Hey now, you show my girl some respect, and I hope you at least her paid for it!

Jesus Christ Sharif, someone told you that he’s going to come after people who literally just want to go about existing unbothered, ya know like you want to do, and out of fear you thought “hell yeah, hurt the thing I don’t understand, you got my vote!”

The fuck?! Does it tax your brain remembering to breathe?

Clearly, Sharif, you lack the mental capacity to empathise with anything outside of your immediate experience, so perhaps a shared lived experience is your only route to empathy with people outside your immediate circles.

I wish you all the best on your journey to growing and hope, once your empathetic abilities are developed, you’re able to be readmitted into humanity, but I don’t wish for that journey to be a pleasant experience for you; may it be filled with fear, pain, and persecution.

Dozens!

If you’re just after sex and can’t get any via casual hook ups from bars / dating apps / fetish groups then just pay a consenting adult for sex.

If you’re after genuine human connection and a relationship then you should work on yourself to be someone you’d like to be in a relationship with.

There’s no reason Canada can’t make its own cars. Or computer chips.

Sure if you’re talking at least a 10x on the price of equivalent consumer goods, which isn’t going to drive prices down whatsoever. China both subsidises manufacturing AND devalues their currency to keep manufacturing costs low and exports high. There’s no way to do that in the Canadian economy or any single western economy without either tanking it (huge deflation) or saddling the country with so much debt to invest into the industries and then subsidise long enough to be cost competitive that it would never be able to make the credit repayments.

I think there is value to a culture, we don’t want Japan to disappear, we don’t want Italy as a culture to disappear, we don’t want France as a culture to disappear, I think we have to have to maintain the sort of reasonable cultural identity of the various countries or they simply will not be those countries. You know, Italy is the people of Italy. The buildings are there, but really what is Italy? Italy is the people of Italy.

That’s what he actually said in the video.

So I have two issues with this:

1. He, and every other conservative, assumes that current culture is the default for a region and must be “conserved” because otherwise the norms, practices, and language is risking going extinct.

Aside from the fact this is clearly trying to give credence to the “great replacement” bullshit, trying to hold a culture from changing and evolving overtime is impossible.

No matter how much someone like Meloni might harp on about it, Italy isn’t the Roman Empire anymore, nor is it Mussolini Italy anymore; those eras shaped today’s Italy and it’s every generations job to add new chapters to the country’s story.

2. He’s correct in that the people make the country, but not because they’re born there or because they have some genealogical link to the land, but because the people of France CHOOSE to be French every day.

The people of France choose to partake in café and restaurant culture, they choose to enjoy wine regularly, they choose to buy fresh bread from a local bakery, and they choose to make their voices heard very loudly when discontent with the government.

They are French because they choose to partake in the culture of the place they live, they buy into the shared story that is France.

Let’s give an example:

Person A is born and raised in France until they are 16 and then go on a foreign exchange program to the UK. After coming back, finishing their “high-school”, they decided they liked the UK enough to go to university there and meet a romantic partner on campus. After finishing their university degree, they get a job, rent a place with their university sweetheart, and socialise with British friends regularly.

Person B is born in France, but moves to the UK with their parents when they’re young (5 years old or under), they grow up in a duel language household learning both French and English, go to primary school in the UK, make childhood friends, and halfway through secondary school (high-school) the parents move back to France, they finish high-school level education, then go onto university in France, and go to the UK to do a year abroad during their degree.

Now which person identifies as French and which person identifies as British?

The answer is, you don’t know until you ASK THEM which culture they choose to identify with.

Person A could have utterly hated growing up in France so much that when they experienced a different culture they liked that they felt compelled to make living that culture the one they wanted to participate in for the rest of their lives and reject their place of birth.

Equally, Person A could still strongly identify as being French but chooses to live in the UK for a multitude of other reasons: it’s better for their career, they chose to stay in the UK as a compromise with their partner, they prefer the lower income taxes, etc. They also choose to practice their culture in a foreign land such as going to a café for a long lunch during the work week, booking off most of August for their annual holiday, and having a keen fashion sense making sure they look good in public.

Person B could identify as both because they’ve lived a good portion of their lives in both countries OR could prefer the country of their birth OR the one where they had a happy childhood in an idyllic setting.

You never know, maybe overtime Person A convinces their co-workers to come with them to a café for lunch instead of just quickly eating sandwiches at their desks, so they can unwind for a little while before getting back to work. Maybe the whole small company starts doing it because they start to appreciate that way of living, and voilà the (company) culture has evolved to take long lunches at a café because their co-workers appreciate the midday reprieve and find they work better in the afternoon because of it. Though they’re still not willing to book off the whole of August for a holiday.

Culture is not meant to stagnate and people, wherever they go, will bring different culture with them. Overtime cultures change and grow as they adopt new ideas and ways they like leaving out those they don’t like and discarding old and tired traditions they’d rather leave in the past.

Also write to your government representatives about removing copyright anti-circumvention laws saying that they hurt the local economy and only benefit big tech companies from the US.

This is important because US big-tech backed Trump into taking office and Trump is beholden to these companies who have the US economy purse strings.

Individual countries removing these laws will make the money holders VERY nervous and they in turn will pull the strings the US government officials dance with.

I’ve got first session booked for next week, I’m just trying to hang on until then.

Yeah I know that sentiment is utilitarian bullshit, but I genuinely can’t shift it out of my head because it’s the only way I’ve found any positivity in my life: solving a problem at work, being a listening ear to friends for their problems or just showing up to their events so they feel appreciated, or the odd bit of volunteer work I’ve done.

I can’t just sit down or go out and do a thing for myself because:

1. I don’t know what I like doing, it just feels like random guess work, I start doing a thing, get really into it, then the spark just fades after a month or two and I don’t want to do it again.

2. It feels futile to go and do these things because I won’t spend enough time to get good at it before I give up.

3. I feel I could be doing something more productive with that time but I’m too lazy to do that either so I just default to the easiest way to skip time, usually watching something, then feel guilty for wasting that time not being productive or happy, then remembering I don’t know how to make myself actually happy just performatively happy, go numb, and just try to sleep it off until the next obligation which is usually work.

Sorry if this is too much for this community, let me know and I’ll delete and unfollow this community.

So I’m not in a good place mentally right now and genuinely believe my life has no inherent value: i.e. if I’m not being useful to someone or supporting someone else or doing something worthwhile then I’m a waste of resources both material and emotional.

How can I change that perspective? Nothing I’ve watched or read has changed my mind about this yet but it remains open for someone or something to do so and I remain hopeful and patient that something will but that’ll run out at some point.

Un-blue-es their passport

And I’ll tell you another thing!

Genuinely, what you’re seeing right now is individuals in an entire group go through their own individual chapel perilous moments: confronted with the reality of what their beliefs have brought to the world some will be horrified and reject those beliefs, yet some will double down and be sucked further into them.

For those that reject the beliefs it will be highly traumatic and isolating for them and, as hard as it will be because it feels like a misjustice, those who have always seen the orange cunt for what he is should bring them into our community to support them during this process of genuine repentance as there’s now an avenue for these people to be deprogrammed from the cult of personality, gently educated to make them more politically aware, and help them find an active supportive role in the community so they feel some positive empowerment and hope that will act as a stalwart against the fear that MAGA had been poisoning their minds with.

For those who double down and reject what their own eyes and ears tell them are going to become even more dangerous as these ideas, thoughts, and beliefs they’ll now guard even more closely as a part of their identity which could swallow things like self-preservation, which coupled with the sheer amount of anger and fear is a violent cocktail that Trump, the Billionaires, and foreign powers seek to put into destructive actions.

Yeah the only reason they didn’t want to remain a colony was because they thought they could become more wealthy personally breaking off from the British empire, seizing more land from the natives, and taking more land from Britain’s other colony of Canada.

Then bind all the states and their settlers and natives by saddling them with national debt to lock them into a unfettered capitalist experiment on an unexploited resource rich land with the moral framework of civilising and subsuming the native population.

Yeah nope, if the same product is available for free then the only way to prove a “stolen sale” is if someone had previously paid for the subscription and then cancelled to use the free version of the same product.

Anything else is just the hand of the free market doing it’s thing. If Adobe executives are malding because someone made a cheaper (or free) alternative then they have two honourable routes available:

1. Add more value to their products to convince people their price tag is worth it.

2. Reduce the price they charge.

But they’ll literally do anything else but those two, including astroturfing messages like “open source software is piracy”, so stop spewing corpo bullshit!

You’re god damn right!

Any venue or building rated for say, to pick a random number, more than 20 people can get randomly inspected by a fire safety inspector.

And I want fire safety inspectors to be feared as much as Judge fucking Dredd. So when they turn up announced, the building management shits a mega-block in fear when they realise that skimping on installing a proper security setup and resorting to chaining/locking fire escapes has just cost them personally a month in jail with a criminal record, issued on the spot!

There’s simply no valid excuses for being this reckless with safety.

For fucks sake it’s the same goddamn lessons that keep getting ignored.

The only way would be to jail any building owner who breaks fire regulations like this.

Oh let’s absolutely piss off big tech, starting by removing anti-circumvention laws.

The UK will be the LAST country to break ties with the US because the “special relationship” is just code for Nuclear Dependency.

The UK in early stages of the cold war had a choice; build a joint missile, reactor, and warhead with DeGaul and the French OR buy systems from the US. They chose to go with the US.

The UK supposedly has “Command Independence” over its nuclear weapons, i.e. we can launch without US approval, but the middle technology is US bought as are the warheads and nuclear materials. The only thing we do is build the launch platform (Trident capable Submarines) and install the nuclear materials into the warheads and afix the warheads to the missiles.

I fucking hate it.

(heavy westcountry breathing)

IK this is a meme, but how does “Luxury Anarchism” work?