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It's been a rough couple decades for people who enjoy anime and 40k and aren't total pieces of shit
So, like....
Do Dragons shed like lizards do?
it used to be like this
kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it
When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
Love that we’ve elevated the conversation to such a degree that, if you’re going to be grimdark nihilistic in fiction, you need to argue philosophically against 4 seasons of The Good Place.
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When Kurt Vonnegut said, “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
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Marjorie Taylor Green is starting to genuinely facinate me. It feels like we're watching a cultist be forced to deprogram themselves in real time, it's crazy.
So, to be clear upfront, she's still an awful person, I'm not defending any of the immensely shitty things she's done, and I'm maybe using deprogram a bit generously, but follow me here for a sec.
(Also I'm not a political science major or anything I'm just someone who has been politically active for over half my life who is wrong as often as I'm right when it comes to speculation. Take all of this with a grain of salt, it's literally just my opinion.)
Something I've seen people talk about and I myself have pointed out is that the politicians who make up the majority of the GOP do not actually represent their voters best interests nor do they even represent them at all, really. We're seeing that a lot right now with Trump claiming he's making things better for his loyal voters when he's clearly just doing whatever will make him richer and more powerful at the expense of the people who got him into office, need help, and desperately believe he will bring it. Republicans are being grifted by the people they vote in, because the GOP constantly acts against their interests and needs and then get away with it by exploiting their voter's general Christianity and bigotry to get away with fucking them over by blaming their actions on immigrants and trans people. Pick an enemy to blame and they fall in line and never really seem to notice that their party isn't doing what it said it would do. Exploit hate to gain power and wealth. That's the GOP gambit.
And one of the reasons I think this never really gets noticed by Republicans most of them don't become politicians nor are they given the education and resources they need to realize what they're being used in service of, because it's fucking hard to run for office especially in states with poor education and healthcare and where the only college options put you in debt forever. It self-selects people who can afford to run in those areas, most of which are rich Republicans who also do not talk the same way they're walking and know when they get to D.C. they need to fall in line, amass riches, and then do anything you can to stay in power as long as possible. Don't have real beliefs and convictions, you pretend to and then make out like a bandit on oil lobbying money.
MTG is interesting because she kinda proves what we all already knew, the GOP is a massive grift that has very little actual convictions behind it aside from make money and stay in power, because she's at odds with her party for having beliefs and convictions she isn't willing to be bought out of. We know for a fact that Trump and the GOP have been putting huge pressure on their congressmen to vote specific ways. I can't even count how many times a GOP politican had been openly ready to break the party line only for them to have a mysterious conversation with the president and suddenly change their mind on their vote. The reason so many GOP congressmen refuse to touch the Epstein thing isn't because they don't think there's anything incriminating in there, it's because Trump is their precious money god and he's got them on a tight leash.
So we can then assume that MTG is getting insane pressure for not only refusing to back down on the Epstein Files, but for pushing forward and openly saying there is absolutely nothing that would ever get her to change her mind, and that she would use her power as a congressman to not be legally persecuted for anything said on the House floor to read the entire list of the perpetrators either the one from the victims or the one from the DOJ, and that's that.
I dont want to give her too much credit but it's ballsy as fuck to be someone who is a very, very new politican who's only served four years and isn't a Senator to break with their party leaders like that. She's not as rich as a lot of them are, and even if she was almost no one has the means to run a campaign off their own money, so the GOP almost certainly started trying to offer her money and bribes and when that didn't work then switched to threatening to withhold campaign funds, to primary her, to never endorse her, to slander her in the press so she never works again, and she has not cracked.
In contrast to the rest of her party and how politics just works for both parties(watch the Last Week Tonight segment on political fundraising it's eye opening) what she's doing is insane. Like even DEMOCRATS will withhold funding and try to destroy anyone who stands even the smallest chance of upsurping any old guard Dem. There's a reason they treat AOC they way they do, there's a reason no one who primaries old Dems ever gets any endorsement or money, and it's why no major Democrat will even consider endorsing Mandami even though he played by the rules and won the primary fair and square. It's a fucking hierarchy designed to keep specific people in power by maintaining a bullshit structure that fights change.
So the reason I use "deprogramming" is because to me it seems clear that what's going on with her, with her being willing to call out other GOP politicians for being racist (even if that seems silly since she's clearly racist as hell), how she will not back down on the Epstein thing, how she's now opening being mocked by others for saying the very normal and correct sentence of "solitary confinement is akin to torture and no one should be subjected to it", makes me think that she really bought in to the conspiracy and just really, really believed them...and then she met her heroes and was forced to realize they are not the men they claimed they were, and actually all they care about is money and staying in power by any means necessary.
Like, there's no way the people in congress don't know Trump is in there. We know he's calling all of the representatives and senators to force them to not let anything through and it does not take a smart person to figure out the only reason Trump is doing this is because there is something in there that will ruin him. (And I think he knows that given how one of his latest truth social posts kinda read like he was getting scared of being arrested.)
So MTG believed Trump. She was QAnon first which is what radicalized her and pushed her to get into politics, it was all so she could help drain the swamp. And then she started working and had to contend with the reality that everyone she looked up to as beacons of morality and justice and idk christianness weren't what they claimed to be at all. They don't care about kids. They don't care about victims, they don't care about draining the swamp, they care about money and staying in power. Which is, to her credit, not what she seems to care about.
Now, do I think that means we need to be nice to her? No, absolutely not. But I also don't think we should be mean to her either rn. She still holds a lot of awful believes and has done horrible things that I do believe should disqualify someone from office, but at the same time I've seen cracks form in right leaning and hard right people, and I think she's reaching a point where if the right people reach out and try to get through to her it might work. I know we all want to knee jerk and go "why do you only care about people suffering in jail when it's someone you know and care about??" Sure we can have that convo, if/when the deprogramming works, but as anyone who has had a bigoted friend or parent or sibling who changed their mind and became allies when they came out, sometimes you do need just one person you care about to be on the chopping block for the whole cult-y ass ideology you've fallen into to crack. And I see the cracks.
I won't hold my breath ofc this is just speculation and she's still surrounded by people who surely will only reenforce her belief in the cult, but...there have just been too many "MTG figured it out!? Oh this hurts" moments so deep down I do think she's in a place where the right people could snap her out of this and turn her if not into a Dem, then at least a centrist or a more moderate republican and I do think from a harm reduction standpoint that would be a win. Every single time we lose a republican or a bigot to realizing they were wrong it's a win. Even if they were influential and did harm. Everyone deserves a shot at changing for the better. I really believe that, and holding true to your convictions is important even when it sucks.
So idk maybe she isn't changing and I'm insane, but I think when it comes to anyone on the right showing cracks if you can't be nice or like them or want to offer them a hand, but at least don't make it harder for everyone else by making fun of them so hard they just fall right back into the grip of the cult.
And regardless of all of that, if nothing else, I do still think the situation is fascinating.
Hmn I hope your right, but, isn't she also very big on insider trading and profiting off of her office herself?
I mean I don't doubt that she does that, seems like they all do, but she's one of the few people on the GOP side who comes across like that's not the only reason she's there. She really does seem to want to do what's right, unfortunately what she thinks is right is often horrible and illegal, but the fact that she's sticking on the Epstein thing regardless of who's on it while other people in Trump's administration have admitted they'd just redact anything that mentioned Trump as well as the under the kind of pressure she's almost certainly facing for not doing what Trump wants isn't nothing.
Like Trump is so desperate to stop whatever papers are left that he scheduled jets to fly over the press conference MTG was at just to shut up the victims and she was still there supporting them is not the behavior I'd expect out of someone who worships Trump and Fascist America. She might have felt like that at the start, but she'd have to be deeply out of touch to not see at this point that her idol is made of garbage, not gold.
Still not holding my breath tho, like I said it just fascinates me.
BRO NO HOLD ON CUZ I WAS RIGHT WHAT THE HELL
‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials
Holy shit dude lmao like I don't think this is a huge win or anything but goddamn. She's not even a little scared. Incredible.
Bro fucking WHAT is going on rn
On Monday, MTG shared a lengthy post on X, in which she argued that while she is "not a fan" of the "bulls**t" Affordable Care Act, she is "absolutely disgusted" that health insurance premiums for everyone could double if its tax credits expire.
"I'm going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year, my own adult children's insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district," Greene wrote.
MTG noted that no other Republican is discussing this issue, and said she was "carving my own lane."
??????? Hello??????
BRO????
be careful with what series you watch/read during emotional points in your life because they will forever contain a ghost of your past self within it now
you should ALWAYS use a condom unless it’s been explicitly discussed and you have decided otherwise as a couple! always!!!!!!!!!!
even if you’re lesbians???????
especially if you’re lesbians! if both of you get pregnant that’s twice as bad
Perhaps it's just me. But right now, with the rapid global transition towards green energy, reforestation and conservation efforts, laws, genuinely crazy and huge innovations that can help us adapt to the changing world... it feels like we're on the right track.
Perhaps it's just me. But the geopolitical insanity that I see and learn from my peers all over the world, doesn't feel like the end. No, it... it feels like change. The last horrible and panicked gasps of the dying old, because it refuses to accept that it is not sustainable anymore, and the world is moving towards the better, through protests and unity and human goodness. I've seen this before - in stories from the older generation, and in history books.
But I also feel terribly guilty whenever I start thinking like that, for some odd reason? I feel guilty whenever I try and rationalize that despite it all, the world will continue existing, and even in the worst case scenario (which we already have avoided), there would be forests and oceans and species and biodiversity and ecosystems and people and cities and countries to see and love, because after all, nature is resilient and adaptable - just like our species are.
I feel guilty for feeling this cautious curiosity about what the future might hold for us, the bad and the good. Because I feel like I am obligated to be grieving and panicking and angry, like many people are - but that's just... so tiring.
Hi Anon,
This is going to be a long one because I think your ask gets at something difficult that I have a lot of thoughts about.
Your phrase “cautious curiosity” made me think of psychology researcher Jamil Zaki’s idea of “hopeful skepticism”. Which is not assuming that everything will inevitably get better, but open to the possibility that it could and curious to see the paths it might take to get us there.
Our society tends to view a cynical outlook as more intelligent or even more moral, but research shows that a cynical outlook actually makes people worse at predicting outcomes, worse at cognitive and problem-solving tasks, less likely to vote or protest, and even measurably harms their physical and mental wellbeing.
I think the guilt you describe is likely coming from the feeling that while we have been significantly improving conditions for humanity on this Earth and will likely continue to do so in the long run, in the present there are many real humans suffering--it can be hard and uncomfortable to hold these two truths together.
Even if this last dying breath is temporary and brief, it is destroying real people’s lives and many more live in fear that they will be next. The fact that child mortality has absolutely plummeted even just in my own lifetime is both a miracle of humanity and means little to the parent who has lost their child to a preventable death. To quote the philosopher Max Roser, “The world is much better; the world is still awful; the world can be much better.”.
You don't need to feel guilty for having hope for the future. Carrying feelings like hopelessness, grief, and fear all the time is entirely valid, but like you said it is also exhausting—and there is nothing inherently moral about emotionally suffering particularly if it’s harming your ability to live your life or take positive action.
You are right that we are still making progress in the correct direction in many ways. You are right that history is rife of examples of forward momentum provoking a reactionary backtracking but that the forward momentum usually ultimately prevails.
The key here, is to understand that the future path you describe is possible—even likely more probable than a lot of people think—but it is not inevitable. We still have to take action to make it happen. The arc of history bends towards progress only because so many millions of mostly unnamed unknown people have put the work in to bend it in big and little ways.
I’ll end with one of my favorite quotes from Rebecca Solnit is “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”
Reminding others that progress is still happening and that there is hope for a brighter future is important work in getting members of your community to pick up their own axe and make that future happen. Hope in dark times is not just ok or reasonable--it is a precious, vital tool.
"Our society tends to view a cynical outlook as more intelligent or even more moral, but research shows that a cynical outlook actually makes people worse at predicting outcomes, worse at cognitive and problem-solving tasks, less likely to vote or protest, and even measurably harms their physical and mental wellbeing."
Mechanically, the SP Hourglass being missing from Bravely Default HD is like, sure fine.
From a Lore/Story view, the SP Hourglass being missing bodes really really badly for Tiz in the long run.
people should remember that the word "hunk" exists
no, unless he's a young father, that's not a dilf, that's a hunk. If you want to call a childless man a dilf, at least make him middle aged
no, that's not a bear, that's a hunk. Bears must be fat and hairy
no, that's not a himbo, that's a hunk. Himbos must be dumb, beefy and kind simultaneously, if he's just dumb and beefy that's a hunk
like, cmon people, there's nothing wrong with a humble hunk. Why are you so mean to him?