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I think you’re probably closest. There aren’t “filters” so much as we live in a universe that can only support life on a highly contingent basis, entirely by accident, at random intervals. It’s filters all the way down, really. None of us are getting out alive, might as well enjoy it while it lasts.
It all hangs together. Nicely done
incredibly detailed rundown
Of course, there’s a lot I’m leaving out…
Was this off the dome, or did you have this whole thing in your pocket?
Is Connect ad supported? I might switch if so. It would suck to have to rebuild my tagged users though, I do the same thing.
Edit: no ads. Thank you!
That’s all we need, a way for morons to turn the web into even more of a Potemkin village of meaningless blather
I sense great evil in you
American mode: takis
British mode: shoestrings or Dick’s Drive-in style
He’s going to fulfill GWAR’s mandate that “America Must Be Destroyed”, but in a way David Brockie would have hated.
That about sum things up?
I’ve heard a bit about it. That’s a really messy one and it’s really hard to see things getting better anytime soon.
That’s awful beyond words. I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that you’re caught in that, or that Wagner is so vilely prolific that what you’ve told me doesn’t even narrow it down to the continent.
Sorry you’re going through that. Civil war is a tragedy no matter where or why.
The difference with America is, I think, that ours has already come and gone, but it never really did go away because we failed to stamp it out and rebuild properly. The rebellion was romanticized and whitewashed, sanitized and lionized. It’s always said that the south lost the war and won the peace. It’s probably never going to break out into a full-on fighting war like it was, but it exists very much as a bane on our social fabric, the integrity of our institutions, and our socioeconomics. America can never become as good as its advertising until it has reckoned with its deepest schisms.
To answer OP’s question: The America I was raised to believe in (this one, to put it succinctly) doesn’t exist. I emigrated with my family to the UK, my ancestral family home. Without America, me, my wife, and child probably could never have existed, coming together from different parts of the world as our families did. I’m glad of that, but we had to divest ourselves from its fate or remain complicit in tyranny and war. My process of disillusionment began before I was even fully grown, over 20 years ago, when the towers fell and I began to start asking questions about how we got to that point, and why we reacted as we did.
No matter where life takes me I’ll probably always stand for the enlightenment ideals of that mythical America I was raised to believe in, but it exists for me as a platonic ideal, a sort of mathematical absolute that can only ever be badly approximated in real world terms.
I don’t spend a lot of time promoting communism, but I do talk a lot of shit about capitalism - I’ve lived in it. Of course when I criticise capitalism people accuse me of promoting communism and having never lived in it.
To preserve one’s childlike belief in a just world, of course.
I go for anything dark and single origin, but I’m pretty easily pleased with anything that at least tried to not use slave labour
This post is the thousand words. Remove the picture, it’s redundant now
Noooooooooooooo thanks
I don’t know, I just chalk it up to another L on the genius-madness scoreboard. We’ll always have some fond memories of before he went off the deep end.
We actually bitch about everyone, just not to their face.
I don’t even truly understand my own sentience - how can we ask a machine to replicate something we do not understand? It would be like throwing rocks into a dark pool, and hoping something friendly crawls out of the water.
I was gonna say Kiss From A Rose, but only because nobody would see that shit coming.