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[coffeeandoranges1]

the lindsay clancy case is the OJ simpson case for millennial white women though. much like OJ did in the 90s, clancy represents a terminally pissed off demographic, willing to condone murder because they identify so closely with the accused

[coffeeandoranges1]

@truthandlibertarianism i'm afraid you're missing the point of my post. i'm in favor of the terminally pissed off people who have been driven to condoning murder

[coffeeandoranges1]

i'm supporting the team, subscribing to the newsletter, running the fundraising car wash . big fan of the nutcase community

[truthandlibertarianism]

You're in favor of condoning child murder?

[truthandlibertarianism]

Also, you're in favor of condoning OJ's murder of his wife?

[coffeeandoranges1]

the lindsay clancy case is the OJ simpson case for millennial white women though. much like OJ did in the 90s, clancy represents a terminally pissed off demographic, willing to condone murder because they identify so closely with the accused

[coffeeandoranges1]

@truthandlibertarianism i'm afraid you're missing the point of my post. i'm in favor of the terminally pissed off people who have been driven to condoning murder

[coffeeandoranges1]

i'm supporting the team, subscribing to the newsletter, running the fundraising car wash . big fan of the nutcase community

[truthandlibertarianism]

You're in favor of condoning child murder?

[truthandlibertarianism]

Hot take I guess. But actually, I don't think having a mental illness excuses you of committing pre-meditated child murder.

[coffeeandoranges1]

the lindsay clancy case is the OJ simpson case for millennial white women though. much like OJ did in the 90s, clancy represents a terminally pissed off demographic, willing to condone murder because they identify so closely with the accused

[h4ganah]

Just imagine facing outrage from parents because their kids have to learn about the Holocaust in your school.

And your response is to publically apologise to them.

[emmaubler]

[generallemarc]

There is no way that what was said in that email actually happened. They tried to have their cake and eat it too, to say they did nothing wrong by teaching historical reality(they didn't) but also validate the hurt feelings of parents who think said reality is Jewish propaganda. If you don't think your child is "heard" when they learn about objective facts, that's your problem to fix and not the school's.

[baygeethefirst]

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I've told this story before, but when I lived in New York every lawn mowing business hired illegals from south of the border (Mexicans and Guatemalans mostly) and only illegals. We were told constantly that "Americans will never work as lawn mowers" by the left every time immigration came up. When I moved out to Ohio, there are very few, if any, illegals from south of the border, and every single lawn mower job is done by white Americans. They just get paid double what the illegals in New York get paid. There is always someone who will "do those jobs". They just need to be paid for it.

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

The illegals also create a huge stumbling block for Americans entering the work force.

Those lawn mowing jobs would typically be done by high school or college age students for a few years and then they would get another job someplace else and it that job would open up to another young person looking to get their first job.

When migrants come in they stay in these jobs forever.

Those young Americans don’t get the job that’s permanently taken by the migrant, and it delays or otherwise impedes their ability to enter the job market because an entry level job is no longer available.

They increase the barrier to entry into the job market.

[teaboot]

The problem with giving advice to angry and suffering people is that rather frequently the thing they need to know to improve their position is the last thing they want to hear and not something they have the capacity to internalize or accept

[teaboot]

Unfortunate truths you can tell people that would help if they could hear what it means and not just what it sounds like

You were the victim, and it wasn’t fair, but it’s over now. Nobody came to save you, and I’m sorry, but it’s too late for anyone to go back and do it different.

You’re suffering over something that cannot be resolved. You’re allowed to feel angry, or outraged, or betrayed, but there will eventually come a time that you don’t feel that so violently anymore, and you’re going to want to have something good left to go back to.

You can’t make anyone love you the way you need to be loved. That’s how a lot of good things end. Not with a clear sign, something blocking the road that says “do not proceed”, just a splitting of the path that’s still moving somewhat in the same direction.

You can’t fix them. Nothing you can do will fix them. And if they fix themselves, they can’t do it for you- they have to do it for themselves as well, because otherwise a day may come when they’re alone, and as long as they live, they are their only true constant. So you can support, and you can encourage, but the hardest part is up to them. And sometimes they can’t do it even with your help.

Sometimes letting go of someone feels like mourning at their funeral before they’ve died, and every time you see them after it’s like talking to a ghost that doesn’t know it’s dead. Sometimes that happens. You’ll both still wake up tomorrow anyways.

I understand that you’re afraid, and that you’re afraid for good reasons. And I understand that being brave isn’t as easy as just turning that fear off, and you would if you could in a heartbeat. But the thing is, as long as that fear is able to dictate your choices, it will have power over you. If you don’t believe you can try to fight it, if you accept that it will always be in charge, you let the frightening thing stay present in your life. It will exist as long as you stay paralyzed. And that sounds cruel, but it isn’t something anyone can fix for you.

The person you may let yourself become after experiencing the terrible thing may very well grow into a much bigger, much more terrible thing, and someday it will swallow the first terrible thing whole. And all that will be left is something far worse for someone else. And you will not be able to shrink it down by explaining where it came from, because terrible things that are dead and gone are never as terrible as terrible things that are alive right now in front of you.

No matter how much or how little I love you, I still do not have the ability to help you the way you need to be helped. I might be the helper you want, but I am not a helper you can get. If you are to be helped at all, you will need to accept that it will come from someone else.

[teaboot]

If anyone goes out of their way to find this user and harass them, please know that’s shitty behaviour and I will be deeply disappointed, but I think they really helped to underline number 8 in a way I wished I’d known to consider of others years ago

[teaboot]

So I’ve read the notes and the messages.

If you read this whole thing and found yourself angry, if you thought to yourself ‘I know that, and it doesn’t help. I know that, and I’m still suffering. I know that, I’ve heard that, I’ve been told that before, over and over and over again, by people who aren’t listening who don’t understand, who don’t get it, and I’m still hurting, still tired, still in pain, still suffering, and this isn’t something a handful of pithy words from some asshole who isn’t here and present and walking in my shoes suffering what I’m suffering from can fix. I know all of this and it changes nothing”, I want you to know:

Yeah. That was me, too. I sat at the bottom of a miserable pit that I didn’t even dig while a bunch of detached, emotionally unavailable jackasses who weren’t helping even a little yelled all this down at me, like just saying it hard enough or making me hear it as though I wasn’t already a hundred percent aware and still hurting anyways would magically solve all my problems and it didn’t. Like I was some whiny little rat with a victim complex looking for the easy way out and not the survivor of something awful doing their goddamn best to keep going, scraping by on the skin of their fucking teeth.

Every single note on this list is something someone told me at the exact wrong time, that made me want to scream and cry and smash a goddamn brick over their head because ‘I already know that, you fucking asshole, and it doesn’t change anything, so fucking help me or piss the hell off.”

That’s why I wrote the list.

It’s everything I needed to know that I already knew, that only made me feel worse, and didn’t help me improve anything at all even a little bit until I experienced the exact right circumstances that made them click the exact right way and allowed me to say it to myself and feel only a sense of, “okay yeah, I get it now.”

It’s not something I would ever directly say to someone in a time of crisis, but it’s all stuff I learned and needed to learn while I was that person.

You get what I mean?

The difference between knowing and internalizing, the difference between hearing the pain is temporary when you’ve broken a bone and KNOWING the pain is temporary after its healed, is that you KNOW, but you’re still not done experiencing the part that makes it true and real and meaningful.

[hst3000]

Lemme add my #9

"I know you're afraid, and I know it isn't likely to work, and I know you don't want to. But nevertheless it has to be done and it has to be done by you."

[yorickless-deactivated20260810]

I think there's a decent and growing chance we get a basically fully technological not social solution to climate change and I think it's kind of funny

[raginrayguns]

from heavily subsidized chinese factories, in which case the social solution was communism with chinese characteristics and xi jinping thought

[argumate]

the only social solution would have been a drastic decline in energy usage and living standards, right? and of course most threats (non-anthropogenic climate change, volcanoes, asteroids) have no social solution at all besides "die".

[fuckboysecurityllc]

The social solution side would be a reduction in waste and consumption that doesn’t impact living standards. Eg mass transit, plastic reduction, mass recycling, and probably communizing distribution and availability of many basic consumer goods. You’d have less fashion and no year-round fruit availability, and less meat consumption.

[argumate]

how do you square that with "doesn't impact living standards"

[fuckboysecurityllc]

Does your standard of living depend on fashion and bananas?

[argumate]

what a bizarre question! I think most people would consider a reduction in the availability of food and clothing to impact their living standards; you could point out various compensatory factors but in isolation that's absolutely a concern, much like a reduction in the availability of travel or housing or anything else that depends on energy inputs.

[duran-duran-less-official]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Also Reddit.

[edgar-allan-possum]

Have some Snickers salad and maybe you'll calm down

[beardedmrbean]

These people need hotdish, that'll shut them up

[mornington-the-crescent]

All Alina up there is proving is that they're the one who has never been more than 10 miles outside of the city.

[truthandlibertarianism]

Midwesterners have roots and culture of all kinds. It's just rural culture, which most urbanites tend to think of as less than dirt. And therefore not real culture. Talk to any Kentucky born and raised man, you will see and hear things that no New Yorker could dream of.

[ambidisastrous]

every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

[brazenautomaton]

you know those aren't "corporate profits" right it's very important you know that those things you mentioned are not "corporate profits."

the shortage of air traffic controllers is due to the federal aviation administration intentionally training fewer ATC operators so that a higher percentage of them could be black (this was a major scandal, not something some culture warrior made up). the FAA is not a corporation and has nothing to do with "corporate profits."

there is no shortage of truck drivers and logistics being "a mess" has literally nothing to do with truck drivers it is entirely about international boat travel lanes.

there is no shortage of bus drivers, there is a shortage of public transport routes that actually exist and are actually created with the money that is spent to create them and there is no "corporate profit" from public transportation bus routes. privately owned corporate bus travel is stuff like Greyhound and they do not have a driver shortage either.

the american medical association, which is a union and not a corporation, limits the number of doctors that can be trained, for the explicit purpose of driving up demand so that doctors will be paid more.

public school teachers are not paid by corporations and have nothing to do with "corporate profits." privately owned schools, which are sometimes at least close to "corporate profits," do not have a teacher shortage and in fact teachers are very willing to work for them even though they pay less than public school because the conditions they work in are not miserable.

none of these things have anything to do with "corporate profits." you cannot just identify any problem in the world and blame it on "corporate profits."

[stupid-fat-panda]

I can say for ATC controllers though- that job is EXTREMELY stressful and due to the nature of aviation, you often work undesirable shifts (graveyard, swings, early mornings) and while the compensation is OK, it definitely isn't enough for all the stress that job entails.

OP has a point about many jobs not compensating enough, but they're wrong about it being about coporate profits when it comes to ATC and public transportation since those are government employers.

[miss-rum-hee]

[takashi0]

Goose followed all of those criteria, you twits made all that shit up because you don't know what a fucking joke is.

[takashi0]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Reminder that the "racism" was laughing at a word because it sounded LIKE a racial slur.

[truthandlibertarianism]

Also a reminder, that Gooseworx didn't even do that. It was one of the voice actors. People got pissed at Goose because they didn't immediately fire the person that laughed at a word because it sounded somewhat similar to the n word.

Disregard how much Goose may or may not be able to fire that voice actor, considering their show was still going through Glitch Studios.

[greek-mythologies]

Even the scores are manipulated

[siryouarebeingmocked]

This seems like an arbitrary standard.

Especially when a few seconds looking at the "Verified Audience" reviews on RT show they also come with text blurbs.

Unverified users could also be a source of score inflation or deflation.

It also doesn't explain why asking people to vote in the Fandango app - when the experience is fresh in their mind - is somehow less legit.

Especially since negativity bias means people are more likely to review if they were disappointed than if they are impressed.

[truthandlibertarianism]

Its kind of a lose-lose situation for Rotten Tomatoes. Quick response systems, like what RT switched to in 2019, statistically get more positive responses. If people don't need to put effort into making a review, they are more likely to unthinkingly review something a 5/5 or 10/10 -- even if they would actually rate it a 4 or an 8 while talking about the movie with someone.

On the flip side though, studies also show that needing to put a lot of effort into responses elicits more negative reviews, even if general reception is actually positive. So there really is no fully accurate way to score things like this.

[grfn-btbtas]

Type of shit your grandparents tell you that is categorically unconvincing

[siryouarebeingmocked]

The children yearn for the [LIVER].

[hoping-for-novelty]

I think it's bad to accuse people of being "anti-intellectual" when they criticize a specific academic field, especially when they have specific, constrained criticisms. Yes, even when the criticisms are wrong

Academic fields can be wrong, often in ways that are pretty obvious to outsiders. Do not become the kind of idiot who defends Freud

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Irony is, people use "anti-intellectual" as a thought-terminating cliche.

[truthandlibertarianism]

This post is ironic to me because most people on the internet who criticize Freud, 99% of the time, are just repeating misinformation they heard on Twitter or TikTok. People absolutely have the right to criticize academic fields, wrong or right when they do it. But people also have the right to call you stupid when it's clear that you don't know shit about the subject. Freud is the perfect example of that.

[petefoxshend-deactivated2018062]

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

>be me, chemical company executive >turns out one of our fine products is doing weird shit >like, really weird shit >it’s making frogs change genders >holy shit the religious right will gang-rape us over this >those guys fucking hate genders >what do? >idea >feed the story to a professional liar who will blame it on an undefined ‘them’ >story promptly becomes a byword for stupid made-up shit >justasplanned.jpg >that’s why they pay me the big bucks

[brazenautomaton]

What a great time to remind everyone that this is literally never true and is always cope. It’s not a psyop because it’s never a psyop!

Alex Jones did not break this news, it was publicly known before he went on his rant, nobody has to pay Alex Jones to say stupid and insane shit, “genders” was not on anyone’s radar, it is never a psyop, and “because someone benefitted from an event that is evidence they agentically caused that event” is exactly what makes Alex Jones insane!

[anamericangirl]

In Texas, A 18-year-old girl experienced a miscarriage at around six months pregnant. She visited emergency rooms three times over about 20 hours. On her second visit, she screened positive for sepsis, but doctors discharged her because the fetus still had a heartbeat, saying she was "fine to leave." On the third visit, an OB-GYN insisted on two ultrasounds to "confirm fetal demise" before admitting her to intensive care. She died hours later from sepsis complications.

You and you ideology have blood on your hands

You will be remembered as a vile disgusting human being and when you leave this world no one will miss you

Exactly how do 'I and my ideology" have blood on my hands for this? My ideology in this scenario is that this is a tragedy and it seems she should have been admitted and treated and you and your ilk clearly want to blame them on "pro-life laws" but that's just because you're ignorant and don't understand what you're talking about.

Pro-life laws had nothing to do with this. She was not seeking an abortion. Doctors were not waiting until they legally could perform an abortion, which, by Texas law, they could have if they believed her life was in danger.

But something you need to understand before you go around acting like pro-life laws killed this girl and she needed an abortion - abortion is not how you deal with sepsis. Sepsis is also a severe risk with abortion and if she was already experiencing sepsis an abortion would have made it worse and would have killed her.

Me and pro-life laws have nothing do with situation. This was a situation where a girl needed treatment and doctors thought her condition wasn't as bad as it was. It was not a case of pro-life laws preventing treatment, which you and every other pro-abortion propagandist love to pretend is the case.

If I were you, I would think twice about calling someone a vile and disgusting human being when you can't be bothered to even know the most basic information about situations you claim to care about. You don't care about this girl because you don't even know what happned. You are just looking for any thing you can grasp onto to smear pro-lifers in the hopes that we're just as ignorant and foolish as you. But we're not.

You don’t get to use this girl’s death as a prop while getting the details wrong, and then pretend that makes your outrage morally superior. It doesn’t.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth

Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help

“The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.

“In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.

Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed “bystander apathy” was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.”

[cephalopodvictorious]

Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.

The Bystander Effect Started from a Lie

You have just been attacked. How likely is it that someone will come to your help? If you remember the infamous case of Kitty Genovese in 19

[moosepower]

I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

I always knew there was something fishy about the whole Kitty Genovese story. It's so starkly opposite to normal human attitudes to...anything else.

Just look at every disaster, every crisis. There are hundreds of people, usually complete strangers, coordinating with each other to help those in the worst straits. We humans are social creatures with a natural empathy towards other humans, whether they're related or important to us or not.