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Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

helenvaughans

People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

#the body keeps the score #trauma #psychology

anoonimthepoorchad

One thing about ussr is that social shame was super common and used to control people in every aspect of their life. And before you say "oh, catholic shame or other religious shame types are like this", you're right, but I want to focus on how detached from religion this kind of shame was. And how despite the non-religiousness it still has the concepts of taboos or sin.

From personal experience: my grandma passed on to me the fear that comes with the shame complex. It's similar to social anxiety, the way you're constantly afraid someone else is judging you and is about to publicly berate you for "doing the wrong thing". My other relatives would treat this fear as something unreasonable so it wasn't until I learned about its roots that I understood it wasn't so useless in grandma's days.

In my case straying from social rules of how a proper child should look or act felt to be almost a sin. As if I was committing a moral crime, straying from all that is right, pure, good by allowing myself to be weird, to be myself. All actions and even all thoughts had to align with what other people wanted from me, and it wasn't until I learned how bigoted society was that I no longer wanted to be what they liked.

In grandma's case she's constantly wary of other people, how they think of her and how much she has to interact with them. She refused to put on sneakers during summer because "old women are weird if they wear sneakers instead of proper shoes". She refuses to go to doctors, cafes and even post offices because she expects people to mistreat her. She constantly polices her actions around "what the society thinks" even when the society really doesn't care at all.

And then I learned that during ussr people were expected to follow social expectations to the dot. Old women would be looked down upon if they wore normal clothes instead of what was considered "the old woman attire", kinda what you imagine when you think of Eastern European grandmas. Not only that, anyone could come to you on the street and publicly berate you for how you look, and it was considered normal.

Outcasting, profiling, shaming, all were used to control minds of people, making them turn against each other. People, who truly believe straying from society is a sin, will make sure the outcasts are dealt with by the police or by "reteaching" them.

And if police or military can reach the body, societal shame reaches all that nourishes the soul: art, music, life routine, life choices, beliefs, personal relationships etc. It really was a powerful and nasty control tool in the ussr. The ruling party dictated what was a sin, and the people around you would enforce that nobody dares to cross the line of what is deemed normal or right.

This is also why older generations here have very very bigoted opinions, sometimes on very niche or strange topics.

#ussr #Soviet union #20th century

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#Donald Trump #trump corruption #pardons #2026 #trump's second term #john oliver

#alchemy #occultism #hermeticism #medieval #European history #history #Kaz rowe #history of science #Youtube

"I don't care if they're over, I couldn't care less, if they're over they're over, if they aren't, you know they took too much time. Frankly I thought they started to get very boring" - Donald Trump to CNBC about peace talks in the middle east.

Nobody used to talk like this (in public). I need young people to know this level of public fecklessness is not normal...although maybe it will be now if we let this shit slide.

#Donald trump #trump's second term #Iran #Iran war #he just doesn't even care and he isn't pretending #Obama would have been raked over the coals for this #George W would have been raked over the coals for this #2026 #war #thousands dead #thousands more to come

7:00 - "Donald Trump Jr is making bank...even though Daddy won't go to his wedding" Vulcan Elements, Peter Navarro, Unusual Machines, etc

"look at who's benefiting from this (Iran war) financially, if you just so happen to be on the border of a drone company you're probably doing pretty well right now, if you're an early investor in another company that's getting a Pentagon loan for 620,000,000...if your name is trump"