yeah, but…” Where as the Republican party just ignores literal crimes in their midst, because he’s “their guy”. This isn’t inherently an American problem, it’s a political one. Who is cheerleading? Both things can be true too, one is less evil but still needs to be fixed, it’s a lot better than literally chopping your own foot off with a blunt shovel and blaming the other guy. I’ve always been taught and discovered myself that one must always challenge authority, and to beware anyone promising you exactly what you want to hear.


  • Fair enough. I was certainly using broad strokes but thought to say “humanity” should include all of “us”. I get what you are saying and certainly did not choose my words too carefully. I often forget the nuances of speech do not translate to text very well.

    I like that you say only a mad man would annex another country for its resources and yet you have Russia trying to rebuild the USSR, Israel annihilating the Palestinian people because of the land they are living on and Mango Mussolini is threatening to annex my nation of Canada for our resources because we have lots and he’s a giant douche. Just saying…

    Inherent human traits we like and even traits we don’t like can be traced back to our animal nature and denying the connection has caused so many of the wrongs we in “society” have to suffer. That is the point I was trying to make in the first place anyways.








  • You are taking what I’ve said far to literally. I wasn’t writing my dissertation, I was making observations. I also did not infer that being tribalistic makes you hate outgroups, but in the sense of “tribes” yes they have always had violence inherent to them, because we live in a violent world. Bears can kill you, moose can kill you, other tribes can kill you. It comes from protectionism more than hate, but that notion gets compromised by bad actors pushing an agenda.

    There have always been things to fight for. The good hunting grounds, the good fishing grounds, the safest places to camp, etc… violence isn’t always a bad thing either, it is a necessary part of living in a diverse world. You can’t reason with a fire, or a bear. You can avoid them, but that’s just protectionism again. I never implied tribalism is bad, I implied it’s a part of our nature. Humans are pack animals that have always lived in family groups and fought to protect the sanctity of that group from outside forces. Civilization is the act of forgetting the past to damn the future. It’s not what it is supposed to be, but that’s what it has become. We use our “civility” as a cudgel to beat those who think/live differently.