#false promises

[dinomintz]

[itsmythang]

MAGA is melting down after buyers got an email confirming they will never get their trump Phones, or even get their deposits back. An estimated 590,000 people reportedly paid a $100 deposit each, roughly $59 million collected, and not a single confirmed customer has received a phone.

And remember, this thing was supposed to be “Made in America.” But if it ever gets made, it’ll reportedly be made in China. trump knows his base is full of suckers, and they keep proving him right.

You trump people are the dumbest humans since the Middle Ages.

So let me get this straight—

People reportedly put down deposits for “Trump phones,” promises were made, and now buyers are allegedly being told there may be no phones and no refunds?

If true, that is not patriotism. That is exploitation. “Made in America” is a powerful slogan—until reality points somewhere else.

At some point, loyalty should not mean suspending common sense or consumer skepticism. Political branding is not consumer protection.

If a product is marketed on identity, outrage, and blind allegiance instead of transparency and delivery, people have every right to ask hard questions.

[thegaysonrisesagain]

[thespiritualencourager]

Clouds and wind brought the expectation of rain, which caused gladness and hope in those needing it. When the clouds and wind did not produce the desired and needed rain, there was great disappointment and grief. A man promising to give without performing is just as disappointing and frustrating. The lesson? Keep your commitments of helping others. Never let your offers or promises of giving exceed your actual performance. Job’s righteousness included his great care of the expectations of the needy (Job 29:13; 31:16).

Like billowing clouds that bring no rain is the person who talks big but never produces.

— Proverbs 25: 14 (MSG)

[hexpatient]

also when it comes to interacting on a deep level with a lot of strangers, you have to be a very specific way in order to not use your authority to dismiss their experience. idk what exactly it would entail. at least, respect for people's differences, a genuine curiosity and trust for others, security in your own experience so it doesnt become an "only one of us can have a correct experience" situation. its extremely human to hear someone else's experience of life, and to be like well thats not what its like for me so you must be wrong. you must be confused. you're drawing the incorrect conclusions and meaning. a therapist in the current psychiatric mythology (therapists are educated and trained and wont judge you etc.) should be better than that. but they just arent.

like damn i do it too! i was watching tokyo ghoul and and towards the end, kaneki had a view of his own suffering that i found extremely stupid and painful. but it takes a lot for people to not judge like that. kaneki isnt real but if he was, his view of his own suffering is the correct one. because the meaning he assigned to his own life is the one that matters. and its the same for me even though mine is basically the exact opposite. its not that there is 1 single correct moral of the story, so if you have the incorrect one, you have to be changed. thats horrible. but thats what therapy is about. making me believe things that are factually incorrect and ideologically reprehensible to me. whether they disagree on a personal or a professional level ("you just have that negative belief because of your mental illness").

the idea that they allow for your own authentic thoughts and feelings is just wrong. they cant handle anything outside of a really narrow philosophy thats been codified into the correct one through supposed psychiatric science. they cant handle it. so they argue with me. and it is damaging. duh.

as someone who is supposedly educated and trained, it is a failure to fulfill that promise. as someone with power and influence over people to improve their mental health, it is a failure. its very human and they are supposed to be better than that. but they arent. it is a false promise. and it is not at all a jump for them to use pathology as a weapon because they personally disagree with me. its effortless. "negative beliefs" and "negative thought patterns" are inherently suspect under the psychiatric ideology. so it effortlessly becomes a weapon to make me objectively wrong because of my mental illness. 🤷🏻

[domlarkin]

Track 7: ( Inspired by King Tubby)

Listen to me all you vain people

Money is the root of all evil.

Class systems aren't natural. but contrived.

Yet, until the very day that you die,

They imprison you and claim your pride.

They substitute Truth with their lies.

O you work for powerful elites

Who plot the oppressed's complete defeat!

In the rat race, you have to compete,

To buy things that you don't really need.

Yet, still you try to climb the ladder.

Whilst, with false promises & daggers,

They stab you in the back. O don't sell

Your souls! This is the pathway to hell.

[smilesincorporated]

Experiment Log: SL-0G

Subject Name: Grant Foreman

Tests included;

• Experimental Body Modification Drugs

• Oobleck Variants

• Thought Nullification

• Pain Nullification [WARNING: BODY METABOLISM TOO FAST FOR LOW DOSAGES]

• Radiation Core [UNSTABLE]

-Notes-

We’ve managed to get a volunteer to test out a new drug we hear in the Science Division whipped up. It’s supposed to make the body ever so slightly malleable, We’re hoping to either use it as a Beauty Product for the Publicity Department to promote or something the Combat Team could use.

Our Volunteer's more than enthusiastic to help aid in our research. We've promised him that the big boss upstairs has assured his safety, what Smith doesn’t know won’t hurt him.

Hopefully this works. If we can’t Fix the boss’s friend, should this go south, he’ll do far worse than we’ve ever done to these poor sods.

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Normal and Low Opacity!

Please do not continue to examine if this causes any amount of discomfort.

Yours truly.

Smith Lee

[thoughtlessarse]

'Exciting opportunities': Lies, horror, trauma: Kenyans recount forced Russian recruitment

The scars on Victor’s forearm remind him constantly of the day a Ukrainian drone attacked him after he was forcibly conscripted, like hundreds of young Kenyans, into the Russian army. It was a war that had nothing to do with him and which he was exceptionally lucky to survive. Four Kenyans -- Victor, Mark, Erik and Moses -- recounted to AFP the web of deception that took them to the killing fields of Ukraine. Their names have been changed for fear of reprisals. It began with promises of well-paying jobs in Russia from a Nairobi recruitment agency. Victor, 28, was supposed to be a salesman. Mark, 32, and Moses, 27, were told they would be security guards. Erik, 37, thought he had a ticket to high-end sports. They were all to be paid between $1,000 and $3,000 a month -- a fortune in Kenya where jobs are scarce and the government encourages emigration to boost remittances. Victor, Mark, Erik and Moses were included in WhatsApp groups where fellow Kenyans reassured them in Swahili that they were heading for good salaries and exciting new lives. Instead, Victor’s first day was in an abandoned house three hours outside Saint-Petersburg. The next day, he was taken to a Russian military base where soldiers presented him with a contract in Russian that he could not read. “They told us: ‘If you don’t sign, you’re dead’,” Victor told AFP, showing his Russian military service record and combat medallion.

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